Nick Wingfield, writing today’s The Briefing column for the paywalled (alas) The Information: Sonos has always been a bit of an odd duck. There aren’t that many consumer electronics startups of its size created in the last quarter century (Sonos was founded in 2002) that have sur … | Continue reading
Just days by Amazon had a sale going which offered the new 2024 Kindle Scribe for a 19 percent discount. That had made the latest Kindle Scribe model even cheaper than the original. While that deal has since been withdrawn, here is the original Kindle Scribe that is now on sale f … | Continue reading
E-book reader devices these days come in various shapes and sizes. There are what can be termed the conventional e-reader devices of the sort of the Kindle Paperwhite or the Kobo Clara. There also are the likes of the Boox Palma (Palma 2 being the latest iteration) which happens … | Continue reading
Wi-Charge, one of the pioneers when it comes to wireless electricity announced it has partnered with E Ink to power the latter’s large-format Spectra 6 color e-paper displays. Wi-Charge provides the means to transmit electric charge wirelessly using infrared beams. With this, Wi- … | Continue reading
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Mike Davidson: I grew up on Iliff Street, right in the middle of the ashes that up until a few nights ago, was a sunkissed neighborhood known as Pacific Palisades. It was 1978, and I remember my dad climbing up on our roof with a garden hose. Every couple of hours, he would wet t … | Continue reading
Sticky and fixed navigation sound similar but serve different purposes. In this post, I look into their distinctions, use cases, and best practices to design navigation that satisfies users and drives results. The post Should navigation bars be sticky or fixed? appeared first on … | Continue reading
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The Waiting is Michael Connelly’s 39th book from the Harry Bosch Universe. Renée Ballard from LAPD’s Open-Unsolved Unit is going to chase a number of different cases at the same time, with the help of Maddie Bosch. Two of the cases are serial killers. Harry Bosch also makes a bri … | Continue reading
Salvador Dalí (Luna Luna)My biggest "vice," one I thankfully share with my wife, is that we like to go out to dinner. If I die broke, that's where the money went. It's not necessarily the food. I'm not bad in the kitchen and, after 40 years of cooking for my wife, I'm confident I … | Continue reading
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Ross Douthat face off against Adam Carolla and Michael Shermer on February 27 in Austin, Texas. | Continue reading
[Is it really you, yuxingbeng.ziefen-1981mijingtan_cishikang@gmx.us?] Two days ago, I read an article about scammy text messages that request you reply to them. The very next day, I received the following: Can you guess why this text wants me to reply “Y”? It’s because the“Filte … | Continue reading
TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2025 ...of our failing nation: We awoke today to what we'd call a stumblebum conversation. It occurred in the first half hour of this morning's Morning Joe. At issue was the FBI background check—or the lack of same—which has been conducted—or possibly not—on … | Continue reading
Demand for faster UI development is skyrocketing. Explore how to use Shadcn and Framer AI to quickly create UI components. The post Building a UI in 60 seconds with Shadcn and Framer AI appeared first on LogRocket Blog. | Continue reading
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Current conditions: Nearly 10 million people are under alert today for fire weather conditions in southern California • The coastal waters off China hit their highest average temperature, 70.7 degrees Fahrenheit, since record-keeping began • A blast of cold air will bring freezin … | Continue reading
Unlike generic prioritization methods, customer-valued approaches place user and/or client impact at the heart of decision-making. The post Customer-valued prioritization methods for effective PMs appeared first on LogRocket Blog. | Continue reading
Introduction In this article, I’m going to explain you should use compact table columns when designing your database schema. By using compact table columns, you can cache more table records and index entries and, therefore, speed up your SQL queries. Database caching As I explain … | Continue reading
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Biden’s transgender prison policy goes to court. Is Taylor Swift a threat to free speech? And much more. | Continue reading
The country has a dire shortage of nurses, so to fill the manpower gap, it’s using AI for preventive care. | Continue reading
Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy Two storefronts have gone dark at 68-70 Avenue A between Fourth Street and Fifth Street. Angels Boutique, which sold vintage fashion collectibles and accessories, closed at No. 70 last Thursday after seven months. It was a spin-off business of v … | Continue reading
Here's a look at the in-progress new state-of-the-art facility for Barrier Free Living at 270 E. Second St. between Avenue C and Avenue D... The 12-story new building with a twisting façade will be known as "Freedom Village." Here's a look at the rendering (which we have posted i … | Continue reading
Photos by Stacie Joy Back on Friday, we shared the news that Ilana Wiles was closing The March Hare on Jan. 31. She bought the toy store at 321 E. Ninth St. between First Avenue and Second Avenue in April 2022. As Wiles wrote, she bought the shop not only to help the owners who w … | Continue reading
Trump’s inauguration is right around the corner, and there is so much to cover about the new White House. | Continue reading
Photo by Steven Here's a December closing we never noted: Brick Lane Curry House shut down at 79 Second Ave. between Fourth Street and Fifth Street. The modestly priced British-style curry spot had been operating for 23 years from several East Village storefronts, including at 30 … | Continue reading
Imagine waking up one morning and deciding to become William Shakespeare. You have fantasized about it for years and now you’re taking the fateful step. Overcome by a heady mixture of zeal, naivete, and hubris, you’re freed from feelings of shame or guilt. Although you live in th … | Continue reading
When it comes to our understanding of crime and criminals, lawyers and novelists—and lawyers-turned-novelists—might offer the same caution: presume nothing. At the forefront of this elite group of storytellers is attorney Scott Turow, who redefined the legal thriller with 1986’s … | Continue reading
I’m a TV writer by profession, and when I’m not staffing a show, I develop TV series adaptations with the goal of selling one to a buyer. My favorite novel genres to adapt are mysteries and thrillers because I love suspenseful, propulsive storytelling and because thrillers make d … | Continue reading
In 2013, Tim Kreider achieved true Internet meme stardom when he concluded his New York Times essay, “I Know What You Think of Me,” with the line, “if we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known.” The meme-ification of this stateme … | Continue reading
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Am Beginn meiner Autorenschaft im TP-Blog stand eine Idee: Von den vielen an österreichischen Studiengängen mit touristischem Schwerpunkt erarbeiteten Erkenntnissen sollte – maßgeblich durch Gastbeiträge von Forscher/-innen sowie Student/-innen getragen – etwas an die interessier … | Continue reading
Is there something one can put into the water in a humidifier to kill off things that might otherwise grow in it that is, nevertheless, safe for humans to breathe? I ask not because I have a humidifier, but because I have something just like a humidifier, only considerably worse. … | Continue reading
Jack Litchfield, Head of Product at Super.com, talks about Super.com’s philosophy of experimentation and how it results in rapid learning. The post Leader Spotlight: The importance of rapid learning and moving forward, with Jack Litchfield appeared first on LogRocket Blog. | Continue reading
Snyk Security Labs found no indications that Cursor was in any way vulnerable to dependency confusion. | Continue reading
Snyk joined JPMorgan Chase’s Hall of Innovation for 2024, celebrating its impact on application security, market disruption, and overall partnership. Learn more about this collaboration. | Continue reading
Photo credits: zverge / BigStock Brazil has a longstanding history of R&D collaboration with the EU, dating back to a scientific and technological cooperation agreement that was signed in 2004. Building on this foundation, in October 2016, the European Commission and the Brazilia … | Continue reading
Photo credits: BigStock South Korean academics now have near-full access to the big collaborative grants of Pillar 2 of Horizon Europe, after a transition agreement kicked in last week. Seoul and Brussels https://sciencebusiness.net/news/horizon… Subscribe to read more | Continue reading
Photo credits: tashatuvango / BigStock CVs that replace metrics and timelines with a narrative description of a researcher’s achievements are becoming more common in applications for research funding. But the switch from traditional CVs can be a challenge, which is why a group of … | Continue reading
Photo credits: European Union / Flickr Look at the organisations that collaborate most in Horizon Europe and it is the research councils with large networks of institutes that rise to the top. And France’s National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) is ubiquitous. CNRS… Subscr … | Continue reading
Photo credits: BigStock Funding to help start-ups take advantage of the EU’s new silicon chip design platform dominates this year’s calls from the Chips joint undertaking (JU), a partnership formed in 2023 to implement the EU Chips Act. More than half of the budget assigned to Ch … | Continue reading
When it was first released, the Amazon Kindle Colorsoft had significant issues. There were persistent yellow bars or bands at the bottom of the screen. This was even more noticeable when the front-lit display was turned on, as the screen’s brightness made the issue even more pron … | Continue reading
Xu Wenkan is well known to readers of Language Log, both because he was memorialized in an obituary here — "Xu Wenkan (1943-2023)" (1/10/23) — and because he was cited in many posts on IE languages (especially Tocharian), Sinitic lexicography / lexicology, and the Sinographic wri … | Continue reading
Enlightenment 0.27, released this week, brings a wealth of incremental improvements to users of this unique desktop environment. Though not as well known or widely used as GNOME, Xfce, KDE Plasma, et al, Enlightenment (often abbreviated as just ‘E’) differentiates itself through … | Continue reading
I sent the above photograph of a body lotion (bodirōshon ボディローション) bottle to Nathan Hopson and asked him why it has so many katakana words, also why they have to give a phonological gloss for yuzu, which should be a fairly common word in Japanese (even I know it!). He replied: Tw … | Continue reading
Rhonda Fleming says being forced to shower with male inmates violates her constitutional right to bodily privacy. On Tuesday, a court will hear her case. | Continue reading
Marketoonist (3/26/23): AI warp & woof TL;DR TL:DW Selected readings "Pablumese" (3/22/23) "ChatGPT: Theme and Variations" (2/21/23) | Continue reading