Picture this: You’re a data analyst from day one at a midsize SaaS company. You have the beginnings of a data warehouse: some structured, usable data and a lot of raw data that you’re not yet sure what to do with. But that’s not the real problem. The real problem is that different teams do…
Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) shines next to the Eagle Nebula. (Image credit: Daniele Gasparri) He drove past the Eagle Nebula and the iconic Pillars of Creation, from his home in Chile’s Atacama Desert, on the night of October 17 earlier this year. Deep space view reveals bright green coma of kite C/2025 R2 (SWAN), just…
The holiday season means time with family and new memories, but it can also mean a lot of spending, sometimes too much. From gifts to travel plans to grocery shopping, the costs can add up and become overwhelming, especially in adifficult economic environment. Holiday shopping can bring joy, but it’s important to stick to a…
The deactivation of codec hardware by OEMs also comes as associated costs for the international video compression standard will increase in January, as indicated by license manager Access Advance. announced in July. By a breakdown of the administration of the patent pool VIA Licensing AllianceRoyalty rates for HEVC for over 100,001 units are increasing from…
Best Buy has some new deals on Apple’s M4 MacBook Air this week, including an all-time lowest price match on the laptop, plus a free $25 Best Buy gift card with purchase. You can get the 13-inch, 256GB model for $749.00below $999.00, as well as discounts on all other 13-inch models. Note: MacRumors is a…
Child-focused tax benefits have taken many forms over the years. We’ve had child tax credits, dependent care credits, education credits, 529 accounts, UTMA and UGMA accounts, and more. But the recent approval A big beautiful bill (OBBB) introduced something entirely new: a federally seeded, tax-deferred savings product for children known as Trump Savings Accounts. This…
Enshittification is an unavoidable fact of life. Once great apps and services fail in the constant need to maximize shareholder profits, which comes at the cost of user experience. Very few apps escape the march of enshittification, but there are some that have gotten significantly worse this year. reddit Reddit has had a lot of…
December 5, 2025 1 minimum reading Add us on GoogleAdd science-Am By 2040, one truck of plastic garbage will be thrown away every second, report says unless we act now It is estimated that by 2040, approximately 280 million metric tons of plastic waste will enter the air, water, soil and human body each year,…
Over the past decade, progress in artificial intelligence has been measured by scale: larger models, larger data sets, and more computing. That approach produced striking advances in large language models (LLM); YoIn just five years, AI has jumped from models like GPT-2, which could hardly imitate coherence, to systems like GPT-5 that can reason and…
Matthew Sacchet (left) attaches an EEG headset that can monitor brain activity during states of deep meditation Matthew D. Sacchet Many of us have downloaded mindfulness apps like Headspace or Calm, and have probably benefited from spending 10 minutes each day focusing on our breathing. But reducing stress and softening the sharper edges of anxiety…