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PET tape causes battery self-discharge

Lithium batteries lose some of their charge over time. Even if it is left unused, the power will slowly decrease. This phenomenon is called “self-discharge”. Researchers at Dalhousie University have found that one culprit of self-discharge is adhesive tape, and replacing it could potentially solve a problem that has long plagued the battery industry. Like

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Spotify hits 200 million subscribers

Spotify disclosed in its financial report for the fourth quarter of 2022 that as of December 31, 2022, its paid subscribers reached 205 million, a year-on-year increase of 14%; monthly active users were 489 million, a year-on-year increase of 20%. Spotify becomes the first music streaming service to surpass 200 million subscribers. But it faces

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Stanford researchers launch DetectGPT to detect text generated by ChatGPT

ChatGPT, an OpenAI chatbot that has taken the world by storm over the past few months, can generate fake text, raising concerns among teachers in education circles that students might misuse it for homework. In order to detect AI-generated text, Stanford researchers introduced DetectGPT, which is based on the specific tendency of large language models

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GitHub surpasses 100 million users

GitHub announced that it has surpassed 100 million users. GitHub was established in 2008. The number of users exceeded 3 million in 2013, 28 million in 2018, 90 million in October 2022, and 100 million three months later. GitHub claims that these 100 million users are 100 million developers. Many people have different opinions on

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AutoHotkey v2 officially released

AutoHotkey v2, the Windows scripting language used to create shortcuts and automations, has officially become the main version. The maintenance of v1 is no longer recommended. The developer recommends that v1 users migrate to v2, but v1 scripts can continue to be used, and v1 can coexist with v2. The developers claim that the backwards

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