"Say it louder." Urbanist draws attention to city's design monstrosity in local community: 'So tired of pedestrian-hostile areas' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Himax Technologies and E Ink Holdings have joined forces to unveil a groundbreaking smart retail solution at Touch Taiwan 2024, Digital Display reported. This collaboration integrates Himax’s WiseEye ultralow power AI sensing with E Ink’s electronic paper displays, targeting the … | Continue reading
The E Ink Kaleido 3 display looks great as an e-paper display. When looked closely, they look very similar to print on paper, which is the reason they are considered the next best thing to paper in the digital realm. While all of that is good, have you ever wondered what it might … | Continue reading
The world's most advanced solar sail spacecraft began its odyssey today at 23:32 GMT as it lifted off atop a Rocket Lab Electron launcher from Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand. It was one of two payloads on the Beginning Of The Swarm mission. Continue Reading Category: Spac … | Continue reading
"If we want to achieve our carbon reduction goals, we will need long-duration energy storage devices." Researchers develop sand-based technology to solve major issue with clean energy: 'This represents a new generation of storage' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Find yourself in a never-ending maze of bright yellow bureaucracy? Here’s your go-to guide for buying and cancelling a subscription for Berlin’s 29-euro public transport ticket.... | Continue reading
I just found out that when you brush your teeth, both morning and night, you should spit but don’t rinse. Toothpaste contains fluoride which helps strengthen your teeth. By not rinsing with water, fluoride in the toothpaste will stay on your teeth for longer helping to keep them … | Continue reading
Ever since Tesla started rolling out Full Self Driving (FSD) to non-employee Tesla owners in the US, people in other countries have been asking when they’ll be able to install and use FSD. As far as I remember, it’s always been a vague “someday…” kind of response. That hasn’t rea … | Continue reading
There have been a lot of questions about the Tesla Cybertruck’s mass-production potential since the truck was first shown, and we’re clearly in a kind of “production hell” period of the Cybertruck ramp-up. Recently, production was paused and a recall issued because of an issue wi … | Continue reading
A highlight from the Es Devlin exhibit at the Cooper Hewitt Museum in Manhattan. This is a plan for her installation at the 2021 Art Basel in Miami Beach, Florida. Titled Five Echoes, it was a full-scale maze based on the floor of the Chartres Cathedral, a “sound sculpture” that … | Continue reading
One of the big surprises this year so far was Tesla’s Q1 sales dropping year over year. Tesla said for a long time its goal was 50% growth year over year. Yes, Elon Musk and crew also qualified that to say it wasn’t expected to be steady growth and some ... [continued] The post E … | Continue reading
Lameazoid Link List for Tuesday 2024-04-23 23-Apr-2024 – The Rings of Power Season 3 Looks Closer Than Ever Despite Season 2 Release Date Silence Brief Summary: “Waiting for The Rings of Power season 2 feels a lot like Gandalf and Pippin looking out from Minas T” 23-Apr-2024 – Fo … | Continue reading
The study's results could indicate that people are being exposed to more of this chemical now. New urine sample study finds little-known toxin in human body: 'Raises alarm bells about how it could potentially cause harm' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
"I've been debating on whether or not to buy this [plant] for next year and you've convinced me." Gardener shares breathtaking effect of choosing to plant native flowers: 'How incredible to see' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
In this article, Erik Jan Peffer from Taxt explains important information about your Dutch tax return as an expat in the Netherlands. Migrating to another country such as the... | Continue reading
A man in the Netherlands tested positive for COVID-19 for 613 days before his death in October 2023, it has been revealed by Amsterdam UMC. Researchers from the hospital believe... | Continue reading
openelm/README-pretraining.md Apple released something big three hours ago, and I'm still trying to get my head around exactly what it is. The parent project is called CoreNet, described as "A library for training deep neural networks". Part of the release is a new LLM called Ope … | Continue reading
The U.S. Senate passed the TikTok bill on Tuesday evening in a vote of 79-18. The bill, which bans TikTok unless Bytedance sells it to a U.S. owner, flew through Congress this week as part of a broader package to provide $90 billion in foreign aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. … | Continue reading
"It doesn't make sense to allow tons of pollution that damages our health just from cutting grass and blowing leaves around." State advances with major plans to ban gas-powered equipment in extensive new law: 'Cleaner, quieter electric options are readily available' first appeare … | Continue reading
19:10 Bust day driving to and from Tahoe. Walked around for a few hours, explored after having lunch, […] | Continue reading
"SWOT can fill the data gap for when places like this, and others around the world, become inundated." New NASA technology captures images of ancient lake reemergence from space: 'Developing one of the most detailed and comprehensive views of the planet' first appeared on The Coo … | Continue reading
A lot has been written about the Tesla’s next-generation compact car that used to be widely called the Model 2, including Zach’s excellent article last week about it. Zach asked who might pick up the challenge in place of Tesla doing it. Today, Tesla announced it would follow thr … | Continue reading
This month we have a Double-Decker Salted Caramel Cake to celebrate all the April TWD babies: Diane, Kayte and yours truly. My birthday was at the start of the month, but I actually didn’t bake this till this past Sunday, which was Kayte’s big day, so I blew out a candle made a w … | Continue reading
"Don't bother trying weedkiller." Homeowner seeks advice on exterminating nuisance overtaking their yard: 'My condolences' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
The test cannot tell if the virus is live. The FDA still assess milk supply as safe. | Continue reading
"Don't do this in public spaces." Community members speak out after seeing 'disrespectful' aftermath of party in park: 'Who do they expect to clean it up?' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Back in 2013 when I started using Fedora Core 1, I had no idea I’d still be on Fedora when it reached its 40th release 11 years later. Congrats to the team and here’s the official announcement. | Continue reading
Tesla CEO Elon Musk made it absolutely clear on today’s Tesla conference call: if you don’t believe in Tesla’s AI work and robotaxi plans, you shouldn’t be invested in Tesla stock (NASDAQ:TSLA). The company is not fundamentally a car company, as he noted. It’s fundamentally an AI … | Continue reading
A bad survey won’t tell you it’s bad. It’s actually really hard to find out that a bad survey is bad — or to tell whether you have written a good or bad set of questions. Bad code will have bugs. A bad interface design will fail a usability test. It’s possible to tell whether you … | Continue reading
"It's all too much consumption." Eyebrow-raising image of Kim Kardashian's closet sparks outrage online: 'This is sick' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes My rating: 4 of 5 stars Description in one line? Cowboy Bebop meets Mass Effect with a Cuban protagonist. I grew up in Miami, Florida so having a main character speak in “spanglish” brings me back to my childhood. The narrator also nails the voic … | Continue reading
Ever since its launch, we thought Vermont's Beta Technologies might prove itself the real deal in an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) world dominated by renderings, concepts, prototypes and other "maybe somedays." Continue Reading Category: Aircraft, Transport Tags: … | Continue reading
Symbium is like TurboTax but for the permitting process. Cities partner with AI startup to eliminate red tape and help homeowners install solar panels: 'A major technological breakthrough' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
About a month ago, we provided an update to Dolt's correctness. Since then, we've continued to make improvements; here's what we've been up… | Continue reading
Earlier this month we had a fantastic panel discussion about the future of the Jamstack community. It was a follow up discussion to the one I had 1on1 with Mike earlier. In addition to Mike and myself, we had Benedicte Raae, Sean C. Davis and Miriam Schwab who are all fantastic p … | Continue reading
Hello, coming to you from the PAST, we have thoughtbot open source updates ranging from January 19 (last post) and February 2nd. Two weeks of back-dated updates that will make you feel like it’s still Q1! We saw updates to the following projects (with handy links to jump to their … | Continue reading
Tesla doesn’t want to talk about its cars — or at least, not about the cars that have steering wheels and human drivers. Despite weeks of reports about Tesla’s manufacturing and sales woes — price cuts, recalls, and whether a new, cheaper model would ever come to fruition — CEO E … | Continue reading
Situated right in downtown Mumbai, India is an area of about 55 acres of dense, overgrown forest. In one of the most populous cities in the world, this is a place where peacocks roam freely — a space out of time. This forest is protected by a religious community. It has survived … | Continue reading
Emily Tanner-Smith writes: Remote/Hybrid Postdoc Opportunity—join us as a Post-Doctoral Scholar at the HEDCO Institute for Evidence-Based Educational Practice in the College of Education at the University of Oregon! The HEDCO Institute specializes in the conduct of evidence synth … | Continue reading
Re-creating the steps from 7 years ago the first phase was to build the Darwin kernel. Like everything else, once you know what is involved, it’s not all that difficult. But as always finding out the steps to get there … Continue reading → | Continue reading
It’s not only food CEOs who need to worry about their bottom lines thanks to in-demand weight loss drugs like Ozempic. Big Tobacco and Alcohol have reason to fret, too. Read more... | Continue reading
Those making the upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04 from 22.04 LTS are going to be blown away by the sheer amount of improvements included. Because in addition to benefitting from all of the great new features Ubuntu 24.04 offers compared to Ubuntu 23.10, LTS upgraders benefit from the chan … | Continue reading
"Exceptionally preserved" fossils of an ancient shark that lived alongside the dinosaurs has finally revealed what the predator looked like — and why it may have gone extinct. | Continue reading
Bioluminescence traces back to the Cambrian era — 540 million years ago — and could have been used for communication, courtship and camouflage among the earliest ocean creatures. | Continue reading
Bioluminescence, the eerie, beautiful phenomena that allows living things to glow, is way more ancient than previously thought, according to a team of researchers that recently studied the ability in octocorals. Read more... | Continue reading
Under Trump, college kids accused of sexual assault were given the right to defend themselves. With his update of Title IX, Biden has taken it away. | Continue reading
The reservoirs are reportedly at their lowest levels in decades. Millions of people affected as major city announces water rationing: 'Let's not waste a drop of water' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Coronacian day. [Continued from yesterday. P.G.] ... about 4 I rose and got to the Abbey, where I followed Sir J. Denham, the Surveyor, with some company that he was leading in. And with much ado, by the favour of Mr. Cooper, his man, did get up... | Continue reading