Gardening is a great way to save money on produce, especially with hacks like these that help us to cultivate such a bounty. Garden expert demonstrates simple method to prevent bad fruit tree harvest: 'You have to sacrifice it' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Croham Hurst Woods is an ancient woodland in the middle of suburban South Croydon, Surrey, that is considered a nationally important archaeological site. The entire woodland covers quite a steep hill, where evidence of late Mesolithic settlements has been found. Neolithic flint t … | Continue reading
Dropbox, the world’s leading file hosting service based in the USA, has acquired the ebook reading app Readmill. This iOS and Android app will now shut down following the acquisition. The Berlin-based social and shareable reading platform – Readmill – confirmed the acquisition on … | Continue reading
Amazon has a Prime Day event lined up in July but is already offering its flagship Kindle device, the Kindle Scribe at one of its lowest prices so far. Right now, you can snag up the Kindle Scribe for $279, which is post a flat $110 discount on the regular price. This might be a … | Continue reading
The Amazon Book Sale is here, just in time to indulge your inner bookworm with the summer vacation just days away. The sale starts May 15 and runs through May 20. During this period, there are going to be hefty discounts on e-books, print books, audiobooks, or even Kindle devices … | Continue reading
Agatha All Along was, of course, Agatha all along. Tuesday, Marvel Studios finally finished its multi-year magic trick, changing the title of the upcoming Agatha Harkness show every few months, and landed on its official title. And it’s the one we expected all along: Agatha All A … | Continue reading
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We’ve turned a big corner when it comes to electrification of the auto industry. Just 5–10 years ago, automakers were largely laughing at electric cars, slow-walking the transition, and had modest electrification plans. That changed with the anticipation for and arrival of the Te … | Continue reading
Web designers and bloggers have been able to use alternative text, often referred to as “alt-text”, to describe images and photos, for decades. Alt-text helps people with little or no vision comprehend a website image, so long as the description is reasonably accurate. In recent … | Continue reading
Disney Parks has revealed the opening date for its highly anticipated Tiana’s Bayou Adventure attraction based on the world of Disney Animation’s The Princess and the Frog. Starting June 28, visitors to Walt Disney World in Orlando, FL can finally ride the water flume boats on a … | Continue reading
Google’s latest I/O conference was an absolute slurry of AI promises. The company took so many stabs with new AI models, showing off new AI capabilities that integrate Gemini into every single Google product or service under the sun. But take enough shots, and the law of averages … | Continue reading
The behavior by these tourists exhibits a carelessness and disrespect for the wildlife. Parkgoer shares concerning photo of tourists surrounding grizzly bear at national park: 'People with cameras feel so entitled' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
At age 17, chef and video creator George Lee gave up eating meat for 100 days. His A-gong, or grandfather, had passed away, and in Lee’s native Taiwan, traditional Buddhist mourning rituals require the family to abstain from meat after the death of a relative, to accumulate good … | Continue reading
MacRumors, on Threads, just four days ago: Apple’s thinnest device ever.#ipadpro #bendgate Tim Hardwick, writing on MacRumors today: Despite videos indicating that the 2018 iPad Pro models bent more easily than other models, Apple said the bend did not worsen over time or negativ … | Continue reading
Meme stock mania made a powerful comeback this week as shares of GameStop (GME) and AMC Entertainment skyrocketed. This, without… Continue reading GameStop (GME) and AMC Meme Stock Prices Pumping – 3 Best Meme Coins to Buy Now The post GameStop (GME) and AMC Meme Stock Prices Pum … | Continue reading
Ben Kawaller reports from the Dallas Reggae Festival, where one black Southern woman said the unthinkable: ‘I’ve never really experienced racism!’ | Continue reading
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A lot of crowdfunded multitools make a lot of claims, but the AcePick boasts a feature we genuinely haven't seen before: a bolt-action toothpick. It also sports a combination box cutter/pry tool, along with all-titanium construction. Continue Reading Category: Outdoors, Lifestyle … | Continue reading
Just yesterday, I was talking about how Apple’s new AI-powered transcription and summarization feature for voice memos on iPhone is one of the features Rabbit promised on the R1 for later this year, and that gives us one less reason to buy the device. Read more... | Continue reading
Context caching for Google Gemini Another new Gemini feature announced today. Long context models enable answering questions against large chunks of text, but the price of those long prompts can be prohibitive—$3.50/million for Gemini Pro 1.5 up to 128,000 tokens and $7/million b … | Continue reading
Professor Olivier de Weck's approach combines quantitative engineering analysis and strategic thinking to drive innovation. | Continue reading
Even people who have grown up in the Portland metro area are often surprised to learn that there is a botanical garden in this outer southeast Portland neighborhood, and it's been open to the public for 40 years. There are magical trails, meadows for picnics, summer events like n … | Continue reading
Autumn House, a striking project designed by Studio Bright in Wurundjeri Country, is an extension of a Victorian terrace home that incorporates a 1980s renovation by architect Mick Jörgensen and gracefully integrates a mature elm tree in the backyard. Continue reading | Continue reading
The strongest solar flare in half a decade just launched off the sun from the same sunspot group that triggered dazzling auroras last weekend. But don't expect northern lights this time around. | Continue reading
Sales of raw milk in the U.S. have risen 21% since bird flu was first confirmed in dairy cattle in late March, according to a report from PBS Newshour, citing new data from research firm NielsenIQ. Why on Earth would people drink raw milk at a time when pasteurization has been sh … | Continue reading
llm-gemini 0.1a4 A new release of my llm-gemini plugin adding support for the Gemini 1.5 Flash model that was revealed this morning at Google I/O. I'm excited about this new model because of its low price. Flash is $0.35 per 1 million tokens for prompts up to 128K token and $0.70 … | Continue reading
Working remotely has a ton of benefits, especially when you struggle with productivity in the office. Between last-minute meetings and… Continue reading 7 Tech Gadgets You Need for Remote Work The post 7 Tech Gadgets You Need for Remote Work appeared first on ReadWrite. | Continue reading
A text editor without the bells and whistles, called Tine. A nice name for a text editor. The main goal of this editor is to keep the focus on the text editing and not be distracted too much by buttons, tabs, menus, and animations. | Continue reading
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How developers are using Gemini 1.5 Pro’s 1 million token context window I got to be a talking head for a few seconds in an intro video for today's Google I/O keynote, talking about how I used Gemini Pro 1.5 to index my bookshelf (and with a cameo from my squirrel nutcracker). I' … | Continue reading
On the southwest side of Calexico, a border town in California’s Imperial Valley, a surveillance tower casts a shadow over a baseball field and a residential neighborhood. In 2000, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (the precursor to the Department of Homeland Security (D … | Continue reading
Fuel cell and electrolyzer manufacturer and would-be “green” hydrogen supplier Plug Power has won a conditional commitment for up to a $1.66 billion loan guarantee from the U.S. Department of Energy, providing a boost to its plans to build six large-scale hydrogen production site … | Continue reading
The United States raised tariffs on a range of Chinese-made climate technologies on Tuesday, including electric vehicles, solar panels, and battery components. Inspired by the poet Wallace Stevens, here are 13 ways of looking at them: 1. The biggest tariffs in the bunch are for C … | Continue reading
Guoping Feng, Piotr Indyk, Daniel Kleitman, Daniela Rus, Senthil Todadri, and nine alumni are recognized by their peers for their outstanding contributions to research. | Continue reading
Microsoft today released updates to fix more than 60 security holes in Windows computers and supported software, including two "zero-day" vulnerabilities in Windows that are already being exploited in active attacks. There are also important security patches available for macOS a … | Continue reading
Northern Hemisphere temperatures well beyond natural variability seen in tree rings. | Continue reading
Today, Microsoft fixed a known issue breaking VPN connections across client and server platforms after installing the April 2024 Windows security updates. [...] | Continue reading
You only need two letters to describe best the latest iteration of Google’s big yearly developer shebang: AI. That’s right; Google I/O has touched on a slew of new features coming to the Mountainview company’s software ecosystem, specifically what could be coming to the still-in- … | Continue reading
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A new $1.16 billion loan from the Department of Energy will help kickstart a network of green hydrogen production facilities in the US. The post Green Hydrogen Tentacles To Spread Across US appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
These cookies get their rich banana and toffee flavor from caramelized bananas and brown butter. Customize them with chocolate chips or toasted coconut flakes. | Continue reading
"This program is another step in our journey toward sustainability." Hefty brand kicks off new initiative to keep hard-to-recycle plastics out of landfills: 'We are excited to see the difference our collective efforts will make' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
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Fetislam is an Ottoman stronghold in ruins, situated near the city of Kladovo. Constructed during the Ottoman Empire's reign in present-day Serbia, it served as a military outpost for Ottoman campaigns against Hungary. Built in 1524 under the directive of Suleiman the Magnificent … | Continue reading
A scammer says "transfer the money in your bank account," but Android is listening. | Continue reading
My favorite gay vampires have returned, and they’re just as toxic as I remember. If you’re not yet caught up on AMC’s Interview With The Vampire, now is the time. Season 2 started on Sunday, and they’re about to get to the Good Shit. The first season of Interview with the Vampire … | Continue reading