The product contains several heavy metals that are toxic to plants, wildlife, and humans. HOA board member met with urgent warnings after considering 'poisonous' landscaping product: 'Please don't use it anywhere, ever' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Model mice treated with extracts and powders exhibit restored cognitive and motor functions. Efforts to develop a breakthrough dementia drug are gaining attention, yet traditional medicinal products may provide valuable insights for preventive care. A research group led by Specia … | Continue reading
New framework advances experimental capabilities, including design and characterization, of microscale acoustic metamaterials. | Continue reading
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images SafeRent, an AI screening tool used by landlords, will no longer use AI-powered “scores” to evaluate whether someone using housing vouchers would make a good tenant. On Wednesday, US District Judge Angel Kelley issued final approval … | Continue reading
Keeping a watchful eye on the activities of major companies is important to hold them accountable for their planet-damaging actions. Alarming report accuses Microsoft, Google, and Apple of hiding dangerous downsides of new technology — here's what you need to know first appeared … | Continue reading
Have you wanted to protect your EV with XCare, but found the upfront cost too high for the budget? The solution has arrived! We’re excited to introduce a new way to protect your Electric Vehicle! With our new Payment Plan option, securing XCare EV Protection has never been more a … | Continue reading
Welcome to the latest edition of Food52 Founder Amanda Hesser’s weekly newsletter, Hey there, it’s Amanda, packed with food, travel, and shopping tips, Food52 doings, and other matters that catch her eye. Get inspired—sign up here for her emails. Photo by Amanda Hesser Photo by A … | Continue reading
SOLARCYCLE’s recently announced 5GW solar panel recycling facility in Georgia will be able to recover “up to 90%” of the materials, some of which will end up as feedstock for the company’s nearby solar glass factory. The new recycling plant will initially have the capacity to rec … | Continue reading
Dave Winer, OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears. | Continue reading
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO FREE YOUR MIND! The story of recreating Bently rye to once again distill whiskey from this lost grain might as well be an adventure movie. The tale of recreating a special Michigan rye includes everything from odd rights battles ove … | Continue reading
TL;DR: The HyperGear Solar 10,000mAh Wireless Power Bank can charge 3 devices, light a room, and more, and it's on sale for $37.99 (reg. $49). The HyperGear Solar Power Bank is proving to be an essential outdoor companion for adventurers and campers. — Read the rest The post The … | Continue reading
An active human presence can damage resources, shrink habitats, and disturb animal behaviors. Bystander calls out dangerous behavior after tourists risk lives for photo of wild elk: 'They have no idea what damage those horns can do' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
The Model Y news started this month with the announcement that Tesla would offer one full year of free European Supercharging for anyone who purchases and takes delivery of a Model Y there before December 31, 2024. The thinking behind the move is that the promotion will boost ove … | Continue reading
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian's book The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World (as discussed in this Coda Story interview) reveals the parallel world inhabited by the super-rich. Here's what you are missing out on because you were too lazy to have been born into wealth. — Read the … | Continue reading
A conceptual rendering of Blue Origin’s cargo lander. | Image: Blue Origin / NASA After asking both SpaceX and Blue Origin to develop cargo landers for its Artemis missions, NASA has announced plans to use those landers to deliver heavy equipment to the Moon. The agency wants Elo … | Continue reading
New research suggests that there was a very specific date when rightwing content began to be amplified. | Continue reading
Study finds many climate-stabilization plans are based on questionable assumptions about the future cost and deployment of “direct air capture” and therefore may not bring about promised reductions. | Continue reading
Organizations rarely include potential mental health crises in their risk management planning. The time to start is now. -Barbara Scofidio | Continue reading
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO FREE YOUR MIND! This YouTuber shares the tricks he learned cooking in Michelin kitchens to recreate the perfect steaks at home. My favorite thing about this video is that the chef shares how to achieve each level of done-ness on a t … | Continue reading
I admit I feel a bit surprised reading Jason’s takedown of the AppStore model on his preferred computing platform. Maybe I shouldn’t be, but it seems far more direct than I expected. A few highlights: Today’s computing world is also more dangerous than the one in which macOS was … | Continue reading
File this under “awards I didn’t know existed before today.” Nonetheless, it’s an award, and it seemingly shows something positive about the Nissan Ariya — which has become one of the top EV sellers in the US. “Highlighting its commitment to delivering exceptional value and relia … | Continue reading
The social media platform Bluesky has grown from 12 million to more than 20 million users since the election. | Continue reading
The company has been going unchecked during necessary enforcement periods, which brings attention to the issue of unregulated projects. Major oil company continues operations despite court ruling: 'Hard to view this as anything other than ... gaming the planning system' first app … | Continue reading
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Creator-based journalism has a market problem: The market is bad. | Continue reading
Image: The Verge Reddit appears to be having some issues, as many users can’t get the platform to load reliably. Its status page says Reddit is experiencing “degraded performance” across the web and mobile apps, and that it’s “currently investigating the issue.” For many Reddit u … | Continue reading
Here are a few stories, posts, and resources I’ve read and enjoyed over the past month. Hope you enjoy them, too! What I Found Interesting The post What I Found Interesting: November 20, 2024 first appeared on Lireo Designs. | Continue reading
Director Dean DeBlois hopes fans of the original films will be just as excited for his live-action remake. | Continue reading
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Clayton P. Turner, a veteran at NASA with more than 30 years of service, takes on the role of associate administrator at the Space Technology Mission Directorate. His experience spans multiple key projects and leadership positions, preparing him to drive NASA’s technology advance … | Continue reading
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter returned the most detailed images yet captured of the sun's surface (beating its own previous best by about 3m km). Above, the sun in ultraviolet. — Read the rest The post Most d … | Continue reading
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2024 ...and hints of Caligula's horse: It's hard to get one's head around the inanity and the moral squalor surrounding the culture today. It's true—Greg Gutfeld is still working his primetime beat on the Fox News Channel. That said, it isn't entirely clea … | Continue reading
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft has been trying to convince Windows 10 users to upgrade to Windows 11 for months now, ahead of the end of support date for Windows 10 in October, 2025. Earlier this year, Microsoft started using fullscreen prompts to warn Windows … | Continue reading
"The rounds" being the streets of New York. The post Charli XCX Made the SNL Rounds This Past Week first appeared on Go Fug Yourself. | Continue reading
For various reasons I had occasion this evening to give GoToSocial a try so I installed it on my server that's running Coolify but hit a couple of issues which I was able to work around with the help of Lewis and Brandon. First up because it's running a reverse proxy, I needed th … | Continue reading
From when the Knights of St. John controlled the islands of Malta in 1530 to after they were removed by Napoleonic forces in 1798, they embarked on multiple construction projects across the archipelago. Some of these projects focused on municipal buildings for the general populac … | Continue reading
Did our favorite budget fitness tracker get just even better? | Continue reading
"Are you serious? I can make mustard?" Expert gardener shares how to grow and make your own mustard from supermarket packets: 'That's amazing' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
In Trout Lake, a small community in southwest Washington, the peaks of nearby volcanoes and canopies of old-growth forests draw the eyes up. But when Julie Beeler sets out into the surrounding woods, her gaze points downward. Beeler, an artist, describes her home as a “fungal par … | Continue reading
I realize, after 18 years a part of it, that the rules of the food internet in the week before the American cooking superbowl we call Thanksgiving, dictate that everything should relate back to turkey, stuffing, or pie. But friends, we have that abundantly covered in the archives … | Continue reading
Concerns linger about destination safety, rising costs, audiovisual/tech expenses, and hotel contract inflexibility, according to Future Partners State of the Meetings & Convention Industry research. -Andrea Doyle | Continue reading
Let’s take a moment to remember Laken Riley. In a closed-border world she would in all likelihood be getting ready to enter the nursing profession, ideally here in Florida where population growth means that we’re always short of healthcare providers. Instead, she is gone, her mur … | Continue reading
When the U.S. government sent the Tsukamoto family to an incarceration camp in 1942, one neighbor stepped up to save the farms they left behind, giving them something to come home to | Continue reading
The film adaptation of Maggie Stiefvater’s young adult fantasy, Shiver, has had its fits and starts, including a change in directors from Andy Fickman (Heathers: The Musical) to Claire McCarthy (Ophelia). The feature is currently filming in Vancouver, however, and Deadline broke … | Continue reading
Image: Meta Meta has announced that it’s adding HD video calling and noise suppression to its Messenger app, along with several other features like AI backgrounds that help bring it up to par with other popular smartphone video calling apps. HD video calling is enabled by default … | Continue reading
Save 29% on the new Blue Pure 511i Max which can be operated via Alexa voice control. | Continue reading
MITRE has shared this year's top 25 list of the most common and dangerous software weaknesses behind more than 31,000 vulnerabilities disclosed between June 2023 and June 2024. [...] | Continue reading