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David Cardinal

California, Portola Valley

Contributing Writer and Technology Journalist at ExtremeTech

Nature Photographer, Digital Imaging Guru, and Tech Journalist (http://t.co/elYpGIeCxR)

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  • 6 days ago | extremetech.com | David Cardinal

    David is a professional photographer and technologist with a decade of experience as a digital travel and nature photographer and over two decades working in high tech, including many years in software development and management at Sun Microsystems and Amdahl, and the co-founding of FirstFloor Software, later part of Calico Commerce. He is also an Adjunct Lecturer at Stanford University and an instructor for Psychology 221, Image Systems Engineering.

  • 6 days ago | extremetech.com | David Cardinal |Devesh Beri |Jon Martindale

    The world is being taken by storm by the apparently amazing "superpowers" of the latest generation of large language models (LLMs). Whether you've used DeepSeek, Gemini, Perplexity, or Claude, you've almost certainly wondered, "How did they do that?"Artificial intelligence guru Andrej Karpathy has produced one of the best tech videos I've ever watched.

  • Sep 18, 2024 | extremetech.com | Ryan Whitwam |David Cardinal

    Artist's illustration of Europa Clipper in orbit around Jupiter. Credit: NASA/JPL-CaltechFor ten years, NASA's Europa Clipper mission team has been working toward the day when they can finally send a spacecraft to one of Jupiter's icy moons. Now that day is just over the horizon. After numerous bureaucratic hurdles and hardware difficulties, one of NASA's most ambitious missions has a launch window beginning on Oct. 10. The Europa Clipper team shared the update in a livestreamed mission preview.

  • Sep 18, 2024 | extremetech.com | Ryan Whitwam |David Cardinal

    Credit: zhengzaishuru/iStock via Getty Images PlusThe skies are much more crowded than they once were, and astronomers are paying the price. A new study from scientists in Europe explored the impact of SpaceX's new generation of internet satellites on radio astronomy, and the news isn't good. The researchers claim that the proliferation of more powerful Starlink satellites is threatening to "blind" radio telescopes, which are key to examining the faintest and most distant objects in the universe.

  • Sep 17, 2024 | extremetech.com | Ryan Whitwam |David Cardinal

    Credit: Morelli et al/Valencia Polytechnic UniversityScientists have genetically engineered a new type of lettuce with 30 times as much nutritional value as the leafy greens currently languishing in your fridge. So-called "Golden Lettuce" packs a supersized amount of beta-carotene, which the researchers hope will help support a population that doesn't consume nearly as much produce as it should.

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David Cardinal
David Cardinal @davidcardinal
14 Jan 20

Icons depicting Stations of the Cross at Holy Cross Church, Porterville, California. Written by Jane Cardinal, donated by Jane and Robert Cardinal. Thank you to Monsignor Scott Daugherty for hosting me. https://t.co/oMJQkeoqjV

David Cardinal
David Cardinal @davidcardinal
14 Jan 20

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David Cardinal
David Cardinal @davidcardinal
30 Oct 19

The call at 1st base was awful, but hopefully Rendon's HR has helped make sure it doesn't spoil the World Series.