Sixteen years, that is how long since I lost all of my hearing. Before that, I was hard of hearing and used hearing aids. For sixteen years I haven’t heard a single sound, am dependable on lipreading, text and captions. Years ago I used a speech-to-text software for the first tim … | Continue reading
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
Adding rat stem cells to a mouse embryo resulted in a ‘hybrid brain’ in which the rat cells stepped in to restore function when the mouse’s sense of smell was removed, new research has shown. It’s the first time one animal’s cells have been used to rescue another’s senses, and it … | Continue reading
Airbus Helicopters has flown its high-speed concept copter, which dashes 50% faster than other commercial copters, for the first time. The 249-mph (216-kt, 400-km/h) Racer demonstrator is not only fast, but consumes up to 25% less fuel. Continue Reading Category: Aircraft, Transp … | Continue reading
Mother Nature likes to mess. Honestly, when she gets crazy it’s time to watch out, everybody. Swirling oceans, spinning winds, icy rain drops — you never know what she’s got cooking in the atmosphere. One of her off-the-menu specials is definitely a fresh batch of clear blue skie … | Continue reading
Mary Jo Foley: In a perfect world, Microsoft would take security seriously again. It would be transparent about breaches. Its execs would stop gloating about increasing security service revenue at a time when Microsoft can’t secure its own employees, let alone customers, against … | Continue reading
Over the past several years I’ve from time to time met a writer who expresses being stuck or stymied or burned out, and I’ve pretty much always recommended that they try asemic writing as a warm-up exercise. It’s a practice that I often begin my day doing and I think is perhaps u … | Continue reading
I’ts MS-DOS 4.0 Internal Work #2.06 – May 23, 1984, with copyrights from both IBM & Microsoft. I don’t have time to make any comment much further other than having had been listing to people in on making this happen, … Continue reading → | Continue reading
When The Flash launched in October 2014—the second project of the CW’s bold attempt to flesh out its own superhero cinematic universe—its premiere episode ended with a bold statement: not only would the series be still going in a decade’s time, it would have grown enough to tackl … | Continue reading
A few days ago the United States Congress passed a law stipulating that video-sharing social network TikTok either be sold by Chinese owned company ByteDance, or face being banned in America. It seems like drastic move, but American lawmakers have their reasons. The proposal has … | Continue reading
Love all things mushroom home decor right now? Time to go to World Market! READ MORE... | Continue reading
Today's Drop discusses the importance of thoughtful URL design, the exploration of avatar creation resources, and the introduction of Bento Grids as a resource for overcoming creative blocks in UX layout design. It highlights creative URL examples, avatar creation tools, and layo … | Continue reading
Pack the lembas bread and gather up your fellowship, we’re going back to Middle-earth. Warner Bros. is releasing the extended editions of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy in theaters for one weekend only this June, and it’s the first time the re-releases will feature the … | Continue reading
Self-promotion is a weird subject. It’s one of those things that is strictly tied to who you are as a person. I am, broadly speaking, a shy and reserved person. I don’t like to be in the spotlight, I don’t like to draw attention to myself. I also really care about other people's … | Continue reading
Robert Lea at Space.com: NASA’s interstellar explorer Voyager 1 is finally communicating with ground control in an understandable way again. On Saturday (April 20), Voyager 1 updated ground control about its health status for the first time in 5 months. While the Voyager 1 spacec … | Continue reading
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has sounded a warning to investors that it will take considerable time before any significant returns… Continue reading Meta sounds profit warning as AI spending soars The post Meta sounds profit warning as AI spending soars appeared first on ReadWrite. | Continue reading
There is perhaps no funnier dichotomy in sci-fi fandom than Doctor Who—a show that has inherently been about the nature of change and the mutability of time for six decades—having a fandom that, by and large, does not cope well with change. But one major change coming into the sh … | Continue reading
I have an admission: Though I frequently review new Apple products, I don’t always buy them. Like many of you, I can’t afford to update every bit of Apple hardware every time the company does a revision—so I have to carefully measure when the old stuff has now become too old and … | 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
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
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 had a fantastic time chatting with a group of design system wizards, Nathan Curtis and Ben Callahan. Geoff Graham did a great job facilitating the conversation, and we covered a lot of ground! | 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
It seems like every day is Fallout Day at the moment. If it’s not the roaring success of the TV… Continue reading Fallout 4’s Next Gen update arrives today, everything we know, release time, and what’s included The post Fallout 4’s Next Gen update arrives today, everything we kno … | Continue reading
Julie had two extra days off last week, and with the help of her new stand mixer, she spent a long time doing some baking. Two Beef and Onion pies for the freezer, and some sausage rolls. Fresh farmhouse loaf of bread. Coffee and Walnut sponge cake. Victoria Sponge with real crea … | Continue reading
southernsolarpunk: ALT I was inspired by 60s psychedelic posters, Coca Cola, and this poster from 1967. Since I’ve moved, I have had so much more time to work on my art, so this summer I’m going to be pushing out more. | Continue reading
southernsolarpunk: ALT I was inspired by 60s psychedelic posters, Coca Cola, and this poster from 1967. Since I’ve moved, I have had so much more time to work on my art, so this summer I’m going to be pushing out more. | Continue reading
Superhero games have had a rough time of it lately with both Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League and Marvel’s… Continue reading Marvel Rivals – Release date speculation, trailers, platforms, and everything we know The post Marvel Rivals – Release date speculation, trailers, pl … | 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
I had not had a bowl of tomato soup in a very long time and so I wanted to have some for my lunch today. Tomato soup is one of the few tinned soups that I enjoy, or at least that I have always enjoyed. I was brought up on tinned tomato soup. I never tasted homemade until I was an … | Continue reading
"There are more than a million people living in that watershed." Experts concerned over hazardous cargo aboard ship that collapsed Baltimore bridge: 'Any time there's a catastrophic event like this, there's a potential for water pollution' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
My child that takes forever to get ready! I’m sure many mom and dads have uttered these words one time… The post My Kids Move SO SLOWLY In The Morning… Here’s Our Solution! appeared first on Kids Activities Blog. | Continue reading
I’ve been at OpenAI for almost a year now. In that time, I’ve trained a lot of generative models. [...] It’s becoming awfully clear to me that these models are truly approximating their datasets to an incredible degree. [...] What this manifests as is – trained on the same datase … | 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
Many of us watch The Office more often than we care to admit. We’ve spent so much time with the series that, over the years, the characters and the actors who portray themhave almost become family. So when a video like this comes online, it’s more than just delightful. It’s catha … | Continue reading
Trump Media & Technology Group is doubling down on claims that its stock is being illegally traded — this time bringing its concerns to congressional leaders. Read more... | Continue reading
This past week Tesla announced it was reducing its workforce by 10%. The move comes at a time in which the company’s stock value has plummeted, leading many to question Musk’s leadership. With few tangible plans about the company’s future as sales continued to decline, investors … | Continue reading
Sensors and analytics give oil well operators real-time alerts when things go wrong, so they can respond before they become disasters. | Continue reading
I’ve noticed that the two most common sources of regret for my last 20-30 years of experience are: The risks taken that paid off – what would I regret? For example, when taking my first mortgage, it felt like a great risk. The payment was a significant portion of my salary at the … | 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
Google says UK regulator testing means the advertising tech will last until 2025. | Continue reading
At first glance, wearable speakers are a strange bit of kit. When Bose released their Soundwear Companion in 2017, I couldn't see the use case. But as I age it becomes more obvious. I frequently use captions while watching shows or movies, as I have a difficult time making out th … | Continue reading
Here’s a hot project that’s ready to go, and it’s shooting very soon. Six-time Oscar nominee Amy Adams is set to star in “At the Sea”, the latest film from Kornel Mundruczó, the filmmaker behind “Pieces of a Woman.” | Continue reading
Michel Chaouli, Sergio Tenenbaum and Keren Gorodeisky at The Point: Kant’s views here are taken by many philosophers to be an impossible attempt to have it both ways. Kant seems to be arguing that evil is necessarily attributed to each of us, apparently rooted in human nature. An … | Continue reading
When.In.Maine do have a knack for singing about troubled relationships and failed love, although this time on "Sores" the element of criminal mystery is removed from the equation, drifting apart from their previous singles like "Ditched" or "Option". | Continue reading
In the previous posts, we’ve gone through the excruciating fun of installing Rhapsody DR2, and of course built the Rhapsody kernel from source. But now it’s time to build the software that can build software. Enter the apt* Of course … Continue reading → | Continue reading
PUBG Battlegrounds is reintroducing the game’s original map, Erangel, with all sorts of content and design touches to fully evoke… Continue reading PUBG Battlegrounds will send players back in time with throwback Erangel map The post PUBG Battlegrounds will send players back in t … | Continue reading