How Meta Got 500 Million Threads Users Without Building An Audience

Threads hit 500M users by tapping Instagram’s built-in audience, showing Meta’s true asset is its distribution pipeline, not apps.

ChatGPT forgets things in long threads. Here’s the fix

An AI chatbot can only remember so much. This prompt hands off the essentials of your conversation to a fresh chat thread.
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DC At-Large Election: Where the candidates stand on the issues

Polls have closed for the 2026 D.C. Primary elections. 7News has your live election results by Rebecca Turco 10 candidates are in the running for an at-large D.C. Council seat, where the incumbent isn ...
mayoclinic

Depression (major depressive disorder)

What is depression? A Mayo Clinic expert explains. Learn more about depression from Craig Sawchuk, Ph.D., L.P., clinical psychologist at Mayo Clinic. Show transcript for video What is depression? A ...
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This day in history - December 6: Mahatma Gandhi bust unveiled in Nebraska

December 6, 2024 - A bust of Mahatma Gandhi was unveiled at the governor’s office in the Nebraska State Capitol on Dec. 6, 2024. Several dignitaries were in attendance, including Gov. Jim Pillen, ...
Fair Observer

The (Re)Writing of Ukrainian History: Narratives and Legacies

Since Russia's invasions of Ukraine in 2014 and 2022, the nation has undergone a significant process of national reinvention, with a focus on redefining its history and identity. Central to this ...
Frontiers

Multitasking: Executive Functioning in Dual-Task and Task Switching Situations

Multitasking refers to performance of multiple tasks. The most prominent types of multitasking are situations including either temporal overlap of the execution of multiple tasks (i.e., dual tasking) ...
InfoWorld

Project Loom: Understand the new Java concurrency model

Loom is a newer project in the Java and JVM ecosystem. Hosted by OpenJDK, the Loom project addresses limitations in the traditional Java concurrency model. In particular, it offers a lighter ...
GitHub

alugowski/task-thread-pool

Use poolSTL to parallelize loops, transforms, sorts, and other standard library algorithms using this thread pool. This approach is easy to start with and also keeps your code future-proof by ...
The New Yorker

In America, Naturalized Citizens No Longer Have an Assumption of Permanence

Last week, it emerged that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (U.S.C.I.S.) had formed a task force in order to identify people who lied on their citizenship applications and to denaturalize ...
TechRepublic

How to adjust CPU priority using Apple’s Terminal

Managing the CPU time assigned to threads on a computer can lead to better management by using Terminal commands to prioritize processes on the fly. One of the most common and biggest trade-offs to ...