A workplace has its own informal cardinal directions: elevatorward, kitchenward, bathroomward. It’s a map we share. From an essay: I love visiting offices, listening to their hum. Literally: I sometimes went to a giant financial firm where they traded different kinds of securities on different floors, and if it was a big day in bonds the fourth floor would be loud,…
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Facebook Revenue Chief Says Ad-Supported Model Is ‘Under Assault’ Amid Apple Privacy Changes
Facebook Chief Revenue Officer David Fischer said Tuesday that the economic models that rely on personalized advertising are “under assault” as Apple readies changes that would limit the ability of Facebook and other companies to target ads and estimate how well they work. Apple frames the change as preserving users’ privacy, rather than as an attack on the advertising industry, and…
When did humans first learn to create fire ?
Fire is one of mankind’s most fundamental technological discoveries – but just how long ago did we discover it ? The quintessential depiction of a hum… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/339059/when-did-humans-first-learn-to-create-fire…
Earth-shaking science in the freezer: Next generation vibration sensors at cryogenic temperatures
A cutting-edge vibration sensor may improve the next generation of gravitational-wave detectors to find the tiniest cosmic waves from the background hum of Earth’s motion. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-07-earth-shaking-science-freezer-vibration-sensors.html…
The electric hum of life may have originated with primordial lightning
A low-frequency hum in our cells syncs may have synced with ancient sky bolts. Source: https://www.livescience.com/life-electrical-hum-from-lightning.html
What’s causing a spooky hum to fill parts of San Francisco?
Aerodynamic slats newly installed on the Golden Gate Bridge produce a loud hum on windy days, as San Fransiscans learned this past weekend. Source: https://www.livescience.com/golden-gate-bridge-hum.html
A unique (so far) gravitational wave signal
LIGO and Virgo detectors have now captured the first gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger where the black hole masses are unequal. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/a-gravitational-wave-signal-like-none-before…
Earth climate models and the search for life on other planets
In a generic brick building on the northwestern edge of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center campus in Greenbelt, Maryland, thousands of computers packed in racks the size of vending machines hum in a deafening chorus of data crunching. Day and night, they spit out 7 quadrillion calculations per second. These machines collectively are known as NASA’s Discover supercomputer and they are…
How Earth climate models help picture life on unimaginable worlds
In a generic brick building on the northwestern edge of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center campus in Greenbelt, Maryland, thousands of computers packed in racks the size of vending machines hum in a deafening chorus of data crunching. Day and night, they spit out 7 quadrillion calculations per second. These machines collectively are known as NASA’s Discover supercomputer and they are…
Worldwide mystery hum has been solved at last
Scientists have discovered the source of the mysterious humming sound that had been heard around the world. The anomalous seismic hum was first picked… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/333645/worldwide-mystery-hum-has-been-solved-at-last…