This is the twenty-second part of a fiction serial, in 767 words. Checking the hotel address online on his phone, Joe realised that Anna was about one hour closer than if he had to go to her house, but still a three hour journey. He decided to leave the visit to the undertaker fo … | Continue reading
From fancy OLED TVs to robot vacuums with arms, we tend to cover a lot of cool stuff here at The Verge that, unfortunately, often costs as much as a month’s rent (or more). But with the ongoing tariff situation in the US and a global memory shortage pushing up the cost of, well, … | Continue reading
Click here to go see the bonus panel!Hovertext:I'm pretty sure this is how Stoicism works, just more douchey.Today's News: | Continue reading
Panelists joined to discuss Trump’s attacks on Pope Leo XIV for his comments about the war in Iran. | Continue reading
Imagine slashing your cooking electricity bill by a factor of six. That would almost be as wild as cooking with water! Well, a green-tech startup from India called GreenVize says it has made both possible with a hydrogen-based cooking unit that runs on water and a little bit of e … | Continue reading
Table of Contents TLDRIntroOpenJDKEclipse TemurinLiberica JDKAzul ZuluAmazon CorrettoIBM Semeru RuntimesRed Hat OpenJDKSapMachineMicrosoft Build of OpenJDKMaking the Call TLDR All eight distributions on this list start from the same OpenJDK codebase. The version number is the thi … | Continue reading
A DNA analysis of pathogens from a pre-Hispanic mummy revealed that the bacterium that causes scarlet fever and strep throat was present in the Americas prior to European colonization. | Continue reading
"I have one of these. I like it a lot." | Continue reading
Ron Conway, the longtime Silicon Valley investor and founder of SV Angel, announced on X that he has been diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. Conway declined to disclose the specific type of cancer, saying he does not want speculation about his prognosis. Ron is optimistic and … | Continue reading
While Marvel Studios stood tall at Cinemacon, its visual development staff shared their thoughts on being let go. | Continue reading
Spring in the north-east brings everything back — birdsong, insects, and golden morning light. | Continue reading
Broken blue raspberry syrup: bad. Broken GPS security: worse. | Continue reading
The 10th Street outpost of Ninth Street is now featuring a series of potato paintings by East Village-based artist and illustrator Peter Arkle. As you may have guessed, Arkle is a potato fan. Per a show description: Sometimes, when shopping for them, he’s struck by the character … | Continue reading
Maynard Okereke and Nat Geo Kids presented a wonderfully informative lesson on identifying the four main cloud classifications. subscribe to the Laughing Squid Newsletter The post How to Identify the Four Main Types of Clouds was originally published on Laughing Squid. | Continue reading
Most family home design mistakes are not made out of carelessness. They are made at the wrong moment — before children arrive and their needs are abstract, or in the middle of a renovation when decisions need… | Continue reading
This week I joined Kris Brandow and Ian Lopshire on the Fallthrough podcast to talk about a tonne of topics, including AI, Claude Mythos, why frontend engineering is harder than backend engineering, a preview of a proposed talk to GopherCon UK "A little dependency is better than … | Continue reading
Another fine spring morning view from Tompkins Square Park... where it actually feels like spring and not, say, late July. Get your Vitamin D production assist while you can... as the April showers arrive tomorrow, along with temps in the 50s. | Continue reading
The warm waters of Mexico and Texas are home to a small fish that has produced nothing but daughters for over 100,000 years. Essentially, the offspring are the exact genetic copy of their mother, with no father involved. The fish in focus is the Amazon molly.Continue ReadingCateg … | Continue reading
A new and potentially safer opioid has been tested in lab rats, and the results suggest it relieves pain with a lower risk of addiction than other drugs in its class. | Continue reading
"They do just look like a teddy bear." | Continue reading
At the moment, I am no place and yet I am everywhere else but here. Safe to say that I understand what it means to not be present. And I say this to you, knowing both full and well that I am right here. Always.I am exactly where I am supposed to be. Or at […] | Continue reading
Close your invisible robot eyes This is good news, but not yet enough. Spying on people going about their ordinary lives is wrong, whether it's the government, your car, or your TV doing it. April showers Even as a little kid I thought "March winds and April showers bring May flo … | Continue reading
Despite the sharp U-turn in federal energy policy, the community solar movement continues to grow in the US. The post Low-Cost Community Solar Keeps Growing Despite Tide Of Negative Federal Policy appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
Open-plan layouts are frequently praised for what they remove — walls, visual barriers, the sense of compartmentalization that older residential layouts imposed. | Continue reading
Tiny house builders are always experimenting with new ideas to maximize floorspace. Case in point is the Onda, which turns the usual layout on its head to provide a roomy interior that places three bedrooms downstairs, and the main living area upstairs.Continue ReadingCategory: T … | Continue reading
25 of our favorite quick and easy weeknight dinner ideas for busy weeks that will get dinner on the table fast! Cheap, easy, and delicious! The post Quick And Easy Weeknight Dinner Ideas appeared first on Budget Bytes. | Continue reading
Choosing between black and white and color is one of the oldest arguments in photography, and most takes on it stay shallow. This video doesn't claim to settle the debate, but it does offer a genuinely useful framework for thinking about when and why each choice works. [Read Mo … | Continue reading
Several liver transplant recipients have stayed off anti-rejection drugs for at least three years following an experimental therapy. | Continue reading
Today's links Georgia's voting technology blunder: It's possible for Dominion machines to suck, but not in the way that Tucker Carlson says they do. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: GWB's illegal iPod; McDonald's breakfast sandwich fanfic; Technofeudal … | Continue reading
A new drug that works by making tumors more susceptible to chemotherapy and the immune system has increased survival in those with advanced pancreatic cancer in a trial. | Continue reading
Modern life makes it harder to seek out places to just be, but it’s not impossible. | Continue reading
Two years ago I attended a picturesque outdoor wedding in August where the hot and humid weather had guests occasionally ducking into their cars to enjoy a blast of AC. Dyson’s new $99.99 handheld fan would have provided some much-needed relief then, although I’m not sure I would … | Continue reading
Scientists have uncovered a “blind spot” in the research on rising seas, revealing that tens of millions of people thought safe from coastal flooding are at risk of inundation. | Continue reading
Lemons and limes are just two crops that have been affected by increasingly volatile weather patterns around the world. | Continue reading
Insider Brief Brazilian physicists have shown that the notoriously finicky quantum states needed for fault-tolerant quantum computing become dramatically more stable and easier to find as the chain of engineered particles that hosts them grows longer, a finding that could acceler … | Continue reading
SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 2026This is the gamble we've chosen: It's as we noted in this week's reports:In Tuesday's front-page overview for the New York Times, Peter Baker quoted recent comments about President Trump's "mental health"—comments about the president's "psychological fitne … | Continue reading
I've purchased a couple of massaging dodads in my day – the ubiquitous early-2000s "shiatsu back massager with heat" kind of thing you'd see on TV and whatnot – but those roller balls always end up just jabbing my sacrum or spine, making me more irritated than relaxed. So I gave … | Continue reading
For years, the dangerous rhetoric has been out of control. And things are turning violent. | Continue reading
A new study explains how dense pockets of matter could have survived over an age-old cycle of multiple ‘Big Bangs.’ | Continue reading
The world of peptides has exploded in wellness circles, but the benefits of injecting these gray-market molecules rest on little clinical evidence | Continue reading
"If you ever see it on a menu, order it." | Continue reading
Mother Mary offers a spooky spin on what it takes to stay famous. | Continue reading
With a vacation comes a big choice: What game should I focus on during the trip? I thought about grinding out the harder levels of Super Meat Boy 3D, but I was looking for something more chill. I could have dabbled more with Slay the Spire II, but I already know that's a game I'l … | Continue reading
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 124, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, send me your Coachella fits, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about restaurant bre … | Continue reading
Pastor John Mark Comer has won a massive following by preaching about the ills of technology. | Continue reading
Insider Brief The most unusual price action in quantum computing this week didn’t happen on the Nasdaq. It happened on the KOSDAQ. On April 14, NVIDIA launched Ising, an open-source family of AI models, built on its CUDA-Q platform and released under Apache 2.0. The models tackle … | Continue reading
Quantum science and AI research are big winners just a year after the U.S. funding giant slashed its Graduate Research Fellowship Program awards in half | Continue reading
Paintings by Samuel Palmer, Millais, Millet, Alfred Sisley, Vincent van Gogh. Carl Larsson, Sérusier, LA Ring and others. | Continue reading