“This campaign has been a testament to what can be achieved when we come together." Coca-Cola sparks discussion with campaign at one of the world's largest gatherings: 'I plan to teach my children the same' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Showrunner Tony Gilroy teases the layers of Luthen's mysteries that will be uncovered when the Star Wars streaming series returns next month. | Continue reading
What if a black hole wasn’t the end, but the beginning of something new? Black Holes Might Transform into White Holes – Scientists propose that instead of simply consuming everything, black holes could transition into white holes, which expel matter and possibly even time back in … | Continue reading
The loss of whales has weakened the longest food chain on the planet The post The Great Whale Conveyor Belt appeared first on Nautilus. | Continue reading
Make the best bar snack ever—fried pickles with bacon-ranch—at home with this recipe. | Continue reading
Speaking in front of a roomful of journalists at CERAWeek in Houston this week, Secretary of Energy Chris Wright vowed to honor deals his agency made through the Loan Programs Office and “very selectively use” the in-house lender “to nudge things that ultimately can deliver more … | Continue reading
EFF’s most important platform for welcoming everyone to join us in our fight for a better digital future is our website, eff.org. We thank Fastly for their generous in-kind contribution of services helping keep EFF’s website online. Eff.org was first registered in 1990, just thre … | Continue reading
CJR study shows AI search services misinform users and ignore publisher exclusion requests. | Continue reading
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Today we release OLMo 2 32B, the most capable and largest model in the OLMo 2 family, scaling up the OLMo 2 training recipe used for our 7B and 13B models released in November. It is trained up to 6T tokens and post-trained using Tulu 3.1. OLMo 2 32B is the first fully-open model … | Continue reading
While Lunar Trailblazer's mission is no longer possible, the space agency is assessing other options for the spacecraft. | Continue reading
Apple is planning to bring live translation to AirPods, according to a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The feature, which will let users translate conversations in real time, will be “tied” to the forthcoming iOS 19, Gurman says. Apple is a little behind others in adding liv … | Continue reading
Overview For my final project, I am focusing loosely on the reminiscence theme. Since a lot of my childhood is surrounded by stained glass, I wanted to do something with stained glass and/or have the stained glass look. I am planning to make a glass terrarium. I want to use mixed … | Continue reading
"Now I know what to make." Expert gardener shares ancient watering technique to save time and money: 'Saves a lot of water' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Test yourself on math's most famous constant with this pi quiz. | Continue reading
For the first time, researchers transformed light into a quantum crystalline structure to create a "supersolid" that's both solid and liquid at the same time. Here’s what that means, and why it's such a big step forward. | Continue reading
At first glance, the painting appears almost ordinary. A male subject, his identity lost to the centuries, gazes solemnly out to the viewer from his oval frame, housed in a slightly yellowed paper card holder 5 inches in length and 6.25 inches in height. The details of lavish gar … | Continue reading
A newly excavated cave in Israel holds burials and artifacts suggesting that multiple human species commingled and shared ideas there during the Paleolithic. | Continue reading
"You lose it, and then what do you do? You don't give up. You go back in." | Continue reading
Anthropic API: Text editor tool Anthropic released a new "tool" today for text editing. It looks similar to the tool they offered as part of their computer use beta API, and the trick they've been using for a while in both Claude Artifacts and the new Claude Code to more efficien … | Continue reading
Microsoft has reinstated the 'Material Theme - Free' and 'Material Theme Icons - Free' extensions on the Visual Studio Marketplace after finding that the obfuscated code they contained wasn't actually malicious. [...] | Continue reading
West Ada School District in Boise, Idaho wants signage indicating that all students are welcome to be removed. Teacher Sarah Inama at the Lewis and Clark Middle School was told to remove two signs from her classroom as they were not content neutral and were out of alignment with … | Continue reading
I’ve been using Arc Browser for the past couple of years and have been pretty happy overall. It’s well-designed, stuffed full of design details, and much more minimal than other browsers, and runs on Chromium so I could continue using all my favorite extensions from my Chrome day … | Continue reading
Opus, A24’s new horror-tinged thriller from writer / director Mark Anthony Green, has a lot to say about the symbiotic (and sometimes parasitic) relationship between entertainment journalists and celebrities. In the film’s story about reporters tripping over themselves just t … | Continue reading
After an unexpected nine months in orbit, astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are waiting for the arrival of Crew-10 before they head home. That launch is now expected for Friday | Continue reading
Tim Vernimmen in Knowable Magazine: On a rainy day in July 2024, Tim Bliss and Terje Lømo are in the best of moods, chuckling and joking over brunch, occasionally pounding the table to make a point. They’re at Lømo’s house near Oslo, Norway, where they’ve met to write about the l … | Continue reading
My Inspiration and Artistic Vision To summarize my previous post about inspirations and project ideas, the aesthetic of my final project draws from how I view my personal aesthetic in both the indoors and outdoors. What I mean by this is that my aesthetic is rooted in a love of t … | Continue reading
This delightfully crunchy side salad features crisp shredded carrots, plump raisins, and pistachios, all tossed with a creamy citrusy dressing. | Continue reading
The latest versions of MacOS make it easier than ever to use Type to Siri, but many Mac users are finding themselves accidentally triggering the ‘Type to Siri’ feature on their Mac running the latest MacOS Sequoia releases. This can be frustrating, and if you don’t use Siri or Ty … | Continue reading
MIT students travel to the Amazon, working with locals to address the plastics sustainability crisis. | Continue reading
Introducing Command A: Max performance, minimal compute New LLM release from Cohere. It's interesting to see which aspects of the model they're highlighting, as an indicator of what their commercial customers value the most (highlight mine): Command A delivers maximum performance … | Continue reading
The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to allow it to enforce an executive order signed by President Donald Trump ending birthright citizenship – the guarantee of citizenship to virtually anyone born in the United States. In a trio of near-identical filings … | Continue reading
The Exo 2 programming language enables reusable scheduling libraries external to compilers. | Continue reading
"If you have children, pets, or dogs, this is a really great strategy." Woman shares unbelievably simple way to get funky smells out of furniture: 'This works like magic' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
If you’re into clean tech and sustainable living, you may already know that solar cooking is one of the easiest — and most affordable — methods of letting renewable energy do the work directly for you. There are sorts of solar ovens on the market, and it’s not very difficult ... … | Continue reading
Please join EFF for the next segment of EFFecting Change, our livestream series covering digital privacy and free speech. EFFecting Change Livestream Series: Is There Hope for Social Media? Thursday, March 20th 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Pacific - Check Local Time This event is LIVE and … | Continue reading
Google is rolling out a fix for Chromecast device issues that left many users with “untrusted device” errors that disabled casting. The issue, which appeared over the weekend, seemed to widely affect Chromecast 2nd generation and Chromecast Audio devices. Google has not said what … | Continue reading
Save over $100 on the 40" Roku Smart TV over at Amazon for a limited time. | Continue reading
Terpenes from cannabis may relieve chronic pain without THC’s psychoactive effects. Researchers found that certain terpenes significantly reduced fibromyalgia and post-surgical pain in animal studies, with geraniol showing the most promise. Terpenes: A Potential Breakthrough for … | Continue reading
Nothing says "I believe in free expression" like falsely accusing protesters of crimes and unleashing an online mob. The world's richest man-child is having a meltdown because folks are exercising their constitutional rights outside his precious car showrooms. In The Guardian, Va … | Continue reading
It's a major setback for Elon's government destruction project. | Continue reading
John Gruber wrote an appropriately scathing piece about Apple’s inability to deliver improvements to Siri. It is a much needed perspective from someone who receives press briefings and demos, and is therefore able to better gauge Apple’s likely progress on these features. It is n … | Continue reading
Microsoft is testing AI-powered summaries in Notepad. In an update rolling out to Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev channels, you’ll be able to summarize information in Notepad by highlighting a chunk of text, right-clicking it, and selecting Summarize. Notepad will then gen … | Continue reading
It's cute! The post Jenna Ortega Gives Us Some Glasses first appeared on Go Fug Yourself. | Continue reading
The original poster explained that they first attempted the challenge in response to a pre-snowstorm shopping frenzy. Home cook issues brilliant challenge that can help cut down on grocery bills: 'Comes around every 6 months' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
A bowl of fool’s noodles might look unassuming, but its simplicity holds decades of history and cultural significance. Found in noodle shops across Taiwan, this dish consists of thin, chewy noodles tossed with scallions and a lightly seasoned oil-based sauce. Unlike most noodle d … | Continue reading