Gizmodo obtained complaints about Johnny Depp impersonation scams through a FOIA request to the FTC. | Continue reading
Marvel Rivals will have a staggering roster of 33 playable characters at launch. From Squirrel Girl to Captain America, here's every hero in the game. | Continue reading
With its tender crumb, sweet cinnamon filling, and toasted pecan topping, this yeasted coffee cake is a delicious and much anticipated part of our family’s holiday traditions. It’s tender and subtly sweet, with a soft, springy crumb. | Continue reading
Image: Spotify This year’s Spotify Wrapped has arrived. As you look at your stats for 2024, you’ll find a few new features you can use to interact with your data, including one that lets you listen to and share an AI-generated podcast summarizing your listening habits. Spotify bu … | Continue reading
The online reports tout better fire safety as a big perk. Chinese company announces major breakthrough with battery safety technology — here's how it could transform the EV industry first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
When Roe v. Wade fell, interest in long-acting and permanent birth control rose. Here’s what to know as Trump returns to office | Continue reading
Save 38% on the Coway Airmega AP-1512HH true HEPA purifier over at Amazon. | Continue reading
If you already have a machine powerful enough to play modern games you can stream the action to TV sets or portables. The Raspberry Pi makes a good game streaming box, reports Ars Technica's Kevin Purdy, and now can function as a Steam Link, compatible with the most popular platf … | Continue reading
NASA’s PREFIRE mission uses two small CubeSats to measure far-infrared radiation emitted by Earth’s polar regions, offering unprecedented insights into the Arctic and Antarctic’s contribution to the planet’s energy balance. Despite GPS challenges, the satellites have successfully … | Continue reading
As the saying goes, if you don’t know, then you just don’t know which is fine, by the way. No one says this out loud but it’s okay to see the world differently. It’s okay to be different and the truth is different does not mean better or worse. No, different just means different. … | Continue reading
What is a hashtag? Fifteen years ago (fuck, I'm old) I started documenting what Twitter's nascent hashtags could and couldn't do. Back in 2010, this is how the official Twitter site linked hashtags. Notably, punctuation symbols didn't "count" as part of a tag. How does modern soc … | Continue reading
Drivers and newspaper readers in Houston recently got a bit of a surprise: advertisements announcing the return of Enron. Before I explore what’s really happening here, let’s start by exploring why the ads shocked people. I’ll pass. pic.twitter.com/OyjfgWSVfs — Chris Hollins (@CG … | Continue reading
Tony Scott and Denzel Washington combined for a unique, explosive look at the Bush era's paranoia and growing surveillance capabilities that remains relevant today. | Continue reading
Knitting shepherdesses, peasant girls, smallholders, a goose girl, fisher girls, by Millet, Breton, LA Ring, Winslow Homer and others. | Continue reading
Gen Z can’t stand inequality. Why so many of its men voted Republican is a lesson in understanding male identity | Continue reading
December 04, whose story should take precedence? the young girl back then, full of spirit and a blinding smileorthe old girl now, the noise outside has forced to kneel and beg while the loneliness inside crushing what remains of her spirit with its hauntingly mocking gaze. | Continue reading
You can save 70% on Samsung's most powerful smartwatch. | Continue reading
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The underground marketplace distributed more than a metric ton of narcotics. | Continue reading
You can save over $1400 on the Galaxy Z Fold 6. | Continue reading
It’s been the biggest year for elections in human history: 2024 is a “super-cycle” year in which 3.7 billion eligible voters in 72 countries had the chance to go the polls. These are also the first AI elections, where many feared that deepfakes and artificial intelligence-generat … | Continue reading
We typically associate MVRDV with high-profile projects like the Valley and Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, but its Klabu sees the firm experimenting with shipping container-based architecture and producing an easily transportable and solar-powered sports club for refugees. Continu … | Continue reading
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! After his effort to impose martial law was struck down by a unanimous vote against it in parliament, South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol now faces a general strike by workers and calls to resign. — Read the rest The pos … | Continue reading
For this year’s HTMLHell Advent Calendar I contributed today’s post: Control the Viewport Resize Behavior on mobile with interactive-widget. | Continue reading
In western Syria, archaeologists believe they have unearthed evidence of the earliest use of an alphabet in the world. The site, called Tell Umm el-Marra was an important urban center in Syria and one of the first to ever pop up in the region. It’s been under excavation for 16 ye … | Continue reading
The Waze alerts on Google Maps are just another harrowing reminder of our eventual foray into a buttonless future. | Continue reading
L'articolo BOLOGNA GRAND TOUR 2024: QUARTA TAPPA ALLA FERIA INTERNACIONAL DEL LIBRO DE GUADALAJARA, DAL 30 NOVEMBRE ALL’8 DICEMBRE proviene da BolognaFiere Group. | Continue reading
If this colossal solar storm hit our technologically advanced world the effects would have been devastating. | Continue reading
Direct air capture company Heirloom said it has raised $150 million in its latest fundraising round, almost triple the amount of the company’s prior funding series. Heirloom, which was founded in 2020, last year opened what it said was the first commercial direct air capture faci … | Continue reading
The Growl trainer has a screen you can punch without regretting it later. | Image: Growl Growl is a startup launching a wall-mounted fitness device that uses a combination of projectors and sensors to give you a life-size boxing coach to train with. Unlike similar interactive tra … | Continue reading
I listen to new music obsessively but occasionally fail to truly connect with artists that have much to offer me. This was the case with Djrum, whose music blends drum & bass, techno, downtempo and more. His 2018 album Portrait With Firewood expanded his palette to include delica … | Continue reading
A chance discovery by researchers could drastically lower the energy needed for next-generation memory technologies. | Continue reading
“After years of looking, I finally thrifted [it]." Shopper elated after discovering surprising bonus with cult-favorite kitchen appliance at thrift store: 'Those are the best' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Here's the perfect Xmas gift to get your fan of mid-century modern design and/or photography buff: a special Polaroid Now Gen 2 Eames Edition camera. Given Ray and Charles Eames' collaboration with Polaroid this tie-in is fitting. They contributed to the original X-70 campaign, h … | Continue reading
Last year avian influenza brought death to the picturesque island of South Georgia off Antarctica. This season scientists hope things will be different | Continue reading
As he prepares for more post-Shane MacGowan shows with The Pogues following a triumph in Hackney earlier this year, Spider Stacy takes Patrick Clarke through 13 records that shaped him, from post punk classics through to the new wave of folk music, via jazz, hip hop, roots reggae … | Continue reading
Grudniowe poranki potrafią być wymagające, ale jest coś, co sprawia, że łatwiej rozpocząć dzień – pyszna, szybka owsianka. Rano nie mamy wiele czasu na wymyślne potrawy, zwłaszcza, że dzień w naszym domu rozpoczyna się chwilę po szóstej. Mam dzisiaj dla Was przepis na śniadanie, … | Continue reading
The post Date and Time Mappings with Hibernate and JPA appeared first on Thorben Janssen. Databases support various data types to store date and time information. The most commonly used ones are: You can map all of them with JPA and Hibernate. But you need to decide to which Java … | Continue reading
The Olympic gold-winning British rower – and doctor – on simplicity, the state of British rivers and the tension between facts and opinions The post Life lessons: Imogen Grant on what life so far has taught her appeared first on Positive News. | Continue reading
November’s auto sales saw plugin EVs take 26.2% share in France, a drop from 29.7% year on year. Both BEV share and PHEV share fell YoY. Overall auto volume was 133,320 units, down by around 13% YoY. The new Renault 5 was the best selling BEV in November. November’s sales ... [co … | Continue reading
Researchers have developed an innovative optical technology capable of enhancing data transmission by utilizing spatial-frequency patching metasurfaces. This approach allows light beams to carry significantly more data across multiple independent channels, overcoming traditional … | Continue reading
We've just launched our podcast "Clojure in Product. Would you do it again?". Our first episode features Kalle Korhonen from Quuppa, who shares a journey of introducing Clojure into a primarily Java-based enterprise system. Our goal is simple: talk to real teams who've taken Cloj … | Continue reading
Last chance on this limited-time offer, expiring soon: Volumes of The Complete Tom the Dancing Bug book collection are available for purchase, including THE TOM THE DANCING BUG "HOLIDAY SIX-PAK" for a special low price! CLICK HERE. JOIN THE INNER HIVE and you'll get each week's T … | Continue reading
Image: Google Veo, Google’s latest generative AI video model, is now available for businesses to start incorporating into their content creation pipelines. After first being unveiled in May — three months after OpenAI demoed its competing Sora product — Veo has beaten it to marke … | Continue reading
Photos by Stacie Joy A renovated Ben's Deli has reopened at 32 Avenue B between Second Street and Third Street. (Perhaps you noticed the variety of grand opening signs?) The renovations, dating to September 2023, took longer than newish owner Sammy Ksem wanted... in any event, th … | Continue reading
In his post “No NAT November: My Month Without IPv4” security engineer Alex Haydock writes about the challenges of IPv6-only networks and explains techniques like DNS64, NAT64 and CLAT. An interesting read for someone like me, who doesn’t know much more about IPv6 than that suppo … | Continue reading
YouTuber Half-Asleep Chris spent thirteen months creating a spectacular miniature theme park boat ride in his backyard. Well, that's not entirely accurate since quite a few months were spent procrastinating and playing with a new puppy. (The puppy is adorable and a perfectly acce … | Continue reading