Videochats have become indispensable for businesses, but they're no substitute for a face-to-face meeting. The lack of accurate eye contact is jarring, and it's a lot harder to read visual cues when staring at a tiny head in a laptop screen. Additionally, Steelcase learned during … | Continue reading
The company is gearing up for the sixth test flight of the megarocket, with plans to significantly step up Starship's launch cadence next year. | Continue reading
We are looking for volunteers to organize the next StanCons for 2025 and beyond! If you are interested in making a proposal (or even just discussing the possibility of making one), please consider reaching out to board@mc-stan.org. To make a … Continue reading → | Continue reading
Book bans are increasingly becoming common in US schools. In the 2022-23 school year, PEN America reported 3,362 book bans, affecting 1,557 unique titles. And its latest data, released Nov. 1, 2024, shows that the number of book bans soared in the 2023-24 school year to more than … | Continue reading
Illustration: The Verge Google has announced it will stop showing political ads to users in the European Union next year due to uncertainties around the bloc’s new transparency regulations. In a new blog post, Google says the upcoming Transparency and Targeting of Political Adver … | Continue reading
Reasonably good pace for my morning run, then a cup of coffee and fruit while I read applications, cleaned up and went to church for Morning Prayer, caught the X3 to Oxford, deliberated over applications, ran some errands, came home, and resumed parish odds and ends. | Continue reading
Called Daisy, or "dAIsy," the voice-based AI mimics a senior citizen to hold meandering conversations with phone scammers. | Continue reading
The lab's team has not yet tasted the product — regulatory approval is needed first. Scientists develop new yeast strain that could forever change beloved dairy products — here's how first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
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Brandy Zadrozny and Erik Ortiz, NBC News: The Onion, the satirical news company that repeatedly spoofed conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, has won the bankruptcy auction for control over his media empire — most notably Infowars, the far-right, conspiracy-minded website that served a … | Continue reading
On Halloween, Apple announced its fiscal fourth quarter results, posting another flat sales quarter even while continuing to beat all-time quarterly revenue records. And as usual, I filled a bunch of numbers into a Numbers spreadsheet, ran my little charting Automator app, and po … | Continue reading
People in at least 14 states caught a nasty stain of E. coli from tainted onions used in McDonald's Quarter Pounders, though the immediate danger has likely now passed. | Continue reading
A tiny one-legged yellow parrotlet named Eileen adorably pretends to be a mouse for his human Hayley's computer. | Continue reading
Great post by Ben Werdmuller about Bluesky’s popularity and the fediverse. To his list of what works well at Bluesky, I would add this: Bluesky usernames are domain names and millions of people are cool with it. I consider that a win for the IndieWeb. | Continue reading
Gardening is one of the most enjoyable ways to be eco-friendly. 5 yard and garden mistakes that will waste your time and money first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
NASA’s upcoming TRACERS mission involves two satellites designed to study the interaction between solar wind and Earth’s magnetosphere through the lens of magnetic reconnection. This phenomenon is crucial for understanding space weather, which affects modern technology and commun … | Continue reading
Given our ever-increasing digital lives, what I am about to say makes little sense — recently released numbers show that there might be a historic slowdown in internet traffic growth. Three of the largest content delivery networks (CDNs) — Akamai, Fastly, and Edgio — indicated th … | Continue reading
As we celebrate National Pickle Day, let’s look at a 63-year-old Democrat who expects, absent dramatic birth control measures, to become pregnant and crave pickles and ice cream. In the video below, she discusses a first person possibility of being a customer for IVF and abortion … | Continue reading
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Trump has said he won't divest from his business holdings before taking office. | Continue reading
These thoughts about Bluesky are unorganised and mostly off-the-cuff so make of that what you will. The API, even just for posting, strikes me as very strange. I, as the developer, have to mark which things are hashtags, mentions, and links unlike Twitter, Mastodon, and basically … | Continue reading
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Pretty! The post Richa Moorjani Looks So Nice Here first appeared on Go Fug Yourself. | Continue reading
This buttery, flaky French dough is a versatile base for pies, tarts, and other pastries. | Continue reading
The end of the year can be a quiet time for publishing, but there’s still plenty happening if you look in the right places. The post Can’t Miss Indie Press Speculative Fiction for November and December 2024 appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Robert Purbeck, a 45-year-old man from Idaho, has been sentenced to ten years in prison for hacking at least 19 organizations in the United States, stealing the personal data of more than 132,000 people, and multiple extortion attempts. [...] | Continue reading
Apple TV Plus Mythic Quest’s upcoming fourth season finally has a release date, but Apple’s future plans for the series aren’t stopping there. Today, Apple announced that Mythic Quest will return on January 29th with a two-episode premiere picking up Ian Grimm (Rob McElhenney,) P … | Continue reading
Ryan Christoffel writing for: Apple’s Hitting Its AI Stride Right as Competition Is Slowing It happens all the time. Tech giants ship exciting new technology while Apple’s projects stay veiled in R&D, leading to the constant narrative that the company is ‘behind’ | Continue reading
Illustration: The Verge Bluesky might be on the rise, but Instagram and Threads boss Adam Mosseri wants you to know that Threads is still much bigger. In a post on Thursday, Mosseri said that Threads has gotten “more than 15 million signups in November alone,” seemingly trying to … | Continue reading
The Guardian on why they’re not posting on Twitter anymore. “The benefits…are now outweighed by the negatives and…resources could be better used promoting our journalism elsewhere.” (If your org can’t stop, at least post elsewhere first.) | Continue reading
The justices closed the November session on Wednesday with NVIDIA Corp v. E. Ohman J:or Fonder AB, a case arising out of the use of NVIDIA chips by crypto miners. The legal problem presented for the justices is whether the complaint – which alleges that... The post Justices debat … | Continue reading
Stephen M. Walt in The Ideas Letter: This introductory essay advances two main claims. First, I argue that although America’s relative power has declined from its post-Cold War peak, this trend is not as profound as pessimists maintain. The United States still retains enormous ad … | Continue reading
I’ve been in a foul mood for a week. Ignoring the news, trying to keep my head down with work. But right now, feeling actual joy reading this post from the Onion about acquiring InfoWars. Amazing. | Continue reading
Illustration: Cath Virginia / The Verge After an open beta that rolled out last month, Arc Search is now available to all Android users. The Browser Company’s search engine — which describes itself as “the fastest way to search” — has been positioning itself as a better alternati … | Continue reading
The US is currently winning the "chip war" with China, but to stay ahead, experts say it needs to start manufacturing microchips stateside. | Continue reading
Today's Drop discusses 3 shell-related resources: 'up,' a utility for efficient directory navigation in Bash/Zsh; 'BATS,' a Bash testing framework that isolates test execution; and 'cmdx,' a Golang module for streamlined command-line operations with error handling. | Continue reading
There is no dearth of E Ink displays designed to showcase weather info, be it either as a standalone weather station or as part of a broader information package. Now, in what can be considered a tribute to human ingenuity, here comes a new project that involves using an E Ink pan … | Continue reading
L'articolo MARCO BELINELLI “VIGNAIOLO COME NOI”. ALLA VIGILIA DEL 13° MERCATO DEI VINI DEI VIGNAIOLI INDIPENDENTI, FIVI ASSEGNA AL CAMPIONE VIRTUS E NBA IL PREMIO 2024 proviene da BolognaFiere Group. | Continue reading
Backed by the Ukrainian government, CodeUA illustrates the strategic importance of technology in maintaining economic stability and enhancing Ukraine’s defensive capabilities. From the Web Summit stage in Lisbon, Ukraine’s Vice Minister of Digital Transformation Alex Bornyakov, t … | Continue reading
I've been having a one-sided discussion with Bluesky asking they make their product less vulnerable to takeover by tech bros, and I can't tell if they're doing anything about it. They must be conflicted, on the one hand, they clearly could sell there service now for a lot of mone … | Continue reading
These white dots arranged in five clusters against a black background simulate an extraterrestrial signal transmitted from Mars and deciphered by a father-daughter team on Earth after a year-long decoding effort. The project was organized by some of the world’s top astronomers to … | Continue reading
More Bluesky improvements! Fixed a couple bugs and added support for alt text for manually cross-posted blog posts. It gets the text from your blog post, of course. Here’s a screenshot of the new preview. | Continue reading
Adam Savage visited Propstore in London, where they are auctioning off stop motion heads from "Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio". | Continue reading
Researchers found that inhibiting the enzyme TYK2 may reduce the harmful accumulation of tau protein in Alzheimer’s disease, offering a potential treatment approach. Researchers from Baylor College of Medicine, the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Child … | Continue reading
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Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Thursday morning read: Supreme Court Seems Ready to Allow Securities Fraud Case Against Nvidia (Adam Liptak, The New York Times) Supreme Court whiplash: What Trump’s win. … | Continue reading
Several signs indicate that improving LLMs with more training/compute is no longer efficient. Also: dev charged $1,100 after following a tutorial, a reminder to be vigilant with open source, and more | Continue reading