Despite the apparent danger, many in the area appeared unnerved. Video of tourist's terrifying encounter with elk sparks anger online: 'It always bothers me seeing people be this careless around wild animals' first appeared on The Cool Down. | 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
Preservationists propose access limits, but industry worries about a free "online arcade." | Continue reading
This video is ridiculously great. | 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
I had a very rough time getting going this morning, and I’m not sure why. Bad pain day, joints and muscles, and so very sleepy. I got the girls to do my morning routine for me so I could sleep in as much as the cats would allow. Still, I had to do something outside, … Continue re … | Continue reading
As far as I’m concerned, this 8-minute YouTube video by Becca Farcace at The Verge is required viewing for anyone interested in the Meta Ray-Bans and will give you valuable context for this blog post. I didn’t see it until after I already had my Ray-Bans, but Farcace does an exce … | 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
A new version of Clapper, a GTK4-based video player for Linux desktop has been released — the first major update in nearly 2 years. I first wrote about Clapper back in 2021 having been seduced over by its slick user interface (a superficial reason to like a media player, I know), … | Continue reading
It's the latest and best of a string of meta marketing videos to promote the film. | Continue reading
Fallout’s delightful fun first season dropped all eight episodes on Prime Video at once, meaning if you started watching it when it arrived, you’ve no doubt reached the end—and are longingly pining for season two’s arrival. Since that is at least a year away, and probably longer, … | Continue reading
In today’s video I walk you through the process of hooking up Immich’s machine learning components to a Windows 11 system, primarily used as my personal gaming rig, running on WSL2, inside of a docker container with Nvidia hardware acceleration support. | Continue reading
The Federal Trade Commission is sending $5.6 million in refunds to Ring users whose private video feeds were accessed without consent by Amazon employees and contractors, or had their accounts and devices hacked because of insufficient security protections. [...] | Continue reading
Archive What If? About Feed•Email TW•FB•IG -Books- What If? 2 WI?•TE•HT A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. What If? is on YouTube! The first video answers “What if we aimed Hubble at Earth?” Follow the What If? channel to be notified about new videos. | Continue reading
Ever since its launch, we thought Vermont's Beta Technologies might prove itself the real deal in an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) world dominated by renderings, concepts, prototypes and other "maybe somedays." Continue Reading Category: Aircraft, Transport Tags: … | Continue reading
Elon Musk is currently battling government officials in Australia who are trying to force X to remove a video of a man being stabbed last week. An Australian court has ordered the video removed globally rather than just having it geo-blocked in Australia. And while Gizmodo has be … | Continue reading
The wonk-ish edition of the Drop discusses the influential role of typography across diverse fields, exploring its impact on user experience, legal documents, and video games. It highlights typography's power in enhancing readability, evoking emotions, and guiding user behavior. … | Continue reading
A new wheeled robot is able to climb metal structures in a very clever and unique way – it uses an extendible tape-measure limb. Descendants of the bot may one day find use inspecting or even repairing things like towers, bridges, power stations and ships. Continue Reading Catego … | Continue reading
Andrew Chen, Chief Product Officer at CommentSold, discusses how live video is transforming ecommerce opportunities for brands. The post Leader Spotlight: Enabling and leveraging live video commerce, with Andrew Chen appeared first on LogRocket Blog. | Continue reading
The Electronic Software Association, the main lobby for the video games in the United States, remains flatly uninterested in helping… Continue reading Games industry lobby still says no way to preservation efforts, copyright exceptions The post Games industry lobby still says no … | Continue reading
Today, Apple announced that it will be holding a video event on May 7, 2024 at 7 AM Pacific. The announcement, which was sent to members of the press, doesn’t specify what it is about, but based on the illustration in the invitation, which clearly depicts an Apple Pencil, and bas … | Continue reading
Nothing fancy, but I got it done. This is what I managed to get done yesterday. Have I mentioned how much I’m starting to dislike those horrid elms? Not even the poplars, which spread through their roots, are a problem like this! Broccoli hopes you enjoy the video! The Re-Farmer | Continue reading
Lions and snakes on astronomical ceiling at Dendera Rhaomi has a fabulous in-depth post on the very fabulous Dendera temple complex, home to "some of the most superbly-preserved ancient Egyptian art known, ranging from early Roman times back to the Middle Kingdom period over 4,00 … | Continue reading
"You would think that having an effect of this magnitude would require the resources and funding of a large government." MrBeast builds wells for 500K people in viral video: 'It's something humanity should all be putting in effort to fix' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
An F-16 fighter plane running on artificial intelligence has engaged in the first-ever aerial dogfight exercise with a human-piloted counterpart. This is the first footage of the September mock fight, conducted as part of DARPA's Air Combat Evolution (ACE) program. Continue Readi … | Continue reading
Yesterday, Bálint Tóth (University of Bristol and Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics) came to Paris Dauphine for a seminar on the Botlzmann-Grad limit and the existence of a central (double) limit theory. Which was somewhat related with the above video of an earlier seminar, a … | Continue reading
timpaul/form-extractor-prototype Tim Paul, Head of Interaction Design at the UK's Government Digital Service, published this brilliant prototype built on top of Claude 3 Opus. The video shows what it can do. Give it an image of a form and it will extract the form fields and use t … | Continue reading
Canada's Minimaliste previously impressed us with its Noyer and Noyer XL models, which offer luxurious small living in all weather, including extremes of hot and cold. The firm has now iterated on the Noyer line once again with a new and improved – and even larger – tiny house th … | Continue reading
The author on reboots, online culture, video games, and “the constantly moving target” of writing about the present. | Continue reading
If you’re using Quarkus in a recent version and would like to upload (multiple) files, this video is for you. | Continue reading
Venturing out into the world in Fallout 4 is a seminal moment in video gaming and it is very cool… Continue reading How many companions can you have at the same time in Fallout 4? The post How many companions can you have at the same time in Fallout 4? appeared first on ReadWrite … | Continue reading
The US House has voted 360-58 in support of a bill that would ban the video-sharing app TikTok if Chinese… Continue reading US inches closer to a TikTok ban The post US inches closer to a TikTok ban appeared first on ReadWrite. | Continue reading
Judging by how certain American cities smell these days, you’d think cannabis was invented last week. But that spike in enthusiasm, as well as in public indulgence, comes as only a recent chapter in that substance’s very long history. In fact, says the presenter of the PBS Eons v … | Continue reading
British YouTuber James Bruton has plenty of experience with self-balancing technology and omnidirectional wheels, having already built a self-balancing bicycle using a sideways-mounted omni-wheel, as well as a heap of self-stabilizing robot projects. Continue Reading Category: Mo … | Continue reading
"Such a violent level of disregard." Onlookers capture video of improper cleanup following yacht party: 'A representative of the district has already been informed' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Archive What If? About Feed•Email TW•FB•IG -Books- What If? 2 WI?•TE•HT A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. What If? is on YouTube! The first video answers “What if we aimed Hubble at Earth?” Follow the What If? channel to be notified about new videos. | Continue reading
"Natural is the best way." Video explains why you should avoid popular window cleaning product at all costs: 'I'll never buy [it]' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
"There's been a fair bit of weeding involved, but zero watering ... and zero mowing." Homeowner shares stunning progress video of lawn transformation three years later: 'I love it, and so do the bees' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Read to the end for a video of Musk proving he may be a simulation after all | Continue reading
It’s the victim’s fault cops murdered him. – Dan Thompson (paraphrase) Of all the Allman Brothers songs on which he played, this is probably the best showcase of the late Dickey Betts’ talents. The links above the video were all provided by IncarcerNation, except for “RIP” (Dan S … | Continue reading
MIT researchers are developing a system for reducing emissions of the potent greenhouse gas at dairy farms and other sites. | Continue reading
"Not very smart." Video captures woman's close encounter with grizzly bear at Yellowstone: 'It's absolutely astounding people still do this' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
There’s a lot of video games set to get TV or film adaptations in the next few years, and even more that seem like they’d be ripe for the picking. Bungie’s Destiny franchise seemed like a viable candidate, especially after the studio was acquired by PlayStation in 2022, but it so … | Continue reading
It was a bad week for Truth Social and the Tesla Cybertruck. Both showed that they might not be as great as Donald Trump and Elon Musk thought. This week also saw a terrifying AI video generator, major complaints about a dog-sitting app, and the retirement of a beloved robot. Che … | Continue reading
Yesterday, Microsoft released VASA-1, which uses AI to generate video of people talking that is generated by nothing more than an audio clip and a still image. From an article on Ars Technica: The VASA framework (short for “Visual Affective Skills Animator”) uses machine learning … | Continue reading
A week ago, Big Think released this video featuring philosopher Daniel Dennett talking about the four biggest ideas in philosophy. Today, we learned that he passed away at age 82. The New York Times obituary for Dennett reads: “Espousing his ideas in best sellers, he insisted tha … | Continue reading
A short teaser for the newest Boston Dynamics humanoid robot. PG has blogged about earlier models of Boston Dynamics robots, but, even from the short video below, it’s obvious that the company has been hard at work. Thanks to several regulars on TPV or the tip. Here is a video of … | Continue reading
"I called the cops but she left before the cops got there." Video captures shocking behavior as driver attempts to navigate off-road at state park: 'I hope you got and reported the plates' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading