"Jingyuan Digital Platform: Font Making and Database Development for Shang Oracle Bones (Part 1)", Peichao Qin, The Digital Orientalist (9/17/24) If you're wondering what "Jingyuan" means, it's a fancy, allusive way to say "Mirrored contexts [for thorough investigations]" ([gézhì … | Continue reading
"Despite the great value of this area, it is in danger." Years-long restoration project sees success as hundreds of threatened coral colonies rebound — here's how it will impact other reefs first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Researchers have developed a one-dimensional gas of light, enabling studies of quantum effects and the behavior of photon gases in various dimensions. Using a dye solution and laser-induced photons, they explored how photon gases condense and react to dimensional changes, finding … | Continue reading
"As a scuba diver, I am appalled." Diver shares disappointing images after discovering underwater vandalism on coral reef: 'Painful to see' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Image: Disney Disney Plus’ new WandaVision spinoff series steers clear of the franchise’s multiversal messiness to do its own thing. Continue reading… | Continue reading
"Any grass that's so aggressive it chokes out the wildflowers you want will need to be killed." Gardener seeks help after common invasive grass takes over wildflower garden: 'Just want to … prevent this from happening again' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
"We need to develop a circular economy where we reuse these minerals wherever possible, otherwise we will run out of materials very quickly." Scientists make promising breakthrough in rare metal mining after pairing bacteria with scrap EV batteries: 'Unique and sustainable new pr … | Continue reading
In case you haven't heard, the methane in cow burps is a major source of greenhouse gases. There may be a new way of addressing that problem, however, as a recent study shows that feeding cows clay reduces their methane emissions by over 30%. Continue Reading Category: Environmen … | Continue reading
"We also sent one of the best-performing devices to a credible third-party organization and got a certified efficiency of 28.49%." Researchers set new record demonstrating impressive efficiency of solar technology — here's how it could solve a major industrywide problem first app … | Continue reading
Elon Musk spends most of his time on his social media platform where he promotes right wing influencers and conspiracy theories. The post The Incredible Lightness Of Being Musk appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
Image: Pocketpair The multiplayer survival game was 2024’s biggest surprise, and now it’s being sued by Nintendo. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Here’s everything you need to know about The Penguin premiere, from its release date and time to the plot of the Max series. | Continue reading
Researchers have developed a method to create a two-dimensional silk protein layer on graphene, enhancing its potential in microelectronics, particularly for wearable and implantable health sensors and memory transistors in computing. This innovation offers a nontoxic, water-base … | Continue reading
thoughtbot office hours is hitting the road! If you’re in London and stuck on some code or a tricky roadmap, let’s all meet up for an in-person office hours session! We will be in the Aldgate, London area on: Sunday, 6 Oct, 2024 Friday, 11 Oct, 2024 We are offering in-person appo … | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 19 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02877-6 The milestone is essential for slowing global warming, but the hard work is still to come. | Continue reading
Image: Rockstar Games Grand Theft Auto V was one of the top ten most played games on Valve’s Steam Deck handheld this past week. It’s been in the top twenty for at least two years. But as of today, Valve now lists the game as “unsupported” — because developer Rockstar mysteriousl … | Continue reading
A screenshot from Palworld. | Image: Pocketpair Nintendo and The Pokémon Company have filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Pocketpair, which makes the game Palworld. From Nintendo’s press release: Nintendo Co., Ltd. (HQ: Kyoto, Minami-ku, Japan; Representative Director and … | Continue reading
A rain garden is a wonderful addition to any yard, especially in areas that experience heavy rainfall. Gardener shares stunning before-and-after photos of rain garden project: 'The garden has really taken off' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Image: The Verge If you’re on LinkedIn, then you should know that the social network has, without asking, opted accounts into training generative AI models. 404Media reports that LinkedIn introduced the new privacy setting and opt-out form before rolling out an updated privacy po … | Continue reading
NGC 1559, a barred spiral galaxy, is brilliantly depicted through the James Webb Space Telescope’s advanced instruments, highlighting its stellar and interstellar components. This observation is part of a larger effort to understand galactic structures and star formation processe … | Continue reading
Netflix's smash hit thriller returns December 26, and Emmy-winning star Lee Jung-jae and his castmates are here to reveal mostly nothing about what to expect. | Continue reading
This has been a difficult year for the Pantanal, a region that encompasses the world's largest tropical wetland area. Brazilian government scrambles as wildfires devastate world's largest rainforest — here's what's happening first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
The next morning up early and begun our march; the way about Puckridge very bad, and my wife, in the very last dirty place of all, got a fall, but no hurt, though some dirt. At last she begun, poor wretch, to be tired, and I to be angry at it, but I... | Continue reading
Ubuntu 24.10 ‘Oracular Oriole’ is released on October 13th, and as you’d expect from a new version of Ubuntu, it’s packed with new features. As a short-term release, Ubuntu 24.10 gets 9 months of ongoing updates, security patches, and critical fixes. It’s not long, but Ubuntu 25. … | Continue reading
Mike Doughty, Sebastian Steinberg, Mark degli Antoni at Crystal Ballroom It’s a very strange experience, seeing a band at the height of their career and then at a reunion show two decades and change later. On-stage, early Soul Coughing had Doughty matching the sheer physical and … | Continue reading
Renewable energy just became a much more enticing investment. That’s thanks to the Federal Reserve, which announced today that it would reduce the benchmark federal funds rate by half a percentage point, from just over 5% to just below. It’s the beginning of an unwinding of years … | Continue reading
In home office. Today was better than good. Have new methods and approaches, new alliances, and conversations started. […] | Continue reading
The answer is not as cynical as you'd expect from the people behind a biting satire of the superhero movie industry. | Continue reading
Git doesn’t store reversion links between commits. It only relies on commit messages to track this information. When you run git revert, the default message includes a line about the reverted commit: Revert "Build gazebo" This reverts commit 81d727c075984206633fa0c58fe3d7bcfd970 … | Continue reading
Friday is Relay’s annual Podcastathon for St. Jude. They’re raising money during Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, and the Podcastathon is a fun 12-hour live streamed show from your favorite Relay hosts that begins at Noon Eastern on Friday, September 20th. If you haven’t donated … | Continue reading
SocialAI takes the social media "filter bubble" to an extreme with 100% fake interactions. | Continue reading
9-18-24 Realizations and new understandings from last night still ringing, then this morning driving through the Carneros area […] | Continue reading
Google Calendar on a new tab sounds kinda useful, actually. | Image: Google Google is adding a new daily calendar overview in newly opened Chrome tabs for Workspace users with easy access to schedules and video calls. That way, when you’re signed in with your organization’s accou … | Continue reading
A Mississippi State biologist has discovered a new parasitic wasp species that uniquely targets adult flies, a scientific first. Creating a buzz in Nature, a Mississippi State biologist’s research led to the discovery of a new parasitic wasp species with unusual biology in the Ea … | Continue reading
Discord has introduced the DAVE protocol, a custom end-to-end encryption (E2EE) protocol designed to protect audio and video calls on the platform from unauthorized interceptions. [...] | Continue reading
Google and Amazon – You Should Take Note of Your Own Aiding and Abetting Risk EFF has long pushed companies that provide powerful surveillance tools to governments to take affirmative steps to avoid aiding and abetting human rights abuses. We have also worked to ensure they face … | Continue reading
The end of the quarter is approaching, so it’s time for more special offers and deals from Tesla. During the 2024 Tesla annual shareholder meeting earlier this year, a shareholder requested that the company again provide Tesla owners who have FSD the opportunity to transfer FSD t … | Continue reading
JUICE successfully identified water and the building blocks of life in Earth's atmosphere. In doing so, the probe headed for Jupiter's moons confirmed that its instruments are working properly. | Continue reading
"You learn something new every day." Gardener shares common pest you might actually want to have in your garden: 'Don't fling these ones over the fence' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
When you look past the headlines, it is worth interrogating the sheer ambition of Black Myth: Wukong. The post Black Myth: Wukong’s Ambition Is Worth Taking Seriously appeared first on Aftermath. | Continue reading
People have been playing WoW solo for years, so this was just the final step. | Continue reading
With keynotes by Seth Godin and Monique Ruff-Bell and a slate of industry VIP speakers, Skift Meetings Forum succeeded in its dual mission of high-level education and networking. -Barbara Scofidio | Continue reading
Apple has released iOS 17.7 and iPadOS 17.7 as software updates for iPhone and iPad, containing important security fixes that make these updates recommended to install. While most attention is on the freshly released iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 software updates for iPhone and iPad users … | Continue reading
Headphone-wearers buckle up, you're about to hear Aubrey Plaza get weird with knives. | Continue reading
When Artemis II launches late next year, its Orion capsule will become the first crewed spacecraft in 53 years to venture beyond the protection of Earth’s magnetic field. | Continue reading
These vegetarian stuffed mushrooms tick all the boxes: They have cream cheese and Parmigiano-Reggiano for richness, chopped mushroom stems for a meaty bite, and sun-dried tomatoes that bring a touch of sweetness. | Continue reading
Save 76% on a Wi-Fi and Bluetooth enabled Full HD projector. | Continue reading
Reimo's Volkswagen Caddy Maxi Camp is often among the top highlights of the tiny camper van segment at the annual Düsseldorf Caravan Salon, but this year's variant was doubly so. Not only does Reimo's mini-camper handily surpass Volkswagen's own Caddy California in terms of overa … | Continue reading