This Grasp Lamp, by Danish industrial designer Thomas Albertsen, isn't really a lamp in the technical sense: Instead it's a structure to hold lighting. Which is to say, the lamp has no wiring, just a (presumably magnetic) connection point where you pop in a rechargeable LED light … | Continue reading
Neil Turok On The Simplicity Of Nature Posted on Thursday, Apr 25, 2024 12:50PM by Morgan Meis | Continue reading
Joe Fassler at Lit Hub: Years ago, for reasons I still don’t fully understand, I found myself writing about flight. It started as just a few paragraphs, a bit of spontaneous fiction jotted down in a notebook: a man stood on the roof of a barn, wearing a pair of enormous wings bui … | Continue reading
One of the world’s top vaccine-makers is partnering with a major AI company to advance medicine — and its chief executive is excited. Read more... | Continue reading
Pack the lembas bread and gather up your fellowship, we’re going back to Middle-earth. Warner Bros. is releasing the extended editions of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy in theaters for one weekend only this June, and it’s the first time the re-releases will feature the … | Continue reading
Lucy Moore at Literary Review: After they were released from prison in Paris in the late autumn of 1794, both having narrowly escaped the guillotine, new bosom friends Rose de Beauharnais and Térézia Tallien found they had nothing to wear. Dressmakers and milliners had all but di … | Continue reading
Over 1,400 CrushFTP servers exposed online were found vulnerable to attacks currently targeting a critical severity server-side template injection (SSTI) vulnerability previously exploited as a zero-day. [...] | Continue reading
The Volvo EX30 goes on sale in the US this summer. Will it manage to avoid import tariffs and qualify for federal tax credits? The post How The Chinese-Made Volvo EX30 Will Deal With US Tariffs & Incentives appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
“Jim Henson Idea Man,” an intimate look at the life and career of the founder of cherished characters from “Sesame Street,” “The Muppet Show,” and more will air on Disney+ in May 2024, and the streamer has released the official trailer for the documentary. The Details Directed by … | Continue reading
“AI has fundamentally changed user expectations.” Really? As in we all expect AI to scrape content that isn’t theirs, hallucinate over the results, and spit out a degraded version of it? Sure, OK. ✏️ Handwritten by Geoff Graham on April 25, 2024 Post navigation 👈 Previous | Continue reading
China’s space station crew carried out two spacewalks this past winter to repair the solar wings attached to the core module, which had been damaged by space debris. Read more... | Continue reading
Water is important, but most of us take it for granted. We can live about 30 days without food, but can only survive about 3 days without water. About a year ago, the state of Arizona banned new home construction in Maricopa County — home to Phoenix and surrounding suburbs ... [c … | Continue reading
TikTok wants you to shave clouds of frozen jalapeño, but there are better foods to grate. | Continue reading
Residents in Greece were witnesses to a hellish-looking dust storm this week. The dust originated from the Sahara desert in North Africa and was blown across the Mediterranean Sea by strong winds. By Tuesday, Athens and other Greek cities were blanketed in an orange-red and poten … | Continue reading
Supercell has announced a launch date of May 29 for Squad Busters, representing the developer’s first major release in over… Continue reading Launch date set for Squad Busters, Supercell’s first game in more than 5 years The post Launch date set for Squad Busters, Supercell’s fir … | Continue reading
Also: the Humane AI pin flop and how it relates to the “AI goldrush,” and a look at whether developers will move from Redis to Valkey after a license change, or stay. | Continue reading
Researchers used AI to decipher an ancient papyrus that includes details about where Greek philosopher is buried. | Continue reading
An aviation connection owns 250 apartments in the middle of the country. I asked him whether he’d lost a lot of money during coronapanic when nobody had to pay rent and he was barred by order of the CDC from evicting anyone. “No,” he said. “Nearly all of my tenants kept paying an … | Continue reading
Ramp up your summer fandom wardrobe with Heroes & Villains’ new Star Wars resort collection. This new line from the online retailer has ‘fits perfect for May the Fourth, Mother’s Day, Memorial Day weekend, Father’s Day, and summer vacations at beach destinations like Niamos or Ib … | Continue reading
Cool interactive link o’the week: An Interactive Guide to CSS Container Queries by Ahmad Shadeed A primer on the cascade and specificity by Northern bloke Andy Bell The popover API is in modern browsers, although (sigh) a little broken in Safari/iOS Help us invent CSS Grid Level … | Continue reading
A portable music production studio previewed at NAMM 2022 is now crowdfunding on Kickstarter. Playtime Engineering's Blipblox myTracks is designed to give young creators all the tools they need to start making music. Continue Reading Category: Music, Technology Tags: Digital musi … | Continue reading
I absolutely love Logitech's Mac MX Keys keyboard and MX Master mouse (though I've now updated to version 3 of the mouse). And generally, their software has been pretty good, too. But a recent update added an "AI Prompt generator" feature to the mouse side of things, which is abs … | Continue reading
Summaries, Custom Article Actions, Obsidian Integration, and More Today we’re launching Instapaper 8.6 for iOS and macOS, which includes Summaries to quickly get a snapshot of an article, Custom Article Actions to customize the toolbar in the article view, and many more new featu … | Continue reading
It would be easy to presume that airlines would spare no expense to ensure that passengers’ luggage meets them at their destination, considering how lucrative the attached fees are. Airlines globally made more than $29 billion in checked bag fees in 2022. However, frequent flyers … | Continue reading
Space may be infinite, but it has the same problem we do on Earth: Not enough housing. Builders of space habitats are constrained by shipping capacity. While rocket launches have become cheaper and more frequent, there are only so many building materials you can cram into the pay … | Continue reading
Photo: Imperial College London website. Imperial and France’s National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) are continuing to strengthen the science links between the UK and France. The two institutes – who formed a major partnership in 2022 – outlined their ambitions for furthe … | Continue reading
Self-promotion is a weird subject. It’s one of those things that is strictly tied to who you are as a person. I am, broadly speaking, a shy and reserved person. I don’t like to be in the spotlight, I don’t like to draw attention to myself. I also really care about other people's … | Continue reading
The Steam Deck remains extra popular partly due to the stranglehold Valve’s Steam has on the PC games market but also partially because it (arguably) popularized the modern rendition of the handheld console. It’s not the smallest, it’s not the most powerful, but damn is it appeal … | Continue reading
From spiders struggling to make webs in orbit to bats clinging to the outside of the Space Shuttle, the history of animals in space is as fascinating as it is weird. Here are some of our favorite stories. Read more... | Continue reading
French president Emmanuel Macron during his speech at Sorbonne University, Paris, on April 25th, 2024. Photo credits: Emmanuel Macron / YouTube The EU needs to fundamentally change, including the way it invests in research and innovation, or it might die. That was the gist of a s … | Continue reading
Custom Newsletter Addresses If you’re familiar with Apple’s Hide My Email or Fastmail’s Masked Email, then it’s like that, but for your newsletters. Feedbin has a great new feature that allows users to create unlimited email addresses for newsletters. This is perfect for fighting … | Continue reading
Ella Creamer in The Guardian: ‘At a quarter to eleven on August 12, 2022, on a sunny Friday morning in upstate New York, I was attacked and almost killed by a young man with a knife,” begins Salman Rushdie’s new memoir. The book, titled Knife, reflects on the attack at the Chauta … | Continue reading
Police uncover plot to defame principal with AI-generated racist and antisemitic comments. | Continue reading
The breakthrough could be a great win for the EV market. Scientists make breakthrough in production of salt-based battery technology: 'This process makes it easier' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Robert Lea at Space.com: NASA’s interstellar explorer Voyager 1 is finally communicating with ground control in an understandable way again. On Saturday (April 20), Voyager 1 updated ground control about its health status for the first time in 5 months. While the Voyager 1 spacec … | Continue reading
Many summers ago, when I was young, I got some booze, I got drunk, and I got a hangover. The next morning, I told my dad what happened over breakfast. “We had some wine at the restaurant,” I groaned, “and then a few beers at Mark’s house. It doesn’t seem enough for me to feel thi … | Continue reading
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has sounded a warning to investors that it will take considerable time before any significant returns… Continue reading Meta sounds profit warning as AI spending soars The post Meta sounds profit warning as AI spending soars appeared first on ReadWrite. | Continue reading
There is perhaps no funnier dichotomy in sci-fi fandom than Doctor Who—a show that has inherently been about the nature of change and the mutability of time for six decades—having a fandom that, by and large, does not cope well with change. But one major change coming into the sh … | Continue reading
In the UK, where drinking warm beer was a thing, pint glasses were an appropriate vessel for centuries. In 20th century Germany, a new type of beer vessel evolved along with the technology of refrigeration: The stange, which translates to "pole" or "rod," as that's what the narro … | Continue reading
Recently, Paul Giamatti received an Oscar nomination for his performance in The Holdovers—Alexander Payne’s period film about three loners stuck at a boys’ boarding school during holiday break. He was previously nominated for a supporting role in Cinderella Man in 2005. Many, inc … | Continue reading
From Persuasion: Kwame Anthony Appiah is a British-Ghanaian philosopher, Professor of Philosophy and Law and New York University, and the “Ethicist” columnist for The New York Times Magazine. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Kwame Anthony Appiah discuss why universit … | Continue reading
Ever since Return of the Jedi premiered in 1983, people have been imagining the day when they, like the film’s protagonist Luke Skywalker, would get to ride speeder bikes that zip across the landscape while hovering just a few meters above the ground. In the intervening years, th … | Continue reading
I've been enjoying Biosphere as the soundtrack to my recent "concentrated work" spells. Knives by Biosphere I remember seeing their name on playlists of yester-year: axioms, bluemars1, and (still a going concern) soma.fm's drone zone. Bluemars lives on, at echoes of bluemars↩ | Continue reading
Coal to be hit hard, natural gas plants will have to capture carbon emissions. | Continue reading
Amazon are slashing $80 off this fantastic running watch at right now, which boasts two weeks of battery life. | Continue reading
Threads has announced it has reached the milestone of 150 million active monthly users. The social platform from Facebook and… Continue reading Threads reaches landmark 150 million active monthly users The post Threads reaches landmark 150 million active monthly users appeared fi … | Continue reading
I have an admission: Though I frequently review new Apple products, I don’t always buy them. Like many of you, I can’t afford to update every bit of Apple hardware every time the company does a revision—so I have to carefully measure when the old stuff has now become too old and … | Continue reading
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