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Scientists warn against reading too much into a small experiment generating a lot of buzz.

Vintage tech meets modern coding: Learn how a Raspberry Pi and a little bit of hardware hacking revived a 50-year-old analog HP X-Y recorder.

To quote Zygmunt Bauman:

We are – most of us – free to enjoy our freedom, but unfree to avoid the consequences of that enjoyment. To tackle the consequences, we are bound to turn to the self-same market of commodified goods, services and ideas (thus also, presumably, of counsels and therapies), which is the major production plant of ambivalence and its zealous and resourceful supplier. The market keeps ambivalence alive, and ambivalence keeps the market alive. From this closed circle there is no obvious exit. But since the times of the Gordian knot every close circle breeds the temptation to cut and the demand for sharp knives...

Let's take an example.

We know that searching stuff on Google got worse, but imagine if AI replaced it completely. Searching the web would be something like making prompts to a chatbot, a complete black box of information. AI could make sure that you don't get conflicting views on state policies or acess to copyrighted materials...

What happens when a golf-cart-sized spacecraft collides with an asteroid? Learn about NASA's daring DART mission.

The country’s vast mineral deposits include rare earths

Donald Trump believes he’s invincible. But the cracks are beginning to show. By Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer

An new open-source-based e-learning box, called Beekee, shows promise for classrooms in regions without reliable power or Internet connectivity.

Bold claims of ‘biosignature’ molecules trigger an outpouring of scepticism.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.eco.br/post/12414290

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Does anyone know how to do that? Or is there already a solution to this out there?

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Wordreference is the best online dictionary out there, it's free and works very well with multiple languages. Recently I saw this post on their forum dictionary for kindle devices , and its an old post (2011).

The idea was to "compile" wordreference - let's say english - dictionary into a .mobi file and put it in kindle so you could use it offline as your kindle dictionary.

Does anyone know how to do that? Or is there already a solution to this out there?

It would be amazing to use wordreference offline on kindle as a tool to learn other languages.

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our solar system, detecting in an alien planet's atmosphere the chemical fingerprints of gases that on Earth are produced only by biological processes.