This funky rotomolded Limbo Chair is by Icelandic industrial designer Hlynur Atlason. It's in production by furniture brand Heller, whose CEO, John Edelman, gave Atlason a simple brief: "Design us a comfortable modern lounge chair."The Icelandic designer responded with a statemen … | Continue reading
I feel like computer hardware (processing units, graphics/neural processors, memory, storage) has gotten mind bending fast while at the same time the software we run day-to-day has gotten noticeably poorer. I often think “what if the software engineers of the early days were to d … | Continue reading
Who ARE you people? The post I Am Lost Now That Fortnite Doesn’t Show My Squad’s Levels appeared first on Aftermath. | Continue reading
An ancient marble thoroughfare and shards of classical pottery are on display in the city of Thessaloniki's new underground "archaeo-stations" | Continue reading
Politico: BAKU, Azerbaijan — The coming U.S. retreat from leadership on global climate policy comes amid a dawning reality: For much of the world, China already calls the shots. Beijing’s decades-long effort to dominate the world’s clean energy economy is enabling it to woo tight … | Continue reading
A pair of Samsung smart glasses will likely include cameras and AI, but will they be more like Meta's Ray-Ban or Project Orion? | Continue reading
Bloomberg Businessweek’s Jealousy List for 2024, “We’ve asked our editors & contributors to identify that one story in 2024 that filled them with the kind of indescribable resentment that theologians once thought was a dangerous gateway to other sins.” 💬 Join the discussi … | Continue reading
I wouldn't have expected that. The post Keira Knightley Is Back in a Spy Thriller first appeared on Go Fug Yourself. | Continue reading
An analysis of ancient cuneiform texts suggests people thought of emotions in a different way almost 3000 years ago, showing how culture influences our most intimate experiences | Continue reading
The latest weather forecasting AI model from Google DeepMind can beat the leading providers more than 97 per cent of the time, and it is quicker and cheaper to run | Continue reading
Back in the day, I had one computer. It was a laptop bought for me by my employer, and at work, I’d attach it to an external display and use it at my desk.… | Continue reading
Tropical regions like the Amazon exhibit high concentrations of aerosol particles in the upper troposphere, puzzling scientists for decades. Scientists have discovered that isoprene, a plant-emitted hydrocarbon, drives aerosol particle formation in the cold upper troposphere of t … | Continue reading
A bird-inspired robot called RAVEN can walk, hop and jump into flight, an ability that could help people develop fixed-wing drones that can take off and land anywhere | Continue reading
On the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne is home to many roboticists. It’s also home to many birds, which spend the majority of their time doing bird things. With a few exceptions, those bird things aren’t actually flying: Flying is a … | Continue reading
Natural selection isn't just something that happens to organisms, their activities also play a role, giving some species – including humans – a supercharged ability to evolve | Continue reading
Kyutai, an open science research lab, made headlines over the summer when they released their real-time speech-to-speech AI assistant (beating OpenAI to market with their teased GPT-driven speech-to-speech functionality). Alex from Kyutai joins us in this episode to discuss the r … | Continue reading
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TL;DR: I'm making my knives feel new with an Angle Pro Knife Sharpener, on sale for $40 through December 8. Check out here. Last Thanksgiving, I tried to carve the turkey, and I'll be the first to admit that my knife was laughably dull. — Read the rest The post Transform dull kni … | Continue reading
Parents grapple with raising brood parasitic aliens in this quiet, unsettling invasion story. The post Village of the Damned: Killer Kiddos From Outer Space appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
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Simon B. Støvring has launched a new app: Festivitas automatically adds festive lights to your menu bar and dock upon launch and you can tweak their appearance to match your preferences. I love this, and not just because it reminds me of the old Holiday Lights app. | Continue reading
Thomas Kleine Buening, Aadirupa Saha, Christos Dimitrakakis, Haifeng Xu, on Apple’s “Machine Learning Research” blog: Motivated by the phenomenon of strategic agents gaming a recommendation system to maximize the number of times they are recommended to users, we study a strategic … | Continue reading
New brain scans have shown that neurons in several regions of the brain become significantly more active across birth. | Continue reading
A potential outbreak of a flu-like illness has killed nearly 150 people in the region, mostly children over 15. | Continue reading
One of the co-branded GM Energy / EVgo fast chargers. | Image: General Motors General Motors and EV charging company EVgo announced that they’ve installed their 2,000th public EV charging stall, in Murrieta, California. With that, GM has met a deadline it set in September to have … | Continue reading
Amazon released three new Large Language Models yesterday at their AWS re:Invent conference. The new model family is called Amazon Nova and comes in three sizes: Micro, Lite and Pro. I built a new LLM plugin called llm-bedrock for accessing the models in the terminal via boto3 an … | Continue reading
Enjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts: AppStories This week, Federico and I consider the differences between assistive and generative AI and cover the sort of automation tasks for which assistive AI is useful. On AppStories+, I share my skepticism about th … | Continue reading
An underwater gardening experiment along the East Coast aims at restoration. | Continue reading
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A "bizarre" E-shaped aurora was recently photographed dancing in the sky above Alaska. The unusual light show was caused by rare black auroras, a.k.a. anti-auroras, which catapult charged particles from the sun back out of Earth's atmosphere and into space. | Continue reading
I am definitely the last person to hear about ListenNotes search engine for podcasts. It's incredible. Just starting to explore its capabilities. | Continue reading
A golden retriever named Theo took his daycare worker's arm in his mouth and led him over to his sleeping canine sister Mia to be petted. | Continue reading
This waterproof portable party machine brings massive high-quality sound outdoors or inside, and it's just $300 right now. | Continue reading
Having got an initial data product, Kiran Prakash leads us through the next steps: covering similar uses cases to generalize the data product, determining which domains the products fit into, and considering service level objectives. more… | Continue reading
A crowdsourced survey reveals how the sounds of the explosive event travelled around the world, and showcase the importance of fast-acting researchers. | Continue reading
The Xreal One. | Image: Xreal During a recent flight from Los Angeles to New York City, I put a headset on my face to watch a movie. I wasn’t wearing the Vision Pro or a Meta Quest. I was trying the latest pair of AR glasses from Xreal, a Chinese startup taking an unusually focus … | Continue reading
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Take a survey of leaders about AI in the workplace, and you’ll run the gamut of opinions. On one end of the spectrum, the AI evangelists argue the technology has ushered in a golden age of creativity, cut costs, and delivered productivity gains. On the other, the naysayers fret t … | Continue reading
The United States is a big country. Its size, just slightly smaller than Europe, leaves plenty of room for cultural differences. Cuisine, religious belief, and language all shift in disparate parts of the U.S. But despite the variations, Americans tend to unite around one flag, a … | Continue reading
Japan's CERT is warning that hackers are exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in I-O Data router devices to modify device settings, execute commands, or even turn off the firewall. [...] | Continue reading
Every year at Christmastime, my older two children either went to see Santa, or we talked all about Santa and wrote lists. I could see the excitement building inside them and the anticipation on their faces on Christmas Eve as they got ready for bed. They would wake up on Christm … | Continue reading
The Supreme Court recently declined to hear a case that civil liberties groups hoped might stop prolonged, warrantless surveillance with pole cameras. | Continue reading
Does anybody actually like React? A cherry-picked collection of React criticism. | Continue reading
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2024 But he also has fears about Us: Way back when, right there in our native Middlesex County, sacred Thoreau went to the woods for a largely time-honored reason. He described his reason for that move right in the opening chapter of his famous book, Walden … | Continue reading
One of the most universal play activities across any number of species is "play fighting," or as we sometimes call it, "rough-and-tumble play." The research available on this type of play is even more limited than on other types of play, but it appears that it represents some 20 … | Continue reading
Govee’s Christmas Lights 2 adds some holiday cheer to your home with color-changing smart lights that sync to music. | Image: Govee Ornaments are nice and all, but few Christmas tree decorations are as magical as Govee’s Christmas Lights 2. If you want your tree to truly dazzle t … | Continue reading
In an unprecedented move, Bandai and Sunrise are teaming with Studio Khara to develop its next mecha series, Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuux. | Continue reading