What seemed to be good news, is now bad news. PlayStation’s efforts to expand on PC continues to cause issues as Ghost Of Tsushima Director’s Cut on Steam is now delisted in 177 countries. The game is set to release this week. Pre-orders for Ghost Of Tsushima in countries with no … | Continue reading
Ugh, Eurovision. We had a nice time in Malmö but, by the end, I was really feeling like we should have boycotted. There was a lot of protest regarding Israel continuing to be in the competition and boycotting was probably the right move. I donated a lot of guilt money to MAP to m … | Continue reading
A little over a year ago, Frank Jacobs published this admirable survey of a mysterious object that has perplexed and preoccupied us for the past week — The Mysterious Dodecahedrons of the Roman Empire, Big Think, Atlas Obscura (5/12/23): The first of many of these puzzling object … | Continue reading
I took one of the most significant steps of my adult this week, the most transformative since getting married to Maria. I stopped seeing my longtime and much-beloved therapist, who has been working with me for more than 20 years to control my impulses and my anxiety. My fears hav … | Continue reading
A busy week on the blog: We polished off the announce posts for oapi-codegen looking for sponsorship and the move to the new org which have got some traffic, but not quite as much - yet - as I'd have hoped Less than 12 hours after posting, I had one company reach out to say they' … | Continue reading
The Week in Review is a collection of both all the goodness I’ve written during the past week around the internet, as well as a small pile of links I found interesting – generally endurance sports related. I’ve often wondered … Read More Here → | Continue reading
One of guests’ favorite things about staying at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge are the animals that roam the savanna outside, and this week Walt Disney World has announced the birth of a new baby Addax to the herd that roams the resort. The Details The newest member of the Addax h … | Continue reading
Electric cars and solar panels from China will be hit with higher tariffs by the Biden administration this week. The post Biden To Set 100% Tariff On Electric Cars Made In China — Solar Panels May Be Next appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
How amazing! I never thought I would see northern lights (aurora borealis) in southeast Michigan. But like millions of other people around the world, thanks to this weekend’s geomagnetic storm, I enjoyed seeing the northern lights in my own southeast Michigan community. Without h … | Continue reading
More than 800 faculty and staff at UCLA call for chancellor’s resignation | The Guardian … following attacks by counter-protesters on pro-Palestinian student demonstrators and a violent police raid of the Gaza solidarity encampment on campus last week. More than a hundred profess … | Continue reading
A new space photo captures "God's Hand", a cometary globule in the Gum Nebula, where stars are being born. | Continue reading
The end of a good week. A trip to Suffolk, which I have already posted about, and an easygoing time with nothing too dramatic happening. ————————————————————————————— The weather was the star of the show, with sunny skies and high temperatures most days, followed by first-time si … | Continue reading
Why is SwiftUI so important that the Swift language was changed to make it more feasible to implement? Is it just for ease of multi-platform support? Or is it just greener grass? | Continue reading
Looking beyond emerging Europe can offer a new perspective on how our region can improve. This week brought me to Nairobi, Kenya’s capital and largest city with a metropolitan population of over 5.5 million. I joined the Elevate Africa conference, organised by CCI Global, one of … | Continue reading
Here we are again with another Sunday Meals of the Week Post. On Sundays I like to catch my readers up with all of the main meals that I have enjoyed over the past seven days. I enjoy sharing them with you and I think most of you enjoy seeing them as well. It can really be a chal … | Continue reading
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Welcome back to another week that was—from jumping in hot with Battlestar Galactica’s return to streaming, to our first look at our brand new Superman, and celebrating 25 years of Lego Star Wars, a lot’s been going on. And that’s before you get to the impending arrival of Furiosa … | Continue reading
The Cybertruck continues to make us laugh with how bad it is, and now it’s literally breaking people’s fingers and slicing their legs. The strange, secretive AI model referred to as “gpt2-chatbot” has resurfaced. Check out the rest of the big tech news for the week. Read more... | Continue reading
This week I annoyed everyone at the 11ty conference. | Continue reading
This may or may not work. For the last month, our blog has been sinking into madness. Subscribers weren’t receiving emails, our RSS feed was jacked up and this week we started receiving fatal errors whenever we tried to post. We have lots of technical help, and I hope in the comi … | Continue reading
This week, we got a first look at Apple’s super powerful, ultra-thin iPad Pro (and iPad Air). Amazon also found a way to jam even more ads into Prime video. And finally, our review of the highly anticipated Rabbit R1 AI Companion. Let’s just say it won’t be replacing your smartph … | Continue reading
In our top stories this week, reporter Passant Rabie describes in in-development rocket engine that NASA could eventually use to reach Mars in two months. Reporter Isaac Schultz details the severe geomagnetic storm warning and a new fusion breakthrough, while health reporter Ed C … | Continue reading
Win of the week: some things I’ve been waiting on moved forward Looking forward to: getting gelato with my friends tomorrow! 🍨 Stuff I did: Worked on my business website more — set up 6 more case studies 🙌 Attended Front End Study Hall — seeing how other people ap … | Continue reading
Earlier this week, the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced that 68 tech companies — notably including heavyweights such as Google and Microsoft — signed the agency’s voluntary information security pledge. The pledge compels the signatories to pursue a … | Continue reading
Friday is here! Unfortunately, the heat is rising fast here in Florida and it’s hard to enjoy some of the outdoor activities we love while suffering in the extreme heat and thinking about how dangerously we are heating up the planet. Let’s get a little relief by leafing through 1 … | Continue reading
There are two problems an artist faces: what to paint and how to paint it. That’s Bonnie Clearwater in an interview about Frank Stella, in this week’s episode of The Week in Art. Later she adds, “Once you decide what to paint, you can just concentrate on how to paint it.” | Continue reading
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This week brought the news that all four seasons, plus the miniseries and the made-for-TV movie, of the Battlestar Galactica revival are now easily accessible on Amazon Prime. That addition means the streamer—which is already an excellent destination for sci-fi films—has even mor … | Continue reading
This week on Connected: Federico and Myke are back from Apple Battersea to join Stephen in grading the group’s picks for this week’s iPad event. | Continue reading
Each week, Atlas Obscura is providing a new short excerpt from our upcoming book, Wild Life: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Living Wonders (September 17, 2024). Most of the time, Chile’s Atacama Desert is gritty, cracked, and red. The desert gets less than 0.6 inch (1.5 cm) o … | Continue reading
Jack Dorsey reemerged on Elon Musk’s X recently, calling it a “freedom technology” last week as he stepped down from Bluesky’s board. In an interview with Pirate Wires Thursday, the founder of Twitter says he never really left the platform, he just was posting less. Dorsey also s … | Continue reading
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up as an addendum to our discussion of Hellenistic armies. But in the meantime, it is a fireside, and I thought, since it was just recently May the Fourth, we might talk some Star Wa … | Continue reading
My thanks to Magic Lasso Adblock for sponsoring Six Colors this week. As a native Safari extension, Magic Lasso blocks all intrusive ads, trackers and annoyances – letting you experience a faster, cleaner and more secure experience across all your devices.… | Continue reading
Apple released a number of new products this week, including new iPad models as well as some new software for its pro users with Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro. Apple also announced its quarterly financials, which Dave and I talk about, including products sold and total revenue. Fin … | Continue reading
After the closure of three Bethesda-owned game studios and the absorption of another earlier this week, Xbox president Sarah Bond… Continue reading Xbox president Sarah Bond says Bethesda studio closures were ‘extraordinarily hard’ The post Xbox president Sarah Bond says Bethesda … | Continue reading
Microsoft announced this week that they plan on launching their own mobile game app store to compete with Apple and… Continue reading Microsoft readies launch of its own mobile app store The post Microsoft readies launch of its own mobile app store appeared first on ReadWrite. | Continue reading
by Doug Bock Clark ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in y … | Continue reading
This week I found myself digging through the code of c4, an implementation of C “in four functions”, by Robert Swierczek. I remember coming across c4 when it was released ten years ago. It got me excited: hey, C in four functions, that means it’s easy to understand right? | Continue reading
Some shorter, collected thoughts from the last week: A letter to Russell T Davies Here’s what I would say to Russell T Davies if I could: One of my very first television memories is sitting watching Peter Davison’s Doctor (and reruns of Tom Baker’s) on a tiny 12” TV set, my face … | Continue reading
Wonder is everywhere. That’s why, every other week, Atlas Obscura drags you down some of the rabbit holes we encounter as we search for our unusual stories. We highlight surprising finds, great writing, and inspiring stories from some of our favorite publications. The New Zealand … | Continue reading
A friend shared a speculation this week that, as you get older, your openness to new ideas goes to the extreme – either you ossify or you maintain (and build!) your capacity to take in new concepts that may turn everything upside-down. But ALSO, a level below that, you become eve … | Continue reading
The interesting part of the RFK brainworm story is that literally no one who read it said, “No way.” — Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) May 8, 2024 Brain-eating worms, which I do not support, are not nearly as harmful to a candidate as the woke mind virus is. by Glenn Greenwald — New … | Continue reading
OpenAI’s planned search engine competitor could launch as soon as Monday next week (May 13), it has been reported. Reuters… Continue reading OpenAI’s search engine could be with us by next week The post OpenAI’s search engine could be with us by next week appeared first on ReadWr … | Continue reading
This week on MacStories Unwind, Federico and I discuss how Apple crushed it at its iPad event, and Federico lets loose in London. Links and Show Notes Crushing It Apple’s Crush! ad Hugh Grant, Justine Bateman and More Slam Apple for iPad Pro ‘Crush’ Ad: ‘Truly, What Is Wrong With … | Continue reading
Last lesson of the week, so please concentrate! CLASS DISMISSED. | Continue reading
Forget living fast. I like to wander, mosey around and go for strolls and dilly dally far too much. Pasta is like duct tape, it fixes everything. Concerts and restaurants were well enough but a bookstore was civilization. (I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger) Stressed, blessed and … | Continue reading
Bullet journaling, I’ve been doing for many years now. I started it in August 2020. In the past, I tried taskwarrior, and other methods to keep a track of my tasks, but they all failed. I love Bullet Journal system because I can my whole week on two pages. Like many users, my sys … | Continue reading
The world passed a green energy ‘pivot point’, a child had her hearing restored, and a manifesto for positive change launched, plus more The post What went right this week: the good news that matters appeared first on Positive News. | Continue reading