★ A Postscript on the Singular Nature of Mark Gurman’s Reporting

My post Friday commenting (read: wise-cracking) on Mark Gurman’s explosive report on an all-hands Siri team meeting at Apple was begging for a bit of meta commentary on the reporting itself. But I’ve been doing so much of that regarding Gurman lately that I thought it best to hol … | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 14 minutes ago

The iPhone 17 Air makes other models look chunky in new leaked dummy shots

A set of iPhone 17 dummies appeared last night in a new leak from Sonny Dickson, who has a long history of reliably leaking the nonfunctional versions of iPhones that case and accessory makers use to prepare for the next year’s crop of handsets. The images look very much like the … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 20 minutes ago

The Foilies 2025

Recognize the Worst in Government Transparency Co-written by MuckRock's Michael Morisy, Dillon Bergin, and Kelly Kauffman The public's right to access government information is constantly under siege across the United States, from both sides of the political aisle. In Maryland, w … | Continue reading


@eff.org | 22 minutes ago

Review: The Rolls-Royce of sonic toothbrushes, complete with 6-axis IMU

There are people out there that take tooth-brushery very seriously. I know, because I'm one of them. Some folk made sourdough during COVID lockdowns – I personally spent a lot of time hyperfocusing on yoga and then showering and brushing my teeth while still in the yoga zone. Con … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 37 minutes ago

The 11 Best Amazon Echo and Alexa Speakers (2025): We've Tested Them All

We’ve rounded up our favorite speakers that let you talk to Alexa, from the best Echo speakers to third-party options like the Sonos Era. | Continue reading


@wired.com | 38 minutes ago

NASA’s EZIE Mission Launches to Uncover Earth’s Electric Secrets

Blasting off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9, NASA’s EZIE mission is on a groundbreaking journey to unravel the mysteries of auroral electrojets, massive currents that light up Earth’s skies during solar storms. By flying three small satellites in a synchronized dance above the planet, … | Continue reading


@scitechdaily.com | 39 minutes ago

These are the Nova Launcher features I want to see on Pixel phones

Make it happen, Google. | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 40 minutes ago

New program leverages innovative approach to eradicating deadly disease: 'We are taking bold strides'

"Our approach prioritizes scientific, digital, and data-driven strategies." New program leverages innovative approach to eradicating deadly disease: 'We are taking bold strides' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 40 minutes ago

How to set up Routines on your Samsung Galaxy phone

There are probably a lot of simple tasks you do repeatedly on your phone, like muting it in a meeting, reducing the screen brightness late at night, or turning on the battery saver when you leave for work. If you have a Samsung Galaxy phone, then you have access to a Routines too … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 40 minutes ago

🔗 A0 = 1

About programming, AI and devops | Continue reading


@yellowduck.be | 40 minutes ago

Photo calorie app Cal AI, downloaded over a million times, was built by two teenagers

Cal AI has generated over 5 million downloads in 8 months, it says. Founders Zach Yadegari and Henry Langmack are just 18. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 40 minutes ago

Don’t Worry, China Will Help Build US Offshore Wind Farms

An offshore wind service vessel built in a Chinese shipyard is on its way to the US, but what will it do once it gets there? The post Don’t Worry, China Will Help Build US Offshore Wind Farms appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 44 minutes ago

What’s the best artistic/literary format for conveying the feel of the slacker lifestyle? Two slacker stories by Lucy Sante and Matt Madden.

I just happened to read two different stories about slackers, set about 20 years apart: I Heard Her Call My Name by Lucy Sante and Odds Off by Matt Madden. Sante’s book ranges over the decades but the part that’s … Continue reading → | Continue reading


@statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu | 52 minutes ago

Flo Fox (1945 – 2025) ‘Blind’ Street Photographer

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@3quarksdaily.com | 1 hour ago

Covid’s Deadliest Effect Took Five Years to Appear

Siddhartha Mukherjee in The New York Times: Covid was a privatized pandemic. It is this technocratic, privatized model that is its lasting legacy and that will define our approach to the next pandemic. It solves some problems, but on balance it’s a recipe for disaster. There are … | Continue reading


@3quarksdaily.com | 1 hour ago

Research team works to solve global issue by attaching radios to animals: 'An important advancement'

"[They] play an integral role in socio-economic systems." Research team works to solve global issue by attaching radios to animals: 'An important advancement' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 1 hour ago

Stone Soup

This hearty chicken and vegetable Stone Soup is inspired by the classic folk tale. It's made with simple ingredients and is perfect for the whole family! The post Stone Soup appeared first on Budget Bytes. | Continue reading


@budgetbytes.com | 1 hour ago

Sunday's opening shot

"Art Handlers," the current group show at Bullet Space, remains on view through March 31. You can visit it on Saturdays and Sundays from 1 to 6 p.m. (or by appointment—or chance). The urban artist collab is at 292 E. Third St. between Avenue C and Avenue D. | Continue reading


@evgrieve.com | 1 hour ago

I Tried Joanna Gaines’ One-Pan Creamy Chicken

It’s that good! READ MORE... | Continue reading


@thekitchn.com | 1 hour ago

Bonus Drop #79 (2025-03-16): Weekend Hodge Podge

The Weekend Bonus Drop covers Prettier, an opinionated code formatter ensuring consistent style across programming languages, and Krep, a fast C-based string search tool outperforming traditional utilities. It also includes updates to the {hrbrthemes} #RStats package. | Continue reading


@dailydrop.hrbrmstr.dev | 1 hour ago

Mice administer 'first-aid' to friends — even trying to bring the dead back to life

Mice will lick the faces and pull at the tongues of other mice if they're found unconscious, with more vigorous grooming resulting in faster recovery. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 1 hour ago

Sunday photoblogging: the iron bridge at Ironbridge

At the cutting edge of world history and industrial progress back when it was built in 1799, but now Ironbridge and nearby Coalbrookdale are bucolic backwaters where you struggle to get a decent phone signal. | Continue reading


@crookedtimber.org | 1 hour ago

New battery-free electricity source: Tiny plastic beads

Harnessing a principle known as triboelectrification, researchers have worked out the optimal way to generate an electrical charge in a relatively simple way. The breakthrough could provide a battery-free way to power wearables and other devices. Continue Reading Category: Materi … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 1 hour ago

The Best RAM for Your PC (2025)

Building a new computer or looking to upgrade your memory? Here are our favorite options right now. | Continue reading


@wired.com | 1 hour ago

Who needs Chromecast? I switched to this $20 Google TV box and haven’t looked back

The Chromecast is dead in name, but lives on in spirit thanks to this budget alternative. | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 1 hour ago

NASA and Sci-Fi Legend Gentry Lee Answers Our Biggest Question About Space

Inverse sat down with space engineer and sci-fi author Gentry Lee about his new documentary 'Starman,' and his thoughts on Denis Villeneuve’s 'Rendezvous With Rama' adaptation. | Continue reading


@inverse.com | 1 hour ago

Scientists Discover Potential Ozempic Rival That Could Help People Lose Weight With Less Nausea

Stanford Medicine researchers have identified a promising, naturally occurring molecule that could help people lose weight—without the nauseating symptoms now commonly seen with GLP-1 drugs. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 1 hour ago

This gaming mouse has a striking skeletonized design and hot-swap batteries

Angry Miao is known for ridiculous, over-the-top mechanical keyboard designs, but now it’s made a gaming mouse that’s, you guessed it: ridiculous and over-the-top. It’s also cool as all hell, starts at $125 on a Kickstarter preorder special ending March 17th, and may be my … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 1 hour ago

Researchers make stunning discovery about promising next-gen fuel source: 'We are working at the limits of our knowledge'

The research came together as part of a collaborative effort by multiple European institutions. Researchers make stunning discovery about promising next-gen fuel source: 'We are working at the limits of our knowledge' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 1 hour ago

Guru’s Lie – Writing Isn’t Easy, and That’s the Point

It will not literally speak to you. But visible areas of increased connectivity within the slip box, what Sonke Ahrens calls “clusters” can guide you towards ideas ready for expression. – A System for Writing Pg 111 This is one of the big misconceptions with a Zettelkasten/PKM sy … | Continue reading


@curtismchale.ca | 1 hour ago

Sunday Sweets Goes Green!

With St. Patrick's coming up this week, I thought we'd celebrate gorgeous shades of green: (By Dream Day Cakes) Yep, whether you're looking for some Irish wedding inspiration: (By Honey Crumb Cake Studio) Or you're just a sucker for all things emerald: (By Sweet Tiers) Have I got … | Continue reading


@cakewrecks.com | 1 hour ago

A greener Ramadan: How Atlanta-area mosques are cutting food waste during the Muslim holy month

At some places of worship, hundreds of people attend the evening breaking of the fast — which means a lot of discarded food and plastic water bottles. This year, more than a dozen sites of worship are planning “zero-waste” iftars to tackle the problem. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 1 hour ago

It’s all hallucinations

The discourse on “AI” systems, chat bots, “assistants” and “research helpers” is defined by a lot of future promises. Those systems are disfunctional or at least not working great right now but there’s the promise of things getting better in the future. Which is how we often perc … | Continue reading


@tante.cc | 1 hour ago

Framed iPhone screenshots

After reading Jason Snell’s review of Shareshot and Framous, I thought I should start adding frames to my iPhone screenshots again, something I haven’t done for several years. But I didn’t buy either of the apps he reviewed, nor did I download Federico Viticci’s Apple Frames Shor … | Continue reading


@leancrew.com | 1 hour ago

NASA’s New Satellite Could Change the Way We Farm Forever

The NISAR satellite is set to revolutionize global agriculture by providing high-resolution, frequently updated radar data on crops and soil moisture. This breakthrough will allow farmers and policymakers to optimize planting schedules, irrigation, and resource allocation with un … | Continue reading


@scitechdaily.com | 1 hour ago

I Tried Dozens of Cleaners for My Greasy Cabinets, but the “Magical” Solution Was Something I Already Had

You probably already have everything you need! READ MORE... | Continue reading


@thekitchn.com | 1 hour ago

Anti American Demonstration in Nuuk, Greenland

I am so deeply humiliated, so deeply ashamed, and so deeply, deeply, deeply angry with those who have made this absurd atrocity a reality. | Continue reading


@thinc.blog | 2 hours ago

Why Canadian-trained doctors should be allowed to practise anywhere in Canada without additional licensing

Pan-Canadian licensing can improve health-care access in underserved areas and increase flexibility for physicians. (Shutterstock) While politicians tout the benefits of reducing interprovincial trade barriers to unlock prosperity amid escalating trade tensions, our most precious … | Continue reading


@theconversation.com | 2 hours ago

Donald Trump thinks some accents are ‘beautiful,’ but what makes them so?

United States President Donald Trump has recently been commenting on accents while meeting foreign leaders and taking questions from foreign journalists. Trump praised British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s “beautiful” accent, saying he would have been president 20 years ago if he … | Continue reading


@theconversation.com | 2 hours ago

Trump’s English language order upends America’s long multilingual history

Across its nearly 250-year history, the United States has never had an official language. On March 1, U.S. President Donald Trump changed that when he signed an executive order designating English as the country’s sole official language. The order marks a fundamental rupture from … | Continue reading


@theconversation.com | 2 hours ago

Why Gordie Howe’s elbows are Canada’s answer to Donald Trump

When Canadian ice hockey centre Connor McDavid scored in overtime to lead Canada to victory over the United States in the National Hockey League’s 4 Nations Face-Off tournament in February, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau posted on social media, “You can’t take our country … | Continue reading


@theconversation.com | 2 hours ago

Sunday Poem

Amber Inside the sugar maples’ locked branches something clear has begun to come loose; it will be caught, held, plied with intense heat. I pity the pink tips of those branches, their forced march in the dark before the clocks catch up. And I pity myself, swaddled bones scraping … | Continue reading


@3quarksdaily.com | 2 hours ago

Why some Canadians are in denial about Donald Trump

Prime Minister Mark Carney has vowed Canada will never be a 51st American state and has called on Canada to present a united front to defend against United States President Donald Trump’s escalating attacks on Canada’s economy and sovereignty. Most Canadians are already on board. … | Continue reading


@theconversation.com | 2 hours ago

Email signatures are harming the planet and could cost people their lives — it’s time to stop using them

A recent study has shown that the environmental and human mortality impacts of modern information technology — especially email infrastructure — are significant. (Shutterstock) The use of information technology (IT) has significant environmental and social impacts, including huma … | Continue reading


@theconversation.com | 2 hours ago

Joey Molland (1947 – 2025) Songwriter, Guitarist, Badfinger

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@3quarksdaily.com | 2 hours ago

Extracting content from an LCP "protected" ePub

As Cory Doctorow once said "Any time that someone puts a lock on something that belongs to you but won't give you the key, that lock's not there for you." But here's the thing with the LCP DRM scheme; they do give you the key! As I've written about previously, LCP mostly relies o … | Continue reading


@shkspr.mobi | 2 hours ago

These Laptop Stands Run My Household, and Life Is Better for It

Attention Apple users: Rain Design makes the best minimal, fuss-free stands for Macbooks, iMacs, iPads, and iPhones. | Continue reading


@wired.com | 2 hours ago

Napoleons of paintings: 2 Defeat

After his divorce, his son the King of Rome. Disaster on the retreat from Moscow, and exile on the island of Saint Helena. The rapid rise of Napoleon III and his military failure against Prussia in 1870. | Continue reading


@eclecticlight.co | 2 hours ago