Author Samantha Mills has a lot on her mind with The Wings Upon Her Back, and much of what is on her mind goes back… way back. Find out how the experiences of those who come before come to color the lives of those who live in the now, and what it means for this […] | Continue reading
Drake released a diss track against Kendrick Lamar over the weekend featuring AI-generated versions of West Coast legends Snoop Dogg and Tupac Shakur. Tupac’s estate sent Drake a letter on Wednesday threatening to sue him for using the late rapper’s voice in a “blatant abuse” of … | Continue reading
New hand-sized gas analyser to detect multiple toxic gases in real-time with lasers Scientists hope to make them as common as video surveillance, with units on every lamp post Least polluted routes to work or school could be integrated into Google Maps in the future Consortium re … | Continue reading
If you thought Lego’s space toys for May were limited to the world of Star Wars, think again—the toymaker’s latest reveals bring things back to our time and our galaxy, and they combine stunning engineering with incredible art. Read more... | Continue reading
Hackers have started to target a critical severity vulnerability in the WP Automatic plugin for WordPress to create user accounts with administrative privileges and to plant backdoors for long-term access. [...] | Continue reading
Exactly 7 years ago I had the chance to Interview Kurt Menke. You may know Kurt from his books, Discovering QGIS. You may know him from his consulting days over in New Mexico. You may know him from his interviews up here. At the end of the interview 7 years back Kurt said “For me … | Continue reading
I’ve written about cousins in all sorts of ways here (i.e., see this and this and this and this). My cousin-factor is blessedly high. There are the… The post Lebanese Cousin-Love appeared first on Maureen Abood. | Continue reading
Villanelle, M, and Kick-Ass walk into a zombie movie The post Danny Boyle’s 28 Years Later Is Building an All-Star Cast appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
The only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down — Alex Jason, via Adam Savage | Continue reading
THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2024 With what is Donald Trump charged? The future president made the statement back in the early days. Joe and Mika were in the process of flipping on the candidate—a candidate over whom they had fawned all through the previous year. It was January 2016. NPR … | Continue reading
This object might baffle Westerners visiting Japan:To give you some context, you'd find it in a traditional noodle shop.It's an old-school spice vessel, invented prior to blowmolding. They often hold shichimi (a spice blend) and are easily made with local materials. The body is s … | Continue reading
As any Pokémon fan knows, the series is all about data – lots and lots of data. So much data that entire websites and apps are dedicated to helping players keep track of it all. That’s a big design challenge for any app developer, which is why I was so glad to see it taken […] | Continue reading
"There are no single or simple solutions for figuring out the complexities of our future energy supply." Floating tidal energy turbine company to make waves in US waters: 'This milestone underlines growing global appetite' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
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Whether you're pursued by hired thugs, trained assassins, or an unhinged killer, fleeing an attempt on your life is one great way to kick off an adventure... The post Killer Plots: Five Books Featuring Professional Assassins appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Relationship between TikTok, ByteDance deepens as tensions over the app’s ownership escalate. | Continue reading
Ahmad Ibsais in Time Magazine: “Where is Ahmad?” The soldier called my name while we were stopped at the last Israeli checkpoint on the way from Ramallah to Jerusalem. I am a Palestinian American. But once I’m in my ancestral homeland, I’m not an American in the eyes of Israeli a … | Continue reading
It’s our 15th anniversary this year and we’d love to hear about you: who you are, why you follow us, what you like, what you don’t, what you value and how you interact with us and anyone else in the infosphere. Yes, it’s a survey but a quick two minute one. Plus every 100th parti … | Continue reading
Dana Smith in The New York Times: If you put a lab mouse on a diet, cutting the animal’s caloric intake by 30 to 40 percent, it will live, on average, about 30 percent longer. The calorie restriction, as the intervention is technically called, can’t be so extreme that the animal … | Continue reading
Origami is the art of paper folding, and today, we’re going to learn how to make a beautiful origami star… The post Learn How To Fold An Origami Star appeared first on Kids Activities Blog. | Continue reading
io9 talked to cult filmmaker Don Coscarelli when he released his memoir in 2018. Now, the director of Phantasm I-IV, as well as Bubba Ho-Tep, The Beastmaster, and John Dies at the End, is trying something new: fiction. Or rather, Phiction—a book of short stories that explores “ta … | Continue reading
Cansu Tastan is the co-creator and designer of Defter Notes, a tool for infinite spatial thinking. We talked about the power of bridging the gap between analog and digital, how to interact with ideas in a tangible way, how spatial computing can support neurodiversity in note-taki … | Continue reading
Learn how Chronicle Services, a Java-based framework optimised for low-latency microservices, meets critical requirements by integrating HA, performance, and data persistence. The post The High Availability Features of Microservices using Chronicle Services appeared first on fooj … | Continue reading
One of the most exciting possibilities of 3D-printed architecture is that it could revolutionize affordable housing. Portugal's Havelar shows this may soon be within reach with its inaugural 3D-printed home, which took just 18 hours to print. Continue Reading Category: Architectu … | Continue reading
In about five years’ time, a potentially hazardous asteroid will swing by Earth at an eerily close distance of less than 20,000 miles (32,000 kilometers). During this rare encounter, Apophis will be ten times closer to Earth than the Moon and scientists want to take full advantag … | Continue reading
"I left SpaceX knowing the width of the Starship door." | Continue reading
“I feel very confident predicting that there will be autonomous robotaxis from Tesla next year — not in all jurisdictions because we won’t have regulatory approval everywhere.” That’s a quote from Elon Musk, from April 2019. In fact, that’s almost exactly 5 years ago today, as Au … | Continue reading
Today's links Antitrust is a labor issue: Banning noncompetes is huge, but it's not all the FTC is doing! Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books … | Continue reading
COROS has just announced the newest version of their flagship adventure watch series: The COROS Vertix 2S. This iteration is a slight upgrade over the existing Vertix 2 that was announced in three years ago in the summer of … Read More Here → | Continue reading
Today, only one topic, but that's because I wanted to share my broader thoughts on the latest Datadog report. | Continue reading
We brought together Ann Coulter, Sohrab Ahmari, Nick Gillespie, and Cenk Uygur to discuss the No. 1 issue for American voters. Now paid subscribers can watch. | Continue reading
Coros Vertix 2S Review Update: a good watch got better with a few minor upgrades to HR/GPS The post new Coros Vertix 2s – Thoughts appeared first on the5krunner • tri bike run. The full post can be read now at the5krunner • tri bike run. | Continue reading
A 2023 Column Contest grand-prize winner, Laurence Pevsner’s Sorry Not Sorry investigates why we’re sick of everyone apologizing all the time—and how the collapse of the public apology leaves little room for forgiveness and grace in our politics and culture. - - - This summer, Mi … | Continue reading
Hasbro is working with Sony on bringing Clue back to the world of film and TV. The producers of Dead Boy Detectives tease the new adaptation. Plus, Furiosa gets rated. Spoilers, away! Read more... | Continue reading
Ok, bakers, you have one job. ONE JOB. Ready? Here goes. This plastic piece has football lacing on it, so - still with me? Yes? - so just put it on a cake, like so: ...and voilà! Instant football. Now, go find a brown cake, and put the piece of plastic on it. That's it. That's al … | Continue reading
Garry’s Mod, a popular 2006 sandbox game that emerged from the modding scene around Valve’s Source software, has recently been issued takedown notices by Nintendo. As a result, Facepunch Studios, the developers of Garry’s Mod, are in the process of removing about 20 years’ worth … | Continue reading
it’s personal and micro – simply. | Continue reading
NS has temporarily closed ATMs at all but four train stations across the country, for fear of explosions after several bombings targeting cash machines led to station closures.... | Continue reading
A robo-dog capable of throwing 30-ft flames from its back might seem the stuff of sci-fi nightmares, but such terrors were made real last year with the launch of the Thermonator from Ohio's Throwflame. Now the fire-breathing quadruped is available to buy for under $10k. Continue … | Continue reading
Current conditions: Heavy rains this spring have reinvigorated the drought-stricken wetlands at Spain’s Doñana National Park • Severe thunderstorms are taking shape above the central and southern U.S. • Flooding in Kenya kills at least 32 people and displaces over 40,000. THE TOP … | Continue reading
"Residents won't have to choose between purchasing groceries or paying their fuel bill to stay warm this winter." Mobile home park transformed into net-zero energy affordable housing neighborhood: 'This project's benefits are multiple and long lasting' first appeared on The Cool … | Continue reading
In recent talks at physics departments about my book, I have emphasized that the elementary “particles” of nature — electrons, photons, quarks and so on — are really little waves (or, to borrow a term that was suggested by Sir Arthur Eddington in the 1920s, “wavicles”.) But this … | Continue reading
Same NPU, same architecture as X Elite, but fewer cores and lower clock speeds. | Continue reading
Image by Casey Fleser, via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/somegeekintn/) When and why did Google search get so bad? Zenon's post has an answer! It's about Edward Zitron, who pinpoints the date and reasons to February of 2019, click to read the details! | Continue reading
The offices of MyHeritage, an Israeli tech company, have evolved significantly since their early days in a historic Templar building in Bney Atarot. The layout of the offices of MyHeritage centers around a core of meeting rooms Continue reading | Continue reading
President Biden signed the TikTok ban into law on Wednesday, forcing China-based Bytedance to sell the app or face a ban in American app stores. TikTok tells Gizmodo it will fight the law in court, a case likely to reach the Supreme Court, saying that Biden’s law “tramples” First … | Continue reading
We went to Tuscany in 2022 and I never wrote it up, so here are some notes that are 2 years out of date. A great trip, apart from the scorpions. | Continue reading
I would assume it unlikely that any other company will acquire Stages. Rather, interested parties will buy assets from the company's receivers/liquidators. The post Giant Sues Stages and Recruits Top Talent appeared first on the5krunner • tri bike run. The full post can be read n … | Continue reading