As I work on Zorex, an omnipotent regexp engine I have stumbled into a world of tales about why Unicode text sorting is so annoying in the modern day. Let’s talk about that. Why ASCII sorting is not enough Twitter’s emoji problem, or when Unicode locale-aware sorting Really Matters™ Browsers added special emoji matching to…
© Nintendo LifeUpdate: A friend who wishes to remain anonymous has stated that Near has tragically taken their own life: Original story [Sun 27th Jun, 2021 18:00 BST]: Fears are growing for the safety of Near, the person behind the excellent SNES emulator BSNES, after they posted what appeared to be suicidal statements on Twitter.…
Satellites reveal ocean microplastic fluctuation in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and releases from the Yangtze River in China. An estimated eight million tons of plastic trash enters the ocean each year, and most of it is battered by sun and waves into microplastics—tiny flecks that can ride currents hundreds or thousands of miles from…
New research from UMD shows ecology changed for tyrannosaurs as they grew up. Slender, agile young tyrannosaurs (left) hunted different prey and did so in a different fashion than the much larger, powerful jawed adults (right). Credit: Zubin Erik Dutta New University of Maryland study suggests that everywhere tyrannosaurs rose to dominance, their juveniles took…
Mutations in the SARS-CoV-2 variants cause changes in the electrostatic potential (electric charge at rest) on the spike surface. Here, positively charged areas are shown in blue and negatively charged areas in red. In the Beta variant, the receptor-binding domain (RBD) and N-terminal domain (NTD) have changed substantially, affecting the ability of antibodies to bind…
Cat Fight or Feline the Love? Co-dependent and clingy or casual and aloof – a new study has examined the behavior of pet cats to understand what it means about their relationship with their owner, and the research suggests it’s a two-way street! The research “My Cat and Me – a Study of Cat Owner…
Curtin University research has found tiny amounts of gold can be trapped inside pyrite, commonly known as ‘fool’s gold’, which would make it much more valuable than its name suggests. This study, published in the journal Geology in collaboration with the University of Western Australia and the China University of Geoscience, provides an in-depth analysis…
The CMA has opened an investigation into Amazon and Google over possible breaches of consumer protection law By Alex Scroxton, Security Editor Published: 25 Jun 2021 13:00 The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has opened formal enforcement proceedings against tech giants Amazon and Google relating to possible breaches of consumer protection law, amid concerns…
A legal bid to establish collective bargaining rights for Deliveroo riders been dismissed in court, with judges ruling that they are not entitled to the right to form or join a trade union By Sebastian Klovig Skelton , Senior reporter Published: 25 Jun 2021 12:37 Deliveroo riders are “self-employed” and do not have the right…
