There are some surprising countries in the top three. Plus, Acast releases its financials.. Sponsored by Supporting Cast. Don't lock your members into one platform! 🔓 With Supporting Cast, YOU own your podcast subscription and control the subscriber relationship. And it's … | Continue reading
In the world of concurrent programming, managing access to shared resources and synchronising tasks are critical challenges that developers face. Rust, known for its safety and performance, offers an excellent concurrency model through ownership, types, and the borrow checker. Ho … | Continue reading
Current conditions: Tornadoes terrorized Oklahoma overnight • Flash floods killed two people in China’s Guangxi region • It is 75 degrees Fahrenheit and clear in Rafah, where Israeli troops have seized the Gaza side of the border crossing with Egypt. THE TOP FIVE 1. April broke h … | Continue reading
Des entreprises ont mis en place des trophées pour les meilleures idées qui ont échoué Shutterstock A growing number of companies are encouraging their employees to pursue their entrepreneurial dreams in-house – a trend known as intrapreneurship. Some managers do this by providin … | Continue reading
With around 700,000 panels, France's Massangis solar farm generates 56 megawatts (MW) of power. The panels are manufactured by First Solar, a US company. Ibex73/Wikimedia, CC BY The EU’s climate agenda is in trouble. The Green Deal, which aims to slash the bloc’s carbon emissions … | Continue reading
When the French government recently announced a plan to cut state spending by 10 billion euros, the budget for ecology, development and sustainable mobility was first on the chopping block, with cuts totalling 2.2 billion euros. At first glance, health appears to have been relati … | Continue reading
This is a retropost. Written contemporaneously in 2020, but published four years after the events. It's May 2020 as I write this. I'm typing to capture the moment. Right now, I've no idea what the impact is. This is the exact moment, on Thursday May 7th, I hit the Big Red Button … | Continue reading
There’s money available for the right firm. Over the past seven days Innova Capital has closed its hugely successful latest fund, and Bolt has taken another step towards an IPO. Warsaw-based Innova Capital, one of the leading private equity firms active in Central Europe, this we … | Continue reading
Waved by Circe and Medea, later in Tasso's 'Jerusalem Delivered', and by Morgan le Fay in Arthurian legend. Paintings by Poussin, Waterhouse and others. | Continue reading
"Do you even really need a straw?" Customer sparks debate with photo of to-go coffee packaging: 'That is a simulation of action' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Photo-a-day for the month of April 2024 The post April 2024 | Photo 365 appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
In the US, climate risk events are occurring more frequently in places where development was once deemed safe but now is larger than initially anticipated. Insurance is one of the non-environmental systems that enables us to live our daily lives with the knowledge that our proper … | Continue reading
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Making of Stars JamesHoare Tue, 05/07/2024 - 12:09 | Continue reading
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A new Japanese mission to photograph space junk from orbit marks a milestone in orbital debris cleanup efforts. | Continue reading
Google's SIMA can follow human instructions to play 3D video games. Researchers hopes the platform can one day help AI navigate real-world environments. | Continue reading
According to the Global Wind Energy Council report, capacity installation of wind energy was 50% higher in 2023 than the year before. Report reveals wind industry must triple its capacity to meet global targets: 'We now have just seven years' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
It’s been over 200 years since the cicadas of Brood XIII and Brood… Tags: Cicada, New York Times | Continue reading
There are a number of innovative techniques to create weather-resilient homes. Incredible home of former Apple designer achieves first-of-its-kind status in neighborhood — check out the details first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
I was worried I would very quickly run out of things to write about when I first started on #WeblogPoMo2024, but it turns out if I make myself produce something every day, I find the words. I'm finding there's something to having a default thing to do with any spare bit of time e … | Continue reading
“We don’t expect to go to work and get swarmed.” Plus: bird flu, the Met Gala, and much more. | Continue reading
Due to their ease of use, large language models (LLMs) have seen an explosive rise to popularity. By just crafting a textual prompt, even those who are completely unfamiliar with deep learning can leverage massive neural networks to quickly solve a wide variety of complex problem … | Continue reading
In episode 712, join Rob Walling for another solo adventure. He starts by revisiting past predictions and provides an update on how he successfully staved off full burnout. Rob then gives updates on this podcast, the progress of TinySeed and MicroConf, and teases two new books th … | Continue reading
The Misinformation Combat Alliance, set up by Bharat Gupta, includes 12 fact-checking organizations. | Continue reading
Photo by Sergey Nikolaev on Unsplash Interesting conversation on Kitteh's post We Need to Rewild the Internet, about the desiccating corporate "pathology of command and control" that has choked, flattened and ravaged the once-lush sprawl of online diversity. | Continue reading
Creative Director Kai Janssen hat zum 1. April 2024 beim Event- Fullservice-Unternehmen Joke mit Hauptsitz in Bremen angefangen. | Continue reading
Ongoing excavations have revealed Roman ruins that were once part of a legionary fortress. | Continue reading
Elon Musk dodged another India visit, and many who placed $1,000 Tesla deposits admit the dream is over, while fanboys keep the faith. | Continue reading
Late Sunday evening, I logged onto Fortnite to enjoy all the newly added Star Wars content, solo-queuing up for a No Build quads match right away. As I waited for the battle bus to pick me up, I could hear one of my teammates loudly playing Canadian actor-turned-rapper Aubrey “Dr … | Continue reading
The product has the power to help keep power flowing into houses and businesses in the event of grid power outages and climate emergencies. Tesla sparks intrigue with video of new Powerwall product in action: 'Designed to operate in extreme environments' first appeared on The Coo … | Continue reading
Rest of World spoke to more than a dozen employees who said that TikTok remains answerable to ByteDance rather than its international leadership. | Continue reading
Too many books?! Perhaps what you mean is not enough bookshelves. | Continue reading
We’ve seen thousands of hacks on IKEA Hackers, but this is a first. Henk’s innovative transformation of the BEKVÄM step stool adds a handle, offering a clever modification designed to provide extra support for those who need it. The BEKVÄM step stool is wildly popular among IKEA … | Continue reading
As the Met Gala photos of the hottest celebs dressed in couture started rolling in yesterday (Monday 6 May), an… Continue reading Met Gala: Katy Perry’s mom among many who fall for AI deepfake of singer The post Met Gala: Katy Perry’s mom among many who fall for AI deepfake of si … | Continue reading
That time in the 90s I persuaded a Japanese film crew that my friend was Richard Branson, inadvertently foreshadowing the “geek pie” incident in “Nathan Barley”. | Continue reading
The cicadas are coming. This year is unique, because there are two broods… Tags: Cicada, CNN | Continue reading
The second of Germany’s two annual popular baby name rankings is here. The number one boy’s name has retained its title for the fifth year in a row, while Emilia was usurped after... | Continue reading
A new update has arrived for Kunos Simulation’s long-running racing sim, Assetto Corsa Competizione, that adds the recently released GT3 variant of the Ford Performances Mustang, the one that’s currently racing in the GT World Challenge Series (that this game is officially suppor … | Continue reading
The research team collected anonymous data on psychiatric care visits grouped by ZIP codes. New study identifies factor capable of reducing people's need for mental health services: 'The threshold for good mental health' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
One of the original best games for Meta Quest 1 will no longer support the aging VR headset and will… Continue reading One of the original best games for Meta Quest 1 will no longer support the aging VR headset The post One of the original best games for Meta Quest 1 will no long … | Continue reading
The following is excerpted from “The Stick Chair Book,” by Christopher Schwarz. “The Stick Chair Book” is divided into three sections. The first section, “Thinking About Chairs,” introduces you to the world of common stick chairs, plus the tools and wood to build them. The second … | Continue reading
Photo by Robert Robaszewski These questions are answered by Prof. Carsten Carlberg, ERA Chair in the WELCOME2 project at the Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, in his paper Vitamin D in the Context of Evolution, which has appeare … | Continue reading
I’m so excited to share a fun and budget-friendly to decorate your home: an origami lotus flower craft! This tutorial… The post Make a Beautiful Origami Lotus Flower To Decorate Your Home appeared first on Kids Activities Blog. | Continue reading
On Cumberland Island, Georgia, between the twisted oaks of the maritime forest and the broad, white dunes of the ocean-facing coast, I met a feral horse. He—a stallion straight from the cover of Black Beauty, if a little scragglier—had positioned himself on the narrow causeway th … | Continue reading
The 8:04 is coming down the tracks. Board at your own risk. This is the warning on the cover reveal for my new thriller The Man on the Train. Ever since the original damsel in distress was tied to the railroad tracks and early audiences purportedly fled in terror at the sight of … | Continue reading
Los Angeles is the quintessential city of mystery, and I firmly believe that my decision to live here ultimately led me to write crime fiction. But that journey took decades. I wasn’t one of the starry-eyed optimists who thought of LA as the promised land. When I moved from New Y … | Continue reading
An hour before sunrise, the blood-curdling shrieks and snarls of a raccoon, accompanied by the piping of her terrified kits. A barred owl offers commentary from the woods’ edge. I […] | Continue reading
Genre fiction is my jam, so I spend a lot of time thinking about what makes my favorite books tick. Growing up, I read a lot of macho thrillers: spies and submarines, combatants and operatives. These battles were mostly fought by well-trained experts. It’s fun to learn to pilot a … | Continue reading