Scientists revealed how to ‘slow’ time, a Finnish factory grew ‘food out of thin air’, and lazy gardeners boosted butterflies, plus more The post What went right this week: the good news you should know about appeared first on Positive News. | Continue reading
Catch up quickly with the stories from Central and Eastern Europe that matter, this week led by the news that on Tuesday, the US finally passed support package for Ukraine. Russia’s war on Ukraine Joe Biden told Volodymyr Zelensky this week that he will “move quickly” to send Ukr … | Continue reading
A tirade of rage on Faux News is directed against electric cars in a recent hit piece by a former CIA officer. Emphasis on "former." The post Electric Cars Are The Spawn Of The Devil, Ex-CIA Dude Tells Faux News appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
Sharp, together with its partners Yuantai and Chengmei Materials is all set to showcase a series of e-paper solutions at the Touch Taiwan 2024 event, Yahoo News reported. The company said it will be showcasing an A2-sized ePoster electronic paper posters as well as a new 55-inch … | Continue reading
Corporate Open Source is Dead IBM is buying HashiCorp for $6.4 billion. That's four months after HashiCorp rugpulled their entire development community and ditched open source for the 'Business Source License.' As someone on Hacker News pointed out so eloquently: IBM is like a ju … | Continue reading
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Cantet’s agent told news agency Agence France Presse that the filmmaker passed away on Thursday morning of an illness. Cantet was supposed to shoot his next film “Enzo” in August. | 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
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Hyundai continues to be a bit of an under-hyped hero on cleantech. Well, maybe that’s going a little far, but it is definitely a company that has made many good decisions with regards to electric vehicles, and now we’ve got some great news from Hyundai regarding renewable energy … | Continue reading
Here is more information that I've not covered before The post Mid-Week Mini News Stories – Garmin, Google, MyWhoosh, Stages appeared first on the5krunner • tri bike run. The full post can be read now at the5krunner • tri bike run. | Continue reading
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 2024 But also, Fox & Friends conquers Wisconsin: It's very, very hard to believe the culture change which has been engineered under cover of darkness at the Fox News Channel. We're so old that we can remember when "family values" was the hook for American con … | Continue reading
I didn’t realize that Microsoft had pushed out the update that brought advertising to the Windows 11 Start menu until I started to read the news. I’ve had recommendations turned off this entire time. It turns out the same option hides the “curated” Microsoft Store apps currently … | Continue reading
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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
Apple’s Neuromancer adaptation finds itself a new hacker. Al Pacino and Dan Stevens are teaming up for a new exorcist horror. Plus, more casting news from Wednesday season 2, what’s coming on Chucky season 2, and a new clip from X-Men ‘97. Spoilers get! Read more... | Continue reading
A recent analysis from advocacy organization Consumer Reports is the latest to highlight the potential threat of pesticides in our produce. It suggests that around 20% of commonly sold fruits and vegetables in the U.S. could contain unsafe levels of pesticides. Given that concern … | Continue reading
England’s largest multi-arts festival is finding ways to open up cultural experiences to as many people as possible The post Five ways community is at the heart of Brighton Festival appeared first on Positive News. | Continue reading
Sometimes it’s OK to leave your kids in a pub, and nine more things we learned while putting together the new issue of Positive News magazine – out now The post 10 things we learned making the new issue of Positive News magazine appeared first on Positive News. | Continue reading
The privacy threats posed by facial recognition technology are, in many ways, unprecedented. – Michal Kosinski To Molest and Rape Cops are a menace to women of all ages: A…Utah [cop named] Bronson Willas Wood [forcibly groped a young] woman “against her consent”…on March 18, 2023 … | Continue reading
If you follow the news at all—on TV, newspapers, social media—you are aware of crimes perpetrated both at home and in faraway places. You might read them, feel a pang of grief for the victim or a flare of rage at the villain. But our fast-moving media often gives us only a glimps … | 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
Dion Terrelonge researches the impact of fast fashion on the environment and on self-expression The post The fashion psychologist investigating how what we wear makes us feel appeared first on Positive News. | Continue reading
Following the passage of the Online News Act, the Media Ecosystem Observatory studied the behaviour of Canadian Facebook and Instagram users. The resulting report (PDF) is a brief but useful read. Sara Parker, et al. summarizing two of its findings: The Facebook Pages of national … | Continue reading
MONDAY, APRIL 22, 2024 Excitement running high: There is no trial but the one true trial. All other news topics fail. We missed the start of Deadline: White House due to an appointment. We returned at 4:15 to find excitement running high and the (uniform) desire to convict runnin … | Continue reading
Adam Engst, writing at TidBITS: This one is way too close to home. News started to spread this morning on the MacAdmins Slack, Rich Trouton’s Der Flounder blog, and Tom Bridge’s site about how our friend and Take Control author Charles Edge died suddenly and unexpectedly on 19 Ap … | Continue reading
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Ancient woodlands have provided sanctuary to rare species for some 400 years. With help, there’s plenty of life in these old woods yet The post The plan to revive the UK’s ancient woods (and seven species that live in them) appeared first on Positive News. | Continue reading
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In today's issue of Squirrel News, we delve into Nigeria's pioneering efforts in combatting meningitis, how the deployment of new mosquito nets has been credited with preventing 13 million cases of malaria, and how California's energy grid has set a record 30-day streak meeting o … | Continue reading
Elon Musk’s social media platform X started testing AI-generated news summaries powered by Grok in early April. The feature has a disclaimer that Grok “can make mistakes,” and it’s made quite a few of them. Read more... | Continue reading
Recent analysis has revealed a noticeable decline in user engagement for the 25 most-cited news organizations in the United States… Continue reading Major US media outlets see steep decline in engagement on Meta The post Major US media outlets see steep decline in engagement on M … | Continue reading
The Santa Barbara News-Press was born in 1868 and died in 2023 at age 155. Its glory years ran from 1932 until 2000, when the New York Times sold it to Wendy McCaw, who rode it to hell. That ride began with the Santa Barbara News Press Controversy in 2006 and ended when Ampersand … | Continue reading
Electric vehicles are good, but they can always be better. That’s the motivation behind the big news about Hyundai’s newly announced partnership with the advanced materials firm Toray Industries. The two companies are mum on the details, but a quick look at Toray’s product lineup … | Continue reading
Mohamed Aboelez recently learned his roommate, a person he shared a residence with, had died. But no one called to say so, instead Aboelez read the news on Facebook: I froze. I hadn’t seen Paul in about two days. I had assumed he’d been with his friend. But not dead. Of course no … | Continue reading
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Years ago, Andy Weir’s sci-fi novel Project Hail Mary was being optioned as a film with Ryan Gosling in the lead role. After years of no significant news on the project, Amazon MGM’s ready to bring the adaptation to theaters, and it’s even locked down a release date: March 20, 20 … | Continue reading
Douglas Hofstadter at Marcus on AI: I just received the very sad news about the passing of Dan Dennett, a lodestar in my life and in many thoughtful people’s lives. Dan was a deep thinker about what it is to be human. Quite early on, he arrived at what many would see as shocking … | Continue reading
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I subscribe to various RSS feeds using Nextcloud News. It makes them easily accessible on my phone whilst ensuring that things will be marked read if I instead read the feed on my desktop (that's not to say that it's perfect, though: as I've written previously, I also use fediver … | 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