YouTuber Nick Zetta decided to try to power a gaming PC with a miniature V8 engine — which I just found out is something you can buy.
It wasn’t as simple as shoving some wires in. He used pulleys, a pair of golf cart motors, a power regulator, rubber belts, an accelerator pedal, and a DIY motor mount. For his computer.
Matt Binder of Mashable offers an analysis of data collected on basic account information from all the X accounts that follow Musk. Here are some stats from the article:
• About 42 percent (65.3 million) have no followers.
• About 41 percent (62.5 million) have no tweets (either because they have never tweeted, or have deleted their tweets).
• Over 25 percent (38.9 million) created their accounts on or after the date of Musk’s Twitter acquisition.
• The median number of followers of all of the accounts is one.
GoPro claims in leaked specs that its newest action camera will have 70 minutes of recording time in 5.3K at 60fps, over 90 minutes in 5.3K at 30fps, and more than 150 minutes in FHD at 30fps, reports WinFuture (translated by Google Translate).
Those are gains between about nine percent and 15 percent over the Hero 11 Black, but GoPro appears to be changing little else in this year’s release, according to the article.
Programmer and writer Alex Reisner’s expansive piece for The Atlantic documents his deep dive into the dataset, identifying all but 20,000 of the 190,000 books it contains, as well as its history and controversy surrounding it.
Books3, part of a larger dataset called “The Pile” created by EleutherAI, is the linchpin of Sarah Silverman’s lawsuit against OpenAI.
Russia lost its Luna-25 moon lander after it “ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the surface of the moon,” according to Russian state space corporation Roscosmos. Mission planning began in 2015, and a landing would’ve been the country’s first since 1976.
Next up: India’s Chandrayaan-3, which made lunar orbit this month, will try for a landing this week.
