The best and WORST insect repellent sprays revealed – including £20 ‘waste of money’ and £4 spray that lasts 9 hours

SHOPPERS heading abroad or outdoors this summer are being warned not to waste their cash on trendy, alternative mosquito ...
InfoQ

Hardwood Promises High-Speed JVM Apache Parquet Processing with Zero Mandatory Dependencies

Hardwood, the project Gunnar Morling kick-started handling of Parquet files in Java, reached version 1. Its multi-threaded approach and zero mandatory external dependencies promise a simpler, more ...
GitHub

Building Open-Ended Embodied Agents with Internet-Scale Knowledge

is a new AI research framework for building open-ended, generally capable embodied agents. MineDojo features a massive simulation suite built on Minecraft with 1000s of diverse tasks, and provides ...
The New York Times

The Learning Network

To participate, submit your response here by July 10 at 9 a.m. Eastern. This week’s winners will be announced by July 22. By The Learning Network Heeva Alavi, an Iranian-American, writes about her ...