"It will actually be a fast-growing segment." Incredible new battery can reduce EV fire risks: 'It will not be a fringe player' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Winding through Indiana’s Grant County, the Garfield Trail features 14 statues of America’s favorite lasagna-loving cat, Garfield. The five-foot-tall statues are scattered across Marion, Indiana—birthplace of Garfield comic creator Jim David—and the surrounding towns. Most of the … | Continue reading
Thomann Synthesizers put together a beautiful tribute to the late great David Lynch and his profound impact on electronic music. | Continue reading
Want to grow the US economy? Capitalism is founded on the premise that private actors own and control property in accord with their interests, and demand and supply freely set prices in markets in a way that can serve the best interests of society. If the US is a capitalist ... [ … | Continue reading
An method driven by artificial intelligence is making it possible to read texts scorched and left buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. | Continue reading
Federico Viticci, MacStories, thinking about apps like Tapestry: My problem with timeline apps is that I struggle to understand their pitch as alternatives to browsing Mastodon and Bluesky (supported by both Tapestry and Reeder) when they don’t support key functionalities of thos … | Continue reading
It's kind of a giveaway if you call the people you're pretending to be. | Continue reading
The Slayer herself revealed that a Buffy revival has been in the works for a while ahead of this week's announcement. | Continue reading
Do 1000 profiles of federal workers being attacked by Musk. Don't use real names. Have AI provide real-looking photos of fictitious people. Explain what they do. Don't focus on their lives. Make readers think of what life will be like without them. We should have done this a long … | Continue reading
The Japanese developer was previously alleged to have tried forcing employees at its Tokyo office to voluntarily resign. | Continue reading
Carl Zimmer in the New York Times: In early February 2020, China locked down more than 50 million people, hoping to hinder the spread of a new coronavirus. No one knew at the time exactly how it was spreading, but Lidia Morawska, an expert on air quality at Queensland University … | Continue reading
UGH. The post If You Are Reading This On Mobile and Your Slideshows Aren’t Working, We Know! first appeared on Go Fug Yourself. | Continue reading
Talks between Honda and Nissan are at an impasse according to reports in the Japanese press, and could fall apart this month. The post The Wheels Are Already Coming Off The Honda-Nissan Merger Plan appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
Karen Attiah wrote a short opinion piece about how the nationwide assault on diversity, equity and inclusion led by conservatives is actually aimed at resegregation and how being precise in our language about what’s happening is crucial. These facts, taken together, point to the … | Continue reading
It has Dolly's stamp of approval (literally). READ MORE... | Continue reading
Scientists are studying the vaginal microbiome in populations all around the world to see how it might differ in different people and in health and disease. | Continue reading
Google debuted a pair of new Super Bowl commercials that portray AI as a technology that’s as central to people’s lives as the phone or computer they access it on. But, like some of Google’s other Super Bowl ads, the company is once again attempting to make you pull out your tiss … | Continue reading
I am currently making progress on my upcycle project, a stool made from vintage bicycle parts. I’ve acquired a vintage bicycle seat from an old tandem bicycle. It is made with tanned leather and metal springs, and currently, it’s fixed to a seat post of 1-inch diameter, which for … | Continue reading
Federal Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly temporarily blocked the US Treasury Department from sharing sensitive data with outsiders. Elon Musk and his DOGE cronies are the outsiders in question. SUPPORT INDEPENDENT WEBSITES CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE! Much of the United States has watche … | Continue reading
Trump has unleashed a mob of tech-arsonists on the entire federal government. | Continue reading
Have you thought about what you’re going to do when your smart fridge is too old to download its latest software update? While you’d probably replace your phone or computer when its software hits its end of life, your fridge will still keep your food cold even if it can’t stream … | Continue reading
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The nearby San José mine empties its pipelines into the lake. Group stages miraculous revival of once-toxic lake — here's how they accomplished the unthinkable first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Lots of talk in the AI space about moats. Does any model have such an outsized advantage that it just can’t be beat, protecting the business from competition? But the best moat is a great product. OpenAI still has a technical and UX lead across their suite of products. Might not … | Continue reading
We reported yesterday that Tesla is already rolling out discounts to try to get people to buy a new Tesla Model 3 or Tesla Cybertruck. It seems a bit early in the quarter for Tesla to be doing this, seemingly indicating ongoing or increasing consumer demand challenges after the c … | Continue reading
Los Angeles Times: Allstate said this week that it expects to lose $1.1 billion due to the Los Angeles fires, making it the second major insurer to announce the financial impact of the country’s single most costly blaze. The Northbrook, Ill., company said the figure represents it … | Continue reading
Blind Squirrel grabbed Distributed largely for its proprietary AI tool made for Unreal Engine, which could help make port development shorter. | Continue reading
The Interactive Innovation Conference will focus on where games connect to other industries The post Vowels Are Back As ESA Announces New Conference appeared first on Aftermath. | Continue reading
It wasn’t that long ago that the idea for electric vehicle wireless charging was hatched, and there have been many pilot projects. At CleanTechnica, we have published a variety of articles about wireless charging, including road-embedded technology. It might be possible to drive … | Continue reading
Kurzgesagt colorfully took a look at how aliens might look, noting that their features would be optimized to their environments. | Continue reading
The Spine Race is not just another endurance event; it is a gruelling challenge that tests the limits of human... | Continue reading
From Manu on Identity. It’s also why I find broad group definitions so annoying. Lumping together potentially billions of people using arbitrary traits as the dividing line is such a lazy way to look at the richness of human diversity and experience. Every time I see people using … | Continue reading
Exploring the transformation of Earth from a volcanic hellscape to a potential birthplace of life during the Hadean era. Insights from a University of California study suggest that early Earth had liquid water and conditions that might have supported life’s beginnings, despite th … | Continue reading
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Ted Carstensen, the head of the United States Digital Service (USDS) organization that has been renamed to Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), is resigning instead of taking the “Fork in the Road†buyout offer for federal employees. “I write to let you … | Continue reading
Israeli Prime Sinister Benjamin Netanyahu loves Convicted Felon #47's worst idea ever: the United States taking up Israeli's war against the Palestinians. GET BOING BOING IN YOUR MAILBOX CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE! Donald Trump has proposed invading Greenland, Canada, Mexico, Panama … | Continue reading
In the last few days, two of the six most expensive cars in history have sold at auction. One for US$54 million in Germany, the other for $36 million in Paris. We're guessing that with financial storm clouds looming, the world's most astute money managers are seeking a proven eco … | Continue reading
A 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is filled with lost words that scholars can now decipher thanks to AI and a particle accelerator. | Continue reading
Leica has announced a new iPhone accessory called the Leica Lux Grip designed to make using its iOS-only Leica Lux app feel more like shooting with its dedicated cameras. It adds a DSLR-style grip to the iPhone and features customizable function buttons, a two-stage shutter butto … | Continue reading
Pre-order discounts die today, get your Galaxy S25 Ultra before it’s too late! | Continue reading
Old ICE press releases have a little piece of new HTML that’s doing a lot of work. | Continue reading
I totally lost the plot on Yellowjackets coming back so soon, but all of a sudden, season three will be upon us February 16. People will burn! People will wear antlers! People will be devoured! Place your bets. [Photos: Arturo Holmes/Getty Images]… The post The Adult Yellowjacket … | Continue reading
It’s always the first to disappear. READ MORE... | Continue reading
It’s a grim but necessary job. Specially trained dog helps bring closure to families after devastating hurricane: 'I've never seen anything like that' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Never trust a secret admirer in a '90s teen horror. The post Happy Valentine’s Day: Be Mine …Or Else appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
We’ve all been there. One day, you’re driving to the grocery store, minding your own business, and then you see it coming from the opposite end of the street. At first, you panic and wonder if it’s the off-screen entity from Bird Box that drives people to death if looked at. But … | Continue reading
Since November 9, 1989, when the wall dividing East and West Berlin came down, pieces of the concrete barrier have scattered around the globe. One graffiti-sprayed, bullet hole-riddled slab wound up in Columbus, Ohio, where it can still be seen today. To prepare for the AmeriFlor … | Continue reading
A major plot point from 'Eternals' will finally become relevant again as adamantium enters the MCU. | Continue reading