Car seat could be made of soyabean

For high-end automakers, animal-free textiles are the brave new world of interior car design | Continue reading


@thehindubusinessline.com | 4 years ago

April Startup Funding: Corporate Gushers

Corporate investments dominated during April. | Continue reading


@semiengineering.com | 4 years ago

Open Source Node ORM for MySQL, Oracle and PostgreSQL

Simple Node ORM is an open source suite of JavaScript applications that provides data access and reporting capabilities to MySQL,… | Continue reading


@simplenodeorm.org | 4 years ago

Will Captain America Get His Own Disney+ Show? The Plan For Cap’s Future, According to the ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Writers

Will we see a Captain America Disney+ show in the wake of Avengers: Endgame? The movie's writers sound off about the future of Captain America in the MCU. | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 4 years ago

Faculty interview questions I asked and got asked

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@web.eecs.utk.edu | 4 years ago

Daily Podcast: What Responsibility Does A Filmmaker Have To Fans of A Franchise? John Wick, Willow, Peter Mayhew, Cobra Kai, Mission Impossinle & Sinemia

On the May 3, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor in chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall, and writer Chris Evangelista to discuss the latest film and tv news, including the death of Peter Mayhew, early buzz for John Wick Chapter 3, a Willow tv … | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 4 years ago

A Trio of Outdoor Cats Are Taken by Surprise When a Plush Puppy Starts Meowing at Them

The cooperative team of outdoor cats who defended their human's yard from an incoming real dog, were a little less brave when it came to a plush puppy | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

The Many Afterlives of Robinson Crusoe

Some years ago the New Yorker banned desert-island cartoons from the magazine. The ragged, bearded fellow making satirical observations from his little patch of sand with its lone palm tree had become a tired formula. But he’s still with us, Wifi and social media now offering new … | Continue reading


@newstatesman.com | 4 years ago

The A16Z Pitch Room: Sandbox VR

Have you ever wished you could be in the room when founders present to the Andreessen Horowitz investing team? Even better, do you wish you could stay to hear the discussion after the pitch? We hea… | Continue reading


@a16z.com | 4 years ago

Why do depressed people prefer sad music?

Backpage allegedly used a host of crypto companies to clean its cash, including Crypto Capital. Is this how the massive fraud investigation began? | Continue reading


@psycnet.apa.org | 4 years ago

Billion-scale semi-supervised learning for image classification

This paper presents a study of semi-supervised learning with largeconvolutional networks. We propose a pipeline, based on a teacher/studentparadigm, that leverages a large collection of... | Continue reading


@arxiv.org | 4 years ago

Industry-ready process makes plastics chemical from plant sugars

Developing renewable, plant-based alternatives for petroleum-derived chemicals is a major piece of the effort to transition away from a fossil-fuel based economy toward a more sustainable and environmentally friendly bio-based economy. But integration of novel and unproven techno … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Study says ancient Romans may have built “invisibility cloaks” into structures

Foundational patterns in Roman theaters resemble electromagnetic cloaking devices. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 4 years ago

Did Cambridge Analytica Help to Create 'Digital Wokeness'?

IRL podcast host Manoush Zomordoi discusses the one good thing that came out of the Cambridge Analytica scandal: digital wokeness. | Continue reading


@blog.mozilla.org | 4 years ago

Ciasteczka owsiane z masłem orzechowym i suszonymi wiśniami

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@whiteplate.com | 4 years ago

Was there a coup attempt in Jordan?

Haaretz is emphatic: Jordanian King Abdullah II fired several senior officials over the past week following reports of a plot to destabilize the kingdom, including the general intelligence chief, t… | Continue reading


@roguegeopolitics.com | 4 years ago

Babeczki brownie z owocami

Pyszne czekoladowe babeczki z bajecznie prostego przepisu! Zrobicie je w pół godziny bardzo małym nakładem pracy. Uroku i smaku dodają im plasterki truskawek i borówki, ale mogą być maliny lub wiśnie... Do babeczek użyłam jednorazowych foremek kartonowych, których nie trzeba wkła … | Continue reading


@kwestiasmaku.com | 4 years ago

The Dalai Lama's Patek Philippe, Gifted by FDR via the OSS

After many years of trying to get a photograph of the Dalai Lama's Patek Philippe that was a gift from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1943, I nearly fell off my office chair when I got an e-mail this morning from Thomas Laird directing me to Senator Patrick Leahy's Facebo … | Continue reading


@hodinkee.com | 4 years ago

Rusty's API Design Manifesto

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@sweng.the-davies.net | 4 years ago

Royals Round-Up, May 3rd, 2019

WHERE IS THIS BABY | Continue reading


@gofugyourself.com | 4 years ago

‘Long Shot’ Star O’Shea Jackson Jr. on Sharing the Screen With Seth Rogen and Godzilla [Interview]

In our O'Shea Jackson Jr. interview, the rising star talks about playing best friends with Seth Rogen in Long Shot and fighting monsters in Godzilla. | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 4 years ago

Undermind Episode 21 – A Podcast about Starcraft AI

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@makingcomputerdothings.com | 4 years ago

My Childhood in a Cult

On our isolated commune, we kids were taught that the world was about to end. But my world ended when I was told to leave. | Continue reading


@newyorker.com | 4 years ago

Flexible File Sharing with Macaroons

Sharing is a vital piece of any online storage system. Or, to be more precise, access control is a vital piece of such systems. When you store a file, you need to be able to designate whether other people or automated agents are allowed to retrieve the data, delete it, or put som … | Continue reading


@storj.io | 4 years ago

Traces vs. Snapshots: Print Statements and Debuggers

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@scott-a-s.com | 4 years ago

After more than a century, it looks like city officials are finally going to change it. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 4 years ago

Werner Herzog: ‘I’m not a pundit. Don’t push me into that corner’

Charles Bramesco in The Guardian: Director-documentarian-deity Werner Herzog has stared death in the face, blazed a path through madness, and charted the outermost limits of human experience. For a man of such stature, sitting down with one of the most significant public figures … | Continue reading


@3quarksdaily.com | 4 years ago

An Amazingly Detailed Millennium Falcon Mince Pie

The very talented Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin (previously) of Pies Are Awesome has created an amazingly detailed mince pie in the distinctive shape and | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

$2.34B fundraise gives Tesla much-needed breathing room

Strong fundraising results are a vote of confidence from Wall Street. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 4 years ago

One of the Largest Dark Net Markets ‘Of All Time’ Falls to Police

Police from around the world shut down the biggest active black market on the dark web this month, according to announcements from law enforcement agencies in the United States, Germany, and the Netherlands released on Friday. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 4 years ago

Fast bitset decoding for “average” densities

Suppose I give you a word and you need to determine the location of the 1-bits. For example, given the word 0b100011001, you would like to get 0,3,4,8.You could check the value of each bit, but that would take too long. A better approach is use the fact that modern processors hav … | Continue reading


@lemire.me | 4 years ago

Artificial neural networks can be used to drive brain activity

Summary: Current deep learning models are able to create images strongly enough to activated specific neurons in the visual cortex. However, researchers say more accurate artificial neural network mod | Continue reading


@neurosciencenews.com | 4 years ago

In the story of democracy: are we at the beginning, in the middle or near the end?

More here.  [Thanks to Misha Lepetic.] | Continue reading


@3quarksdaily.com | 4 years ago

The Undefined Podcast – Like Joe Rogan but for JavaScript

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@undefined.fm | 4 years ago

Kick off NYCxDesign By Visiting New Design Fair Object & Thing

NYCxDesign hasn't quite kicked off yet, but new design fair Object & Thing is eager to show design lovers what they can bring to the table. Starting tomorrow and continuing through Sunday, May 5, Object & Thing will bring its online catalogue to life with an exhibition featuring … | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

We need to make the small print bigger on trending news

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@recknsense.com | 4 years ago

Elliott Williams misstates rather badly!

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@dailyhowler.blogspot.com | 4 years ago

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@manton.org | 4 years ago

Linear A

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@en.wikipedia.org | 4 years ago

Hire better developers faster at Indorse

Assess candidates programming skills by testing their code online. Receive tailor-made code reports and hire the right tech candidates. | Continue reading


@indorse.io | 4 years ago

Nicole Kidman Reuniting With ‘Big Little Lies’ Team to Adapt ‘Nine Perfect Strangers’ Series for Hulu

Nicole Kidman is reuniting with key members of the Big Little Lies team to adapt Liane Moriarty's latest novel into a Nine Perfec Strangers series on Hulu. | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 4 years ago

Zuck Bucks? Facebook May Launch a Cryptocurrency

Facebook is reportedly planing on introducing a cryptocurrency and crypto-based payment system, in a effort code named Project Libra. | Continue reading


@tomshardware.com | 4 years ago

The Docker Hub Hack: The Quick Fix and the Long-Term Questions

This weekend we learned of a hack to Docker Hub that compromised 190,000 accounts, approximately 5% of users. Unfortunately, it's not a surprise that a hack of this scope happened.  And now here it is. A Docker Hub database has been  raided-- hashed passwords and access keys stol … | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 4 years ago

Russia's 11 Time Zones

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@en.wikipedia.org | 4 years ago

School’s Out for the Summer!

Summer is about to arrive, and that means kids will be spending more time on their screens. Here are some tips to help with summer screen safety. | Continue reading


@bark.us | 4 years ago

A Lovestruck Tormund Giantsbane Relentlessly Flirts With Brienne of Tarth in an Amusing Minute Game of Thrones Compilation

In a rather amusing supercut of scenes from Game of Thrones series, a lovestruck Tormund Giantsbane (Kristofer Hivju) lustfully flirts with Brienne of | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

L.A. Museum Opens New Exhibit of Dystopian Vehicles from Blade Runner

If you’ve never been to the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, you have to go. And there’s no better time than this year, as the museum opens up a new exhibit of vehicles from TV and movies that looks cool as hell. | Continue reading


@paleofuture.gizmodo.com | 4 years ago

Belgium Internet Provider Targets Frustrated Gamers with Voice-Activated Banners

An ad agency in Belgium revealed its latest bid to hook gamers and other internet users prone to rage over slow connections: “Raging Banners.” VOO, one of Belgium’s main telecom p… | Continue reading


@variety.com | 4 years ago