This week we launched two new substacks that you might want to check out. Never SponsoredFor the last 28 years I have been neck-deep in the world of woodworking tools. First as a user and reviewer of tools for Popular Woodworking Magazine. Then as a designer, maker and user of th … | Continue reading
Current conditions: Flood watches are in effect for the eastern half of North Carolina • Egg-sized hail smashed car windshields in eastern China • Europe is forecast to be unusually warm through April. THE TOP FIVE 1. New England to shutter last remaining coal plant New England w … | Continue reading
Global gambling group 888 Holdings parts ways with several business-to-customer (B2C) assets after a strategic business review. Hard Rock Digital… Continue reading 888 agrees to the sale of certain United States B2C assets to Hard Rock Digital The post 888 agrees to the sale of c … | Continue reading
The Story of Keys If you would give me the key to your house I would think of it as a one-dimensional mountain range. I would hold it up to the sky and study how clouds drink in its valleys. Think of it as a tiny file that cuts through vertical shadows. The door of… | Continue reading
L'articolo COSTRUZIONI: LA FILIERA CONTINUA A CRESCERE. PNRR E PIANO “CASA GREEN” LE SFIDE PIÙ IMPORTANTI proviene da BolognaFiere Group. | Continue reading
Everyone's favorite reprogrammed Imperial droid... | Continue reading
By Jacqui Banaszynski lassic news narratives tend to follow a single primary character through a story. There are other characters, of course, including people connected to the main character or more official or expert sources to provide context and perspective. Such classic narr … | Continue reading
Introducing little ones to new foods is never boring. Sometimes you hit the jackpot, and their faces light up at the taste of roasted broccoli or fried shrimp. Sometimes, not so much. One day may be a yes and the next day a no, but every day is an adventure — and we promise, it a … | Continue reading
The drift to normal can only be countered by persistent effort, usually at the cost of some element of short-term scale. I am in the process of writing down my thoughts about google’s idiosyncratic culture, how that perpetuated products and how the normalcy has effectively remove … | Continue reading
"I've been looking for a large container for my orchids." Home stylist shares 'brilliant' alternative use for old cooking pots just in time for spring: 'Love that idea' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Iron Man’s heart got patched with duct tape. Creative fellow, knows how to fix things. | Continue reading
It was in the news this week that night train startup European Sleeper has contacted the Bundeskartellamt (Federal Cartel Office) in Germany over Deutsche Bahn’s refusal to sell its tickets on bahn.de and in its DB Navigator app. I can see European Sleeper’s point of view very cl … | Continue reading
A band of salmon-colored cloud above the horizon half an hour past sunrise. From the top branch of a walnut tree, a brown-headed cowbird sings his single, complex note. | Continue reading
When politicians tell the CEO of Radiant Nuclear that they love small modular reactors, he groans inwardly and just keeps smiling. Doug Bernauer’s Radiant is not trying to make SMRs. His company — a VC-backed startup currently in the pre-application phase with the Nuclear Regulat … | Continue reading
Popular VR headsets like the Meta Quest or Apple Vision Pro can be broken into, with hackers adding fake experiences called "inception layers" that let them manipulate how a user behaves. | Continue reading
"Looks like something from a Jurassic Park movie. Love it!" American EV company Canoo seen testing pickup in Oklahoma: 'Performs like a battleship' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Sam Bankman-Fried, owner of the bankrupt crypto exchange FTX, will receive sentencing in New York today (March 28) after his… Continue reading Sam Bankman-Fried to be sentenced to jail time The post Sam Bankman-Fried to be sentenced to jail time appeared first on ReadWrite. | Continue reading
When you purchase a new Kindle e-reader from Amazon, and are not buying it as a gift, Amazon has an option to automatically register the Kindle to your Amazon account. When the device is shipped off and you unbox it for the first time, and go through a simple setup process, the K … | Continue reading
Das Thema Grundverkehr, also der Erwerb von Eigentums- oder Nutzungsrechten an einem Grundstück, ist hierzulande wieder einmal heftig aus dem Ruder gelaufen. Bekanntlich hat die Gemeinde Going am Wilden Kaiser einem deutschen Spitzenmanager die Nutzung seines Wohnsitzes untersagt … | Continue reading
ENAT welcomes its members to the Annual General Assembly, taking place at our new address in the heart of Brussels on Monday afternoon, 3rd June 2024. Monday 3rd June 2024. ENAT Annual General Assembly. Time: 13.00 to 16.00 hours. Venue: The AGA takes place at ENAT's new official … | Continue reading
GameSir announced the X2s a few weeks back and it certainly raised a lot of interest. An upgraded version of… Continue reading GameSir X2s Mobile Controller: Turn your mobile phone into a Switch lookalike The post GameSir X2s Mobile Controller: Turn your mobile phone into a Switc … | Continue reading
It’s yet another hardware side-channel attack: The threat resides in the chips’ data memory-dependent prefetcher, a hardware optimization that predicts the memory addresses of data that running code is likely to access in the near future. By loading the contents into the CPU cach … | Continue reading
If anyone knows a way to create a keyboard shortcut for Safari to copy the current tab’s URL to the clipboard that doesn’t make one want to set one’s laptop alight and heave it out the nearest window, please do let me know. Reply via email or Mastodon. | Continue reading
I am not who I wasthen again,none of us arewho we were, I mean. It’s hard to think about it . . .. . . what’s it been now, 33 years? That’s a long timeand although this is not meanymore, nor has this been mefor a very long timeI still remember the violence from the […] | Continue reading
A little over a decade ago I was at a small conference, where I happened to share the stage with a British lawyer, Polly Higgins, seeking to internationally criminalise ‘ecocide’, alongside various other speakers. One of those others was a self declared rationalist running a data … | Continue reading
We asked readers: what have you done to empower yourself in these strange times? This is what you said The post The most empowering changes you have made in your lives appeared first on Positive News. | Continue reading
"I believe in a future where natural building and self-made homes are accessible." This cob home looks like something out of a fairy tale — here's what makes it special first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
On the last day of our holiday I could feel either the same bug I had before going away making a comeback – doing an encore of sorts – or an entirely new bug caught on the aeroplane making it’s presence known. Given that I had two days at home before returning to work, I […] | Continue reading
The number of workers in the Netherlands filing reports at the Dutch House for Whistleblowers (Huis voor Klokkenluiders) increased to 369 in 2023, compared to just 243 the year... | Continue reading
“We hope you enjoyed turtle day!” Expert explains why she has buried her pet turtles in the backyard for more than 20 years first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
You can expect to pay between $100 and $200 a year to ensure it’s running smoothly. Heat pump sales are booming across the country — but is there a hidden cost? first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
“Was planning to put it in a salad this weekend…” Frustrated gardener catches thief who took first cucumber from their garden: 'I could think of much worse fates' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Julie sent me a photo from her phone, taken at a family wedding last September. I am sitting next to my younger cousin Paul, and you will see the family resemblance. The others besides Julie are cousins, and the lady far left is Paul’s wife. A nice reminder of a happy day. (The p … | Continue reading
Last week, the Biden administration announced its final car emission standards, aimed at pushing the auto industry to create more zero-emission vehicles. While there’s plenty in the 1,200-page document for policy wonks, politicians, environmental advocates, and automakers to hem … | Continue reading
Lufthansa airport ground staff have reached a pay agreement with their employer, the German trade union ver.di has announced. Ver.di announces pay deal between ground staff and... | Continue reading
Peter Savodnik on Evan Gershkovich’s year in Russian prison. Eli Lake on campus lunacy. RIP Joe Lieberman, Richard Serra, and Daniel Kahneman. And much more. | Continue reading
By advertising on Instagram and TikTok, and selling through marketplaces, vendors are finding their way around the ban. | Continue reading
MicroConf US in Atlanta is here in just a couple weeks, and this is your last call to buy tickets. We've sold more than 90% of the tickets, and we will sell this event out as we have for many years. The event is April 21st through the 23rd in Atlanta, Georgia at the amazing Starl … | Continue reading
An overdue ruling from the Oversight Board. | Continue reading
Workers in Kenya, Nigeria, and Pakistan were booted off the AI-training service earlier this month. | Continue reading
"We are poised to accelerate our global commercialization efforts." Firm to build revolutionary plant that can turn pollution into building materials: 'This investment marks a pivotal moment' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
If the First Industrial Revolution used water and steam to fundamentally change the nature of work, the current industrial revolution—the disruption of automation, information, the internet, and now AI—is transforming everything about the way we work, connect, and interact with t … | Continue reading
Credible leaks from the Honkai: Star Rail 2.2 version beta are coming thick and fast now. One of the latest… Continue reading Get a free Light Cone in Honkai: Star Rail The post Get a free Light Cone in Honkai: Star Rail appeared first on ReadWrite. | Continue reading
"As a malaria researcher, I used to dream of the day we would have a safe and effective vaccine against malaria." Scientists floored by life-saving effect seen in world's first malaria vaccine: 'I was surprised I didn't hear any gasps' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Burger of the Day: The Burger Truck – All American Burger Song of the Day: Good Times Roll – The Cars | Continue reading
Beloga offers multi-source knowledge management to offer hyper-contextualized insights, streamline workflows, and make information retrieval easy. In this interview, we talked about addressing the challenges of knowledge management and transfer, cultivating an environment conduci … | Continue reading
I’ve long wanted to write a story where I take something that is considered a universal positive—the love of a parent for their child—and super-charge it and challenge it to the point where that love becomes dangerous. In my experience, we will do things to protect the ones we wo … | Continue reading
The remains of the ornately decorated Roman buildings contain numerous artifacts, including "curse tablets," tiny axes and a horse-headed belt buckle. | Continue reading