"The neighbor wasn't so excited." Gardener baffled by neighbor's nonsensical demands to remove thriving plant: 'It's none of her business' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Fellow homeowners have shared the effectiveness of using similar methods to reduce noise. Homeowner gets creative with noise-blocking landscaping alongside busy highway: 'It will grow anywhere and handle the harshest of conditions' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Night lights Walking through Upper River Court in St John’s on Monday night on my way to a lecture by Marietje Schaake I pulled out my iPhone to see how it would handle the lighting. Fairly well is my verdict. … Continue reading → | Continue reading
"Constructing the first quadrant is a big achievement." Scientists achieve major milestone in quest for nuclear fusion reactor: 'Holy grail of clean energy' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Google’s new Pixel Buds Pro 2 have already fallen to $179 ahead of the holiday. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Can’t wait until Black Friday to start your holiday shop or score a killer deal on a gadget you’ve been eyeing? You may not have to. Although Black Friday isn’t unti … | Continue reading
Ben Wallace: While Send to YouTube can be thoroughly analyzed as a milestone on the “frenemy” timeline between Apple and Google, I want to explore a pleasant consequence of this moment. Apple uses the ‘IMG_XXXX’ naming convention for all images and videos captured on iOS devices, … | Continue reading
An annual accounting of CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels and land use change finds no sign emissions will peak this year | Continue reading
There is a 50% chance that global warming will consistently exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius in the next six years, according to a new report. | Continue reading
Eurasian reed warblers don’t just get a sense of direction from Earth’s magnetic field – they can also calculate their coordinates on a mental map | Continue reading
A novel theoretical model based on universal expansion and star formation suggests that our universe might not have the optimal conditions for life. Despite the less favorable dark energy density observed, life is still possible, challenging previous cosmological models and chang … | Continue reading
Prime Day sees some pretty tempting deals and discounts on science gifts, but is it worth waiting for Black Friday to potentially save even more? | Continue reading
"What we were looking for was a Goldilocks solution." Nonprofit launches simple switch to finally give clear answer on what can be recycled in your area: 'Getting the information they need' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Ars Live: Our first encounter with manipulative AI I'm participating in a live conversation with Benj Edwards on 19th November reminiscing over that incredible time back in February last year when Bing went feral. Via @benjedwards Tags: bing, generative-ai, arstechnica, ai, speak … | Continue reading
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge After pleading guilty in March to six counts of willful retention and transmission of national defense information under the Espionage Act, former Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira was sentenced today to 15 years in prison for posting “hundr … | Continue reading
This is the second of a five-part series of articles (you can check the first part here), where I look at the best affordable EVs in each size category. There are plenty of good EVs right now, but one of the main challenges continues to be their price and how ... [continued] The … | Continue reading
The world isn’t static, and you never know when your needs are going to change. When they do, the software you use to live your life should adapt to you, not the other way around. | Continue reading
"There are similar risk factors to COVID-19." Scientists raise serious concerns after outbreak of dangerous disease: 'This is an alarming number' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Broadchurch This British crime drama, filmed in scenic Dorset, tells the tale of a child murder and its aftermath. Starring Olivia Coleman, David Tenant and Jody Whitaker. Any of the three of them makes any show worth watching but the fireworks and raw emotion of Broadchurch are … | Continue reading
There's a whole lot of buzz around the new Qwen2.5-Coder Series of open source (Apache 2.0 licensed) LLM releases from Alibaba's Qwen research team. On first impression it looks like the buzz is well deserved. Qwen claim: Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct has become the current SOTA ope … | Continue reading
One of the most-used buttons on my Stream Deck is a one-touch connection to the Mac mini server sitting in a closet in my house. I’m frequently popping in to manage files on my RAID, or reconfigure a script that’s fed by my weather station, all sorts of odd jobs.… | Continue reading
Microsoft has fixed several bugs that cause install, upgrade, and Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) issues on Windows Server 2025 devices with a high core count. [...] | Continue reading
The images came from two locations about five miles apart in Manas National Park in Assam. Legendary feline makes surprising return to national park — here's why it matters first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Five years on from its incredible debut, The Mandalorian has come to embody a lot of the issues facing Star Wars in its uncertain current moment. | Continue reading
"Even if we can sell, at this point, I foresee property values dropping drastically." Homeowners left in nightmare situation after state's largest insurer hikes rates and drops home coverage: 'I don't sleep at night' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
She pleaded guilty in October to violating the Endangered Species Act, sentencing is set for December. Woman faces 10-year prison sentence, $250,000 fine for allegedly smuggling rare animals to illegally sell — here's what happened first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
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Here’s the Apple support page listing the devices compatible with iOS 18. They’re listed in chronological order, oldest to newest, and the list begins with the iPhone XR and iPhone XS from 2018. But on this support page, Apple styles the “R” and “S” suffixes as small caps. Screen … | Continue reading
Both Cadillac and Mercedes plan to expand their electric car offerings to the SUV market segment in the near future. The post Large Electric SUV Models Coming From Cadillac & Mercedes appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
A younger rival may have learned how to sabotage those showers by disrupting water flow. | Continue reading
Trump seems to have just two options. | Continue reading
Dan Moren: M4 Mac Mini Review: Phenomenal Cosmic Power, Itty-Bitty Form Factor When it comes to desktop Macs, it’s quite possibly the best one Apple offers. This is an amazing metric and does seem to check out. The Mac Studio and Mac Pro specced out with M2 Ultra | Continue reading
This is not a joke, the subscription to ExpressVPN is at an unprecedented price. We'll tell you everything you need to know so you don't miss out on its Black Friday offer. | Continue reading
At the office all the morning. Dined at home alone. So abroad with Sir W. Pen. My wife and I to "Bartholomew Fayre," with puppets which I had seen once before, and the play without puppets often, but though I love the play as much as ever I did,... | Continue reading
"This could cause a shift in their mating patterns, and reproductive rates are really important for population persistence." Researchers make troubling find while examining insect behavior: 'We're going to have a hard time with all sorts of other animal populations' first appeare … | Continue reading
Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Where will we all hang out next? Continue reading… | Continue reading
1/ A New York judge postponed his decision on whether to dismiss Trump’s 34 felony convictions of orchestrating an illegal conspiracy to influence the 2016 presidential election by falsifying business records. Trump has argued that his return to t... Subscribe: Get the Daily Upda … | Continue reading
FrontierMath's difficult questions remain unpublished so that AI companies can't train against it. | Continue reading
A screen grab of the video titled “How My Video Gear is Changing!” | Image: MKBHD Marques Brownlee is dealing with another commenter backlash. Fans of Brownlee are furious that his latest video, titled “How My Video Gear is Changing!” on the MKBHD YouTube channel, is a fully spon … | Continue reading
The Magic Circle is a renowned British organization for magicians, founded in 1905. Women were not allowed to join the Magic Circle for most of its history, until it lifted its ban in 1991. Now, reports Sky News, the Magic Circle is trying to locate Sophie Lloyd, who disguised he … | Continue reading
This incident is another example of the challenges of wildlife conservation. Woman faces charges after allegedly aiding in illegal killing of 100 deer in 'large-scale' poaching scheme — here's what happened first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
My guess is that they haven't released enough code to run a Bluesky of your own, because all the answers from people who say they know say the same thing -- "It doesn't work that way." You could write your own, but if we were to do that, why use their one-off API, use a standard … | Continue reading
Recent excavations in Tajikistan’s Zeravshan Valley uncovered an archaeological site dating back as far as 150,000 years, offering new insights into early human settlements and migrations in Central Asia. A team of archaeologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Na … | Continue reading
Along the road leading from Acqui Terme in the province of Alessandria to Sassello in the province of Savona, a detour into the surrounding countryside leads to Mioglia. It's a place where time seems to have stopped that welcomes you with the silence of the centuries and is magic … | Continue reading
"Been told roots would mess with foundation." Homeowner receives stark warnings to remove tree growing near home: 'Absolutely ... do it yesterday' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
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Bluesky, maybe best pitched as a place for those who liked Twitter and… | Continue reading
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge For months now, there have been rumors about a smart home display Apple is supposedly working on. Now Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says the display will be wall-mounted and control smart home devices, attend video calls, and more, similar to the Amazon … | Continue reading