The carved bear bone is one of the earliest human-made artifacts with "symbolic culture" unearthed in Europe. | Continue reading
A new solar thermal trap can help pave the way for compact, efficient concentrating solar systems to decarbonize heavy industries. The post Scientists Set A Solar Thermal Trap To Snare Fossil Fuels appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
Say goodbye to bland banana bread. For a striking loaf with a deep mahogany crust, tender crumb, and the most intense banana flavor, we cram six bananas into the batter. | Continue reading
If you think of Mad Max: Fury Road as The Hobbit, Furiosa is its Lord of the Rings. They’re two stories set in the same world, with the same characters, taking place at different periods of time. One is a little more singular and focused while the other is larger and more expansi … | Continue reading
Apple two weeks ago: What’s New for Apps Distributed in the European Union First, no CTF is required if a developer has no revenue whatsoever. This includes creating a free app without monetization that is not related to revenue of any kind (physical, digital, advertising, or oth … | Continue reading
Managing your work in the API platform with Projects New OpenAI API feature: you can now create API keys for "projects" that can have a monthly spending cap. The UI for that limit says: If the project's usage exceeds this amount in a given calendar month (UTC), subsequent API req … | Continue reading
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Yesterday, the Biden administration announced the results of its statutorily-mandated review of the Section 301 tariffs on China. Following is a statement from Abigail Ross Hopper, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) on the admin … | Continue reading
Governor Kathy Hochul yesterday introduced 60 new electric buses that will operate in routes in Queens, Staten Island and Brooklyn. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the New York Power Authority are building critical infrastructure to power a zero-emissions bus fleet, … | Continue reading
Low-tech carbon removal is all the rage these days. Whether it’s spreading crushed rocks on fields or injecting sludgy biomass underground, relatively simplistic solutions have seen a boom in funding. But there’s one cheap, nature-based method that hasn’t been able to drum up as … | Continue reading
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The history of the medieval city of Görlitz, Germany, is exciting—and mysterious. A multitude of legends surround the historical streets, squares, and buildings. If you cast your eyes to the upper floors of the building at 2 Fleischerstraße, you'll discover a small, stone sculptu … | Continue reading
"I think all shipping companies are embracing [this]." Walmart to replace plastic mailing envelopes with recyclable paper: 'Proud of the efforts we've made' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
A decades-old murder looms over the glamorous clientele of a high-end space hotel… The post Read an Excerpt From Victor Manibo’s Escape Velocity appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Casey Newton writing for Platformer: Google’s Broken Link to the Web Aside from the opening act, the TikTok DJ Marc Rebillet, no creator, developer, or startup took the stage. Instead, a handful of celebrities appeared in brief videos, with Wyclef Jean enthusing over AI music too … | Continue reading
The next live-action Star Wars series, The Acolyte, arrives in less than a month—and a new video released today shares fresh footage from the much-anticipated show, with a focus on key character Master Sol, played by Emmy-winning Squid Game star Lee Jung-jae. Read more... | Continue reading
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The personal blog is a curious thing, a relic of a simpler, bygone era. Things have changed. | Continue reading
PPSSPP. It’s been a big week for for emulators on iOS and iPadOS. It seems like yesterday when I was writing about Delta and being told ‘authoritatively’ online that it wouldn’t last. Yet here we are. Last weekend, Gamma, a Sony PS1 emulator, was released. The emulator quickly ap … | Continue reading
Made with a luscious vanilla pastry cream, ripe bananas, and vanilla wafers, this simple banana pudding is the very best version you can make at home. | Continue reading
Bushfires. Floods. Droughts. Cyclones. Welcome to Australia! It is a vast, diverse country that demands total respect. Clark is an electrician who travels to remote solar farms in the Darling Downs region on a weekly basis from his home in Brisbane. He drives his Tesla Model 3 SR … | Continue reading
Being well into spring, with the weather getting warmer, we knew it was only a matter of time till the Cybertiger awoke from his slumber. But we were prepared. Prepared to quench the Cybertiger's thirst for tech nerds to answer his obscure and fascinating minutiae of tech-related … | Continue reading
Monday's OpenAI announcement of their new GPT-4o model included some intriguing new features: Creepily good improvements to the ability to both understand and produce voice (Sam Altman simply tweeted "her"), and to be interrupted mid-sentence New image output capabilities that ap … | Continue reading
In an effort to take a bite out of crimes being committed on e-bikes or electric scooters, an EMP device that can shut down electric motors to stop suspects is being developed for UK police. The booming electric micromobility market has enabled a revolution in zero emission perso … | Continue reading
Our reactions to AI events, iPads and John Ternus.… | Continue reading
Today's proper Drop covers how Trail of Bits collaborates with Alpha-Omega and OpenSSF to enhance Homebrew's security with cryptographically verifiable attestation; it also looks at Nimble and Lance V2 as Parquet replacements, and points to a sober piece on "The Heat Death of the … | Continue reading
Looks like we wished hard enough after all! The post John Wick Spinoff Centered on Donnie Yen’s Caine Is in the Works appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Here are a few stories, posts, and resources I’ve read, learned about, and enjoyed over the past month. Hope you enjoy them, too! What I Found Interesting The post What I Found Interesting: May 15, 2024 first appeared on Lireo Designs. | Continue reading
For the first time in a long while, America’s drug overdose crisis has not gotten worse. New preliminary data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that total overdose deaths took a slight dip in 2023, including deaths tied to fentanyl and other synthetic opio … | Continue reading
Let’s Encrypt is a nonprofit certificate authority that provides free SSL/TLS certificates, which are essential for enabling secure HTTPS connections[...] | Continue reading
The Edinburgh Dog and Cat Home is the main shelter for abandoned and vulnerable pets in the Scottish capital. Originally established in 1884, the EDCH is one of the city's oldest shelters. In 1957, the shelter was moved to its current Seafield location. The once-industrial neighb … | Continue reading
And so, X-Men ‘97's largely successful first season has come to an end. What does it have to say about the state of mutantdom in the face of the overwhelming threat our heroes have thrown down against these past three episodes in Bastion? Honestly, not all that much. But it does … | Continue reading
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This cast keeps getting better and better. The post We’re Not Lying! Natasha Lyonne Joins Marvel’s Fantastic Four appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Snails are great at climbing vertical surfaces, even though they have just a single wet suction-cup foot. A new bio-inspired robot climbs walls by mimicking that simple yet effective mechanism, although thankfully it leaves a trail of water instead of mucus. Continue Reading Cate … | Continue reading
Reading up on the announcements from Google I/O got me thinking more about how LLMs source their content and how they present it. A traditional Google search would have given you a list of links, ranked by how relevant they were to your search query. Though in recent years they s … | Continue reading
According to a report by the country’s “Bitcoin Office,” a government entity overseeing all Bitcoin-related projects, El Salvador could hold… Continue reading El Salvador’s Bitcoin holdings reach $373M The post El Salvador’s Bitcoin holdings reach $373M appeared first on ReadWrit … | Continue reading
"We think a system that is beautiful and easy to adopt is the key to accelerating the adoption of this magical tech." Startup develops next-generation heat pump system for homes to make it easy to convert — here's how it works first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
The NFL brings eyeballs like no other content, and subscribers actually stick around. | Continue reading
09:41 Arrived back here at the loft about, what, 20 minutes ago maybe? Already checking things off. Drive […] | Continue reading
Comcast wants to tie its cable/Internet to your streaming subscriptions. | Continue reading
Final Exam Poli Sci 401 Yale University, Jackson School of Global Affairs Professor Howard Dean Part I (50 points) – multiple choice 1. Which of these public utterances would immediately end a candidate’s presidential ambitions? A. “I want to be a dictator.” B. “If [she] weren’t … | 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
In a world of cinematic universes, it makes no sense that IF exists. You may think we mean that becauseIF is an original, big-budget Hollywood release, the likes of which we don’t see much anymore. But that’s not it at all. What we mean is in a sea of films that are beholden to s … | Continue reading
Robinhood Crypto, the cryptocurrency arm of the popular trading app Robinhood, has announced the launch of a new Solana (SOL)… Continue reading Robinhood introduces Solana staking and rewards in Europe The post Robinhood introduces Solana staking and rewards in Europe appeared fi … | Continue reading
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DOJ determined that Boeing violated 2021 agreement spurred by two fatal crashes. | Continue reading
Android 15 Beta 2 is out for Pixels and several third-party devices. | Continue reading