MONDAY, APRIL 22, 2024 Our journalism, ourselves: The New York Times is a national paper of record. Based upon a recent report, that's especially true for the jurors who begin their service today in Gotham's admittedly "lurid," hush money / porn star trial. Last Friday, the newsp … | Continue reading
Last week, we discussed AI's incredible evolution in terms of its performance against humans. Almost across the board, AI has surpassed humans in a range of performance-based tasks, necessitating the development of new, more challenging benchmarks. Arguably, that degree of develo … | Continue reading
When it comes to the Universe, there are some things we can be confident are out there based on what we observe. We know that the Universe was hotter, denser, and more uniform in the distant past. We know that the stars and galaxies in the Universe have grown up and evolved as th … | Continue reading
Following the enthusiastic response to our announcement in December, we are pleased to open preorders for the hand-crafted iA Notebook. Based on the signups in December, 7,500 got notified already, and our newsletter subscribers will get notified today. We expect a high demand. E … | Continue reading
Bridging remote work challenges with Whimsical's Clojure-based tools | Continue reading
NREL Study, the First To Use a System Dynamics Model To Quantify This Gap, Outlines Possible Solutions U.S. land-based and offshore wind energy markets are expected to grow significantly over the next few decades. With this growth, the demand for properly trained wind energy work … | Continue reading
I will be 84 this year. Except for several corrected orthopedic issues, I’m still healthy, and based on family history, I could last another 10 years until age 94 or longer. By that point my kids will probably take away my smartphone/key, or at least remove the Tesla App from ... … | Continue reading
From Sherwood News: Fan-fiction writers have for decades parlayed their passion for writing stories based on movies, TV shows, and books into careers as best-selling genre authors. But they haven’t often advertised to readers their pseudonymous identities as fan-fiction writers w … | Continue reading
AI music generators — AIs that create new music based on users’ text prompts — are lowering the bar for music creation, for better or worse. | Continue reading
I’ve said this before, but I need to keep repeating it based on the number of queries I get. nvALT is at end of life, unless someone picks up the reigns and modernizes the (open source) code base. As it stands now, nvALT barely functions on modern OSs. Fletcher Penney and I have … | Continue reading
John Gruber, in 2020: Just because there is now a multi-billion-dollar industry based on the abject betrayal of our privacy doesn’t mean the sociopaths who built it have any right whatsoever to continue getting away with it. They talk in circles but their argument boils down to e … | Continue reading
Hugo vs. Lektor (vs. Grav) About two or three years ago I completely revamped the web site of my employer CosmoCode. Back then I picked Grav as the CMS. Grav Grav is a PHP based flat file content management system. I had made a smaller website with it for Kaddi's mum's house boat … | Continue reading
Maybe, but maybe not: Amid the current U.S.-China technological race, the U.S. has imposed export controls to deny China access to strategic technologies. We document that these measures prompted a broad-based decoupling of U.S. and Chinese supply chains. Once their Chinese custo … | Continue reading
Apple removed several U.S.-based messaging apps from its App Store in China, including WhatsApp, Signal, and Threads, according to the Washington Post Friday. Officially, the apps were already banned in China but could still be accessed by users with a VPN. Read more... | Continue reading
It’s spring. It’s officially spring in New York, where CrimeReads is based. Maybe you, like me, wear sunglasses year-round. But maybe you are just busting yours out for the season. There can be no denying that accessory’s association with warm weather. Nothing elevates a look lik … | Continue reading
The Ask ATP segment of episode 583 on case-sensitive file systems reminded me of how legacy features can sometime live on forever. What’s in a file name Around 2005, I was using a custom made filesystem based CMS for most of my web projects. My websites were usually hosted some f … | Continue reading
EA Sports And Codemasters have dropped a new trailer for F1 24, this year’s annual game based on Formula 1. The trailer features plenty of in-game footage of the new cars in the 2024 livery (which sees a lot of shake up due to two teams having a name change), as well as reigning … | Continue reading
X likely hopes to avoid liability with disclaimer that Grok "can make mistakes." | Continue reading
Back in the 1980s, FedEx had a great tagline: “When it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight.” Well, in situations like ground conflicts and disaster scenarios, that’s not good enough. Recognizing the need for an ultra-fast delivery service, Colorado-based Sierra Space … | Continue reading
Today's AI-focused edition of the Drop discusses the usefulness of a Rust-based disk-usage tool, dua, for managing space occupied by AI models. It also explores a concerning development where LLM agents can autonomously exploit one-day vulnerabilities and a new experimental exten … | Continue reading
PROJECT OLDBOOK trudging along, around the midway point now. Really need to move faster though. Very early on in the project, the idea of something AI-based was suggested. But no, I ended up going in the absolute polar opposite direction with the most tactile and labor intensive … | Continue reading
This low-tech Cloche table smoker is by Paris-based industrial designer Guillaume Bloget. It's made of Beech and stainless steel. "CLOCHE is for cold smoking food from aromatic plants or wood chips. It preserves the intrinsic flavors of each food while perfuming them with a smoky … | Continue reading
Fallout is a Post-apocalyptic TV show based on the eponymous video games series. Amazon bought on 2020 the rights for the TV adaptation and the series premiered on April 2024 with 8 episodes. The show has been renewed for a second season. The story takes place in 2296, in the aft … | Continue reading
The sands beneath Federico’s videogame setup have shifted. As he explained on Unwind last week, Federico has gone all-in with the Lenovo Legion Go, a Window-based handheld that he’s paired with a ONEXPlUS eGPU, a fancy fiber optic Thunderbolt cable, a compact GaN charger, and mor … | Continue reading
Last year, U.S. hydropower electricity generation fell to its lowest since 2001. This year, we expect hydropower to increase 6% and account for 250 billion kilowatthours of electricity generation in the power sector, based on forecasts in our Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO). We … | Continue reading
Volume 11, Issue 1, January-December 2024 . | Continue reading
Looking for the books that are inspired by true stories? Here, we bring you the list of five best books based on true stories. Let’s explore: The Christie Affair, by Nina de Gramont Just hours following her husband’s announcement that he was leaving her and marrying his mistress, … | Continue reading
Delve (dlv) is a CLI-based debugger for Go, tailored to the language’s concurrency model and runtime. It allows you to set breakpoints, inspect goroutines, and evaluate and manipulate variables in real-time. Delve supports remote debugging and seamlessly integrates with major IDE … | Continue reading
When a cargo e-bike is too much for your daily needs, but a standard e-bike isn’t enough, then a utility e-bike might be just the right fit, and the Vvolt Slice Lite is a solid contender. Although Portland-based Vvolt is new to the CleanTechnica team, the company has been designi … | Continue reading
📷 Cheeseburger (meat or plant-based meat); cheeseburger without meat, just cheese; egg burger; fries; fries with mayo; and a salmon cheeseburger. | Continue reading
Based in Llanthony in The Black Mountains I did the ridges on either side of it on Monday and yesterday. Cobwebs fully blown away. | Continue reading
Tailscale is now a certified member of the AWS Partner Network, making it easier for users to deploy and configure our secure WireGuard®-based mesh network in their AWS environments. From teams with a few cloud servers to businesses with complex enterprise deployments, Tailscale … | Continue reading
Variety is reporting that Spielberg 77, is set to direct an untitled UFO movie based on his own original idea. David Koepp is writing the screenplay. No other details were revealed. | Continue reading
Scientists in California want to know if you would ever feed your cat a bowl of bug chow. They’re looking to survey cat owners about their attitudes on the emerging trend of insect-based cat diets, which some researchers and advocates say could be more sustainable and possibly ev … | Continue reading
DOE Finalizing Energy Efficiency Standards for Commercial Unitary Air Conditioners and Heat Pumps, Circulator Pumps, Dishwashers, and Miscellaneous Refrigeration Appliances—Delivering Savings to Consumers as Directed by Congress and with Strong Industry and Stakeholder Support WA … | Continue reading
Lynn Hamadallah is a Syrian-Palestinian-French Psychologist based in London. An outspoken voice for the Palestinian cause, Lynn is interested in the ways in which narratives, spoken and unspoken, shape identity. Having lived in five countries and spent a lot of time traveling, sh … | Continue reading
lawyer that was remarking with condescension on her winemaking studies at UC Davis. I thought of her and […] | Continue reading
Disney Channel has finally released a teaser trailer for its upcoming “ZOMBIES: The Re-Animated Series,” based on the popular “ZOMBIES” franchise of films. The Details In this new animated…er, re-animated…series, Meg Donnelly and Milo Manheim will reprise their roles as Seabrook’ … | Continue reading
After taking care of wild riders with the XPeak fat-tire off-roader, Phoenix-based budget-friendly ebike brand Lectric is now riding into the full-size commuter space with the XPress – which can be had for under a grand. Continue Reading Category: Bicycles, Transport Tags: ebikes … | Continue reading
Five years ago, Soulver 3, the sheet-based app that serves as a notepad for calculations, launched on the Mac with a long list of new features. In the years since, Acqualia Software launched an iPadOS version of the app and, today, an iOS version. As I said in my review of the Ma … | Continue reading
The previous post in this series, Elon Musk: Threat or Menace Part 3, was based on the impressively detailed reporting from a team at the Washington Post on the crash that killed Jeremy Banner in The final 11 seconds of a fatal Tesla Autopilot crash. The team's subsequent equally … | Continue reading
Automakers are trying to clean up their supply chains, as illustrated by the new Volvo EX30 electric vehicle featuring flax-based composites. The post The Electric Vehicle Of The Future Will Also Be More Sustainable appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
E INK invested over 100 million dollars in making Gallery 3 a reality. This colour e-paper technology was based on Advanced Color E-Paper (ACEP) a few years ago. It was initially developed for digital signage with still images, such as sandwich boards, digital menus and advertisi … | Continue reading
We’ve teamed up with Green Chef to make veg-forward, weeknight dinners easier. Sign up now to get sustainably-sourced ingredients, organic produce, and chef-crafted recipes delivered to your door. Now through May, use code FOOD52 to get 60% Off + free shipping on your first box p … | Continue reading
The PartyRock Generative AI Hackathon wrapped up earlier this month. Entrants were asked to use PartyRock to build a functional app based on one of four challenge categories, with the option to remix an existing app as well. The hackathon attracted 7,650 registrants who submitted … | Continue reading
The green hydrogen economy of the future is branching out in new directions, the latest example being a new microbe-based food protein. The post Green Hydrogen Goes To Bat For Sustainable Food Systems appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
Today's Drop features three different command-line tools: xh, xq, and lowcharts. xh is a modern command-line tool for HTTP requests, xq is a Golang-based tool for XML/HTML processing, and lowcharts is a CLI charting tool for numerical data. Each tool has unique features and use c … | Continue reading
“Under the Bridge,” a limited series based on a book of a true crime, starring Oscar-nominee Lily Gladstone and Emmy-nominee Riley Keough, will debut on Hulu Wednesday, April 17, 2024. The Story The series is based on author Rebecca Godfrey’s book about the 1997 true story of 14- … | Continue reading