Lifeboat Foundation

Other species of human used to walk the Earth. Homo sapiens are the last to survive.

As well as normal hardback and paperback editions, it was released as a free e-book under the CC BY-NC-ND license. Accelerando won the Locus Award in 2006, and was nominated for several other awards in 2005 and 2006, including the Hugo, Campbell, Clarke, and British Science Fiction Association Awards.

The book is a collection of nine short stories telling the tale of three generations of a family before, during, and after a technological singularity. It was originally written as a series of novelettes and novellas, all published in Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine in the period 2001 to 2004. According to Stross, the initial inspiration for the stories was his experience working as a programmer for a high-growth company during the dot-com boom of the 1990s.

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Pushing for a higher speed isn’t just for athletes. Researchers, too, can achieve such feats with their discoveries. This is the case for Jinyang Liang, Professor at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), and his team, whose research results have recently been published in Nature Communications.

Video showed the Francis Scott Key Bridge crumble into the Patapsco River in Baltimore.

But what explains this phenomenon? Psychologists have proposed a number of explanations, but I’d argue the key to understanding Tony’s experience lies in a different interpretation of time itself.

When life flashes before our eyes

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Scientists have created an RNA-replicating molecule in the lab — and brought the world one step close to creating artificial life.

Be Yourself.

Bounded attention for multi-subject text-to-image generation.

Text-to-image diffusion models have an unprecedented ability to generate diverse and high-quality images.

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AllHands.

Ask me anything on large-scale verbatim feedback via large language models.

Verbatim feedback constitutes a valuable repository of user experiences, opinions, and requirements essential for software development.

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The Peace Warby Vernor VingeRead by Bruce HunteyThis book was first published in 1984Audio originally issued by NLS on cassette in 1988 The Peace Authority g…