Wild boar rampage in Japan leaves 4 hospitalized after charging into factory

When wildlife is pushed closer to human routines, factory shifts, bike rides, and morning deliveries can turn dangerous with little warning. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 30 minutes ago

Preorders for Samsung’s new Z Fold and Flip 8 come with up to $350 in gift cards

Samsung's newest foldables are here. At Galaxy Unpacked, the company announced the Galaxy Z Flip 8, Galaxy Z Fold 8, and Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra. All three devices will be available on August 7th, but you can preorder them now starting at $1,199.99, $1,899.99, and $2,099.99, respec … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 33 minutes ago

Washington police warn of rising coyote activity after one jumps fence, snatches small dog

The call noted did not say whether the dog survived. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 42 minutes ago

The Cassette Tapes of the Great Migration , a collection...

The Cassette Tapes of the Great Migration, a collection of oral histories recorded in Michigan in the 1970s of Black people who had previously escaped the Jim Crow South. “If we don’t get it from those individuals, then we can’t get it from anyone else.” | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 46 minutes ago

Caltech’s New Device Steers Light With Light at Mind-Bending Speed

A light-controlled meta-surface redirected another beam at femtosecond speeds without relying on slower electronic relaxation. A pulse of light crosses the width of a human hair in roughly 74 femtoseconds (74 quadrillionths of a second). Caltech researchers have now redirected a … | Continue reading


@scitechdaily.com | 47 minutes ago

Infleqtion Receives Three DOE Genesis Mission Projects for Quantum Computing and Sensing Research

Insider Brief Press release – Infleqtion (NYSE: INFQ), a global leader in quantum computing and quantum sensing powered by neutral-atom technology, announced it has been awarded three projects to accelerate American scientific research and innovation by the U.S. Department of Ene … | Continue reading


@thequantuminsider.com | 49 minutes ago

In Florida, hunters can trade Burmese pythons for pizza as the Everglades battle ramps up

"Snakin' ain’t easy. It is the right place at the right time." | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 54 minutes ago

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bully

Click here to go see the bonus panel!Hovertext:And now I bully you with a wall of text.Today's News: | Continue reading


@smbc-comics.com | 56 minutes ago

How to Install macOS 27 Golden Gate Public Beta on Mac

With the launch of the MacOS 27 Golden Gate public beta program, now even more users can experience MacOS 27 as it’s actively being worked on by Apple. MacOS 27 Golden Gate has a heavy focus on performance improvements, but there’s also refinements other than the Liquid Glass int … | Continue reading


@osxdaily.com | 59 minutes ago

China’s Electric Trucks, Diesel’s Peak, and What Western Planners Still Don’t See

By Ray Wills and Peter Newman CleanTechnica allows comments, and there are always great comments by readers, as well as the obligatory smattering of naysaying trolls. We thought we might collate and comment on the good stuff that came in on our article “China’s Electric Truck Mom … | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 1 hour ago

An Arizona backyard call turned up a rare western diamondback with unusually pale scales

"It was a delayed report by several days so when I got there it was gone but a photo was taken." | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 1 hour ago

Philips’ new smart toothbrush shows you where you didn’t properly brush

The latest addition to Philips' Sonicare line of smart electric toothbrushes could take the guesswork out of your brushing routine. The Next-Generation DiamondClean 9900 Prestige uses a third-generation AI model to provide real time feedback on how you're brushing through a glowi … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 1 hour ago

A Month Of Driving My New Car

It’s been just about one full month of having my 2026 Honda Civic Sport Touring Hybrid, and I wanted to quickly give some further thoughts and opinions on it. I just went out and checked how many miles I have on it so far before writing this, and I am quite literally at 1500 mile … | Continue reading


@whatever.scalzi.com | 1 hour ago

5 Must Pack Croatia Outfits For Your Next Vacation

Croatia has crystal-clear blue waters, stone architecture straight out of a storybook, and some of the most beautiful islands in Europe. Once you’ve planned your… The post 5 Must Pack Croatia Outfits For Your Next Vacation appeared first on Nothing Familiar. | Continue reading


@nothingfamiliar.com | 1 hour ago

This 1950s Airplane Disaster Prompted the Flight Safety Demonstrations Passengers Know Today. Searchers Just Found the Wreckage in the Atlantic Ocean

A team of explorers used an autonomous underwater vehicle to locate the remains of the Pan American ‘Clipper Endeavor’ about five miles off the coast of Puerto Rico | Continue reading


@smithsonianmag.com | 1 hour ago

Gillian Anderson Reprises Her Role as FBI Agent Dana Scully to Unveil the LEGO Ideas ‘The X-Files’ Set

Gillian Anderson reprised her role as FBI Agent Dana Scully in "The X-Files" to unveil "The X-Files" set by LEGO Ideas. subscribe to the Laughing Squid Newsletter The post Gillian Anderson Reprises Her Role as FBI Agent Dana Scully to Unveil the LEGO Ideas ‘The X-Files’ Set was o … | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 1 hour ago

The Avocados That May Save Us from a Guacamole Apocalypse

Tracing the roots of diversity in the coveted fruit in Central America The post The Avocados That May Save Us from a Guacamole Apocalypse appeared first on Nautilus. | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 1 hour ago

Is This the First-Known Exomoon? Astronomers Just Made That Question Even Harder

Astronomers discovered a moon-like object orbiting a brown dwarf that's orbiting a star. Say that three times fast. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 1 hour ago

Scientists Discover the First-Ever Contagious Cancer in Fish

It's only the fourth known contagious cancer found in animals, but others may remain undetected. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 1 hour ago

Lauren Cohan’s Green Dress Is Very Neat

And handy! The post Lauren Cohan’s Green Dress Is Very Neat first appeared on Go Fug Yourself. | Continue reading


@gofugyourself.com | 1 hour ago

DC Comics Is Bringing an ‘Absolute Batman’ Limited Edition Box Set to San Diego Comic-Con

The 'Absolute Batman' convention exclusive includes a special foil variant of its first issue, artwork by Nick Dragotta, a serial numbered trading card, and a t-shirt to rep your favorite iteration of the caped crusader. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 1 hour ago

Ancient Genes Reveal That Big, Bright Avocados Were Carried Through the Americas Thousands of Years Ago

People brought large avocado seeds from South America to Central America, kicking off a burst of diversity for the fruit | Continue reading


@smithsonianmag.com | 1 hour ago

Microsoft is bringing original Xbox games to PC

Microsoft is expanding its Xbox backward compatibility efforts today by bringing original Xbox games to PC. An early preview release will see four classic Xbox games available on PC today, as part of a bigger effort to bring more Xbox console games to PC in the future. The first … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 1 hour ago

Zardoz: …What the F*ck Did I Just Watch?

John Boorman brings us guns, sex, giant stone heads, and Sean Connery in a wedding dress. The post Zardoz: …What the F*ck Did I Just Watch? appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading


@reactormag.com | 1 hour ago

A huge cosmic object could force astronomers to rethink what a moon is

The almost Jupiter-sized object is orbiting a brown dwarf, which, in turn, is circling around a small star | Continue reading


@scientificamerican.com | 1 hour ago

Ratsnake stuck in glue trap for days gets olive-oil rescue, and changes one man's mind

Human-made hazards and easy food sources often pull wild animals into dangerous encounters. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 1 hour ago

Quantum Gravity May Be Far Less Quantum Than Physicists Expected

A new study reveals that some proposed signatures of quantum gravity may have an unexpected classical explanation. Imagine placing an object in two locations at once. Quantum mechanics allows such a possibility, at least for sufficiently small systems. But if the object occupies … | Continue reading


@scitechdaily.com | 1 hour ago

“ Researchers let AI models run a simulated society...

“Researchers let AI models run a simulated society. Claude was the safest — and Grok committed 180 crimes and went extinct within 4 days.” | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 1 hour ago

The rise of community-led football

As Premier League prices rise, growing numbers of supporters are seeking out something closer, cheaper and more human in non-league football The post The rise of community-led football appeared first on Positive News. | Continue reading


@positive.news | 1 hour ago

Video shows an Indian cobra swallowing a viper whole, and not everyone thinks it will stay down

"Nothing fits in a snake, quite like another snake." | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 1 hour ago

It’s Not a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood in the Latest Trailer for The End of Oak Street

It's 10 pm. Do you know which dinosaurs are eating your children? The post It’s Not a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood in the Latest Trailer for The End of Oak Street appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading


@reactormag.com | 1 hour ago

AMD and Anthropic reach $5 billion AI infrastructure deal

AMD says it's going to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic, while helping to expand the AI company's computing power, according to an announcement on Wednesday. As part of the new partnership, Anthropic will deploy up to 2 gigawatts of AMD's Instinct MI450 AI GPUs using the chip … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 1 hour ago

Running Simulators Inside Claude Code for Mac

Claude Code has a new simulator button. Claude Code’s Mac desktop app has added Apple simulator support, and although it’s billed as “iOS Simulator Support,” it actually works with any iOS, iPadOS, visionOS, or watchOS simulator you have installed. The process of setting up a sim … | Continue reading


@macstories.net | 1 hour ago

Recent changes – Vivaldi Android Browser snapshot 4110.4

This Snapshot comes with a selection of our latest improvements and bug fixes. | Continue reading


@vivaldi.com | 1 hour ago

Raspberry Pi launch 10-inch Touch Display 2 for $80

Raspberry Pi has launched a 10-inch version of its Touch Display 2 with a 1200×1920 resolution and 10-point captive touchscreen for $80/£77. 5-inch and 7-inch variants of the Touch Display 2 have been available for a while, but Raspberry Pi’s Gordon Hollingworth says the new vers … | Continue reading


@omgubuntu.co.uk | 1 hour ago

CATL Is Building The Electric-Truck Platform Europe May Have To Join

Swaptopus is easy to misread as a quirky name for another electric-truck infrastructure project. It is a newly formed joint venture between Octopus Energy and CATL, created to develop automated battery-swapping hubs for heavy trucks across Europe. Octopus is a UK-founded energy a … | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 1 hour ago

New Framework Uses Quantum Geometry to Help Quantum AI Systems Remember What They Learn

Insider Brief Researchers have developed a new framework that uses the geometry of quantum states to help quantum machine learning models retain previously learned knowledge while acquiring new tasks, addressing one of the central challenges facing quantum artificial intelligence … | Continue reading


@thequantuminsider.com | 1 hour ago

Nursery student in India opens school bag, and a 1.5-foot cobra sends classmates running

Population density in India, the world's most populous country, means surprise encounters are becoming more common. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 1 hour ago

Open-source firmware and software for e-readers

FreeInk is an open-source ecosystem for e-ink readers, aiming to replace locked-down software and walled gardens with a stack that includes everything from firmware to fonts and free file formats. There's even reference hardware and a manifesto. From the rendering engine to the … | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 1 hour ago

Did A24 Copyright Backrooms? Hollywood’s Buzziest New Trend May Face A Huge Obstacle

The wave of internet horror-inspired films that are sure to follow 'Backrooms' need to find a way to navigate the fan communities that exist around these concepts. | Continue reading


@inverse.com | 1 hour ago

QPerfect Partners with University of Strasbourg on Neutral-Atom Quantum Computing Platform

Insider Brief Press release – BTQ Technologies Corp. (“BTQ“ or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: BTQ) (CBOE CA: BTQ), a global quantum technology company focused on securing mission-critical networks, today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, QPerfect, has entered into a research c … | Continue reading


@thequantuminsider.com | 1 hour ago

Sanctioned tanker hauling Russian fuel is likely leaking oil in protected waters off Oman

An aging "shadow fleet" is used to evade Western sanctions on Russian oil exports. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 1 hour ago

Various & Sundry, 7/22/26

Saja wants to know what’s up! Well, my young cat, let me tell you: OpenAI says its “AI” hacked another “AI” company, apparently just for funsies: No, really, that’s the gist of it. OpenAI put the “AI” into a sandbox in order to test its capabilities, it escaped from the sandbox a … | Continue reading


@whatever.scalzi.com | 1 hour ago

California apartment residents find venomous rattlesnake tucked into a stairway nook

"It's much better to text (don't call) someone on the Free Snake Relocation directory." | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 1 hour ago

What happens when you try to chop a photon in half?

A mirror that moves mid-photon could release a shower of new photons. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 1 hour ago

Keyfactor Expands Partner Program for Post-Quantum Cryptography Readiness

Insider Brief Press release – Keyfactor, the leader in trust infrastructure for AI and machines, today announced a major expansion of its Global Partner Program, designed to help partners capitalize on one of the largest security transformations in decades. As AI accelerates the … | Continue reading


@thequantuminsider.com | 1 hour ago

China Wants to Slam a Spacecraft Into an Asteroid at Mach 26

The planned planetary defense test would hit harder than NASA's DART mission. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 hours ago

Abandoned in bag, 'Monty the Python' is among 500 snakes rescued in Scotland since 2020

What's all this, then? | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 2 hours ago