We tested 18 aprons by wearing, washing, and using them for weeks. The best ones were easy to adjust, comfortable, and kept our clothes clean. | Continue reading
Turns out putting everything behind locked glass and ad-covered screens does not create a welcoming shopping environment. | Continue reading
Last week I wrote about how GBH decided, without warning, to sell the home of Cape Cod public radio station CAI — and the community uproar that followed. Today, I bring a small update: The Woods Hole Community Association has officially bought the Captain Davis House for $1.8 mil … | Continue reading
Over 40 years after they were introduced, Skeleton Crew gave us B-Wings actually shooting in live-action... but there's a reason their weapons might not have been what you expected. | Continue reading
Climate tech may have had a down year in 2024, but new data also shows a maturing sector with larger deal sizes. Venture investment in the climate tech sector was down 7% to $12.9 billion, $1 billion shy of 2023’s tally, according to data in a new PitchBook report. The report fou … | Continue reading
Visualization quality is often measured by speed and efficiency, which leads to temporary and fleeting presentation work. Maybe we optimize for longevity and see what happens. Tags: longevity | Continue reading
To be truly inclusive, corporate events must consider age in the same way as they do gender and ethnicity. Yet it is often overlooked in DEI efforts. -Barbara Scofidio | Continue reading
The only certainty is more uncertainty. | Continue reading
Nvidia is releasing three new NIM microservices, or small independent services that are part of larger applications, to help enterprises bring additional control and safety measures to their AI agents. One of these new NIM services targets content safety and works to prevent an A … | Continue reading
[...] much of the point of a model like o1 is not to deploy it, but to generate training data for the next model. Every problem that an o1 solves is now a training data point for an o3 (eg. any o1 session which finally stumbles into the right answer can be refined to drop the dea … | Continue reading
Chance Miller, 9to5Mac: Apple released iOS 18.3 beta 3 to developers this afternoon. The update includes a handful of changes to the notification summaries feature of Apple Intelligence. Miller rounds up the key changes which, sadly, do not include an Apple logo beside the summar … | Continue reading
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge I’m not the first to note the irony of TikTok users flooding RedNote this week. The TikTok divest-or-ban rule was supposed to drive Americans away from a foreign-owned social network that was subject to influence or data harvesting by the Chinese … | Continue reading
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For You Brother is a moniker run by a duo of artists, vocalist-songwriter Azoughn, and multi-instrumentalist Jon Dash. Together, they create emotionally captivating music inspired by the desire to connect and bring people closer to one another. | Continue reading
The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here. The Supreme Court’s upcoming conference – the second January conference — is ordinarily the justices’ last opportun … | Continue reading
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An accidental advantage I have with my somewhat ADHD career and interests is that I’ve established patterns and filters for how I view the world that have been tested in multiple domains, often to destruction. I’ve published on the set a few times, but it’s worth returning to the … | Continue reading
Scientists have unveiled a giant horned dinosaur from Egypt called Tameryraptor markgrafi after discovering lost photos of fossils destroyed in WWII. | Continue reading
Arthur made my childhood neighborhood magical. Now both are gone. | Continue reading
Scientists placed the extinct species, which may date back more than 300,000 years, in the same genus as modern leopard cats in Asia | Continue reading
"Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole." # | Continue reading
Back in October 2023, Fantasy Magazine sadly stopped publishing. Starting this summer, however, the magazine will be coming back as a publication of Psychopomp, with Arley Sorg and Shingai Njeri Kagunda serving as co-editors-in-chief. The magazine will publish quarterly, and will … | Continue reading
Yet also elegant. The post Gwendoline Christie Looks Delightfully Eccentric Here first appeared on Go Fug Yourself. | Continue reading
Northwestern University researchers have achieved a groundbreaking development in materials science with the creation of a two-dimensional, mechanically interlocked polymer that mirrors the robust, flexible properties of chainmail. This novel material, boasting the highest densit … | Continue reading
"Preventive care can help you avoid caustic drain chemicals and headaches." Professional cleaner shares 'cheap, foolproof' hack to keep drains clog-free: 'This method has been effective since the 20th century' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
How the cult hit sci-fi show imagines a “techno-realist” future. | Continue reading
Your existing multitool may be cool in an outdoorsy way, but does it give you any "street cred"? Well the WingSpan … might … as it packs an adjustable wrench, tweezers, a blade, and six other tools into a butterfly-knife-type titanium body. Continue Reading Category: Outdoors, Li … | Continue reading
Driving on the lonely U.S Route 93 between Wikieup and Wickenburg, Arizona, travelers will stumble upon a surprising sight: On a high tower, a wooden sign with red painted letters that says “Nothing.” There, the little ghost town of Nothing slowly fades under the blazing desert s … | Continue reading
Illustration: Hugo Herrera / The Verge Two major tech trade groups are challenging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) effort to treat payment apps and digital wallets like banks. In a lawsuit filed in federal court in Washington, DC, NetChoice and TechNet claim tha … | Continue reading
Film director David Lynch has died at the age of 78. RIP, Lynch was a real one. “It’s a beautiful day with golden sunshine and blue skies all the way.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org → | Continue reading
For fuck’s sake, 2025, ease off the pedal, already. Beyond that, Blue Velvet was one of the very few handful of films that I came out of going “what the fuck did I just watch?!?”, and knowing that whatever answer I eventually came up with, I had seen a masterpiece. The film scare … | Continue reading
Photo by Amy T. Zielinski/Getty Images David Lynch, the director behind Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, and other unsettling works, has died, his family confirmed in a post on his official Facebook page. He was 78 years old. The post announcing his passing didn’t list … | Continue reading
Rumors swirl that RedNote may segregate Chinese users as soon as next week. | Continue reading
The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned a network of individuals and front companies linked to North Korea's Ministry of National Defense that have generated revenue via illegal remote IT work schemes. [...] | Continue reading
Nikki Crowley at The Conversation: The association between alcohol and cancer isn’t new news – scientists have been trying to determine the link for decades – yet most people aren’t aware of the risks and may only associate drinking with liver disease like cirrhosis. In a 2019 su … | Continue reading
Across the country, academics, journalists and researchers are mapping their state’s news and information ecosystems. Their methodologies differ, but such initiatives seek to make sense of the splintered reality of where people are getting their local news and information. Often, … | Continue reading
The ingenious director of Twin Peaks and Blue Velvet had been living with emphysema for a period of time, he revealed last year David Lynch, the visionary director and writer of films such as Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive and the much-loved TV series Twin Peaks, has died at th … | Continue reading
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Datasette Public Office Hours Application We are running another Datasette Public Office Hours event on Discord tomorrow (Friday 17th January 2025) at 2pm Pacific / 5pm Eastern / 10pm GMT / more timezones here. The theme this time around is lightning talks - we're looking for 5-8 … | Continue reading
I'm unsure if I can recommend you wait for the FR275 The post Garmin Forerunner 275 – buy the 265 now or wait for the FR 275 (265 PRO) in 2025? What are likely features appeared first on the5krunner • tri bike run. The full post can be read now at the5krunner • tri bike run. | Continue reading
Each bite of beef nilaga’s melt-in-your-mouth meat, buttery bits of bone marrow and tendon, and unctuous vegetable-laden beef broth is a symphony of textures and flavors. Here, Philippine-born chef Yana Gilbuena shares her recipe for the Filipino beef soup. | Continue reading
The influential creator of surreal TV series Twin Peaks, as well as the director of Eraserhead, Wild at Heart, Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet, and more feature films was 78 years old. | Continue reading
Here at CleanTechnica, we have had the privilege to write about recent large energy storage system projects. These projects are exciting news, because in some cases they are paired with clean, renewable electricity such as solar power and wind power. Excess electricity from the c … | Continue reading
Earlier today Nintendo announced the first official details about the Switch 2 console. There are still a lot of unknowns, but there are interesting details that can be gleaned from Nintendo’s video announcement. Join Federico, Brendon, and me for our reactions to the announcemen … | Continue reading
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Tesla is declaring the Cybertruck to be “America’s bestselling electric pickup truck in 2024.” And yet for the first time, the company offering discounts of up to $2,600 on the low-poly truck, a sign that demand may not be as strong … | Continue reading
Bless consciousness, for making blue different to me than it is to you. I remember the moment a friend’s son came home from school to recount with something between shock and exhilaration how he realized while talking to a classmate that the notion of a mental image is not merely … | Continue reading
The first game announced for Nintendo Switch 2 is a brand new Mario Kart, and it already looks quite a bit different from the rest of the franchise. | Continue reading
The sun has yet to set on wind and solar development in Oklahoma, despite looming concerns over a statewide ban. The post Renewable Energy Ban Too Late To Stop 700+ MW Solar Portfolio appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading