Global EV sales reached 1.1 million units in April 2024, according to EV research-house, Rho Motion, bringing year-to-date (YTD) sales to 4.3 million, 22% greater than the same period in 2023. Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) represent 64% of units sold so far in 2024, with the r … | Continue reading
"Can I do this anytime of the year?" Expert gardener demonstrates simple method for growing pantry-favorite vegetable from supermarket produce: 'It's very easy' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Details surrounding the death of John Barnett, a corporate whistleblower who was in the midst of suing aviation giant Boeing when he was found dead in a parking lot earlier this year, have finally been revealed. Read more... | Continue reading
The Cicadas are Here There are annual cicadas. Then there are 13-year cicadas. And 17-year cicadas. Then there are days like today when 13 and 17 year cicadas emerge from the ground around the same time, creating a fairly odd event in our backyard. My daughters are helpfully poin … | Continue reading
The third and final episode of “Tolerance Is Extinction,”the season finale of X-Men ‘97, had a lot to pay off—not just from the plot threads it wove throughout its own debut season, but in bringing to a head years of lingering character work dating back to the original X-Men: The … | Continue reading
X.com stops redirecting to Twitter.com over a year after company name change. | Continue reading
According to Apple analystMing-Chi Kuo, there’s a possibility we could get a longer battery life on the upcoming iPhone 16 Pro Max, which will be expected to launch later this year. Read more... | Continue reading
I have had a long and “crazy” life. A lot of what I learned from difficult experiences has and can help others. I have put off writing a book about my life because it might upset my 91-year-old mother. I do have a blog, but I could write more for it. Should I be patient or stop w … | Continue reading
Rockstar Games and publisher Take-Two Interactive have set out a timeline of late next year for the release of Grand… Continue reading Grand Theft Auto VI now set for fall 2025 release The post Grand Theft Auto VI now set for fall 2025 release appeared first on ReadWrite. | Continue reading
Ubuntu first switched to using Wayland as its default display server in 2017 before reverting the following year. It tried again in 2021 and has stuck with it since. But while Wayland is what most of is now login to after installing Ubuntu, anyone doing so on a PC or laptop with … | Continue reading
PSF announces a new five year commitment from Fastly Fastly have been donating CDN resources to Python—most notably to the PyPI package index—for ten years now. The PSF just announced at PyCon US that Fastly have agreed to a new five year commitment. This is a really big deal, be … | Continue reading
In honor of Endangered Species Day, held each year on the third Friday of May, we found some of the world’s most elusive creatures in the Atlas Obscura archive. Meet Puerto Rico’s wide-eyed frogs, Finland’s freshwater seals, and Indonesia’s singing dogs—and the scientists and cit … | Continue reading
Sega and Amplitude Studios are offering Endless Legend, the brilliant 4X game that’s part of the wider Endless universe, for free. Again. This is the second time this year Endless Legend is being offered for the low, low price of free. But this time, it’s less of a hassle. All yo … | Continue reading
"Throughout 2024, our customers are going to see their bills be between 15 and 20% lower by the end of the year." Former coal-fired power plant site now home to incredible new energy storage system: 'The infrastructure to connect the battery system to the grid at scale already ex … | Continue reading
I was listening to a recent ShopTalk Show episode where Dave Rupert was sharing about his experience of looking for a developer job this year. It made me reflect on my own career. I have a confession to make: I've never done a "real" interview, like in my whole professional life. … | Continue reading
I hope no on has a heart attack upon reading this…but I will be turning in the completed manuscript for the long-promised Dutch Tool Chest book by the end of this month. This year. In two weeks. Why is it so late? I am definitely the problem. I’m not great anymore at working 18 h … | Continue reading
It’s that time of year again. There’s a new Guy Ritchie film in theaters. Last year, I went to the movies and experienced the soul-warming balm of the nearly-incoherent heist movie Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre, and this year, I wanted to experience that again. So, I took mys … | Continue reading
This talk was delivered earlier this year at a conference on wellbeing held at the Sorbonne. | Continue reading
This year is already off to a very good start at the movies but 2025 is looking even bigger, in more ways than one. Fresh off the huge success of last year’s Oppenheimer and this year’s Dune: Part Two, IMAX just revealed 14 titles in 2025 that will not only be released in IMAX, b … | Continue reading
HAPPY THURSDAY! This year for Sumo Day, we’re giving away a Cybertruck!! (I wish I could win, but I’m not eligible 😢) Enter here for a chance to win: https://appsumo.com/sumoday/giveaway Now onto this week’s article 🤝 == At AppSumo, we spend nearly $1m a year on s … | Continue reading
Join via Zoom (if you can’t make it to Bloomington in person) at 6 p.m. Eastern on May 24, for the 2024 Rosemary Miller Lecture, this year celebrating the life and work of Nancy Hiller (1959-2022). Duncan Campbell will speak about Nancy and her deep commitment to historic preserv … | Continue reading
Natural gas utilities spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year on pipelines and related infrastructure — costs they typically recoup from ratepayers over the course of decades. In the eyes of clean energy advocates, these investments are not only imprudent, but also a miss … | Continue reading
Reposted james (@james@strangeobject.space) Post details Anyone working for BigCorp and have 15-27k they wanna use to sponsor an event in two weeks, to make it as accessible as it has been in previous years? To a sexy hunky luscious BigCorp like you, it’s a forgettable line item … | Continue reading
The Epic Games Store has announced that it is giving away the 2014 Game of the Year winner Dragon Age:… Continue reading Dragon Age: Inquisition GOTY edition is Epic Games Store’s free mystery game The post Dragon Age: Inquisition GOTY edition is Epic Games Store’s free mystery g … | Continue reading
OpenAI launched its Superalignment team almost a year ago with the ultimate goal of controlling hypothetical super-intelligent AI systems and preventing them from turning against humans. Naturally, many people were concerned—why did a team like this need to exist in the first pla … | Continue reading
In the Brentwood neighborhood of Austin, there’s a place where you can find the Christmas spirit even in the sweltering heat of a Texas summer. Since Lala’s Little Nugget opened in 1972, this dive bar has been serving up cheap drinks and Yuletide cheer all year round. You’ll know … | Continue reading
When 14-year-old Harris Wolobah of Massachusetts died last fall, the boy’s family suspected it could be related to a viral spicy potato chip he ate just a few hours earlier. Wolobah’s family was correct, according to an autopsy report obtained by the Associated Press. Read more.. … | Continue reading
Last Monday was my first day as an official employee of Microsoft where I’ll be working on web components as part of the Fluent design system team.. As longtime readers already know, I’ve had a long term relationship with Microsoft – from Paravel’s 2012 responsive redesign of the … | Continue reading
Snøhetta recently completed work on an impressively energy efficient high-rise in Norway. It combines clever design with sustainability features, allowing it to maintain a comfortable temperature, year-round, without any grid-based power. Continue Reading Category: Architecture, … | Continue reading
A collaboration between Morgan's 115-year coachbuilding philosophy and Pininfarina's 95-year tradition of crafting bespoke vehicles has given us a 50-only limited edition Morgan model to be known as the Midsummer. They have all been sold already. Continue Reading Category: Automo … | Continue reading
Ray Fisman sent me an email with the above title and a link to the following story. Last year this article was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: A few months later the journal published this … Continue reading → | Continue reading
The last year has been chaotic here at Lost Art Press as we doubled in size, bought a warehouse, fixed it up and launched new ways of teaching people the craft. This blog entry is a brief update on… everything. But especially the “teaching people the craft” part. First let me say … | Continue reading
El Nino-induced flooding of biblical proportions has inundated my home this year, which can mean only one possible thing: TIME TO READ SOME GOTHIC FICTION! It’s giving damp. It’s giving mold. It’s giving drip-drip-drip on the window pane. And the weather event causing me personal … | Continue reading
My company AppSumo is running an insane giveaway right now, where we are giving away a Cybertruck! Click here to enter. Today we’re re-running our awesome episode with Justin Welsh (Check him out on Twitter)! This guy is so IMPRESSIVE, and was one of our most popular episodes las … | Continue reading
Imperial College London and Brazil’s University of São Paulo (USP) have signed a new five-year partnership in research and education. Imperial – a world top ten university – have signed an agreement with Brazil’s top ranked university, USP, that will begin a new phase of closer c … | Continue reading
The Division Heartland, the free-to-play The Division game has been cancelled, according to Ubisoft’s financial year 2024 earnings report. “In line with the increased selectivity of investments, Ubisoft has decided to stop development of The Division Heartland and has redeployed … | Continue reading
An earlier iteration of the site was taken down last year; now its reincarnation is gone. | Continue reading
If the emergence of generative AI has prompted a lot of excitement and anxiety about the future of work, that’s because it’s arrived a moment when we’re already asking huge questions about our working lives. Tools like ChatGPT, DALL-E, and Bing Chat have appeared on the heels of … | Continue reading
Last year, Amazon announced that self-published authors in the USA who sell their books on the Kindle Store would be able to use a new tool in beta testing. This AI-generated “virtual voice” tool would allow authors to easily turn their ebooks into audiobooks. Now, months after t … | Continue reading
Google is introducing multiple anti-theft and data protection features later this year, some available only for Android 15+ devices, while others will roll out to billions of devices running Android 10 and later. [...] | Continue reading
There are more than 500 bobbleheads that are located in the two-sided glass display case. It has interior lighting so every bobblehead is visible. It is made of 3/8-inch clear tempered glass, which features vibration plates that cause the bobbleheads to bobble. Each year, various … | Continue reading
You’ve probably noticed that I haven’t been posting much recently. There’s a reason for this as I’ve been tied up with other things, mainly outdoor activities revolving around our garden. After such a wet start to the year, like many other gardeners, I’m behind with numerous acti … | Continue reading
The carved bear bone is one of the earliest human-made artifacts with "symbolic culture" unearthed in Europe. | Continue reading
The NFL brings eyeballs like no other content, and subscribers actually stick around. | Continue reading
To the untrained eye, the ancient brittle star fossil above looks like what you’d expect of a now-especially-brittle echinoderm. But the fossil is quite rare: It captures the moment at which the brittle star was cloning itself, regenerating three of its arms as it died. Read more … | Continue reading
This is from a lovely blog post by David Smith: This last year has been a complicated one as an indie app developer. I’ve been in this community for long enough to know that there are always ebbs and flows in sentiment, and this year has lots of reasons to be feeling the ebb side … | Continue reading
Free for personal use, but businesses will have to fork over $120 per year. | Continue reading
Pickups are a big deal in several traditional auto markets as well as in smaller markets in Africa. About 60,000 Toyota Hilux pickups are sold in South Africa each year and a similar number in Australia. This is excluding sales of other popular pickups such as the Ford Ranger and … | Continue reading