[It’s like tuna fish in a barrel.] I suspect Donald Trump’s ridiculously named social media platform “Truth Social” attracts a people who are likely to be more credulous than average. Scammers looking for prey have certainly found it there, as Gizmodo found out via a FOIA request … | Continue reading
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The Nobel Committe for Physics announces John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton as the winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize for Physics. | Continue reading
Amazon surprises us with this unprecedented offer. | Continue reading
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A busy news week: a Nobel prize, another chance of auroras, and… a comet. It’s probably not the comet of the century, but comets like this one show up only about once every ten years. This one has already been visible in early morning skies. This week it enters our evening skies, … | Continue reading
We’ve been testing blenders for over a decade, and we still recommend the Vitamix 5200 as our top pick. This year’s October Prime Day sale is the best time to buy one since it’s $90 off. | Continue reading
Just a few taps in Google Photos, and you can AI the crowds away. Skógafoss is a must-see, everyone said, and in a country with as much natural beauty as Iceland, that means it’s gonna be some majestic shit. The waterfall didn’t disappoint, but even on a chilly weekday in March, … | Continue reading
The findings provide a blueprint to mass-produce the high-quality collectors. Breakthrough in energy storage technology could make EV batteries safer: 'Crucial for avoiding catastrophic failures' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
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An image of Hurricane Milton moving towards Florida taken with the GOES satellite at 22:30 UTC on 10/07/24. | Continue reading
NASA and SpaceX have postponed the launch of the Europa Clipper mission due to Hurricane Milton threatening Florida’s Space Coast with high winds and heavy rain. The spacecraft has been secured at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A, with launch teams on standby to evaluate … | Continue reading
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Read a recap of our SnykLaunch event for October 2024, covering our new features that power a developer-first, risk-centric security experience. | Continue reading
Last week, I enjoyed attending ECCV 2024, which included exciting workshops on the applied side of computer vision, oral presentations from various computer vision specialists about their frontier research, and inspirational keynotes from industry titans. In this short blog post, … | Continue reading
You can therefore buy 10 iPads for the price of one MacBook Pro. | Continue reading
Amazon is offering the Arzopa 15.6" portable monitor at an incredible price of $59, down from $129, just in time for Prime Day. | Continue reading
Did you know that Greg Davies' BBC comedy series The Cleaner is a remake of a German comedy series called Der Tatortreiniger? Last year I compared the English episodes to their German counterparts. Only one episode was unique to the UK version - the rest were more-or-less faithfu … | Continue reading
One of the latest smartwatches around is already discounted, with Amazon knocking over $100 off the Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra fitness tracker. | Continue reading
The current xkcd comic: Mouseover title: "The distinctive 'UCLA comma' and 'Michigan comma' are a long string of commas at the start and end of the sentence respectively." I guess Penn, Brown, Berkeley, CalTech, …, should be grateful for being left out. I'll spare you our past po … | Continue reading
From Rembrandt to Velázquez, Goya, Courbet and Fantin-Latour, reading group portraits can be complicated and demanding. | Continue reading
As a son of the south, I've been surrounded by country music all my life. Growing up, there were many, many targeted advertisements selling 8-track collections for a variety of artists, although Conway Twitty stands out in my memory for the volume of commercials dedicated to pedd … | Continue reading
October Prime Day is finally here and Serious Eats staffers have very strong opinions about what’s worth grabbing, including a Le Creuset Dutch oven, All-Clad cookware, Breville espresso machines, and more. | Continue reading
Seeking to improve the tokamak fusion reactor known as ITER, researchers have found a way to stop rogue tungsten atoms from shearing off the walls and messing with the plasma. The finding is another important milestone on fusion's road to success. Continue Reading Category: Energ … | Continue reading
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Alex Ross at The New Yorker: Claire Devon, the protagonist of Missy Mazzoli’s seductively nightmarish opera “The Listeners,” is living contentedly as a suburban schoolteacher somewhere in the Southwest when she is beset by an inexplicable, inescapable sound. It is described as a … | Continue reading
I was reminded of my old friend Hank. He and I used to walk from 7th Avenue to 5th after lunchtime. Man, I used to love these walks. How I met Hank is not important nor is this something that belongs in an open discussion. But at the same time, Hank and I shared a […] | Continue reading
This Bose headset is among the finest headphones globally featuring active noise cancellation. | Continue reading
Thanks to all who joined us for a wonderful gathering in Grand Rapids last weekend. On Friday evening, Jeff Polet and Ross Douthat conversed about populism, Lasch, and American presidential politics. The discussion may have been a bit more national in scope than is typical for an … | Continue reading
AirTags have emerged as one of the best-sellers in the Electronics category today. | Continue reading
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Chinese hackers (Salt Typhoon) penetrated the networks of US broadband providers, and might have accessed the backdoors that the federal government uses to execute court-authorized wiretap requests. Those backdoors have been mandated by l … | Continue reading
Researchers have uncovered a significant migration of sperm whales away from the Gulf of California, correlating with the collapse of their primary food source, the jumbo squid. This shift is attributed to drastic changes in the marine environment, including warmer waters and mor … | Continue reading
NASA has seen some outstanding recent successes in robotic exploration over the past 20 years, but now the agency’s flagship explorer—the largest spacecraft ever built for planetary science—is poised for launch. Delayed by chip shortages, budget negotiations, and soon-to-arrive H … | Continue reading
More than a half-century after being left behind, the original 'Doctor Who' companion is proposing a comeback. | Continue reading
Amazon's Prime Day is full of inconsistent and misleading deals, but there are ways to make sure you're getting the most money off that laptop or phone you've been eyeing. | Continue reading
The European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft is en route to assess how NASA’s 2022 DART mission impacted the asteroid Dimorphos. DART smashed into the asteroid at a little over 6 kilometers per second, sending out a cloud of debris and slowing it slightly. Hera’s detailed post-col … | Continue reading
With the markets for electric vehicles and battery energy storage systems on the come-up, energy market analysts predict that the world is hurtling towards a global lithium shortage by the 2030’s. Lithios, a Massachusetts-based startup with a novel method of lithium extraction, i … | Continue reading
"People should feel confident that many current EVs are suitable and cost-effective to replace a range of light, medium, and heavy-duty ICE vehicles." New data shows electric vehicle batteries can now last more than 20 years — and they could even outlast the usable life of the ca … | Continue reading
I bought a license for Fantastical before they switched to subscription pricing. I don’t have a particularly busy schedule to manage, but I liked their calendar sets and how they handled the month view on … | Continue reading
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Samsung is very generous for Prime Day on all its new smartphone models. | Continue reading
Hurricane Helene brought devastation — and an opportunity — to Appalachia’s power grids The reconstruction of the power grid in the areas of Appalachia where it was wrecked by Helene will ultimately offer a chance for the utility industry to rethink how the electricity system sho … | Continue reading
Christian Edwards at CNN: The 2024 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for their “foundational discoveries” that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks. “Although computers cannot think, machines can now mimic functions su … | Continue reading
In the early days of this weblog, I was on MediaTemple using MoveableType for a good long time. Three things happened during these many years: MoveableType was mostly abandoned during this time. I’m sure well-intentioned folks were working on it (and it appears they still are), b … | Continue reading
Markdown File Linker is an extension for the Nova editor that allows you to insert links to local files as Markdown links, perfect for linking between articles in your Jekyll blog! Usage To run Markdown File Linker: Select the Editor → Insert File Link menu item; or Open the comm … | Continue reading
Looking to save big during this year's Prime Day, which runs from October 8 to 9? Here’s our updated selection of the best deals of the day. | Continue reading