The chemistry of milk washing, aka the secret to Ben Franklin’s favorite tipple

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Explore the chemistry behind making a cocktail with curdled milk, aka milk washing—like Ben Franklin’s fave, milk punch. It’s well-known that Benjamin Franklin was a Founding Father who enjoyed a nice tipple or two (or three). One of his favorite alcoholic beverages was milk punch, a heady concoction of brandy, lemon juice, nutmeg, sugar, water, … Read more

WhatsApp is down worldwide in a major outage

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WhatsApp is down worldwide, impacting the 2 billion users of the messaging service. Users started experiencing issues connecting to WhatsApp in multiple countries just after 2PM ET today, with the service stuck on “connecting” for many. The Meta-owned messaging service appears to be experiencing a major outage worldwide. WhatsApp doesn’t have its own status page, … Read more

Pixel Vault’s ‘BattlePlan’ Migrating to Ethereum Gaming Network Xai

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Reboot, the crypto gaming protocol powering Pixel Vault’s flagship game BattlePlan, announced an alliance with The Xai Foundation on Wednesday to migrate the game to the Xai gaming network on Ethereum. BattlePlan will utilize Xai’s Arbitrum-based layer-3 technology when it moves to the network sometime this quarter. The game was first launched on Arbitrum Nova, … Read more

a fifth Matrix movie is happening

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There’s another Matrix movie in the works. Warner Bros. just greenlit a fifth installment of the saga, . However, neither Lana Wachowski or Lilly Wachowski will be handling directing duties. That honor falls to Drew Goddard, who adapted The Martian into a screenplay and directed the criminally underrated Cabin in the Woods. He’s also writing … Read more

This tiny box from Samsung can hold 2TB of a special kind of RAM worth tens of thousands of dollars — CXL Memory Module Box hailed as the future of expansive server memory in the age of AI

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At MemCon 2024, Samsung showcased its latest HBM3E technology, talked about its future HBM4 plans, and unveiled the CXL Memory Module Box, also known as CMM-B, the latest addition to its Compute Express Link (CXL) memory module portfolio. CMM-B is essentially a memory pooling appliance for rack computing leveraging CXL. It supports disaggregated memory allocation, … Read more

Cyprus’ 2013 banking crisis was Bitcoin’s origin as a safe haven asset

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Quick Take During the 2013 Cyprus financial crisis, Bitcoin’s reaction provided an early indication of its potential as a “risk-off” asset and alternative safe haven. The instability in Cyprus’s banking system was attributed to lax regulation within the sector and overextension among property developers, as reported by The Guardian. Before the crisis escalated, on March … Read more

Shiba Inu To Rally 100% To $0.000062? Analyst Reveals Why This Is Possible

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A crypto analyst has identified a key technical indicator in the Shiba Inu price chart that suggests that the cryptocurrency is set to witness a major price rally to new highs.  Asymmetrical Triangle Signaling SHIB Price Surge Appears A crypto analyst identified as Captain Faibik on X (formerly Twitter) has unveiled a distinctive technical pattern … Read more

AI-Generated Spoofs of ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Are Flooding Instagram and TikTok

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The blending of the real and unreal could explain why some faux-Drag Race followers get so passionate about what they’re seeing on their feeds. Michael says he “lives for the overreactions of fans” who believe his creations are real people. He says people often ask him for a queen’s actual Instagram handle. “I also get … Read more