Shift Robotics began as a Carnegie Mellon spin-off, its first product was funded by Kickstarter so do not dismiss them as just another set of strap-on electric roller skates. Continue Reading Category: Urban Transport, Transport Tags: Moonwalker, Carnegie Mellon, Mobility, Walk, … | Continue reading
today was supposed to be a day of celebration as we mark 8 years together. but unfortunately i lost a friend of 18 years to cancer yesterday, so we had to attend a wake together. it is during such an event that the full meaning of what it is like to have a partner of 8 years by m … | Continue reading
Anthropic, developers of the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Claude, announced this week that they have launched an iOS app. The… Continue reading Anthropic’s Claude AI is coming to iOS as an app The post Anthropic’s Claude AI is coming to iOS as an app appeared first on Rea … | Continue reading
Population distribution of China. The most common surnames in Europe. The population of London compared to large American cities. Extreme weather across America. How the British communicate in a foreign language. If you can only see one thing in a foreign country. (This can be en … | Continue reading
US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) endured their biggest single-day outflow yesterday (May 1). Investors took over half a billion… Continue reading US Bitcoin ETFs see record outflows after Fed announcement The post US Bitcoin ETFs see record outflows after Fed announce … | Continue reading
You can stop skulking around labs trying to get bitten by radioactive spiders – a new breakthrough could make it easier than ever to get Spider-Man’s wall-crawling powers. Scientists in Singapore have created a strong and reusable adhesive out of a shape-memory polymer, sticking … | Continue reading
It’s no secret I love historical mysteries. I spent my childhood reading Nancy Drew, The Famous Five and Secret Seven, progressing to Agatha Christie in my teenage and adult years. I rejoiced when the genre moved away from bumbling women who solved mysteries purely by luck to str … | Continue reading
I love writers who mix genres. It’s like an athlete who plays sports and somehow, improbably, manages to be good at all of them. C.J. Tudor’s novels cross boundaries between mystery, horror, and thriller, managing to bring out the best in each of them while creating something who … | Continue reading
Perched on a stool at the end of the bar of the Elks Club lodge 656, Gary Webb answered his black Nokia flip phone like a celebrity fielding live calls at a telethon fundraiser. After so many decades as a farmer, political agitator, activist, competitive fisherman, football coach … | Continue reading
Google Play Books has been provided an update that introduces several new features to the app, the company revealed via a blog post. That includes integration with YouTube where users will be able to listen to audiobook previews for free. This would be in addition to the audioboo … | Continue reading
In the Louisiana Channel interview clip from 2017 above, the late Paul Auster tells the story of how he became a writer. Its first episode had appeared more than twenty years earlier, in a New Yorker piece titled “Why Write?”: “I was eight years old. At that moment in my life, no … | Continue reading
Welche touristische „Produkte“ zu welchen Preisen in den Bergen geboten werden, ist schon seit Jahren einem starken Wandel unterworfen: Technische Beschneiung stand als höchst erfolgreiche Klimawandelanpassungsstrategie lange für verlässliche Qualität und homogene Beschaffenheit … | Continue reading
The news lately has not exactly been a walk in the park. Iran launched hundreds of rockets at Israel, creating the prospect of World War III; we have Trump’s ongoing criminal trial; a TikTok ban; a war in Ukraine; and much of the Ivy League is now co-opted by Hamas. Should we go … | Continue reading
by Robert Faturechi, Ellis Simani and Justin Elliott ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. … | Continue reading
In a study of cells from nearly 400 ALS patients, researchers identified genomic regions with chemical modifications linked to disease progression. | Continue reading
I am convinced that the busyness of our age detracts from our ability to see the worthy work we do, to see ourselves as whole persons. Filling our days does not necessarily lead to fulfillment. | Continue reading
The fossil shark Ptychodus was first identified 190 years ago, but in the intervening centuries of paleontological inquiry, a comprehensive look at the ancient fish has been hard to come by. Until now. In a paper published last week in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, a te … | Continue reading
"More where that came from." Workers break ground on multibillion-dollar high-speed rail line connecting Las Vegas to Los Angeles: 'More where that came from' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Nerea Bartolome (@nerea.bartolome) Make of it what you will, but don't try to compare the Finnish words for snow with Eskimo words for snow. Selected reading "The snow words myth: progress at last" (1/4/07) — too many other posts for E … | Continue reading
Fortnire’s biggest collaboration of the year is almost upon us. Ever since somebody decided that May the 4th sounded fractionally… Continue reading Lego Fornite Star Wars collab – when you can get it and everything it includes The post Lego Fornite Star Wars collab – when you can … | Continue reading
Fast fashion is one of the world’s most polluting industries. Its global workforce is paying the price. | Continue reading
This well known surreal painting was originally titled ‘The Garden Of Lusts’. It was painted between 1490 and 1510 by the Dutch artist, Hieronymus Bosch, and is said to either be a celebration of sexual joy, a warning of the perils of the flesh, or both. It is packed with so many … | Continue reading
I'm still a little miffed that my local council took it on themselves to "correct" my name on the electoral roll to something it isn't, thereby potentially disenfranchising me (I can't produce photo ID in the fake name they came up with!). But I'm pleased to report that, after pr … | Continue reading
It's the first evidence of an oil company acknowledging that gas wasn't as climate-friendly as promised. | Continue reading
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I've held the opinion for several years now that the end game is... The post 27% : WearOS Growth Figure Points To the End Game for smart watches – plus a new tech trend is highlighted appeared first on the5krunner • tri bike run. The full post can be read now at the5krunner • tri … | Continue reading
Activists appealed to the United Nations for help staving off “disaster capitalism” in the wake of the deadly blaze. | Continue reading
During the 1950s, a researcher gave an artist two 50-microgram doses of LSD (each dose separated by about an hour), and then the artist was encouraged to draw pictures of the doctor who administered the drugs. Nine portraits were drawn over the space of eight hours. We still don’ … | Continue reading
"Beautiful, terrible plant.” Gardeners issue warning about deceptive plant making its way into backyards: 'Kill it now' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
As knowledge worker and when learning new topics, it’s helpful to have a note-taking system and a way to keep track of acquired knowledge and additional pointers. In this video, I’m showing a simple, plain-text-file-based knowledge system powered by your editor of choice. I want … | Continue reading
You may have not noticed it but my blog was down for few hours and I had to being it back up using a backup I had. Tarneo, who generously hosts my blog, noticed it first and he did most of the work on the backend. But all my data was lost due to a […] Comment on this. | Continue reading
A deeply insightful map from xkcd. See also: 19 maps that will blow… Tags: humor, xkcd | Continue reading
Tesla plans to lay off roughly 500 employees in its electric vehicle charging business — a surprising move that industry experts warn could threaten the reliability of the company’s nation-leading network of EV charging sites, complicate its execution of federally funded public c … | Continue reading
The Biden-Harris administration is bringing clean power to America’s less populated – and sometimes overlooked – regions. On Tuesday, the Department of Energy announced $78 million for 19 clean energy projects in rural communities from Alaska to Alabama, for installing everything … | Continue reading
The “enlightenment roadmap” of a Java developer can be scary. How do you become the 10x Java Developer you always dreamed of becoming? The post Crowd-Publishing the 10x Java Dev Book appeared first on foojay. | Continue reading
Jason is sick and sounds “great”. Some media corner for your enjoyment! What kinds of things would you like to see returning for round two? We love feedback! Keep it coming! Get your life right and get on the Johnny Decimal workshop! Andrew is filing feedback to make the world a … | Continue reading
Each Thursday in the Disquiet Junto music community, a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have five days to record and upload a track in response to the project instructions. Membership in the Junto is open: just join and participate. (A Sound … | Continue reading
The Hawthorne Siblings project, developed by REFRESH* Studio, introduces a distinctive densification solution in Brisbane’s inner Northeast. Situated on a 600m² corner block, this innovative development combines the renovation of an existing house ... Continue reading | Continue reading
"Doesn't the slash through the recycling logo mean it can't be recycled?" Shopper calls out Scotch-Brite for greenwashing after latest packaging change: 'Both claim that the packaging is recyclable' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
My April iTunes listening according to last.fm: 1 Billie Holiday 7 scrobbles 2 Bruce Springsteen 7 3 Sleater-Kinney 7 4 The Beatles 7 5 The Style Council 7 6 They Might Be Giants 7 7 Elvis Costello 6 8 Florence + the Machine 6 9 PJ Harvey 6 10 R.E.M. 6 As always, the I’ve… | Continue reading
I spend the vast majority of my time doing creative work. I code for a living, sometimes I design for a living. I code as a hobby, sometimes I do design as a hobby. I also write. Being creative ain’t easy. At least not for me. I sit at my desk, staring at the same screen day afte … | Continue reading
EDF! EDF! EDF! If you’re hungry for more horde shooters where you shoot bugs with military jingoism vibes, you’re in luck. D3Publisher is finally bringing developer Sandlot’s game Earth Defense Force 6 worldwide with an English release. EDF 6 released in 2022 in Japan, featuring … | Continue reading
Union mounts let you merge the contents of two volumes without copying any files. Do they work as expected in Sonoma's APFS, though? | Continue reading
Apartment C, designed by KC Design Studio in Taipei, addresses the challenge of a fragmented layout due to its central urban location surrounded by streets on all sides. Continue reading | Continue reading
Here’s a simple pitch of a game. A top-down bullet hell shooter, but you don’t have a gun. Instead, you have a shield that can deflect bullets. That’s the core premise of Deflect Boy, a newly-released indie game by Indonesia-based Reima Project. Its artstyle may be simple, but th … | Continue reading
Matt, then Dave, then Kev, then another Dave, all wrote about what their ideal CMS would be. I don't have as lofty ideals as they do although there's some interesting ideas in there but I do have some things I would like in my perfect CMS and might possibly be doing with a custom … | Continue reading