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Spotify is a relative newcomer to the digital audiobook space, eclipsed by Audible and intentionally via Storytel. However, Spotify is trying to expand internationally and sell more audiobooks. Spotify has just announced that it has expanded into France, Belgium, the Netherlands, … | Continue reading
This week, the Guardian’s Zoe Williams profiled Ryan Holiday, a one-time public-relations whiz-kid who’s reinvented himself over the past decade as a speaker for the dead: specifically Epictetus, Seneca, and above all Marcus Aurelius, the figureheads of the ancient school of phil … | Continue reading
The Paris Agreement goal of holding warming to well less than 2 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels is not just increasingly appearing to be out of reach. The energy transition as a whole is slowing down. This was the stark warning from Wood Mackenzie’s Energy Transition O … | Continue reading
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Learn how to effectively use the Prometheus Java client to monitor applications by instrumenting custom and JVM metrics. | Continue reading
Sorry if this is getting boring, but it is fascinating (and annoying) me, so I am still posting about it. When my blog was being ‘Content scraped’ on the 21st and 22nd of this month, I had over 46,000 views in those two days. Following that it seemed to have stopped, and went bac … | Continue reading
Learn how to use MockServer to mock multiple responses for the same request. | Continue reading
The Remarkable Paper Pro is one of the best that you can have when it comes to contemporary note-taking devices featuring an e-paper display. Unfortunately, the company markets it as a device that’s designed primarily for taking notes. Owing to a restrictive software environment, … | Continue reading
Learn about Apache Iceberg, a popular open table format in today's big data landscape. | Continue reading
Phthalate affects egg formation in C. elegans, resulting in abnormal chromosome numbers. A recent study conducted on roundworms has discovered that a common plastic ingredient can cause DNA strand breaks, leading to egg cells with an abnormal number of chromosomes. The research, … | Continue reading
It's that time of the year again. We've got our hands on the shortlisted pictures from the 2024 Close-up Photographer of the Year competition, so you can feast your eyes on a whole new collection of natural wonders from around the world. Continue Reading Category: Photography, Co … | Continue reading
Busy, chilly days call for EASY, warming soups! Enter: Our 1-POT Spicy Pumpkin Soup with coconut milk, tomatoes, and warming Caribbean-inspired spices. It’s delicious, comforting, and comes together with simple pantry staples! Even better? There’s minimal chopping and it’s ready … | Continue reading
How to check Apple Intelligence Reports, available when you use Writing Tools and other AI features in an Apple silicon Mac. | Continue reading
In 2003, Disney released a six minute animated short called Destino, finally bringing closure to a project that began 57 years earlier. The story of Destino goes way back to 1946 when two very different cultural icons, Walt Disney and Salvador Dalí, decided to work together on a … | Continue reading
On October 26, 2024, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded a powerful solar flare that peaked at 3:19 a.m. ET. Classified as an X1.8 flare, this intense event has the potential to disrupt radio signals, navigation systems, and power grids on Earth, while also posing risks to … | Continue reading
Telebbit, by Ikinagames and Japanese indie publisher Hyper Real has a simple pitch. It’s a 2D precision platformer starring a rabbit, but the rabbit doesn’t short hop, the rabbit short teleports. Set in the bleak world of 3023, an animal experiment gone wrong sees a rabbit being … | Continue reading
Azul runs benchmarks every quarter against OpenJDK for Java performance improvement, startup and warmup time, and reliability. The post Benchmarks Show Faster Java Performance Improvement appeared first on Azul | Better Java Performance, Superior Java Support. | Continue reading
Rapid weight loss can cause a greater loss of muscle mass than losing weight slowly. The popularity of newer weight-loss drugs that shed pounds quickly has raised concerns among researchers about how this will affect the health of our muscles, which do more than just give us stre … | Continue reading
From here on Earth, our views of the Universe are impressive and expansive, but are also fundamentally limited. We can build observatories as large as we like — even on the highest, driest mountaintops our planet has to offer — with instruments that are as up-to-date and sophisti … | Continue reading
Buñuel Mansuetude After his announced departure from Oxbow earlier this year, Eugene Robinson still has plenty of deep, dark stories to tell, finds Jared Dix Mansuetude by Buñuel Buñuel make darkly fascinating music, a compelling noise noir that shuns the obvious routes but is st … | Continue reading
One True Pairing Endless Rain Former Wild Beast releases his inner sad boy, but there’s weirdness to the moping, finds Jeremy Allen Endless Rain by One True Pairing Barely a month goes by where there isn’t a fresh call for a moratorium on the earnest singer-songwriter, but still … | Continue reading
Meet the EV equivalent of a full jerry can – a 141 kilowatt-hour battery charger on wheels, that can autonomously drive itself to wherever it's needed, flexibly extending charging networks and getting much-needed juice to stranded drivers. Continue Reading Category: Transport Tag … | Continue reading
Quantum squeezing is a method that sharpens precision by redistributing uncertainty within a system, already advancing technologies like atomic clocks. This concept promises even wider impacts as researchers work on applying it to more complex measurements. Quantum squeezing is a … | Continue reading
The Amazon Kindle Colorsoft is coming out on October 30th and is the first Kindle e-reader to have a colour screen. This is a massive deal for Amazon since it will enhance every aspect of the Kindle. It will be easier to discover new books since cover art will be vibrantly displa … | Continue reading
More than 30 years since Cosmo Kramer spruiked his coffee table book of coffee tables on an episode of Seinfeld, a new companion tome has surfaced, and it's become quite a hit. It's a coffee table book about coffee. (Sadly, however, it doesn't also turn into a coffee table.) Cont … | Continue reading
Portugal’s former science minister Manuel Heitor during the publication event of the High-Level Group report on the mid-term review of Horizon Europe on October 16, 2024, in Brussels, Belgium. Photo credits: Bogdan Hoyaux / European Union Former Portuguese prime minster Manuel He … | Continue reading
Susan Healy, professor of biology at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, and former ERC evaluator. Photo courtesy of Susan Healy Scientists aren’t known for being the best at getting their message across, but clarity and avoidance of obscure terminology can go a long way when … | Continue reading
Photo credits: peshkov / BigStock Europe may still be lagging behind when it comes to 5G uptake, but attention is already turning to the race for the next generation of wireless technology and ensuring it delivers on its promises this time. … Subscribe to read more | Continue reading
"This project will stimulate economic growth." Monumental US high-speed rail project receives new $3 billion boost: 'We're closer than ever' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Flush with the income from the EU Emissions Trading System, the Innovation Fund, set up to demonstrate the feasibility of low-carbon technologies, has since 2021 awarded €12 billion.<… Subscribe to read more | Continue reading
Photo credits: zverge / BigStock Robotics and artificial intelligence are rapidly advancing fields Subscribe to read more | Continue reading
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) has said that the country should increase minimum wage payments in line with general wage developments. Minimum wage should be coupled with... | Continue reading
Matt Webb's Colophon I love a good colophon (here's mine, I should really expand it). Matt Webb has been publishing his thoughts online for 24 years, so his colophon is a delightful accumulation of ideas and principles. So following the principles of web longevity, what matters i … | Continue reading
Can you think of a debate between a Trump supporter and a Harris supporter that was passionate and provocative, but also civil and respectful? Here’s one you’ll appreciate. | Continue reading
Based on extensive testing and real-world usage data from the validate-emails project, I've analyzed nine leading email verification services: EmailListVerify, MillionVerifier, MyEmailVerifier,... Read More... Source | Continue reading
The Amazon Kindle e-reader can be considered entry-level. It is the most affordable Kindle, and many people who buy a digital book reader for the first time go with this option. It is not very expensive, and most people are unsure if a Kindle might be for them, so rather than buy … | Continue reading
Ancient tree remains and pollen discovered in the Falkland Islands reveal a past rainforest environment, radically different from its current grassy plains, dating back up to 30 million years. A team of scientists led by Dr. Zoë Thomas from the University of Southampton (UK) has … | Continue reading
Ben welcomes Ricky Robinett, VP of Developer Relations and Community at Cloudflare, and his eight-year-old daughter Fay for a chat about how AI tools are helping new developers get started and how to encourage your kids to try coding. | Continue reading
In this article, Shaira Kasi from Parla House of Dentistry discusses key trends currently shaping the field of cosmetic dentistry. Cosmetic dentistry has evolved significantly in... | Continue reading
"We can't keep letting plastic get into the ocean." Scuba diver shares serious warning after frustrating discovery in the water: 'It's so dangerous' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Remember Marathon, the new extraction shooter Bungie announced last year? The new game set in the same universe as Bungie’s shooter series from the 90’s have emerged from going dark after the big reveal and the release of the (now delisted) dev diary video detailing its gameplay … | Continue reading
Back in June I recorded an episode with Jaclyn Lindsey on the Why Kindness podcast, for their awesome non-profit kindness.org. You can listen to it through Pocket Casts here: This is kind of funny because I’m obviously in the midst of the big battle with Silver Lake and WP Engine … | Continue reading
This could be a huge deal for fusion experiments around the globe, which could lead to what has been called the "holy grail" of clean, efficient, abundant electricity. Scientists uncover 'saltshaker' breakthrough in quest for limitless energy — here's how it could transform the f … | Continue reading
According to Weeronline, the normal amount of rainfall expected for a whole year has already fallen across the Netherlands so far this year. If this pattern continues in the next... | Continue reading
Through exploration in her lab, Technical Instructor Rhea Vedro helps students discover the power of working with their own hands. | Continue reading
The Amazon Kindle Paperwhite is the world’s most popular e-reader. Amazon has a stranglehold in the United States with an estimated 75% market share; in the United Kingdom, it is close to 90%. Amazon released their latest generation, Kindle Paperwhite, a week ago, and customers a … | Continue reading
Taurine may decrease atherosclerotic plaque size and enhance vascular stability, as shown in studies on humans and mice. Previous research has suggested that taurine supplementation could help slow the progression of atherosclerosis by lowering lipid levels. However, taurine in e … | Continue reading