As the driest nonpolar desert in the world, the Atacama Desert in northern Chile is home to very few species of plants and animals. With rainfall often occurring only once a decade, the desert is so dry that NASA uses it as a stand-in for the Martian landscape. But what’s living … | 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
Hardika Singh, Wall Street Journal: Bartash isn’t alone. Scores of individual investors have piled into Tesla shares in recent years, lured by the company’s technology, visionary chief executive and mammoth stock market gains. Through the end of last year, the stock was one of th … | Continue reading
Blogmarks that use markdown I needed to attach a correction to an older blogmark (my 20-year old name for short-form links with commentary on my blog) today - but the commentary field has always been text, not HTML, so I didn't have a way to add the necessary link. This motivated … | Continue reading
Schedule includes up to 12 offshore wind lease sales across the Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, Pacific, and the waters offshore the U.S. territories NEW ORLEANS — In remarks at the International Partnering Forum conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, today, Secretary of the Interior De … | Continue reading
The world's first commercial-scale factory for making nutrient-rich and versatile protein from air and sustainable energy has opened its doors in Finland, and the startup behind it aims to have its microbe-made food out in the US later this year. Solar Foods is just one of a hand … | Continue reading
Researchers reconstructed the relationships among nearly 300 Avars, people from a 1,500-year-old mysterious warrior culture in the Carpathian Basin. | Continue reading
A challenge these A.I. tools have is that we’re coming down from the novelty high we had at the launch of ChatGPT a year and a half ago and now they need to deliver on actual use cases that make people’s lives better. As someone who uses Claude almost everyday, I think there’s cl … | Continue reading
SpaceX, the world leader in rocket launches, is increasingly coming under scrutiny for its workplace practices. A recent safety review performed by Reuters highlights an upsetting trend at the aerospace company. For the second year in a row, injury rates at SpaceX far exceed the … | 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
It’s a classic Elon Musk move. Tesla released some pretty grim first-quarter numbers on Tuesday, showing that net income dropped more than 50% from last year. During the earnings call, however, Musk floated his “new” vision for the electric car company. Tesla is now focused on bu … | Continue reading
Another milestone in pig-to-human transplantation has been crossed, with doctors at New York University Langone today announcing the world’s first combination pig kidney and heart pump transplant. The recipient is a 54-year-old woman named Lisa Pisano who was diagnosed with termi … | Continue reading
NASA is a proud boomer that loves posting a good photo album. The space agency released 100 of its best 2023 photos on flickr, which go through the exciting highlights of the previous year. Read more... | Continue reading
The 3.7 billion-year-old rocks may extend the magnetic field’s age by 200 million years. | Continue reading
The US Senate votes to force Bytedance to sell TikTok — or see it banned in the US. Social media is the new geopolitical battleground. | Continue reading
The first public beta of Android 15 for the platform’s most faithful users rolled out this month. While the operating system version will arrive much later this year—typically right before October’s Pixel launch event—it can be fun to try on new features as they’re being built ou … | Continue reading
At its spring conference held on April 23, iReader announced the launch of its new Smart 5 e-note device which comes as an upgrade over the Smart 4 e-note that the company had launched last year. The company also announced the Neo 2 Pro e-reader at the same event. Here is a lowdo … | Continue reading
One of the two oldest, active spacecraft has a new lease on life, with NASA getting the 47-year-old Voyager 1 deep space probe to send back engineering data for the first time since November 14. Until now, all the craft could return was gibberish. Continue Reading Category: Space … | Continue reading
One of the big surprises this year so far was Tesla’s Q1 sales dropping year over year. Tesla said for a long time its goal was 50% growth year over year. Yes, Elon Musk and crew also qualified that to say it wasn’t expected to be steady growth and some ... [continued] The post E … | Continue reading
"I've been debating on whether or not to buy this [plant] for next year and you've convinced me." Gardener shares breathtaking effect of choosing to plant native flowers: 'How incredible to see' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
A lot has been written about the Tesla’s next-generation compact car that used to be widely called the Model 2, including Zach’s excellent article last week about it. Zach asked who might pick up the challenge in place of Tesla doing it. Today, Tesla announced it would follow thr … | Continue reading
Today my personal web site is being served sans-JavaScript in honor of JavaScript Naked Day. I implemented this on my web site using a global JS_ENABLED in my Eleventy configuration file (propagated to templates via Eleventy’s global data). This removed the elements in the outpu … | Continue reading
It took more than a year and a half, but over the past month, money from the Inflation Reduction Act has started to flow out in earnest. Among the grants given just in the past four weeks are: $20 million for ice cream factories in Tennessee and Vermont so they can replace their … | Continue reading
After many rumors, leaked photos, specs and speculation, the refreshed Model 3 Performance “Ludicrous” version is finally here. Previously known as “Highland,” the refreshed Model 3 was launched last year in China and Europe, this year in North America. The refreshed Model 3 offe … | Continue reading
It’s not like you didn’t already have a dozen Chromecasts floating around your house. What is one more? A new Google TV dongle, potentially packed with upgraded features, is on the horizon. Hopefully, this will be a significant update to the current four-year-old favorite. But th … | Continue reading
Many of us have moved on from the Vision Pro less than three months after its buzzy launch, but Apple can not. The company slashed its 2024 and 2025 sales expectations for the Vision Pro to nearly half what the market expected for this year, according to a new report from analyst … | Continue reading
Disney has announced the dates and some details for the upcoming 2024 EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival, and here’s what you need to know. The Details The 2024 EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival will take place August 29th through November 23rd this year. That is abo … | Continue reading
The year is 2024 and technology is doing incredible things. For the first time ever, you can purchase a walking robot dog with a flame thrower on its back. Yes, the Thermonator, which was announced late last year, is finally available for purchase in the United States. Shockingly … | Continue reading
I have two more classes this year that have open spots. One in Germany, and one in Indiana. I’m teaching people to build the Dutch Tool Chest in Munich July 14-16. You can register and read more about the class here. The class takes place next to Dictum’s lovely Munich showroom a … | Continue reading
Bon Jovi first burst on the music scene in the 1980s, and the new docuseries “Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story” spotlight’s the band’s 40-year history on Hulu April 26, 2024. The Details “Thank You, Goodnight” joins the band in February 2022 and follows their real time jo … | Continue reading
Bret broke up with his long-term girlfriend. He’s lonely and cries more often than anyone knows. Stuck in a dark place, he picks up the phone and messages Anth. Anth isn’t a close friend, but Bret picked him over his dad, his brother, and his best friend is because Anth went thro … | Continue reading
Bluesky is built by around 10 engineers, and has amassed 5 million users since publicly launching in February this year. A deep dive into novel design decisions, moving off AWS, and more. | Continue reading
At least twice each year, we invite current EFF members to gather with fellow internet freedom supporters and to meet the people behind your favorite digital civil liberties organization. For this year’s Bay Area based members, we had the opportunity to take over Babylon Burning’ … | Continue reading
Returning for the second year, Skift Meetings Forum will be held in New York City on September 17th gathering top-tier meeting professionals to discuss advancing technology, evolving attendee preferences, shifting work dynamics and so much more. -Miguel Neves | Continue reading
Next time you stop by the Flathub website you will notice it’s had a bit of a revamp. The latest UI refresh lands a year after its last big redesign and builds on that look by adding new on-page features. These changes make it easier for Linux users to find the apps they are look … | Continue reading
We are announcing special workshops and trainings to celebrate our 15th anniversary. Coming up: A rare in-person session in LDN with IIB founder David McCandless (we do these once a year). A virtual workshop running on two half days and the regular full day session. Learn how to … | Continue reading
A 28-year-old motorcyclist died in Washington State on Friday afternoon because a dipshit Tesla driver rear-ended him at speed. A Snohomish man, 56, was commuting in his 2022 Tesla Model S when he activated the car’s camera-based advanced driver assist system and according to his … | Continue reading
The new electric Porsche Macan starts at $78,800, deliveries begin later this year. | Continue reading
Last year, I definitely took the shutters down too early because I unwisely let a warm week convince me it was time. So this year, I decided I would do it no earlier than Easter and no later than May Eve, essentially sometime in April; that seems right because I put them back on … | Continue reading
Chinese auto manufacturer Dongfeng has shoveled some heavy marketing into its M-Hero 917, the big, brawny, quad-motor luxury SUV it launched domestically last year and recently introduced in Switzerland. Continue Reading Category: Automotive, Transport Tags: SUV, Side-by-side, Of … | Continue reading
From The Literary Hub: One of the pleasures of reading 19th-century novels is that authors write openly about money. Take for instance Mr. Bennett, the patriarch in Pride and Prejudice, whose £2,000 a year makes him amongst the wealthier members of the gentry. With that sum, he c … | Continue reading
MORGANTOWN, West Virginia — Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management Dr. Steve Feldgus traveled to Morgantown, West Virginia, today to announce more than $140 million in fiscal year 2023 funding from President Biden’s Investing in America agenda to ad … | Continue reading
King's going from ye Tower to Whitehall1 Up early and made myself as fine as I could, and put on my velvet coat, the first day that I put it on, though made half a year ago. And being ready, Sir W. Batten, my Lady, and his two daughters and his... | Continue reading
What an amazing story by Josh Dzieza at The Verge about the people who repair undersea fiberoptic cables to keep data flowing around the world: The world is in the midst of a cable boom, with multiple new transoceanic lines announced every year. … | Continue reading
With Dune: Part Two, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, Deadpool & Wolverine... and probably Dune: Part Two again, 2024 has truly become the year of the popcorn bucket. And if that trend is to continue, one filmmaker with a high-profile sequel coming later this year wants on board. Rea … | Continue reading
The Biden administration aims to sign up 20,000 people in the program's first year. | Continue reading
It blows my mind that NASA has been able to debug the 46-year-old Voyager 1 probe from over 15 billion miles away. Equally mind-blowing is the fact that Voyager 2 is still operating normally. Reply via email or Mastodon. | Continue reading
One week after it was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, the Senate has passed what Senator Ron Wyden has called, “one of the most dramatic and terrifying expansions of government surveillance authority in history.” President Biden then rushed to sign it into law. The p … | Continue reading