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Your living room deserves smart lighting that doesn’t drain your wallet. Smart floor lamps have become incredibly popular for transforming spaces with dynamic colors and voice control but the price tags often make people think twice. Not anymore. Right now, the Govee RGBIC floor lamp has dropped to just $59 on Amazon, down from its usual $99 price. This Prime …

Here’s why you should seriously think about taking Social Security at 62 — even if the ‘basic’ math says something else  moneywise.com Here’s why you ought to seriously consider taking Social Security at 62 — even if the ‘basic’ math suggests otherwise  Yahoo Finance Age 62, 67 or 70? Here’s the best time to claim Social Security.  USA Today Gregory Ricks discusses how …

Image via Getty / Futurism While much of the wealth-owning world is positively smitten by the financial promise of large language models (LLMs) and the data centers necessary to power them, one major tech investor is sounding the alarm. Roger McNamee, a career tech financier who made successful bets on companies including Google, Facebook, and Amazon, recently penned an ominous …

In the era of vibe coding, when even professionals are pawning off their programming work on AI tools, Microsoft is throwing it all the way back to the language that launched a billion devices. On Wednesday, the company announced that it would make the source code for Microsoft BASIC for the 6502 Version 1.1 publicly available and open-source. The code …

On Wednesday, Microsoft released the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1, the 1978 interpreter that powered the Commodore PET, VIC-20, Commodore 64, and Apple II through custom adaptations. The company posted 6,955 lines of assembly language code to GitHub under an MIT license, allowing anyone to freely use, modify, and distribute the code that helped launch …

Microsoft has open-sourced the version of BASIC it created in 1976 for the MOS 6502 processor used in many early microcomputers. As the software colossus explained in a Wednesday post, Microsoft founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen wrote the company’s first product, BASIC for the Altair 8800 microcomputer and the Intel 8080 processor that powered it, in 1975. A year …

Digg is making a comeback. With the backing of people like Digg cofounder Kevin Rose and Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian, Digg has ambitions to once again be the homepage of the internet. The revival is still in its very early days — the platform is still invite-only — but Digg launched its new mobile apps this week, and I installed …

The actor Sharon Stone has expressed scepticism about the Basic Instinct reboot currently being scripted by the original film’s writer Joe Eszterhas. Speaking on US TV’s Today programme, Stone made reference to the unsuccessful 2006 sequel, in which she reprised her role of murderous novelist Catherine Tramell. That film earned dreadful reviews, poor audience feedback and just $38m (£28m) at …

Neural organoids were differentiated from iPSC-derived Neural Progenitor Cells (NPC) for up to 14 weeks and characterized throughout development (Fig. 1a). Gene expression of synaptic plasticity markers was quantified from week 0 to week 12. Calcium signaling development was analyzed from week 2 to week 14. Finally, electrical activity was characterized by High-Density Microelectrode Arrays (HD-MEAs) over two independent time periods, from …

Even the ‘Basic Instinct’ star wasn’t immune, as it seems.In 2010, Hollywood icon Michael Douglas publicly revealed he was battling stage IV throat cancer. He initially thought stress, years of smoking, and heavy drinking might have played a role. However, as facts emerged, it became clear the cancer was linked to a different culprit altogether.What was it? What did Michael …