Your Kids Can Get a Free Birthday Call From Their Favorite Nickelodeon Characters

Is your kiddo's birthday coming up? Whether you're stuck at home or not when your child's birthday rolls around, Nickelodeon is helping parents plan a special birthday treat your child will never forget. Kids can | Continue reading


@kidsactivitiesblog.com | 3 years ago

Basketball: Track Shooting Percentage and Create Heatmaps with AI

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@myshotcount.com | 3 years ago

BreadBee: A tiny alternative to the Raspberry Pi Zero for US$10

The BreadBee is a very compact single-board computer that runs Linux. Developed by Daniel Palmer, the BreadBee features 64 MB of RAM, an MStar MSC313E Cortex-A7 SoC, two multi-pin headers and an RJ45 Ethernet port. | Continue reading


@notebookcheck.net | 3 years ago

Friday 17 April, 2020

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@memex.naughtons.org | 3 years ago

The Metal Storm gun can fire at 1M rounds per minute

The highest rate of fire for a machine gun in service is the M134 Minigun. The weapon was designed in the late 1960s for helicopters and armored vehicles. It fires 7.62 mm calibre rounds at a blistering rate of 6,000 rounds per minute, or 100 rounds per second -- about ten times … | Continue reading


@wearethemighty.com | 3 years ago

The NFL’s Quest to Quantify Quarterback Evaluation Through Analytics

The most important position in sports is also one of the most difficult to analyze. But thanks to new models and data-inclined front offices, teams are closer to predicting QB prospects’ success than ever before. | Continue reading


@theringer.com | 3 years ago

Consumer Psychology and the Problem of Fine-Print Fraud

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@stanfordlawreview.org | 3 years ago

Project E

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@en.wikipedia.org | 3 years ago

∞ Apple TV+ first look at “Defending Jacob”

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@loopinsight.com | 3 years ago

A step-by-step guide to rotating a 3D cube with Three.js

A step-by-step guide to rotating a 3D cube with three.js and a challenge for the reader. | Continue reading


@builtin.com | 3 years ago

‘Jaws’ Coming to 4K for the First Time Ever This June

Jaws is coming to 4K Ultra HD for the first time ever this June. | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 3 years ago

Pseudo-Randomly Adding Illustrations with CSS

On using structural CSS selectors to create the appearance of randomness while remaining usefully predictable. | Continue reading


@meyerweb.com | 3 years ago

The Implausible Covid-19 Movie

A few weeks ago, the Washington Post interviewed Scott Z. Burns, who wrote the screenplay for Contagion, Steven Soderbergh's film | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 3 years ago

A Comic Strip Tour of the Wild World of Pandemic Modeling

Check out all the latest coronavirus polling we’ve collected. | Continue reading


@fivethirtyeight.com | 3 years ago

How Herbivore Herds Might Help Permafrost

Introducing herds of large herbivores in the Arctic would disturb surface snow, allowing cold air to reach the ground and keep the permafrost frosty. | Continue reading


@scientificamerican.com | 3 years ago

Michigan company thinks it may have found a coronavirus treatment drug

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@eu.freep.com | 3 years ago

Visualizing every layer of a neural net [video]

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@mobile.twitter.com | 3 years ago

Webinars as Lectures

In the 1960s the physicist Richard Feynman gave a lecture on The Law of Gravitation. One commenter, who claimed to be present for this lecture, said: | Continue reading


@gkogan.co | 3 years ago

Daily Podcast: Steven Spielberg’s Star Wars, Darren Aronofsky’s Batman, Rogue One, The Shining, Myst and More

On the April 17, 2020 Episode of /Film Daily, Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film senior writer Ben Pearson and writer Chris Evangelista to discuss the latest film and tv news, including Rogue One, The Shining, Myst, Darren Aronofsky’s Batman and Steven Spielbe … | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 3 years ago

Rust: The Secret Life of Cows

A lot of people at RustFest Paris mentioned Cows– which may be surprising if you’ve never seen std::borrow::Cow! | Continue reading


@deterministic.space | 3 years ago

Interface Builder for React

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@mobile.twitter.com | 3 years ago

Three Twins ice cream company closes, citing coronavirus pandemic

The company’s CEO said expansion into grocery stores hurt profit margins, and the health emergency derailed the chance to get more financing. | Continue reading


@sfchronicle.com | 3 years ago

Select Wat from SQL;

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@scattered-thoughts.net | 3 years ago

Business as Usual, During Alterations

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@vb-tech.co.za | 3 years ago

European coronavirus contact tracing app sparks uproar in the privacy community

The European Commission has called for a pan-European approach to contact tracing apps that track the spread of coronavirus across borders. But what form such technology could take has stoked inten | Continue reading


@tech.newstatesman.com | 3 years ago

.com price rises are on their way after ICANN approves Verisign contract

You thought thousands of complaints would make a difference? | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

California nebula stars in final mosaic by NASA's Spitzer

Five days before NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope ended its mission on Jan. 30, 2020, scientists used the spacecraft's infrared camera to take multiple images of a region known as the California Nebula—a fitting target considering the mission's management and science operations wer … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

New ‘West Side Story’ Images Take You to the Streets With Steven Spielberg’s Musical Remake

Live vicariously through these new West Side Story images, which have people out and about together without worrying about social distancing. | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 3 years ago

Royals Round-Up, April 17th, 2020

We made it to another Royals Round-Up! | Continue reading


@gofugyourself.com | 3 years ago

Be a Hell Yes to Life

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@zenhabits.net | 3 years ago

Finding the Perfect Balance of Darkness in Horror Films

Director David F. Sandberg (Lights Out, Shazam!) quite eloquently muses upon the often complicated issue determining the perfect balance of darkness over | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 3 years ago

Absolutely the Cutest Baby Chick Coloring Page…Ever

Oh the cuteness! Free baby chick coloring page for kids of all ages. Instantly download & print the hatching chick perfect for Easter or a spring day... | Continue reading


@kidsactivitiesblog.com | 3 years ago

Extinction of threatened marine megafauna would lead to huge loss in functional diversity

In a paper published in Science Advances, an international team of researchers have examined traits of marine megafauna species to better understand the potential ecological consequences of their extinction under different future scenarios. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

COVID World, Day Thirty

This makes a full month of quarantine. My low-level anxiety and distraction remain — I don’t expect that to change any time soon — but apart from that, each day resembles an ordinary home-based rea… | Continue reading


@akma.disseminary.org | 3 years ago

Film Grain Synthesis for AV1 Video Codec [pdf]

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@norkin.org | 3 years ago

Cyber attack seen coming through Salesforce channel

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@perception-point.io | 3 years ago

The Greenhouses of Almeria (2013)

Since the 1980s, the small coastal plain, some 30 kilometers southwest of the city of Almeria, has developed the largest concentration of gr... | Continue reading


@amusingplanet.com | 3 years ago

Micro.blog

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@512pixels.net | 3 years ago

Decoding Covid-19

Understanding coronaviruses, breaking down Covid-19 | Continue reading


@multimedia.scmp.com | 3 years ago

San Francisco Responds to Covid-19 with an Experiment in Lawlessness

San Francisco responds to the coronavirus with an experiment in lawlessness. | Continue reading


@city-journal.org | 3 years ago

An Apple veteran will take over the Beats headphones business

Apple Music head Oliver Schusser will be taking the top post at Beats, replacing Luke Wood, who's leaving the company on April 30. | Continue reading


@cnet.com | 3 years ago

Companies Can Truly Help the World

Keynote marketing speaker Samuel Scott reveals companies doing "cause marketing" or "brand purpose" but are hypocritical. He shows what to do instead. | Continue reading


@samueljscott.com | 3 years ago

BTH News 17April2020 – Between the Hacks

Another week of Zoovid-19 news as Zoom and COVID-19 dominate the cybersecurity headlines. Two Zoom zero-day exploits go up for sale. Zoom faces another class-action lawsuit. It’s not all bad news though, Zoom has been busy patching and making strides to regain trust. COVID-19 hel … | Continue reading


@ckd3.com | 3 years ago

Digital Dystopia and Us: Will the New Global Paradigm Kill Off Our Freedoms

In her editorial, forkLog.media's editor-in-chief Jenny Aysgarth dissects the fears of the impending digital dystopia in the wake of the corona-crisis and takes a look at the new world we are entering. | Continue reading


@forklog.media | 3 years ago

Basis of SARS-CoV-2 Entry by Using Human ACE2

Abstract The recent emergence of a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) in China has caused significant public health concerns. Recently, ACE2 was reported as an entry receptor for SARS-CoV-2. In this study, we present the crystal structure of the C-terminal domain of SARS-CoV-2 (SARS- … | Continue reading


@inpst.net | 3 years ago

Show HN: Covid-19 outbreak in the U.S., by county

An Observable notebook by Jake Low. | Continue reading


@observablehq.com | 3 years ago

Day 1184: "Never fear."

“Never fear.” | Continue reading


@whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com | 3 years ago

XB-1's wings are officially closed out

Closeout of the wings brings Boom’s supersonic demonstrator closer to first flight. | Continue reading


@blog.boomsupersonic.com | 3 years ago