Returning to the cold case of the disappearing frogs of Costa Rica, a biologist reveals a hard truth about life on Earth - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Praying is a cognitive practice full of problem-solving resources. You can learn from it even if you don’t want to do it - by Eleanor Schille-Hudson Read at Aeon | Continue reading
As of Jan. 8, the LG 65-inch C4 Series OLED evo 4K Smart TV is on sale for $1,699.99 at Best Buy, saving you $100 off its regular price of $1,799.99. | Continue reading
The year has just begun, and Apple might already be in “Sherlocking” mode to create a new app for iOS called Invites. Details are still thin on what this app might look like, but it could potentially be a competitor to Evite or Partiful. According to findings in iOS 18.3 beta 2 c … | Continue reading
I wrote Interpinkie, a basic Finger client in Interlisp that runs on the Medley environment. This is the main window of the program: Main window of the Interpinkie Interlisp Finger client. It was a fun challenge considering I couldn't use Medley's TCP/IP stack. I always wanted … | Continue reading
Gaming startups — specifically those building casual mobile games — are very hot in Turkey right now, and today another one is announcing a sizeable round just nine months into its existence. Grand Games, the publisher behind Magic Sort and Car Match, has picked up $30 million in … | Continue reading
As of Jan. 8, the LG 43-inch UT70 Series 4K Smart TV is on sale for $229.99 at Best Buy. Xbox Game Pass Cloud Gaming arrives on LG TVs in February. | Continue reading
Happy new year, hackfolk! Today, a note about ephemerons. I thought I was done with them, but it seems they are not done with me. The question at hand is, how do we efficiently and correctly implement ephemerons in a generational collector? Whippet‘s answer turns out to be simple … | Continue reading
As of Jan. 8, the LG 48-inch B4 Series OLED 4K Smart TV is on sale for $699.99 at Best Buy. Game Pass Cloud Gaming comes in February. | Continue reading
Illustration: The Verge Google is testing an experimental AI feature that creates a personalized podcast using your Search and Discover feed history. The Daily Listen feature in Google’s Search Labs is rolling out to Android and iOS users in the US according to 9to5Google, and wo … | Continue reading
Elon Musk’s intervention into British politics has revived the debate about how the government responds to child sexual abuse, particularly by “grooming gangs”. While this is an important discussion, as a researcher of child sexual abuse I am concerned that Musk’s comments have d … | Continue reading
British politics entered the new year in a state of online siege from the incoming US government’s ironically named “efficiency tzar” and discourse provocateur (aka “troll”), Elon Musk. Musk’s claimed cause is the way the British government has dealt with cases of abuse and groom … | Continue reading
As of Jan. 8, the Samsung 65-inch Crystal UHD 4K Smart TV is on sale for $399.99 at Best Buy, saving you $70 off its usual $469.99 price. | Continue reading
We’ve often featured the work of the Public Domain Review here on Open Culture, and also various searchable copyright-free image databases that have arisen over the years. It makes sense that those two worlds would collide, and now they’ve done so in the form of the just-launched … | Continue reading
Here's the best EVs and car tech we saw at CES 2025, from Hyundai Mobis' holographic windshields to XPENG's "Land Aircraft Carrier." | Continue reading
Eufy's E20 vacuum reimagines home cleaning with a single device that combines robotic, stick, and handheld vacuum modes. | Continue reading
The Withings Omnia Smart Mirror isn’t just a mirror – it’s a central health hub that tracks your metrics, connects to other devices, and even offers AI-driven feedback. | Continue reading
Are sleep-tracking earbuds the next frontier in health tech? Sleepwave’s For Me Buds might have the answer. | Continue reading
Defiant is a new early stage VC firm focused on B2B SaaS and fintech coming out of stealth today. Joseph Pizzolato (pictured right) and Cam Rail (pictured left), the duo at the helm of the firm who met when they were six years old, have already secured $30 million and plan to rai … | Continue reading
An in-depth hands-on experience with the Solos AirGo Vision smart glasses at CES 2025. | Continue reading
Upgrade any car with this 10-inch wireless touchscreen display for Apple CarPlay and Android Auto on sale for $100. | Continue reading
A look at how the OhSnap MCON transforms phones into handheld gaming consoles. | Continue reading
Taskio delivers AI tools to automate tasks, generate content, and streamline your workflow — now just $15.99 with code HOLIDAY20. | Continue reading
Mashable checks out LG's new 3-in-1 projector at CES 2025. | Continue reading
Explore the skies with the Ninja Dragon Phantom and Blade K Drone 4K bundle — two drones for under $100, packed with smart features. | Continue reading
Save 20% on the Waterpik Cordless Pulse at Amazon. | Continue reading
Since its founding in 1994, Amazon has undergone exponential growth. Initially an online bookstore, the company has evolved into a global e-commerce powerhouse. Yet its reach extends far beyond retail. Amazon is also a dominant force in technology infrastructure (Amazon Web Servi … | Continue reading
Save 53% on the roborock Q5 Pro+ at Amazon. | Continue reading
Le Pen’s political trajectory reveals his distinctive positioning at the intersection of conservatism and far-right extremism, balancing traditional political engagement with a disruptive, populist stance. Initially aligned with Action Française, the main anti-republican league t … | Continue reading
shutterstock Maridav/Shutterstock Over 330 million people currently suffer from depression worldwide, though the complexity of diagnosis and the heterogeneity of this condition mean that such a figure can only ever be a conservative estimate. Depressive disorders are a major caus … | Continue reading
Save 15% on the Beats Studio 3 at Amazon. | Continue reading
Xmas, every year at my mother-in-law house, kids are over spoiled. This year, I probably saw more presents than my entire childhood. We didn’t ask for many toys for our kids, but the aunts and uncles couldn’t resist buying a ton of them. | Continue reading
Imagine having a picture on your wall that completely changes when the room gets too warm. Engineers at MIT have created a new printing technology called Thermochromorph to make full-color images that switch in response to temperature. Continue Reading Category: Materials, Scienc … | Continue reading
I was using my 5G router setup with Vanilla OpenWRT and QMI Cellular as a protocol for quite some time, but there were irregular disconnections etc. Updating the firmware of the modem didn’t help. Some days ago, I noticed that it’s also possible to configure with Modem Manager (w … | Continue reading
Each Thursday in the Disquiet Junto music community, a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have five days to record and upload a track in response to the project instructions. Membership in the Junto is open: just join and participate. (A Sound … | Continue reading
Starting Tuesday, 2025-01-14, 17:30 CET (in your timezone), I’ll be hosting an AMA Open Office Hour here. It’s free. Join on Jitsi on Tuesday. | Continue reading
Who would buy a Raspberry Pi for $120? Jeff Geerling January 9, 2025 | Continue reading
Deciding which file system to use for hard disks can be difficult. Here are the advantages and disadvantages explained in detail, for HFS+ and APFS. | Continue reading
Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, is testing out a standalone iOS app for its chatbot, Grok, which was available only to X users until now. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. | Continue reading
Black holes are some of the strangest, most wondrous objects in all the Universe. With huge amounts of mass concentrated into an extremely small volume, their interiors inevitably collapse down to singularities, surrounded by event horizons from which nothing — not even light — c … | Continue reading
What’s that, you ask? Did Miles Davis open for the Grateful Dead at the Fillmore West? In what world could such a thing happen? In the world of the late sixties/early seventies, when jazz fused with acid rock, acid rock with country, and pop culture took a long strange trip. The … | Continue reading
Flipkart has hired Kabeer Biswas, co-founder of Indian delivery startup Dunzo, as the Walmart-owned e-commerce group expands its quick commerce business in the world’s most populous nation. Biswas will lead Flipkart’s quick commerce business, called Flipkart Minutes, a source fam … | Continue reading
Some of you may have noticed I’ve been posting a lot about programming with coding assistants lately, and that I’ve also doing more writing in general (such as summarizing awesome podcasts and talks that I’ve watched or heard recently). These are not unrelated. I’ve been telling … | Continue reading
Inspired by the mechanics of the human vocal tract, a new AI model can produce and understand vocal imitations of everyday sounds. The method could help build new sonic interfaces for entertainment and education. | Continue reading
Through 12 January, you can get 1TB of Koofr cloud storage for just £88.98, with no recurring fees. Best of all, it's yours for life. | Continue reading
Freedom Wars Remastered is out now on consoles and tomorrow on PC (Steam) in Asia. The remaster of the 2014 PS Vita launch game is curiously being published by Bandai Namco, despite the game IP being own, and still owned, by PlayStation. There’s plenty small text surrounding the … | Continue reading
It’s unlikely you’ve missed the story. In recent weeks, US President-elect Donald Trump has again repeatedly voiced his desire for the United States to take “ownership and control” of Greenland – an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark. Trump first floated the idea of t … | Continue reading
One of the buzziest products at CES 2025 is far simpler than any massive, crisp-pictured TV or next-gen EV for street and sky. The all-new Swippitt IPS is a fast power-up solution for mobile phones. Forget handcuffing your iPhone to an electrical socket or wireless dock for the n … | Continue reading