"We've certainly got big challenges ahead, but we have all the ingredients to solve them." Scientists achieve astonishingly high temperatures with breakthrough fusion reactions: 'Outside the status quo' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Tim Y. is on Fire with this burn. "Competing teams inside Google? Or just the AI recognizing marketing tactics?" Not to be outdone, the other big search conglomerate comes in for some anonymous criticism from a poster who says their name is "irrelevant". "I was suspecting for som … | Continue reading
Thanks to the hellscape that big tech's social media has become, if you have ever considered running your own small social media site, now is the time to do it. | Continue reading
Sega and Atlus have revealed the latest details on Metaphor: ReFantazio, the upcoming RPG from Studio Zero comprised of talents behind the recent Persona games. After the big reveal that was the Atlus Special Showcase, we now have specific breakdowns on the main mechanics of Meta … | Continue reading
"That's almost as big as the ego of anyone who would want to drive that." Photo of monstrous two-story vehicle leaves internet in disbelief: 'This can't be real' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
A sunspot so big it rivals the gigantic sunspot responsible for the Carrington Event in 1859 has unleashed another X-class solar flare, triggering radio blackouts on Earth. | Continue reading
I don’t try to be well known. I don’t have a big social media presence. I just write this blog and keep family and a few friends updated regarding my whereabouts using Facebook. Yet there I was, in a Walmart parking lot, having lunch and goofing around on the computer, door open … | Continue reading
"Food was a big part of our family, but not in the way of this romanticized view of food." James Beard–nominated chef shares how his culture influenced cuisine based on invasive species: 'Our people have been doing that in the mountains for thousands of years' first appeared on T … | Continue reading
This year is a very important one for Star Wars, as it looks to its future in shows like The Acolyte and its plans to return to the big screen, and as it reflects on its past with the anniversary of prequel trilogy kickoff The Phantom Menace. But 2024 is also important for one of … | Continue reading
The logical endpoint of prioritizing short-term profits over long-term anything The post Big Video Game Publishers Like Microsoft Are Paving Their Own Path To Irrelevance appeared first on Aftermath. | Continue reading
I saw this tweet yesterday from @deepfates, and I am very on board with this: Watching in real time as "slop" becomes a term of art. the way that "spam" became the term for unwanted emails, "slop" is going in the dictionary as the term for unwanted AI generated content I'm a big … | Continue reading
In the latest Upgrade Jason Snell’s just a broken record repeating his own nonsense at this point. His big storyline is the M4 iPad Pro is too expensive, too powerful for iPadOS. He wants to know what its use case is, who is it for? But, now, wait, wait, wait. Wait. Thirteen mont … | Continue reading
The past two newsletters have been about likability and likeness. Last week I wrote about Courtney Love and how freeing it is to shed the desire to be liked: “Being liked was never my thing,” Love says. At the same time, her ambition was enormous: She wanted to be a rock star in … | Continue reading
As designers, we can exploit the principle of closure and use it as a tool for building intuitive and engaging user experiences. The post A closer look at closure: The little design rule that makes a big difference appeared first on LogRocket Blog. | Continue reading
Voice acting in video games is big business and a solid career choice these days if you have the dulcet… Continue reading Hang on, that voice is familiar – who voices Hades II’s Melinoe? The post Hang on, that voice is familiar – who voices Hades II’s Melinoe? appeared first on R … | Continue reading
Criminals are opting for the personal approach as they use the guise of executives’ children to gain big payouts in… Continue reading Scam warning from top cybersecurity CTO over ransomware criminal tactics The post Scam warning from top cybersecurity CTO over ransomware criminal … | Continue reading
Today's SMBC: The mouseover title: "Disappointed with myself that I haven't don't a creationism joke in years. Six years is like 0.1 percent of the past." The aftercomic: As I wrote last year, "I've wondered for a long time why Biblical inerrantists have a big problem with biolog … | Continue reading
"We're going to have a smaller footprint for agriculture production if things keep going as predicted." New study makes concerning prediction about future of sheep industry: 'It's a worry, a big worry' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Published by Chris Aldrich I'm a biomedical and electrical engineer with interests in information theory, complexity, evolution, genetics, signal processing, IndieWeb, theoretical mathematics, and big history. I'm also a talent manager-producer-publisher in the entertainment indu … | Continue reading
Red Hat released version 9.4 today. Lots of jargon (including a mention of AI), but one of the big deals considering how long Red Hat support contracts go is the addition of ARM64 as a supported architecture. 9to5Linux also had a summary of the new features. I remember back befor … | Continue reading
I'm a big believer in using the right tool for the job - but I'm a bigger believer in the best tool for the job is the one you've got. While you might not install Playwright to just do unit tests, if you already have it installed, there is no need to install an additional depende … | Continue reading
As Tales of the Empire digs its way through the story of Barriss Offee—and her quest to survive the rise of the Empire, at any cost—there comes a moment that climaxes a decade-plus wait for fans who’ve wanted to see what happened to the former Jedi Padawan after the shocking conc … | Continue reading
Published by Chris Aldrich I'm a biomedical and electrical engineer with interests in information theory, complexity, evolution, genetics, signal processing, IndieWeb, theoretical mathematics, and big history. I'm also a talent manager-producer-publisher in the entertainment indu … | Continue reading
I introduced datasette-secrets two weeks ago. The core idea is to provide a way for end-users to store secrets such as API keys in Datasette, allowing other plugins to access them. datasette-secrets 0.2 is the first non-alpha release of that project. The big new feature is that t … | Continue reading
Source: Apple. The big news for the new iPad Air is that it comes in two sizes now: 11” and a new 13” model. The Air has also upgraded from the M1 to the M2 chip and moved the front-facing camera to the landscape side of the tablet, and it has higher storage configurations, works … | Continue reading
This is Jessica. Human subjects experiments are starting to appear in machine learning venues. For example, ICML, one of the big ML conferences, accepted a few papers on quantifying prediction uncertainty with user studies. Overall, I’m glad to see this. … Continue reading → | Continue reading
"I want to do this." Homeowner shares simple routine to save big on energy bills: 'This is my whole personality now' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Adam Frank in Aeon: Suddenly, everyone is talking about aliens. After decades on the cultural margins, the question of life in the Universe beyond Earth is having its day in the sun. The next big multibillion-dollar space telescope (the successor to the James Webb) will be tuned … | Continue reading
Apple on Tuesday made some big moves to its iPad lineup, introducing new models of the iPad Air and iPad Pro, as well as a new Magic Keyboard and the Apple Pencil Pro.… | Continue reading
Not only did The Super Mario Bros. Movie, which premiered in April 2023, make a lot of money, Nintendo says… Continue reading It’s-a big hit! Super Mario Bros. movie credited with sales push for Nintendo games The post It’s-a big hit! Super Mario Bros. movie credited with sales p … | Continue reading
The best of last week’s big and small data visualizations | Continue reading
The Nintendo Switch 2 is real. Realer than real. It is so real that only the most precious select insiders, accessory-makers, and publishers have been able to see it or, in some cases, merely touch it. But Nintendo Japan’s big boss has finally offered us the measliest of official … | Continue reading
Screens by Edovia is a screen-sharing app that lets you control your computer from another device, and today, version 5.2 is out with an excellent set of updates that improve the app’s performance and usability. However, the biggest change is that Screens now works on the Vision … | Continue reading
This is a retropost. Written contemporaneously in 2020, but published four years after the events. It's May 2020 as I write this. I'm typing to capture the moment. Right now, I've no idea what the impact is. This is the exact moment, on Thursday May 7th, I hit the Big Red Button … | Continue reading
Google's SIMA can follow human instructions to play 3D video games. Researchers hopes the platform can one day help AI navigate real-world environments. | Continue reading
This story was originally published by Grist . Aluminum is a crucial raw ingredient in the fight against climate change. But to ensure that the transition off fossil fuels is a clean one, the industry needs a serious makeover. A new federally funded “green smelter” could help mak … | Continue reading
Photo credits: Zerbor / BigStock In March this year, South Korea struck a deal to become the first Asian country – other than Türkiye – to associate to Horizon Europe. It’s a big leap east for the €95.5 billion EU research and innovation programme, and the deal will officially li … | Continue reading
I’ve been mostly offline for the last week, camping with my wife and dog, and taking a couple of trainings (Wilderness First Aid and AMGA Single Pitch Instructor, if you’re interested), so no big thinkpiece from me regarding Apple’s (presumed) iPad event tomorrow today. Also, I’l … | Continue reading
Welcome to the first in a planned ongoing series of updates from the core Mastodon engineering team. We’ll also take a quick look at what’s been happening around the broader community. What we’ve been working on The Mastodon 4.3 release is around the corner - we only have one big … | Continue reading
"They are your trees." Homeowner shares irksome letters from neighbors asking to cut down their healthy trees: 'What's the big deal?' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Have you seen a photo of MyPillow CEO and big-time Trump backer Mike Lindell looking spaced out, with dark circles under his eyes? It’s gone viral on social media, racking up millions of views. But it’s not real. The photo might look oddly realistic, but it’s been altered signifi … | Continue reading
Photo credits: Zerbor / BigStock In March this year, South Korea struck a deal to become the first Asian country – other than Türkiye – to associate to Horizon Europe. It’s a big leap east for the €95.5 billion EU research and innovation programme, and the deal will officially li … | Continue reading
May’s already stacking up to be an intense month for big tech companies, and guess who’s starting us off with a bang? Apple is planning something big at its upcoming Let Loose event on May 7. But what could they possibly be showing off? It’s iPads, duh. What do you think that han … | Continue reading
We've seen many big hitters capture our imagination, alongside a handful of oddities and misfits that were less successful. | Continue reading
First customer since the last reset of the kiosks for the shift or the day. 11:30 is a bit early for lunch but still. I was first 🏆🏅✅ McDonald’s is not known to be the best food, it is expensive and is slow these days. We are high on the Big Mac Index, higher than … | Continue reading
The other big project that I've been working on in my personal life, in parallel to getting married, was finding a place where Mr Bostoniensis and I could live together. Yall. The housing market here in Massachusetts is berserk. "Boston, Massachusetts came in at no. 3 on the list … | Continue reading
Thirty years ago, I used to work at Toys’R’Us. I really enjoyed that job and sometimes consider returning to a life of stocking shelves. It’s become a bit cliché at this point to hear another tech bro wax on about how they’re going to quit and open a coffee shop, start woodworkin … | Continue reading
Published by Chris Aldrich I'm a biomedical and electrical engineer with interests in information theory, complexity, evolution, genetics, signal processing, IndieWeb, theoretical mathematics, and big history. I'm also a talent manager-producer-publisher in the entertainment indu … | Continue reading