Overnight travel is freaking amazing. I've taken overnight trains and buses in the 'States, Europe and Asia and always loved it. To be unconscious during the boring parts of travel, then wake up at your destination, is the closest thing we have to teleportation.This Swift Pod con … | Continue reading
The more I think about it, the more I’m squarely in the camp of people who want iPad-like hardware that runs macOS, and I’m not sorry for saying it. | Continue reading
Today, there is no rain and no cold. It is a good day for photos. We are going to Vermont briefly to help a friend who needs her house and dog cared for while she gets some medical tests. We will be back after lunch. I might be playing chess with Ian McRae tonight. I […] | Continue reading
GameStop stock was once again skyrocketing Tuesday, a day after the return of Roaring Kitty — the American investor known for his Reddit posts — drove the shares sharply higher and brought meme stock mania back to the market. Read more... | Continue reading
Brilliant design is when you can take a waste product and transform it into something badly needed.In 1989 Phil McCrory, an Alabama hairdresser, was shampooing a customer's head. The TV in the salon was on, and news footage of the Exxon Valdez oil spill was being broadcast. As Mc … | Continue reading
On Monday, Apple and Google jointly announced a new privacy feature that warns Android and iOS users when an unknown Bluetooth tracking device travels with them. [...] | Continue reading
This thrifter got around a 90% discount by shopping secondhand. Shopper delighted after finding cult-classic kitchen appliance deeply discounted at thrift store: 'I've been looking for one' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Jurassic World: Chaos Theory continues the adventures ofAmblin and Netflix’s hit animated seriesJurassic WorldCamp Cretaceous, taking place during the events and aftermath of the Jurassic World films. Read more... | Continue reading
The Deno Standard Library has moved to JSR, supporting SemVer ranges in imports and compatibility with Node.js, Cloudflare Workers, and more. | Continue reading
Sylas K. Barrett discusses chapters 26 and 27 of Robert Jordan's Winter's Heart. The post Reading The Wheel of Time: Elayne Goes on the Attack in Winter’s Heart (Part 18) appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Located in the historic terminal Kaohsiung Station, the Takao Railway Museum commemorates Kaohsiung's historic railway. Kaohsiung Station opened at this site in 1908 during the Japanese colonial period, when Kaohsiung was part of Takao prefecture. The station served as the termin … | Continue reading
The chip-scale device could provide sensitive detection of lead levels in drinking water, whose toxicity affects 240 million people worldwide. | Continue reading
The back-and-forth of the Florida sports betting bill wages on as the US Department of Justice (DoJ) filed its response… Continue reading Florida sports betting case doesn’t belong in SCOTUS, US DOJ says The post Florida sports betting case doesn’t belong in SCOTUS, US DOJ says a … | Continue reading
Like a modern day Fleetwod Mac if they were working alongside Caroline Polachek or Jack Antonoff, the music explored by Mery's Key on "My Own Way" is absolutely stunning. | Continue reading
When Maria is excited about the word she’s doing, she invites me into her studio to see it and help her with a video. This is great fun for both of us – I’m a former TV producer – and Maria is one of those people that the camera loves. She never shows the slightest […] | Continue reading
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OKX, a prominent global digital asset exchange, has officially commenced operations in Australia, marking a significant milestone since establishing its… Continue reading OKX continues global expansion with Australia launch The post OKX continues global expansion with Australia l … | Continue reading
Coinbase, a popular cryptocurrency exchange, announced on Tuesday in an X post it was facing a “system-wide outage.” The company… Continue reading Coinbase sees global outage but says ‘funds are safe’ The post Coinbase sees global outage but says ‘funds are safe’ appeared first o … | Continue reading
All I want for Christmas is the ability to take notes on my Apple Watch. On my iPhone I can invoke Siri and say “Create a new note” and then dictate the note. But I can’t do that on my watch. The reason I’ve heard in the past is that in order for notes to […] | Continue reading
We’re having one last sale to get our inventory under control. We have put seven books on sale from now until June 14 – some of them deeply discounted. You can see all the titles on sale here. We don’t like to put things on sale, so why do this? Last year we bought a... | Continue reading
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Sydney Sweeney’s Barbarella movie might have found its writers. Chris Pratt has very high hopes of an MCU return—and a DC debut. Planet of the Apes’ producer wants at least five more movies of simian shenanigans. Plus, get a creepy look at David Cronenberg’s latest film. Spoilers … | Continue reading
Sharks, glorious sharks. One of the trinity that makes up elasmobranchs, a group of cartilaginous fish that includes sharks, rays, and skates. Sharks get their fair—actually unfair—share of hate for negative portrayals in media, especially of great white sharks, but the animals a … | Continue reading
This bright and refreshing iced coffee is made with fresh lemon juice, sugar, and strongly brewed coffee such as cold brew, espresso, or an iced coffee concentrate. Often dubbed the "world's first," it's good enough to also be ranked as the "world's best." The secret to making it … | Continue reading
An unknown number of orcas sunk a sailing yacht in Moroccan waters in the Strait of Gibraltar on Sunday, according to Spain’s maritime rescue service. While orcas are typically peaceful, this is the latest in a string of attacks that have hit the region in the past four years. Re … | Continue reading
Melissa Heikkilä in the MIT Technology Review: I’m stressed and running late, because what do you wear for the rest of eternity? This makes it sound like I’m dying, but it’s the opposite. I am, in a way, about to live forever, thanks to the AI video startup Synthesia. For the pas … | Continue reading
One of the best things about having pets is how many laughs they bring. The Comedy Pet Photography Awards celebrates this fact with its annual competition, and this year there are 30 finalists to brighten up your day. Continue Reading Category: Photography, Technology Tags: Pets, … | Continue reading
Shelly Fan in Singularity Hub: Proteins are biological workhorses. They build our bodies and orchestrate the molecular processes in cells that keep them healthy. They also present a wealth of targets for new medications. From everyday pain relievers to sophisticated cancer immuno … | Continue reading
Lucas Chancel in Nature: As radical as they might seem, calls for limits on wealth are as old as civilization itself. The Hebrew Bible and Torah recognized years during which debts should be cancelled, slaves set free and property redistributed from rich to poor. In classical Gre … | Continue reading
Representatives of the Dutch right-wing coalition, who have been negotiating since the Dutch election in November 2023, could soon sign an agreement to form the next government,... | Continue reading
Rare bitcoin fragments are worth many times their face value. | Continue reading
Beitou District, Taipei's hot springs have been popular for over 100 years, dating to the Japanese colonial period. In 1921, the Yoshita family opened the Kazan Hotel in Beitou, aimed at an upper-class Japanese clientele, with on-site hot spring pools and fine dining. It was expa … | Continue reading
"If we really want to reach the green transition at scale, we really need to involve everyone in this transformation." Expert offers insight on how space technologies are becoming even more important: 'Can help the green transition from end to end' first appeared on The Cool Down … | Continue reading
From time travel to arcane research, experimentation can lead to the most surprising results... The post Five SFF Stories Featuring Experiments With Unexpected Outcomes appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Hasbro’s been on a tear with Transformers mashups in the last few years, giving us transforming robot takes on Dracula, the vehicles and dinos of Jurassic Park, and even the Ninja Turtles. But the series’ next mashup isn’t a robot... it’s a spinning top. Read more... | Continue reading
[The Ripken heritage really put this thing over the top.] While writing last week’s post on apian baseball cards, I made an off-hand reference to the Billy Ripken “Fuck Face” card. If you collected cards in the late ’80s or early ’90s, it’s likely you’re very familiar with this i … | Continue reading
Jonathan Kandell in the New York Times: Mr. Simons equipped his colleagues with advanced computers to process torrents of data filtered through mathematical models, and turned the four investment funds in his new firm, Renaissance Technologies, into virtual money printing machine … | Continue reading
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My wife and I have had four dogs over the course of our three and a half decades together. Whenever I have made the mistake of pulling on any of their leashes, they have all pulled in the opposite direction, every time. Believe me, left to their own devices, they always want to g … | Continue reading
Juntao Qiu is a thoughtful front-end developer experienced with the React programming environment. He's contributed a couple of useful articles to this site, describing helpful patterns for front-end programming. In this article he describes patterns for how single-page applicati … | Continue reading
Beginning June 28th Magic Kingdom guests looking to enjoy Tiana’s Bayou Adventure starting in late June just got some important updates from Walt Disney World as to how the queue will work. Yes, there will be a virtual queue, as TRON Lightcycle / Run works today, but the attracti … | Continue reading
Helldivers 2 has sold over 12 million copies within 12 weeks of release. It is now the fastest selling PlayStation game, surpassing previous record holder God Of War Ragnarok. Helldivers 2 is also PlayStation’s biggest PC game to date. This was revealed in the financial year 2023 … | Continue reading
Rhyme sought to maximize the architectural potential of Copper House, a 78-square-meter apartment in Moscow. This apartment boasts several advantages, such as high ceilings and densely positioned panoramic windows that flood the space with natural light. Continue reading | Continue reading
What Companies Don’t Know About How Workers Use AI is worth a read, but the thing that really caught my eye is the stat from the 2023 Bentley-Gallup Business in Society Report that found that nearly 4-out-of-5 U.S. adults report low or no trust that businesses will use AI respons … | Continue reading
Results from the longest-running trial of semaglutide—the active ingredient in the popular drugs Ozempic and Wegovy—are in, and the verdict is decidedly positive. The study found that people taking semaglutide tended to maintain their initial weight loss for up to four years. Oth … | Continue reading
The debut season of Amazon’s lavish Lord of the Rings prequel, Rings of Power, played a long game to get to whole bunch of questions it left off for season two. Well, now our first look at the sophomore season is here, and at least one of those questions is being pretty resoundin … | Continue reading
Hasbro's line of G.I. Joe action figures was a tremendous hit in the '80s. The largest toy they produced in the line-up was this USS Flagg aircraft carrier, which was the size of a coffee table:Image: Internal Confusion 9 The monstrous toy's original 1985 commercial:Last week som … | Continue reading