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PhD Research on UK Wet Heating Retrofit - A continuing summary of Damon's research into optimising UK domestic wet heating system retrofit. #PhD #heating #research -

PhD Research on UK Wet Heating Retrofit
A continuing summary of Damons research into optimising UK domestic wet heating system retrofit. #PhD #heating #research

America’s bees and beekeepers are losing a valuable ally just when they need its help most.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to soon close the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center,
a 6,500-acre agricultural research station in Maryland that is home to the nation’s premier bee research and disease diagnosis hub, the Beltsville Bee Research Lab.
The closure comes at a critical moment for bees.
In winter 2025, many beekeepers lost over half their operations as…

Shutting down federal bee labs threatens bees, beekeepers and the US food system
When honey bees get sick, their beekeepers turn to the nation’s premier bee research and disease diagnosis lab for help. That crucial resource is now disappearing.

Call Out the Broken Rogers-Shaw Deal
Back in 2023, Canadians were told our government was putting conditions on the $26B Rogers-Shaw deal that would make it a win for all of us. The deal would be closely monitored and came with teeth: binding commitments with up to $1 billion in penalties for non-compliance.1
Three years later, the spirit of that promise is being broken in plain sight. Rogers' own public disclosures reveal that commitments on job creation, 5G expansion, fair …

Call Out the Broken Rogers-Shaw Deal
Canadians were promised the Rogers-Shaw deal would benefit all of us. 3 years in, Rogers is falling short on jobs, 5G, prices, and service.💥 ISED has done nothing! Tell Minister Joly to act on what the government promised. 👉 https://openmedia.org/CallOutRogers

Richard Socher's Recursive Superintelligence signs a $410M, multiyear AWS compute deal to support its self-improving AI systems, after raising $650M in May (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/28/recursive-superinte…

Recursive Superintelligence signs $410 compute deal with Amazon | TechCrunch
Recursive’s $400 million outlay represents the bulk of the company’s fundraising to date.

Reiserucksack für die Vision Pro mit Schnellzugriff
Besonders auf Langstreckenflügen kann es angenehm sein, es sich unter dem Apple-Headset bequem zu machen. Waterfield hat dafür nun einen passenden Rucksack.
https://w…

Reiserucksack für die Vision Pro mit Schnellzugriff
Besonders auf Langstreckenflügen kann es angenehm sein, es sich unter dem Apple-Headset bequem zu machen. Waterfield hat dafür nun einen passenden Rucksack.

Kim Hyeon's Call to Action for Digital Humanists - 3 Missions for Digital Humanists
1. Design Al-collaborative humanities research methodologies.
2. Build public Al research environments for humanists.
3. Establish new educational frameworks for future scholars.
#DH2026

I've finally got a formal solicitation for the postdoc position on my new NSF-funded project—come help build a new method to study plant populations' responses to environmental variation in space and over time, and figure out interesting ways to use it! Apply by 23 August to ensure consideration.
Details here:

Join the Yoder Lab as a postdoctoral research fellow
The Yoder Lab at CSUN invites applicants for the role of postdoctoral research fellow. The successful applicant will take a collaborating role in a new NSF-funded project in ecological data science…

Autocracy Inc. mag keine schlechte Presse.
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000318310/nach-china-recherche-cyberangriff-auf-standard-autor

Sources: Amazon overhauls its AI strategy, deprecating several flagship Nova AI models, as it shifts resources to its Frontier Model Research initiative (Eugene Kim/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-overhauls-ai-strategy…

Amazon rethinks its AI strategy and winds down many in-house models
Amazon reshapes its AI strategy by deprecating most Nova AI models and shifting resources to Pieter Abbeel's Frontier Model Research initiative.

Netflix has been gradually requiring each profile under a Netflix subscription to use a unique email address; the rule doesn't apply to children's profiles (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/0

Netflix now requires every user profile to be tied to unique email address
Update began June 15 and will no longer allow you to share your login info.