Google started rolling out its new Gemini voice assistant for its smart speakers two weeks ago and, in a blog post marking the anniversary, the company seems to think everything is going great. It’s even quoting a user who said, “My Google Home just got upgraded with Gemini. It’s … | Continue reading
Apple is no longer planning to launch a second-generation iPhone Air next fall and has “already sharply scaled back production of the first version,” The Information reports. The company launched the super-thin version of the iPhone in September, but it seemingly hasn’t proven to … | Continue reading
'Stranger Things' will end in the next few weeks, and it's the culmination of a vision long in the making. | Continue reading
67 has been named word of the year by dictionary.com: If you’re the parent of a school-aged child, you might be feeling a familiar vexation at the sight of these two formerly innocuous numerals. If you’re a member of Gen Alpha, however, maybe you’re smirking at the thought of adu … | Continue reading
A bracing work of maritime cosmic horror. The post Here Be Dragons: John Hornor Jacobs’ The Night That Finds Us All appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Half a millennium into our recovery from the civilizational wound Descartes inflicted by severing the body and the mind, we are bleeding with a Cartesian cleft of our own making — the damaging divide between life and work. The notion of a “workaholic,” often worn as a badge on th … | Continue reading
Marcus and Franklin meet their liaison to the Mars resistance, while Sheridan confronts Garibaldi about his attitude. The post Babylon 5 Rewatch: “Racing Mars” appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Her viral response to the famous jeans ad captures the new superstar economy—where charisma trumps ideology and markets reward defiance, writes Tyler Cowen for The Free Press. | Continue reading
Erik Baker at The Drift: Turning to philosophy to learn how to live is nothing new, of course. But the explicitly inspirational and instructional valence of much that appears today under that heading, even from academic presses, is striking — as is the apparent consensus that the … | Continue reading
Two recent discoveries about the extinct human species refine our understanding of our evolutionary kin The post Neanderthals: Do a Little Art and Take a Stroll on the Beach appeared first on Nautilus. | Continue reading
Gemini for TV is rolling out to Google TV Streamer devices starting today, allowing almost anyone to try it out. Since it launched back in September, Gemini for TV has only been available on a limited number of smart TVs. If you didn’t have one of those devices, you were out of l … | Continue reading
California's influential privacy agency sent the state legislature three proposals, including a measure to create anti-retaliation safeguards and financial rewards for insiders who make regulators aware of corporate practices that violate state privacy law. | Continue reading
Ava Valianti, once and for all, is a force to be reckoned with in the current alternative music landscape through the sheer power of authentic empathy and understanding. | Continue reading
Europe has long outpaced the U.S. in setting ambitious climate targets. Since the late 2000s, EU member states have enacted both a continent-wide carbon pricing scheme as well as legally binding renewable energy goals — measures that have grown increasingly ambitious over time an … | Continue reading
You know how people always say pets make you a better person? Yeah, sure. If by “better” you mean “faster,” “more alert,” and “emotionally on edge.” But, let’s roll with that. A better person. Sure. Having a cat is like living in a reality show – Survivor, but with no island, no … | Continue reading
alive internet theory, all lower case, by Spencer Chang: alive internet theory is a séance with this living internet. Resurrecting tens of millions of digital artifacts from the Internet Archive, visitors are immersed in a relentless barrage of human expression as they travel thr … | Continue reading
"Brad and His Dad" is an amusing SNL animated short about a divorced dad who tries to find outdoor activities for his son. subscribe to the Laughing Squid Newsletter The post Divorced Dad Tries to Find Fun Outdoor Activities For His Son in an Amusing SNL Animated Short was origin … | Continue reading
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2025And so, the end of the shutdown came: Should ten Democrats have decided to vote to stop the shutdown? We'll link you to a pair of possible answers.In this column for the New York Times, Ezra Klein says he wouldn't have voted to end the shutdown, but by th … | Continue reading
Edgar Wright's adaptation of the Richard Bachman book hits theaters later this week. The post The Running Man Final Trailer Gives Ben Richards a Team and A Lot of Dynamite appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
We finally know why Will Byers is the most important link. | Continue reading
The latest versions of macOS Tahoe include a new toggle that allows you to switch between two slightly different appearance modes for the Liquid Glass interface; “Clear” and “Tinted”. This setting was introduced to the Mac with macOS Tahoe 26.1 (and iOS 26.1 / iPadOS 26.1 for iPh … | Continue reading
A large, ongoing outbreak that began in Canada in 2024 has cost the country its measles elimination status. | Continue reading
Voice-AI may not be a defined sub-genre of automation intelligence yet, but aiOla would like it to be; the company runs a voice-AI laboratory (no scalpels, just software) dedicated to advancing speech recognition technology. The company’s new Drax service is an open-source AI mod … | Continue reading
The post This AI tool aims to show the true scale of Canada’s $100B Indigenous economy appeared first on The Logic. | Continue reading
Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Bob Odenkirk, and others appear in a new promo for the Apple TV+ sci-fi show. | Continue reading
AirPods 4 feature the iconic earbud design, and have many great features like gesture support, spatial audio, voice isolation, water and sweat resistance, Siri support, and USB-C charging. Get AirPods 4 for $85 (down 30% from $129) Apple Watch Series 10 from $279 You can get Appl … | Continue reading
A two-hour version of the music played in the Wellness Center in Severance. “Please try to enjoy each listening session equally.” See also Severance: Music To Refine To. ✅ Added to my Underscore collection. Tags: music · Severance · TV · video | Continue reading
Goodbye forever? The 'Star Trek' reboot movies will probably not move forward. And maybe that's a good thing. | Continue reading
Five years ago, the Xbox brand needed a new start, and the Series X and S had some compelling ways to spur up that momentum. | Continue reading
Photo credits: zverge / BigStock The Novo Nordisk Foundation in Denmark, one of the world’s leading funders of pharmaceutical and biotechnology research, is investing €21.7 million to support emerging and rising Danish researchers in bioscience and basic biomedicine through two … | Continue reading
Beihang University in Beijing, one of China's Seven Sons of National Defence universities that is set to be excluded from Horizon Europe. Photo credits: Peiyu Liu / Flickr The European Commission plans to kick China out of half of its €93.5 billion Horizon Europe research and in … | Continue reading
Photo credits: artiemedvedev / BigStock Horizon Europe has been bombarded with applications this year, with success rates for some calls falling as low as 2%. National research funders are experiencing similar pressures.For Christina Egelund, Denmark’s higher education and scien … | Continue reading
Photo credits: Shutter Speed / Unsplash The European Commission will adopt a plan dedicated to supporting women in research and innovation next year, according to Ekaterina Zaharieva, the commissioner responsible for start-ups, research and innovation.“The action plan will propo … | Continue reading
Photo credits: llaszlo / BigStock Horizon Europe calls this year have received unprecedented numbers of proposals, with some jumping by as much as 80%. We dive into the figures. First of all, with applications on the rise, success rates are set to plummet. The overall… Subscrib … | Continue reading
Photo credits: Nau2018 / BigStock Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia have agreed to step up collaboration between their national chips competence centres in the hope that shared expertise and infrastructure will accelerate the development of an innovative semiconductor ecosystem in t … | Continue reading
Check out 13 of the best YA titles publishing this season The post Most Anticipated Young Adult SFF/H for November & December 2025 appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Usually, my idea of a perfect view involves a windswept hill, a dramatic coastline, or a quiet forest path. Give... | Continue reading
Here are my weeknotes from November 4 to 10, 2025! | Continue reading
I’ve seen dozens of solid deals trickle in ahead of Black Friday, but Apple’s AirPods 4 hitting a new all-time low is the first one that’s really stood out to me. Right now, you can buy Apple’s entry-level wireless earbuds for just $84.99 ($44 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and Walmar … | Continue reading
Paper by Joel Z. Leibo, Alexander Sasha Vezhnevets, William A. Cunningham, and Stanley M. Bileschi at Arxiv: The emergence of agentic Artificial Intelligence (AI) is set to trigger a “Cambrian explosion” of new kinds of personhood. This paper proposes a pragmatic framework for na … | Continue reading
In case of fire… … call photographer. Arles, July 2022 Quote of the Day “Fifteen years ago, the internet was an escape from the real world. Now the real world is an escape from the internet.” Noah Smith Musical alternative … Continue reading → | Continue reading
Apple execs say Apple TV shows and movies are about "emotional" experiences. | Continue reading
The upcoming episodes mark the end of the show's decade-plus run. The post Sing Me a Song… of an Outlander Season 8 Premiere Date appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Expect to see crews for the Hulu series "Furious" this week along Avenue A from Third Street to Ninth Street ... plus some side streets. (H/T Salim!) The crime thriller stars Emmy Rossum as an FBI agent "who uses the secrets from a female serial killer's past to try to find he … | Continue reading
Nothing good is going to come out of that cemetery. The post IT: Welcome to Derry Takes Us From the Circus to the Cemetery in “Now You See It” appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Hailing from Manchester, The Radio Addicts is an electrifying teenage band driven by a passion for creating and performing high-energy music. | Continue reading
'Star Wars Insider' will wrap up in early 2026. | Continue reading
"I feel so lucky to have been able to work with John on this song," Charli says Charli XCX and John Cale have released a video for gothic pop dirge belter 'House', written to appear on the soundtrack for Emerald Fennell's forthcoming adaptation of Emily Brontē's novel Wuthering H … | Continue reading