Today, @Google signed the world’s first corporate agreement to purchase nuclear energy from a series of small modular reactors, to be developed by @KairosPower. Learn how this will help bring new 24x7 clean power to the US electricity system. ⬇️

Please retweet! Searching for a PhD student for my VIDI grant. The team is building a programming model & self-driving streaming dataflow engine for Transactional Stateful Functions. Apply here by 10th February (and drop me an email): https://t.co/QZjnvf4yIk

The desert is coming. The Sahara desert is expanding towards Southern Spain and Italy, and experts predict that both regions will become deserts by 2100 or even sooner.

In 1971, engineers from the Soviet Union ignited a fire in a gas-filled hole in the Turkmenistan desert. Anticipating that the flames would extinguish within days, they were surprised when the fire continued to burn. Now, 52 years later, this site, known as “The Door to Hell,” is

September 2023 will easily go down as the warmest September ever recorded in Europe. The national-average temperatures are greater than 3°C above 1991-2020 "normals" in at least 10 countries. This is absolute insanity.

Barefoot Gen (1983) is an anime based on Keiji Nakazawa's manga, offering a heartbreaking child point of view on one of the biggest tragedies of the XX century. The author was 6 and he was there when Hiroshima was bombed, 78 years ago #Today https://t.co/hGv8j3qlcL

If you sit in back-to-back meetings at work, read this: Microsoft's Human Factors Lab studied 14 participants across two days of video meetings. • Day 1: 4 back-to-back 30-min meetings. • Day 2: 4 30-min meetings with 10-minute breaks in between. Participants wore EEG caps

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Please retweet! I am searching for two PhD students and one postdoc for my VIDI grant. We are building a programming model & self-driving dataflow engine for Transactional Stateful Functions. For PhD apply here by 15th July: https://t.co/SviNusp3FI Postdoc: drop me an email!

Incremental processing is the foundation of efficient stream processing across the entire latency spectrum, yet SQL lacks a native mechanism for querying changes to a table over time. Today we present our #SIGMOD paper describing Snowflake Change Queries https://t.co/DtkYvIs397

Current @SnowflakeDB engineer Gloria Doci @glor10us TU Darmstadt's team will be presenting their "Distributed GPU Joins on Fast RDMA-capable Networks" paper on Thursday at 2 PM in Evergreen GH. @sigmod #DataCloud

Geomorphology of a river: what happens when you install a dam or a weir and how the sediment transport changes [full video + full explanation here: https://t.co/cjyB0kqwm4] https://t.co/IatjMHJrUn

Lines of code: MS-DOS: 4 thousand WhatsApp: 30 thousand Telegram: 50 thousand Zoom: 60 thousand TikTok: 80 thousand Space Shuttle: 400 thousand Minecraft: 500 thousand Instagram: 1 million US Military Drone: 3.5 million YouTube: 5.4 million World of Warcraft: 5.5

I never realized how much meaning was hidden in the names of European capital cities until I came across this amazing map!

The unintentional dystopian beauty of oil rigs 1. Brage oil field, located in the North Sea 120 km northwest of the city of Bergen

Mark your calendar during NSDI 23', Boston MA. I will be presenting my work on secure computation titled "Towards a scalable generic MPC framework with configurable guarantees" on Monday@6pm in the poster session.

Excited to announce @AugmentaAg is acquired by @CNHIndustrial, the second largest global agricultural equipment manufacturer, for $110m CNHI will continue to strategically invest in Augmenta, turning Athens into an R&D hub Congrats to the whole team🎉 https://t.co/ltOsvn1Hmf

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Let’s start the year by reflecting on the colossal waste of resources in Bitcoin mining: During 2022 Bitcoin consumed 161 TWh of electricity in total, exceeding a country such as Sweden. Related CO2 emissions were ~90 Mt; again negating the entire global net savings from EVs.

Defending a castle, the Escher way [source, Mehdi Alibeygi: https://t.co/ECLu8eOKb3]