Less than a century ago, we had many different ideas for what the history of our Universe looked like, but shockingly little evidence available to decide the issue. Hypotheses included suggestions that our Universe: violated the principle of relativity, and that the light we obse … | Continue reading
Fans of Pixar’s sleeper hit Turning Red will be happy to know that Mei and her friends have taken over both Disneyland and Disney California Adventure in a big way. Read more... | Continue reading
Like the video games before it, Fallout is a hit. The Prime Video series is getting a second season, which means we’ll get to see what’s next for Ella Purnell’s Lucy. After leaving the artificial confines of Vault 33, she got a crash course in surface-dwelling life in the post-ap … | Continue reading
Recently, Paul Giamatti received an Oscar nomination for his performance in The Holdovers—Alexander Payne’s period film about three loners stuck at a boys’ boarding school during holiday break. He was previously nominated for a supporting role in Cinderella Man in 2005. Many, inc … | Continue reading
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
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
"I left SpaceX knowing the width of the Starship door." | 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
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
Jim Nielsen writes: For example here’s Outlook:The Big Sur-ification of macOS Icons – Jim Nielsen’s Blog Visual Studio explorations really are the best. And the Microsoft icons really do look great full bleed. At first glance the existing firefox icon is the best as the squircle … | Continue reading
Epic Games is lining up a collaboration with, er Epic Games as it seemingly prepares to bring two of its… Continue reading Fortnite Fall Guys leak teases what will be in Epic’s next big collaboration The post Fortnite Fall Guys leak teases what will be in Epic’s next big collabor … | Continue reading
The Environmental Protection Agency’s power plant rules were not the only big energy policy announcement from the Biden administration Thursday. The White House also announced a bevy of initiatives and projects meant to bolster infrastructure throughout the country. Transmission … | Continue reading
There are a number of grand questions we can ask about the Universe that cut right to the very core of what reality actually is, and were some of the biggest head-scratchers for all of human history. Questions like, “What is the Universe?” “How big is it?” and “Was it eternal, or … | Continue reading
One of the biggest barriers for the solar energy industry is the amount of physical space solar panels take up, and doubling their efficiency could be a big step forward. Scientists develop material with potential to revolutionize solar panel efficency: 'Significant leap forward' … | Continue reading
Snowflake Arctic Cookbook Today's big model release was Snowflake Arctic, an enormous 480B model with a 128×3.66B MoE (Mixture of Experts) architecture. It's Apache 2 licensed and Snowflake state that "in addition, we are also open sourcing all of our data recipes and research in … | Continue reading
There was one part of Tesla’s shareholder conference call yesterday that caught my attention more than any other. That was partly because of the potential being discussed, and partly because it’s the first time I’ve heard Elon Musk and team discuss the topic. First of all, you’ve … | Continue reading
I committed a pretty big social media mistake once. Well, way more than once since then, but I remember this one specifically because it was my first. It was well over 6 years ago, but I still shake my head at how tone deaf I was. I posted a quote on Instagram to my hundred follo … | Continue reading
While doing some research for this preview, I noticed how many of this year’s most interesting looking big studio summer films are either sequels or reboots. There are barely any original ideas. | Continue reading
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You won't experience the ice cream in the powerful, meaningful way that I would, but you'll have a great big smile and it'll be so dear. Today's News: | Continue reading
"Swim" is a sweet little indie song, drenched in country influences and lo-fi bedroom pop that comes across as a big step for Maya Salafia. | Continue reading
This week on Magic Rays of Light, Sigmund and Devon discuss TV technology and the pivot from OLED to mini LED, round up Apple-related announcements from this year’s National Association of Broadcasters Show, ask if season two of The Big Door Prize can fulfill its potential, and r … | Continue reading
Hisense USA says it's looking to redefine the high-end entertainment experience with the launch of the PX3-Pro, a daytime usable, triple laser ultra-short-throw projector that can throw Dolby Vision movies at up to 150 inches. Continue Reading Category: Home Entertainment, Techno … | Continue reading
"If you keep going and you keep persisting … that can make a big difference." Girl Scout's protest protects forest from potential development: 'Your voice is really powerful' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Friendly aliens, adorable moppets, and breathtaking special effects—what's not to love about Spielberg's first big-budget science fiction film? The post Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Yearning for a Place in the Cosmos appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Here’s an example of some icons that transitioned well in the Big Sur-ification of macOS icons: And just for good measure, here’s a few more — I love this stuff. While some apps made this transition fun (and further infused their brand with character), others did not. They did th … | Continue reading
Southeast New Mexico isn’t always an easy place to visit in an EV. The big thing is that it’s oil country, just like west Texas (a place that’s separated from southeast NM by nothing but an imaginary line). Until just very recently, it was a total EV dead zone, even ... [continue … | Continue reading
Big thanks to the cache owner for their note. Somehow I'd not seen the obvious route. Followed a family of ducks and soon found the cache location. FP awarded in part for the lovely cache but mostly for the attentive CO who posted a note so promptly. TFTC! | Continue reading
The latest news DON’T FORGET ABOUT RIGA: Major investors in Latvia have scored its investment climate at its lowest level in a decade. War, they say, makes business uncertain. But those on the ground in Latvia say this cooled interest masks what is gradually becoming an interesti … | Continue reading
It’s rare to see a big-budget, AAA blockbuster game coming out of from South Korea in recent times. And here comes Stellar Blade. This new title is developed by Shift Up, the studio famous for their ongoing mobile game Nikke, and directed by Kim Hyung Tae, who have shipped variou … | Continue reading
Space Simulators can be big business. The two biggest in recent times, Elite Dangerous and Star Citizen have made a… Continue reading Elite Dangerous takes a leaf out of Star Citizen’s book a decade later and starts selling ships for real money The post Elite Dangerous takes a le … | Continue reading
The Technology and Ukraine: Lessons from the front line event at the European Parliament on April 16. Photo credits: Digital Europe Investing in start-ups in Ukraine is great, but what the country needs from the EU is to incentivise big companies, scale-ups and mid-caps to build … | 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
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
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
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
From Letterboxd: definitely there was love, oh but the circumstances… try Carol, Never Let Me Go, Brokeback Mountain, and Ammonite, on for size. Even the not so well received One Day, recently adapted as a TV series, makes the grade. Let’s not forget Portrait of a Lady on Fire ei … | Continue reading
King County Parks is preparing for their 2025 levy vote. Taking their survey made me change my mind about how I prioritized things — defining success for something as big as a park system was an interesting thought experiment. I like that they didn’t provide any examples, but sim … | Continue reading
As always with this version of the Bigfoot story, the real monsters are human... The post My Big Sweet Hairy Buddy: Harry and the Hendersons (1987) appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Reports point to a new OLED iPad Pro with M3 and a big-screened iPad Air. | Continue reading
Next time you stop by the Flathub website you will notice it’s had a bit of a revamp. The latest UI refresh lands a year after its last big redesign and builds on that look by adding new on-page features. These changes make it easier for Linux users to find the apps they are look … | Continue reading
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The big news is that Indieseek.xyz has surpassed 1500 links! 1,501 links in 19 categories, with 65,430 clicks. Directory last updated Apr 23, 2024. These were all added manually by me or submitted by webmasters. I don’t scrape links nor do I have a crawler. I find links all over … | Continue reading
High-profile studio the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has revealed plans for an ambitious new timber college building that will combine cutting-edge engineered wood with traditional Japanese joinery techniques to create a striking-looking and sustainable place of learning. Continue R … | Continue reading
A rocking mature lady belting out a great singalong pop song, Anastacia had a big hit with this in 2000, and followed it up later with other hits. I only ever bought this CD single, and after more than two decades I still enjoy hearing it. Having suffered twice with breast cancer … | Continue reading
The beetles could help her disappear, but not in the same way the others had. She would do it for a better life. This was why, even though someone had trashed her van, even though her cell phone was now one big useless glitch and even though her mother was probably sick with worr … | Continue reading
The phrase “people often ask me” sounds like a setup here, but it’s true that people often ask me why it is I’ve chosen to write about small-town Texas. And every time, the question sort of takes me aback—not because it’s an unusual one, but because the setting of my books feels … | Continue reading
The home team talks about the current state of the software job market, the changing sentiments around AI job opportunities, the impact of big players like Facebook and OpenAI on the space, and the challenges for startups. Plus: The philosophical implications of LLMs and the frie … | Continue reading
Chinese auto manufacturer Dongfeng has shoveled some heavy marketing into its M-Hero 917, the big, brawny, quad-motor luxury SUV it launched domestically last year and recently introduced in Switzerland. Continue Reading Category: Automotive, Transport Tags: SUV, Side-by-side, Of … | Continue reading