At AI Dinners, You Can Leave Before Dessert. And Other Rules for IRL IS BACK Networking

LinkedIn could save most VCs a step by adding a post template called “AI Dinner.” You upload a picture of the full table and a picture of the custom menu card with your firm’s logo on it. Then it pre-fills the text of “Still buzzing from bringing together all these AI Builders la … | Continue reading


@hunterwalk.com | 49 minutes ago

Judge rules Trump administration violated the First Amendment in fight against ICE-tracking

Jorge L. Alonso, a federal district court judge for the Northern District of Illinois, said that the Trump Administration violated the First Amendment when it pressured Facebook and Apple to remove ICE-tracking groups and apps. Judge Alonso granted the plaintiffs, Kassandra Rosad … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 55 minutes ago

Apple and Amazon Partner on Satellite Deal

Counting satellites and subscribers Amazon said on Tuesday that it’s agreed to acquire satellite company Globalstar, a major step for the e-commerce business as it works to build out a space-based Wi-Fi service through its Leo initiative. Amazon also announced that it signed an a … | Continue reading


@asymco.com | 1 hour ago

Launchers and me

I started using launchers shortly after returning to the Mac (from Linux) in 2005. The first one I used was the great Quicksilver. I’m sure I learned about it from Merlin Mann, who was Quicksilver’s biggest advocate, but I can’t point to which of his many posts on QS got me start … | Continue reading


@leancrew.com | 1 hour ago

A Complete Guide to Buying a Used Camera

There has never been a more affordable time to get into photography than now, contrary to the rising prices of nearly everything else in the world. The key is to find a gently used or well loved DSLR that grows more and more affordable as people migrate to mirrorless systems. … | Continue reading


@alexarmitage.com | 1 hour ago

10 Years Ago, One Perfect Time Travel Show Rebooted Its Basic Premise — And Nobody Noticed

You're walking through a red forest...here's how '12 Monkeys' Season 2 rebooted the show for the better. | Continue reading


@inverse.com | 1 hour ago

Torpedo-shaped robots diving deep into ocean help solve mystery of Antarctica's sea ice

"What we witnessed was basically this very violent release of all that pent up heat from below." | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 1 hour ago

Headless everything for personal AI

It’s pretty clear that apps and services are all going to have to go headless: that is, they will have to provide access and tools for personal AI agents without any of the visual UI that us humans use today. By services I mean things like: getting a new passport; finding and boo … | Continue reading


@interconnected.org | 1 hour ago

Scars

A short story | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 1 hour ago

RAM Shortage Expected to Continue Into Next Year or Later

No relief in sight from the RAMpocalypse. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 1 hour ago

A Short Walk: Part Twenty-Two

This is the twenty-second part of a fiction serial, in 767 words. Checking the hotel address online on his phone, Joe realised that Anna was about one hour closer than if he had to go to her house, but still a three hour journey. He decided to leave the visit to the undertaker fo … | Continue reading


@beetleypete.com | 1 hour ago

Overview of 10+ Quantum Companies in Germany – 2026

Insider Brief Germany committed approximately €2 billion to quantum technology through its 2020 economic stimulus package, with a further ~€3 billion committed through its 2023 Action Plan on Quantum Technologies. Germany also participates as a leading member of the EU Quantum Fl … | Continue reading


@thequantuminsider.com | 1 hour ago

A 'No Picnic' pizza party at Two Boots

Photos by Stacie Joy Two Boots on Avenue A hosted a "No Picnic" after-party last night following the film's opening screening at the Film Forum.Phil Hartman's black-and-white 1986 feature — a time capsule of an in-progress gentrifying East Village — is now back in circulation in … | Continue reading


@evgrieve.com | 1 hour ago

Embryo Fossil is Missing Puzzle Piece Thrilling Scientists with Oldest Proof that Mammal Ancestors Laid Eggs

A remarkable new discovery is shedding light on one of the greatest survival stories in Earth’s history—and answering a decades-old scientific mystery. Lystrosaurus, a hardy, plant-eating mammal ancestor, rose to prominence following a mass extinction some 252 million years ago—t … | Continue reading


@goodnewsnetwork.org | 2 hours ago

Cheap stuff that doesn’t suck, take 3

From fancy OLED TVs to robot vacuums with arms, we tend to cover a lot of cool stuff here at The Verge that, unfortunately, often costs as much as a month’s rent (or more). But with the ongoing tariff situation in the US and a global memory shortage pushing up the cost of, well, … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 2 hours ago

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Dreams

Click here to go see the bonus panel!Hovertext:I'm pretty sure this is how Stoicism works, just more douchey.Today's News: | Continue reading


@smbc-comics.com | 2 hours ago

The President and the Pope

Panelists joined to discuss Trump’s attacks on Pope Leo XIV for his comments about the war in Iran. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 2 hours ago

Now we're cooking with water! Startup offers a hydrogen-powered stove

Imagine slashing your cooking electricity bill by a factor of six. That would almost be as wild as cooking with water! Well, a green-tech startup from India called GreenVize says it has made both possible with a hydrogen-based cooking unit that runs on water and a little bit of e … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 2 hours ago

Which Java Runtime Should You Use in Production? Comparing OpenJDK Distributions

Table of Contents TLDRIntroOpenJDKEclipse TemurinLiberica JDKAzul ZuluAmazon CorrettoIBM Semeru RuntimesRed Hat OpenJDKSapMachineMicrosoft Build of OpenJDKMaking the Call TLDR All eight distributions on this list start from the same OpenJDK codebase. The version number is the thi … | Continue reading


@foojay.io | 2 hours ago

700-year-old mummy from Bolivia contains earliest confirmed evidence of strep throat bacteria in the Americas

A DNA analysis of pathogens from a pre-Hispanic mummy revealed that the bacterium that causes scarlet fever and strep throat was present in the Americas prior to European colonization. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 2 hours ago

As power outages worsen, doomsday preppers invest in home battery backups

"I have one of these. I like it a lot." | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 2 hours ago

Wishes for Ron Conway

Ron Conway, the longtime Silicon Valley investor and founder of SV Angel, announced on X that he has been diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. Conway declined to disclose the specific type of cancer, saying he does not want speculation about his prognosis. Ron is optimistic and … | Continue reading


@om.co | 2 hours ago

Marvel Studios’ Former Art Staff Discuss ‘Shortsighted’ Layoffs

While Marvel Studios stood tall at Cinemacon, its visual development staff shared their thoughts on being let go. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 hours ago

Corner of Garfield and Grant

Spring in the north-east brings everything back — birdsong, insects, and golden morning light. | Continue reading


@islandinthenet.com | 3 hours ago

Amazon Delivery Drones Involve a Perilous 10-Foot Drop. Users Are Posting the Apparent Results

Broken blue raspberry syrup: bad. Broken GPS security: worse. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 hours ago

An a-peel-ing exhibit at Ninth Street Espress (on 10th Street)

The 10th Street outpost of Ninth Street is now featuring a series of potato paintings by East Village-based artist and illustrator Peter Arkle. As you may have guessed, Arkle is a potato fan. Per a show description: Sometimes, when shopping for them, he’s struck by the character … | Continue reading


@evgrieve.com | 3 hours ago

How to Identify the Four Main Types of Clouds

Maynard Okereke and Nat Geo Kids presented a wonderfully informative lesson on identifying the four main cloud classifications. subscribe to the Laughing Squid Newsletter The post How to Identify the Four Main Types of Clouds was originally published on Laughing Squid. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 3 hours ago

Common Mistakes in Family Home Design (and How to Avoid Them)

Most family home design mistakes are not made out of carelessness. They are made at the wrong moment — before children arrive and their needs are abstract, or in the middle of a renovation when decisions need… | Continue reading


@homeworlddesign.com | 3 hours ago

I'm on Fallthrough: Supply Chain Reaction

This week I joined Kris Brandow and Ian Lopshire on the Fallthrough podcast to talk about a tonne of topics, including AI, Claude Mythos, why frontend engineering is harder than backend engineering, a preview of a proposed talk to GopherCon UK "A little dependency is better than … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 3 hours ago

Saturday's opening shot

Another fine spring morning view from Tompkins Square Park... where it actually feels like spring and not, say, late July. Get your Vitamin D production assist while you can... as the April showers arrive tomorrow, along with temps in the 50s. | Continue reading


@evgrieve.com | 3 hours ago

This all-female fish species reproduces without sex by cloning itself

The warm waters of Mexico and Texas are home to a small fish that has produced nothing but daughters for over 100,000 years. Essentially, the offspring are the exact genetic copy of their mother, with no father involved. The fish in focus is the Amazon molly.Continue ReadingCateg … | Continue reading


@refractor.io | 3 hours ago

New pain-relief opioid could be much less addictive than morphine, rodent study finds

A new and potentially safer opioid has been tested in lab rats, and the results suggest it relieves pain with a lower risk of addiction than other drugs in its class. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 3 hours ago

Photo reveals endangered flying fox carrying baby in mid-flight

"They do just look like a teddy bear." | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 3 hours ago

Good Or Bad, I Was One Of The Ones

At the moment, I am no place and yet I am everywhere else but here. Safe to say that I understand what it means to not be present. And I say this to you, knowing both full and well that I am right here. Always.I am exactly where I am supposed to be. Or at […] | Continue reading


@thewrittenaddiction.com | 3 hours ago

Staturday

Close your invisible robot eyes This is good news, but not yet enough. Spying on people going about their ordinary lives is wrong, whether it's the government, your car, or your TV doing it. April showers Even as a little kid I thought "March winds and April showers bring May flo … | Continue reading


@doc.searls.com | 3 hours ago

Low-Cost Community Solar Keeps Growing Despite Tide Of Negative Federal Policy

Despite the sharp U-turn in federal energy policy, the community solar movement continues to grow in the US. The post Low-Cost Community Solar Keeps Growing Despite Tide Of Negative Federal Policy appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 3 hours ago

How to Create Functional Zones in an Open-Plan Family Home

Open-plan layouts are frequently praised for what they remove — walls, visual barriers, the sense of compartmentalization that older residential layouts imposed. | Continue reading


@homeworlddesign.com | 3 hours ago

Upside-down tiny house makes room for three bedrooms and two bathrooms

Tiny house builders are always experimenting with new ideas to maximize floorspace. Case in point is the Onda, which turns the usual layout on its head to provide a roomy interior that places three bedrooms downstairs, and the main living area upstairs.Continue ReadingCategory: T … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 4 hours ago

Quick And Easy Weeknight Dinner Ideas

25 of our favorite quick and easy weeknight dinner ideas for busy weeks that will get dinner on the table fast! Cheap, easy, and delicious! The post Quick And Easy Weeknight Dinner Ideas appeared first on Budget Bytes. | Continue reading


@budgetbytes.com | 4 hours ago

Does Black and White Photography Actually Look More Artistic Than Color?

Choosing between black and white and color is one of the oldest arguments in photography, and most takes on it stay shallow. This video doesn't claim to settle the debate, but it does offer a genuinely useful framework for thinking about when and why each choice works.  [Read Mo … | Continue reading


@fstoppers.com | 4 hours ago

Organ Transplants Without Lifelong Meds? New Trial Shows It’s Possible

Several liver transplant recipients have stayed off anti-rejection drugs for at least three years following an experimental therapy. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 4 hours ago

Pluralistic: Georgia's voting technology blunder (18 Apr 2026)

Today's links Georgia's voting technology blunder: It's possible for Dominion machines to suck, but not in the way that Tucker Carlson says they do. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: GWB's illegal iPod; McDonald's breakfast sandwich fanfic; Technofeudal … | Continue reading


@pluralistic.net | 4 hours ago

Experimental drug doubles one-year survival in pancreatic cancer

A new drug that works by making tumors more susceptible to chemotherapy and the immune system has increased survival in those with advanced pancreatic cancer in a trial. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 4 hours ago

How to Revive the Art of Hanging Out

Modern life makes it harder to seek out places to just be, but it’s not impossible. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 4 hours ago

Dyson’s handheld fan is more powerful and louder than I expected

Two years ago I attended a picturesque outdoor wedding in August where the hot and humid weather had guests occasionally ducking into their cars to enjoy a blast of AC. Dyson’s new $99.99 handheld fan would have provided some much-needed relief then, although I’m not sure I would … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 4 hours ago

A more troubling picture of sea level rise is coming into view

Scientists have uncovered a “blind spot” in the research on rising seas, revealing that tens of millions of people thought safe from coastal flooding are at risk of inundation. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 4 hours ago

Global lemon, lime supply expected to drop by 700k tons due to erratic weather

Lemons and limes are just two crops that have been affected by increasingly volatile weather patterns around the world. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 4 hours ago

Study: Majorana States Get Easier to Find as Quantum Chains Grow Longer

Insider Brief Brazilian physicists have shown that the notoriously finicky quantum states needed for fault-tolerant quantum computing become dramatically more stable and easier to find as the chain of engineered particles that hosts them grows longer, a finding that could acceler … | Continue reading


@thequantuminsider.com | 4 hours ago