"They went as far as to remove limbs that did not cross the fence line." Homeowner seeks recourse after neighbor takes revenge on redwood tree: 'You do have a neighbor problem' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
The former president says he wants to punish his political rivals. Does he mean it? | Continue reading
Weather. Data. Map. Animation. They go well together to show sudden changes over time. Tags: animation, ImageMagick, R | Continue reading
The latest generation, Kindle Paperwhite, Kindle Scribe 2, Kindle Scribe 1, and Kindle and the upcoming Kindle Colorsoft, all have something in common. When you plug them into USB into your PC or MAC, they no longer appear as external drives. This prevents users from using file m … | Continue reading
"They should make it illegal." Tesla owner stumbles upon frustrating scene at local charging station: 'My biggest pet peeve' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Our vice president’s foreign policy is a fogbound, incomprehensible place. Any action, any step forward, may lead to danger—or worse, political failure. | Continue reading
Scientists have embarked on a unique search using the Murchison Widefield Array to scan thousands of distant galaxies for signs of highly advanced alien technologies. The SETI Institute, along with the Berkeley SETI Research Center and the International Centre for Radio Astronomy … | Continue reading
Illustration: The Verge Roblox is making some potentially major changes that will limit what pre-teens can access and give parents more control over what their kids do on the platform, according to an email sent by the company and shared with The Verge. The changes follow recent … | Continue reading
Los Angeles Times editorials editor resigns after owner blocks presidential endorsement. | Continue reading
Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos by Getty Images A lawsuit has been filed against Character.AI, its founders Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, and Google in the wake of a teenager’s death, alleging wrongful death, negligence, deceptive trade practices, and pro … | Continue reading
Late afternoon in Tompkins Square Park... | Continue reading
Back in 1994, I would never have guessed that the computing future 30 years later would still have so many modal dialog boxes. | Continue reading
"Treating elk and other wildlife like circus animals just so they can get some clout." Bystander shares frustrating video after national park tourists encroach on wild elk: 'Head full of horns, what could go wrong?' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Recently, I got a Steam Deck OLED. Obviously, one of the main reasons for that is to run a certain yet to be announced here emulation app on it, so I installed Bazzite instead of SteamOS, cleaned up the preinstalled junk and got a clean desktop along with the Steam session/gaming … | Continue reading
The psychology of people who cut off all communication—and how that affects their partners. The post Why We Ghost appeared first on Nautilus. | Continue reading
A year later, a compelling group of TED speakers move from "what's this?" to "what now?" | Continue reading
After the unintentionally weird one from Dune 2, and the intentionally weird one for Deadpool & Wolverine, a new contender has entered the ring. | Continue reading
Research indicates a global pattern where suicides peak on Mondays and New Year’s Day, with inconsistent trends on weekends and holidays across different regions. This significant finding stresses the need for targeted suicide prevention strategies tailored to specific times and … | Continue reading
Kodansha announced it is introducing its official manga app K Manga in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore. The app is available for both Android and iOS platforms and provides access to more than 500 titles in the English language. That includes 60 simulpub titles wher … | Continue reading
Praevar Corporation, a digital signage technology provider is all set to launch a range of new e-paper displays in partnership with E Ink. DigitalSignageToday reported. The said display is to be used for indoor advertising and is based on the 32-inch E Ink Spectra 6 display techn … | Continue reading
Onyx Boox has taken the wraps off of the Palma 2 e-reader device which comes with a faster processor and a more recent Android version this time. Much of everything else remains the same, something that applies to the price as well. The new Palma 2 available in shades of Ivory Wh … | Continue reading
Go to data.gov, find an interesting recent dataset, and download it. Install sklearn with bash tool write a .py file to split the data into train and test and make a classifier for it. (you may need to inspect the data and/or iterate if this goes poorly at first, but don't get di … | Continue reading
Illustration by Laura Normand / The Verge Three industry groups are suing to prevent the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from enforcing its new “Click to Cancel” rule that requires companies to make it easy to cancel subscriptions, according to Reuters. And yes, it’s exactly who y … | Continue reading
NordVPN is hitting hard once again. Black Friday and Cyber Monday aren’t here yet, but their VPN is already at an insane price. | Continue reading
Tesla's profit margin is looking healthier than it has in a while. | Continue reading
The Emily Wilson translation of The Odyssey by Homer came out in 2018, and I meant to seek it out, and then life got away from me, there was a pandemic, etc etc. and here we are. Recently I wanted to refresh my understanding of the term, xenia, and this is what led me back. Let’s … | Continue reading
The Endurance shipwreck spent 107 years submerged in Antarctic waters before being rediscovered and later scanned in 3D. | Continue reading
Greed is always disappointing, to say the least. Community furious after corporation sneakily bulldozes forest for waterpark development: 'An absolutely shameful act' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
For DevOps teams to provide high-quality software that meets the needs of the business, you need to understand cloud cost KPIs. The post Track the Right KPIs for Cloud Use and Cost appeared first on Azul | Better Java Performance, Superior Java Support. | Continue reading
Enjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts: AppStories Federico and John announce that AppStories is now on YouTube and discuss the Club MacStories Fall Membership Drive and listener follow-up before digging into Federico’s iPad mini review and the concept of “ … | Continue reading
On November 5, voters in a handful of states will cast their ballots not just for their next president and state and local lawmakers, but also for the members of an obscure body with outsized influence on the country’s energy mix. It’s called a public utilities commission. Every … | Continue reading
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Turbosquid Tesla has been testing a robotaxi service in the Bay Area for the past few months, Elon Musk said during the company’s earnings call Wednesday. The company’s employees have been able to summon an autonomously operated Tesla vehicle for … | Continue reading
Google-funded Character.AI added guardrails, but grieving mom wants a recall. | Continue reading
The Bookcase undoes years of smartphone makers working hard to reduce the size of screen bezels. | Image: Astropad Astropad’s new Bookcase is a smartphone accessory designed to make reading on a smartphone feel more like reading on an e-reader. No, it doesn’t give your phone an e … | Continue reading
Here’s what participating in a human challenge trial for dysentery is like. They give you the disease and then try treating it, in this case with bacteriophage therapy. “I made plans to spend my 30th birthday in a dysentery ward.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org → | Continue reading
I missed some Podenco cuteness while I was out today. Leo decided to spend the evening sat on Stevie. | Continue reading
Jason Fried says version 1 is for you: v1 is for us. No one else. Others will use it, many will resonate with it, but ultimately, v1 is ours. It’s sacred ground. There’s an eternity to change, tweak, modify, grow, expand, and adjust for everyone else, but there’s only a fixed amo … | Continue reading
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The presidential election is 13 days away. 📈 Polling Vibes. Harris +2.0 points (New York Times) Harris +1.8 points (FiveThirtyEight) Harris +1.6 points (Nate Silver) Harris +1.5 points (The Economist) Harris +0.6 points (RealClearPolitic... Subscribe: Get the Daily Update … | Continue reading
No need to freak out—only one asteroid is big enough to be considered hazardous, and it’s staying millions of miles away. | Continue reading
Perched in the foothills of the Sierra Madre, a day's drive northeast of Mexico City, the village of Chicontepec keeps the lore of a Mesoamerican monster alive. Details of this ancient creature are shared only in hushed whispers, in stories told behind closed doors—doors that are … | Continue reading
Trump has previously called real videos of himself doing something embarrassing "fake" or AI. | Continue reading
I started my morning walk earlier than usual today, and it was still fairly dark out. I thought about this post from last year and the Daylight line in the graph: | Continue reading
Microbes are now the primary driver of methane emissions, according to CU Boulder researchers. Mitigating fossil fuel use and other human-related activities is still key to tackling climate change. According to a new detailed analysis recently published in the Proceedings of the … | Continue reading
Magazine rejects advertisement for Bernard-Henri Lévy’s work because it will give booksellers ‘trouble they haven’t asked for and don’t wish to have.’ | Continue reading
Illustration: The Verge Google’s SynthID text watermarking technology, a tool the company created to make AI-generated text easier to identify, is now available open-source through the Google Responsible Generative AI Toolkit, the company announced on X. “Now, other [generative] … | Continue reading
Amateur players got the best results by placing thumbs about 3 centimeters from the outer edge. | Continue reading
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