March brought us new Macs, ultra-thin foldables, and even an exoskeleton. However, some of our most-anticipated tech for the month won't arrive until April. | Continue reading
"Great idea!!!" Proud pet owner shows off budget-friendly fix for chewed-up disaster: 'I'm glad to not have to throw it away' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
A long weekend lunch in the countryside is a hallowed tradition for residents of Oaxaca City, and Luz de Luna makes an ideal escape. Located in the village of San Andrés Huayapam about 20 minutes east of the city, this charming indoor-outdoor restaurant with views of Oaxacan foot … | Continue reading
Microsoft used its AI-powered Security Copilot to discover 20 previously unknown vulnerabilities in the GRUB2, U-Boot, and Barebox open-source bootloaders. [...] | Continue reading
This post is by Lizzie. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is a United Nations group that helps assemble the best possible information on climate change and its impacts, and then tries to communicate it to the world. In … Continue reading → | Continue reading
Jon Brodkin, reporting for Ars Technica, “France Fines Apple €150M for “Excessive” Pop-Ups That Let Users Reject Tracking”: France’s competition regulator fined Apple €150 million, saying the iPhone maker went overboard in its implementation of pop-up messages that let users cons … | Continue reading
Microsoft is making its AI features widely available on Copilot Plus PCs equipped with Intel and AMD chips. One of the most notable of these features will be Live Captions, which translates audio to English subtitles from dozens of different languages in real time. Microsoft firs … | Continue reading
The Adult Swim series is a must-watch for fans of animation, dry comedy, and speculative fiction. | Continue reading
People who took twice-weekly low doses of LSD experienced no greater improvement in their ADHD symptoms than people taking placebo. | Continue reading
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Why doesn't he care about this 100th great grandson, living on Alpha Centauri? Is he a bastard? Today's News: | Continue reading
Amazon is having some fantastic spring sales and deals, offering many Apple products at great discounts from retail prices. Check out the deals below to find discounted prices on new Apple gear including AirPods 4, AirPods Pro 2, wired Earbuds, Apple Watch Series 10, iPad mini 7, … | Continue reading
Categories in Mail for macOS. Today, Apple released iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4, macOS 15.4, visionOS 2.4, tvOS 18.4, and watchOS 11.4. These releases represent an eclectic mix of new and updated features along with smaller changes scattered across each of the OSes. One of the biggest … | Continue reading
When building SaaS applications with Laravel and Inertia.js, you'll typically start with a nested layout approach. But there's a more powerful pattern... Read More... Source | Continue reading
The Supreme Court on Monday appeared sympathetic to the argument by a Catholic Charities chapter that Wisconsin violated the Constitution when it refused to give the group the same exemption from the state’s unemployment tax that it provides to churches, religious schools, and so … | Continue reading
"I just realized that I'm not the only creative guy with a low budget." Photographer reveals clever trick for using empty toilet paper rolls for perfect lighting: 'Can't believe I haven't thought of this' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
The qualities you value most in engineers are also creating your biggest problems. Here's how to handle this paradox. | Continue reading
My ideation and fabrication of the Wöddha Board is underway, beginning with an early prototype to answer some questions around form and function. Using cardboard, tape, pipe cleaners, and some makeshift buttons, I was able to design a small-scale version of my box and begin “inte … | Continue reading
‘We will not hesitate to act if Harvard fails to do so.’ | Continue reading
Specifications: As I move closer to completing RailGlow, I’ve started thinking more about what success really looks like for this project. At its core, this lamp is meant to solve a problem in our kitchen where the lighting over the stove is poor. But beyond that, I want it to fe … | Continue reading
Tiny batteries and "disposable" e-cigs remain big risks for waste handlers. | Continue reading
In news that won’t be surprising for those who’ve read Frank Herbert’s novels, Jason Momoa, who played Duncan Idaho in Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part One, will be coming back for the filmmaker’s third movie in the franchise, Dune Messiah. In an interview with Collider to promote h … | Continue reading
I have one kid entering college this fall and one a few years away, so I’ve been thinking (with fury and sadness) about the effect that Trump’s authoritarian regime is having on American colleges and universities. They’re pulling funding from schools; schools are cancelling progr … | Continue reading
The natural disaster compounds humanitarian concerns in a country already in the throes of a devastating civil war | Continue reading
The Mike Waltz story gets dumber. | Continue reading
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Smart plugs are great, but unfortunately, they can’t automate everything. Thankfully, there is a cheap cube-like contraption called the SwitchBot Bot that can add a touch of modern functionality to your garage door, light switch, and other traditional devices. It would normally r … | Continue reading
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On an August night in 1991, Nancy Jean Burkholder was kicked out of the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival. It wasn’t because she was disrupting the event—it was because she was transgender. The lesbian feminist women's music festival, which had been an annual event in Oceana County … | Continue reading
MayTree combined beatboxing and vocals to perform a resoundingly accurate rendition of "The Imperial March", with a playful addition. | Continue reading
A USC research team discovered that a single genetic signal may be preventing both hearing and vision cells from repairing themselves. By turning off this signal in mice, they triggered cell growth in parts of the ear and eye — a step toward possible future therapies for hearing … | Continue reading
In Friday's Fugs & Pieces, Fug National Mavis had a great suggestion: "Another Afternoon Chat sub-idea: Random Delightful Things like daffodils, Pedro Pascal talking about his coffee order on Kimmel, the return of CPK’s Rosemary Potato Chicken Pizza, etc." I love this idea! Why n … | Continue reading
Most buildings in Manchester’s city center date after 1800, when the city was at the forefront of the Industrial Revolution. However, at the city’s northern edge, near the River Irwell, stand notably older structures. Among these are two timber-framed buildings, collectively know … | Continue reading
The new experiment, impacting the card game's Pauper format, comes after a swath of changes to how Magic approaches powerful cards in other formats. | Continue reading
"Accurate and timely wildfire danger forecasting is necessary for preparedness and response." Researchers debut powerful AI tool to transform emergency response: 'Could potentially save lives' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
The parking lot is nothing to write home about, but Austin generally is lovely and I’m glad to be here. Although I did just troll the Austinites on Bluesky: Spoiler: I did not eat at Chipotle. I ate at a food truck down the road where I got a carnitas/kimchi fusion bowl. It was d … | Continue reading
I’m not sure how I feel about M. R. Carey’s work. I purchased five books by this author. Two are fantastic 5⭐ sci-fi, one was a 1 ⭐ DNF. Now comes The Trials of Koli, my fourth out of five. Published in 2014, it’s a book about the survivors of a terrible war that changed … Contin … | Continue reading
Court win for investors may sway SEC’s probe of Elon Musk’s Twitter purchase. | Continue reading
A phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform named 'Lucid' has been targeting 169 entities in 88 countries using well-crafted messages sent on iMessage (iOS) and RCS (Android). [...] | Continue reading
Laura Miller at Slate: Every so often an eye-opening work of social criticism becomes a surprise bestseller. In 1979, everyone was talking about Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism, and in 1987, it was Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind. Last year, Jonathan … | Continue reading
Scientists have created what they say is the world's smallest untethered flying robot, by taking a unique approach to its design. To minimize size and weight, they've moved the bot's power and control systems out of its sub-centimeter-wide body. Continue Reading Category: Robotic … | Continue reading
"This is such a great idea." Beauty fan stuns with easy trick to turn eyeshadow into nail polish: 'I'm definitely going to do this' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Under the federal law governing efforts by state prisoners to seek post-conviction relief in federal courts, prisoners who lose at the trial level can only appeal that decision if they can show that reasonable judges could disagree with the ruling or that the case should be allow … | Continue reading
Donald Trump’s pick to run the Energy Information Administration works for a think tank that denies the existence of an energy transition. The Energy Information Administration is the nation’s primary energy fuel and power forecasting agency. Since its inception in 1977, EIA has … | Continue reading
With the launch of iOS 18.4 today, Apple says Apple Intelligence features are now available in the E.U. and in several new languages. I remain skeptical that Apple Intelligence was ever “delayed” in the region. Until today, it was only available in variations of English. When App … | Continue reading
Why matter dominates over antimatter in our universe has long been a major cosmic mystery to physicists. A new finding by the world's largest particle collider has revealed a clue. | Continue reading
A Michigan resident has died from rabies following a kidney transplant at a hospital in Ohio. Investigations show that the donor had the virus when they died. | Continue reading
Filming for the third season of HBO’s House of the Dragon is underway, and we’re getting news about some new actors we’ll see in the land, seas, and skies of Westeros in the upcoming episodes. We found out in late January that James Norton (The Nevers, Happy Valley, pictured abov … | Continue reading