Many web hosting services are cheap but are based on monthly subscriptions. If you want a permanent option, iBrave Cloud Web Hosting has a lifetime subscription for $99.99 right now. It’s a higher initial price but cheaper in the long run if you keep your site long term.
Source: LifeHacker – You Can Get a Lifetime of iBrave Cloud Web Hosting for 0
Enlarge / A woman watches white flags on the National Mall on September 18, 2021, in Washington, DC. Over 660,000 white flags were installed here to honor Americans who have lost their lives to COVID-19. (credit: Getty | Chen Mengtong)
Amid the pandemic, Republican voters in Ohio and Florida had a significantly higher rate of excess deaths after the nationwide rollout of COVID-19 vaccines compared with those who voted Democratic, according to a study published this week in JAMA Internal Medicine.
As the pandemic coronavirus spread between March 2020 and April 1, 2021, people from both parties saw similar surges in excess deaths—that is, deaths above what would be expected had there not been a global health crisis. But after April 1, when all adults in both states were eligible for vaccination, a gap emerged in the rate of excess deaths between Republican and Democratic voters. Republicans had an excess death rate 7.7 percentage points higher than their blue counterparts, amounting to a 43 percent difference in the excess death rates.
The study is just the latest to find a connection between political party affiliation and deaths during the pandemic. But, it takes the connection a step further, going beyond county-level political leanings and looking at how party affiliation linked to deaths at the individual level. The authors—all researchers at Yale University—focused on Ohio and Florida because those were the only two states with readily available public data on voter registration.
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Source: Ars Technica – Pandemic deaths in Ohio and Florida show partisan divide after vaccine rollout
UPS has avoided a strike only one day after 340,000 employees threatened to walk out over an unsustainable pay rate for part-time workers. The Teamsters Union, which represents UPS workers, opened contract negotiations on Tuesday to secure higher pay, but the union vowed to go on strike if a deal could not be reached…
Source: Gizmodo – Teamsters Reach a Deal With UPS, Tentatively Averting a Difficult Strike
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Apple needs third-party apps for Vision Pro when it launches next year, but most developers don’t have the headset yet. That would seem at first glance to be a conundrum, but Apple Monday opened up three different ways app developers can start testing their apps on Vision Pro hardware well before the product launches to the public.
None of them are surprises, of course—Apple previously laid out these plans at WWDC. But now developers can actually start signing up for and using these resources.
It has been possible to get at least some serious work done since Apple made a beta release of Xcode available with support for visionOS. That version of Xcode (Apple’s IDE for Macs that is required to build apps for the company’s various platforms like iOS) includes a visionOS Simulator that presents work-in-progress visionOS apps in a virtual 3D space navigable with keyboard and mouse or trackpad controls.
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Source: Ars Technica – How developers will test their apps before Vision Pro launches
This story is part of our new Hip-Hop: ’73 Till Infinity series, a celebration of the genre’s 50th anniversary.
Source: Kotaku – R&B Singer Ne-Yo Loves Street Fighter So Much He Takes His PS5 With Him On Tour
Whether they’re steamed, sous-vided, or parboiled before frying, my favorite wings are usually cooked twice. Similar to pouring boiling water over chicken thighs, par-cooking wings before a final fry renders out some of the fat and breaks down connective tissue, resulting in juicier meat and crispier skin. Most common…
Source: LifeHacker – ‘Trash’ Your Next Batch of Wings
Sabotage Studio, the developer behind the awesome side-scrolling, ninja-platformer The Messenger, has announced that its upcoming turn-based RPG Sea of Stars will hit competing subscription services PlayStation Plus and Xbox Game Pass on the same day: August 29. This would be the first time, as far as we know, that a…
Source: Kotaku – Turn-Based RPG Becomes First Game To Launch On PS Plus And Game Pass Simultaneously
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The Federal Communications Commission hasn’t raised its broadband speed standard since early 2015 when it adopted a metric of 25Mbps downloads and 3Mbps uploads.
That could finally change under Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, who is proposing a fixed broadband standard of 100Mbps downloads and 20Mbps uploads along with a goal of bringing affordable service at those speeds to all Americans. Under her plan, the FCC would evaluate broadband availability, speeds, and prices to determine whether to take regulatory actions to promote network deployment and competition.
Rosenworcel hasn’t revealed anything about how affordability will be measured. But in a proposed Notice of Inquiry that would start an evaluation of broadband deployment across the US, she included affordability as one of the aspects to be considered.
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Source: Ars Technica – FCC chair: Speed standard of 25Mbps down, 3Mbps up isn’t good enough anymore
As the WGA and SAG-AFTRA’s strikes march on, one genre production has had perhaps the dubious spotlight for carrying on regardless: HBO’s House of the Dragon. The Game of Thrones prequel’s second season has spent the past few months continuing production in Europe, even as writers have remained off-set and now as…
Source: Gizmodo – George R.R. Martin on Why House of the Dragon Is Still Filming During the Strikes
Juno Tab 2, a Linux-powered tablet with an 11″ screen and Intel N5100 CPU is now available for pre-order. The price starts at $525.
The post Juno Tab 2 Ships With Debian, Ubuntu, Manjaro, Mobian appeared first on Linux Today.
Source: Linux Today – Juno Tab 2 Ships With Debian, Ubuntu, Manjaro, Mobian
An anonymous reader shares a report: In January, artificial intelligence powerhouse OpenAI announced a tool that could save the world — or at least preserve the sanity of professors and teachers — by detecting whether a piece of content had been created using generative AI tools like its own ChatGPT. Half a year later, that tool is dead, killed because it couldn’t do what it was designed to do.
ChatGPT creator OpenAI quietly unplugged its AI detection tool, AI Classifier, last week because of “its low rate of accuracy,” the firm said. The explanation was not in a new announcement, but added in a note added to the blog post that first announced the tool. The link to OpenAI’s classifier is no longer available. “We are working to incorporate feedback and are currently researching more effective provenance techniques for text, and have made a commitment to develop and deploy mechanisms that enable users to understand if audio or visual content is AI-generated,” OpenAI wrote.
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Source: Slashdot – OpenAI Quietly Shuts Down Its AI Detection Tool
In the post-pandemic world, sometimes you work from an office. Sometimes you work from home. Sometimes you work from a mysterious third place, hopefully with a lot of sun (or at least good coffee). Whether that’s by the pool, on a plane, or from that cafe you love, there are gadgets that can help you be more…
Source: LifeHacker – The Best Tech Gadgets for Working on the Go
Modern scientific breakthroughs aren’t solely relegated to a lab these days, but also come by way of the massive compute resources that modern data centers full of servers can muster. For researchers, maintaining open access to these invaluable complexes has been vital. The Stampede and Stampede2 supercomputer systems, for example, have helped
Source: Hot Hardware – TACC Taps Dell And 63K Intel Xeon CPU Max Cores For 10-Petaflop Stampede3 Supercomputer
Comprehensive guide on how to install the GitHub desktop client using either the Shiftkey APT repository or the downloadable .deb file for a smoother coding workflow.
Source: LXer – How to Install GitHub Desktop on Pop!_OS
Nigerian American author Nnedi Okorafor is a name fantasy fans are well familiar with—she’s won Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Locus, and Lodestar Awards—and an even bigger audience awaits, since her Who Fears Death is being developed into an HBO series. In November, she’ll release Like Thunder, the sequel to Shadow…
Source: Gizmodo – Get a First Glimpse at Nnedi Okorafor’s Next Africanfuturist Novel, Like Thunder
I love a pantry meal. No worrying about whether you’ll get a chance to make it before the ingredients go bad, no making a special trip to the store for that one ingredient that you never seem to have on hand—just a quick bite that is ready to go at any moment. And those are the cheap and healthy meals we’re looking at…
Source: LifeHacker – Make These Cheap and Healthy Meals With Stuff Already in Your Pantry
Amazon has the company’s Kindle Kids e-reader on sale for 33 percent off right now. Its $80 price (usually $120) is nearly as low as it was on Prime Day, making it an ideal time to surprise your little one(s) with the gift of distraction-free reading. The device is an Engadget recommendation in our Best Educational Toys guide.
The discounted Kindle Kids model is the latest (2022) version. It includes a cover, bundled with your purchase, available in three designs resembling children’s book art: space whale, ocean explorer and unicorn valley.
The e-reader’s internal tech is identical to the standard 2022 Kindle, one of our picks for the best e-reader. Its specs include a high-res (300 ppi) display, 16GB storage, six weeks of battery life, USB-C charging and an adjustable front light. Each purchase comes with a year’s subscription to Amazon Kids+, including a library of thousands of kid-appropriate books and hundreds of audiobooks. (The membership will renew at $5 a month after that, so be sure to cancel before then if you only want the free year.)
Although the standard Kindle Kids is our top recommendation, you can also save on the Kindle Paperwhite Kids if you don’t mind spending more on an upgraded model. Compared to the cheaper Kindle Kids model, the child-focused Paperwhite has a larger screen (6.8 inches vs. 6 inches), more LEDs for better front-lit reading and an adjustable warm light that’s easier on the eyes. Amazon’s sale has the Kindle Paperwhite Kids for $114 (typically $170), only $10 higher than its Prime Day discount.
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Source: Engadget – Amazon’s Kindle Kids e-reader is off right now
The global rise in extreme weather is likely to bring along more fatal heart attacks, new research this week suggests. The study found that exposure to heat waves and cold snaps was associated with higher odds of heart attack deaths. This associated risk was even greater on extreme heat days that also featured high…
Source: Gizmodo – Heat Waves and Cold Snaps Linked to More Fatal Heart Attacks, Study Finds
A Fitbit or other step-counting challenge can be a great way to inspire yourself to be active. But then again, it’s easier to just sit on the couch and pretend you’re logging tons of steps. Here are a few ways to game the system, even though ultimately you’re just cheating yourself.
Source: LifeHacker – The Easiest Ways to Cheat at a Step-Counting Challenge
