Everything an Omen: Stephen King’s Pet Sematary (Part 1)

We’re celebrating the 50th anniversary of King’s debut by reading a different book entirely! The post Everything an Omen: Stephen King’s Pet Sematary (Part 1) appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading


@reactormag.com | 2 minutes ago

5-1-24 My month. Just got home. In office, clocking in…. 09:35 Three messages sent while driving. Being a […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 8 minutes ago

Southeast Michigan Native Plant Swaps and Sales

While two nights of hard frosts last week had gardeners concerned (including me, I moved many of my flower and vegetable pots into the garage), spring seems to have finally arrived to southeast Michigan. Forsythia are mostly finished blooming. Eastern Redbud trees are covered in … | Continue reading


@lireo.com | 17 minutes ago

Parent shares floor-cleaning hack accidentally discovered after impulse buy: 'All is not lost'

"I do this all the time!" Parent shares floor-cleaning hack accidentally discovered after impulse buy: 'All is not lost' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 32 minutes ago

EPA Proposes Ban on Pesticide Widely Used on Fruits and Vegetables

by Sharon Lerner ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The Environ … | Continue reading


@propublica.org | 32 minutes ago

Kebony: A Sustainable Softwood Transformed into a Tropical Hardwood

For building durable structures and outdoor furniture, tropical hardwood Ipé is a gift from nature. Unfortunately, we've taken too much of it, devastating the tropical rainforest to produce boardwalks, decks and flooring for yachts.A more sustainable alternative to Ipé has been d … | Continue reading


@core77.com | 34 minutes ago

An Elegant Portable LED Lamp, Meant to Evoke Different Phases of Sunlight

This elegant portable lamp, called Salt, is by German lighting manufacturer Grau. Made of powder-coated aluminum and with a rubberized base, it features a touch-sensitive top that allows you to dim the LED, which maxes out at 450 lumens.While the lamp's form is stark and technica … | Continue reading


@core77.com | 34 minutes ago

The UK's ARIA Is Searching For Better AI Tech

Dina Genkina: Hi, I’m Dina Genkina for IEEE Spectrum‘s Fixing the Future. Before we start, I want to tell you that you can get the latest coverage from some of Spectrum‘s most important beats, including AI, climate change, and robotics, by signing up for one of our free newslette … | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 52 minutes ago

The Best New Movies and TV Streaming in May 2024, and Where to Watch Them

May I interest you in some new streaming movies? Welcome to io9's latest edition of the Nerd’s Watch, where we pare down the enormous lists of new films and television shows arriving on all your favorite streaming services into the sci-fi, fantasy, and horror titles we think you’ … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 52 minutes ago

Fat-tire folding ebike gives budget adventurers the power to explore

Budget-friendly e-mobility company Engwe has rolled out a fat-tire folding adventure ebike with full suspension that can be hauled to the foot of the hills in the SUV's trunk, before unfolding and tapping into the Engine Pro 2.0's 1,200 watts of peak motor grunt. Continue Reading … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 52 minutes ago

Introducing the Claude Team plan and iOS app

Introducing the Claude Team plan and iOS app The iOS app seems nice, and provides free but heavily rate-limited access to Sonnet (the middle-sized Claude 3 model)—I ran two prompts just now and it told me I could have 3 more, resetting in five hours. For $20/month you get access … | Continue reading


@simonwillison.net | 56 minutes ago

Mark your calendars for August 12, 2045 here in Jupiter

The next total eclipse that will reach a significant number of Americans is headed straight for Jupiter, Florida! It will last for a remarkable 6 minutes. From timeanddate: I’m not sure why they say that the average cloud cover is 64 percent. I would have guessed that 1:30 pm in … | Continue reading


@philip.greenspun.com | 1 hour ago

4-way NVMe RAID comes to Raspberry Pi 5

4-way NVMe RAID comes to Raspberry Pi 5 With the Raspberry Pi 5's exposed PCI Express connector comes many new possibilities—which I test and document in my Pi PCIe Database. Today's board is the Geekwork X1011, which puts four NVMe SSDs under a Raspberry Pi. Unlike the Penta SAT … | Continue reading


@jeffgeerling.com | 1 hour ago

The WWDC Index

Tom Lokhorst has put together a wonderful site that catalogs WWDC sessions dating back to the year 2000. I bet this one was fun. | Continue reading


@512pixels.net | 1 hour ago

Counts for pro-Palestinian college protests increasing

Based on estimates from the Crowd Counting Consortium, the Washington Post shows the… Tags: college, protest, Washington Post | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 hour ago

Kevin Whitaker’s battlefield love antem “Love War”

Kevin Whitake blends together the accessibility of the synths that come from the likes of Depeche Mode and New Order with the dark aggressive poetry found in Nine Inch Nails and the industrial wave, and the result is a song that is as catchy as it is heavy. | Continue reading


@lessthan1000followers.com | 1 hour ago

Nuno Loureiro named director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center

A lauded professor, theoretical physicists, and fusion scientist, Loureiro is keenly positioned to advance the center’s research and education goals. | Continue reading


@news.mit.edu | 1 hour ago

Graph: U.S. Energy-Related CO2 Emissions Decreased by 3% in 2023

Based on analysis in our most recent U.S. Energy-Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions report, U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions decreased by 3%, about 134 million metric tons (MMmt), in 2023. Over 80% of the emissions reductions occurred in the electric power sector, caused largely b … | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 1 hour ago

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sit Down

Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I do check to see what became of the PLiF guys every six months or so. Today's News: | Continue reading


@smbc-comics.com | 1 hour ago

Stop the CNAME chain struggle: Simplified management with Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall

Starting today, you can configure your DNS Firewall to automatically trust all domains in a resolution chain (such as aCNAME, DNAME, or Alias chain). Let’s walk through this in nontechnical terms for those unfamiliar with DNS. Why use DNS Firewall? DNS Firewall provides protectio … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 1 hour ago

iOS 17.5 makes it less of a hassle to send your iPhone into Apple for repairs

Feature currently only works on iPhones, and not iPads, Macs, or Apple Watches. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 1 hour ago

Fallout’s official backpack goes on sale, it’s as functional as it is fun to wear

Fallout fans in general — and fans of Amazon’s Fallout TV show in specific — can soon get their hands… Continue reading Fallout’s official backpack goes on sale, it’s as functional as it is fun to wear The post Fallout’s official backpack goes on sale, it’s as functional as it is … | Continue reading


@readwrite.com | 1 hour ago

Wind Power in Australia’s Energy Transition

A glance at the open National Electricity Market widget tells the story of Australia’s energy transition. We are still dependent on coal for almost half of our generation needs. Solar is major, wind power is minor. Gas is a constant irritation. But things are changing — obvious f … | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 1 hour ago

Tailscale and CrowdStrike Falcon for enhanced device posture management

Tailscale's device posture management integration with CrowdStrike Falcon Zero Trust brings improved security and control to your Zero Trust network. This integration empowers you to leverage the Falcon Zero Trust Assessment score with Tailscale's device posture management, enabl … | Continue reading


@tailscale.com | 1 hour ago

Woman's Sudden Blindness in One Eye Turned Out to Be Lung Cancer

A woman’s blindness in her right eye turned out to have an unexpected and frightening cause: metastatic lung cancer. Doctors in India reported the strange occurrence last month—seemingly the first of its kind ever documented. Read more... | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 1 hour ago

Mental health professional opens community garden therapy project on disused land: 'I am really interested in eco therapy'

"Angela's determination and can-do attitude to improve where she lives is admirable." Mental health professional opens community garden therapy project on disused land: 'I am really interested in eco therapy' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 1 hour ago

Jif’s First New Peanut Butter in 10 Years Tastes Just Like a Reese’s Cup

You'll find an excuse to put this on everything. READ MORE... | Continue reading


@thekitchn.com | 1 hour ago

Scam alert for Android users as ‘Brokewell’ malware threatens users’ bank accounts

Android phone users who use Google Chrome as their main browser are being warned about a severe malware currently circulating… Continue reading Scam alert for Android users as ‘Brokewell’ malware threatens users’ bank accounts The post Scam alert for Android users as ‘Brokewell’ … | Continue reading


@readwrite.com | 1 hour ago

[Reply] If you’ve ever found yourself missing the “good old days” of the web, what is it that you miss?

You wanted to identify a song? Type some of the lyrics into a search engine and hope that somebody transcribed the same lyrics onto their fansite. You needed to know a fact? Better hope some guru had taken the time to share it, or it'd be time for a trip to the library. Not havin … | Continue reading


@danq.me | 1 hour ago

Tesla’s entire Supercharger team has been fired

The Tesla Supercharger team, responsible for managing and developing electric vehicle charging stations throughout the United States, has been fired.… Continue reading Tesla’s entire Supercharger team has been fired The post Tesla’s entire Supercharger team has been fired appeare … | Continue reading


@readwrite.com | 1 hour ago

This spring, DC-area students are planting native flowers — and activating ‘the solarpunk imagination’

A new initiative invited student groups to design and plant gardens that will promote wildlife, and cultivate their visions for the future. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 1 hour ago

Tom Clancy’s The Division Resurgence – what we know so far about the mobile game

There has been much anticipation for Tom Clancy’s The Division Resurgence, which is expected to land on mobile devices this… Continue reading Tom Clancy’s The Division Resurgence – what we know so far about the mobile game The post Tom Clancy’s The Division Resurgence – what we k … | Continue reading


@readwrite.com | 1 hour ago

Gray Zone Warfare – What are the differences between it and Escape from Tarkov? And is it actually any good?

Milsim Gray Zone Warfare launched into Early Access yesterday and was immediately hit with the usual swathe of server errors… Continue reading Gray Zone Warfare – What are the differences between it and Escape from Tarkov? And is it actually any good? The post Gray Zone Warfare – … | Continue reading


@readwrite.com | 1 hour ago

South Korea to focus on growing console game industry in bold five year plan

A major focus on the console game sector will be undertaken by South Korea over the next five years as… Continue reading South Korea to focus on growing console game industry in bold five year plan The post South Korea to focus on growing console game industry in bold five year p … | Continue reading


@readwrite.com | 1 hour ago

Happy Birthday: Part Thirty-Two

This is the thirty-second part of a fiction serial, in 750 words. He looked much the same, though his hair had grown since he no longer needed the military haircut she remembered. Dressed in a two-piece suit and a belted raincoat with the collar turned up against the rain, Hettie … | Continue reading


@beetleypete.com | 1 hour ago

[Article] Test your site in Lynx

Testing your website in Lynx or another text-mode browser can help you find find where you've become dependent upon JS and CSS. Let's see how much of DanQ.me breaks when it's deprived of advanced Web functionality! | Continue reading


@danq.me | 1 hour ago

UN plastics treaty inches closer to reality as lobbyists tout plastics’ ‘massive societal benefits’

A deal to stop plastic pollution is moving forward, but negotiators can’t agree on whether to produce less of the stuff. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 1 hour ago

📷 🌶️ Rambo or Bieber? | Continue reading


@otavio.cc | 1 hour ago

A Brief History of the World’s First Planetarium

In 1912, Oskar von Miller, an electrical engineer and founder of the Deutsches Museum, had an idea: Could you project an artificial starry sky onto a dome, as a way of demonstrating astronomical principles to the public? It was such a novel concept that when von Miller approached … | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 2 hours ago

Fusion in Space: New Plasma Thruster Tested Successfully

Science News, Physics, Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science | Continue reading


@backreaction.blogspot.com | 2 hours ago

Star Wars: The Bad Batch Ended by Trading One War for Another

Across three seasons, The Bad Batch laid out a vast swath of plot threads around the rise of the Empire era beyond its titular squad of renegade clones. From Rex’s resistance to the rise of the stormtrooper, from the dark arts of cloning to Project Necromancer, a lot remained on … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 hours ago

Anthropic Wants to Put Its Claude AI Wherever You Are With New App

Anthropic takes the fight to OpenAI on Wednesday with a new iOS app for itspowerful Claude AI. The app will put Claude into more hands and try to take some space in the AI marketplace that ChatGPT already dominates. Read more... | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 hours ago

eXistenZ: Sex and Video Games and Gooey, Indescribable Things

David Cronenberg's take on virtual reality and existentialism is violent, tense, and deeply gross, but surprisingly fun and engaging—let's discuss! The post eXistenZ: Sex and Video Games and Gooey, Indescribable Things appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading


@reactormag.com | 2 hours ago

Event Tech News Roundup – April 2024

In the event tech world, April featured two acquisitions, several product updates and partnership and sadly, one closure and one divestment. -Miguel Neves | Continue reading


@meetings.skift.com | 2 hours ago

US Offshore Wind Industry Readies Self For Another Round

US offshore wind stakeholders are ready for a comeback in 2024 after suffering a series of blows last year. The post US Offshore Wind Industry Readies Self For Another Round appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 2 hours ago

Ravemen FR160 Review – front, awareness, bike light with a twist

Ravemen FR160, A Review of a great light to boost awareness whilst attaching in a clever way The post Ravemen FR160 Review – front, awareness, bike light with a twist appeared first on the5krunner • tri bike run. The full post can be read now at the5krunner • tri bike run. | Continue reading


@the5krunner.com | 2 hours ago

Transgender Care Coverage Policies in North Carolina and West Virginia Are Discriminatory, Court Rules

by Aliyya Swaby ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your … | Continue reading


@propublica.org | 2 hours ago

Rabbit CEO Defends $200 AI Doohickey, Says ‘It’s Not an App’

The Rabbit R1 doesn’t have a lot of capabilities that your phone already has. It doesn’t send emails for you. It can’t set calendar reminders or alarms. It can’t connect to any apps outside a select four thatincludes Spotify, Uber, DoorDash, and Midjourney. All those features may … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 hours ago