The single most impactful investment I’ve seen AI teams make isn’t a fancy evaluation dashboard—it’s building a customized interface that lets anyone examine what their AI is actually doing. I emphasize customized because every domain has unique needs that off-the-shelf tools rar … | Continue reading
This is a really interesting essay from Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor about the rise of end times fascism and the far right’s bet against the future. The governing ideology of the far right in our age of escalating disasters has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. It is t … | Continue reading
Archaeological records indicate that prehistoric people in Europe relied on fire throughout the Ice Age—but the evidence drops off during its harshest period. | Continue reading
Valvular heart disease (VHD) is a potentially fatal condition, yet it's difficult to diagnose with a regular stethoscope. A possibly life-saving new multi-sensor stethoscope is claimed to be much better at the job, with the added benefit that it can be used by just about anyone. … | Continue reading
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The move was a small win following Coca-Cola's recent scaling back of its sustainability initiatives. Coca-Cola caves to pressure with major move toward transparency: 'Investors need these disclosures' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
The Wrightstown Octagonal Schoolhouse, also known as the Penns Park Octagonal School House or the Eight-Square School House, was one of 10 or so octagonal schoolhouses in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and one of over 100 octagonal schoolhouses in the Delaware Valley. It is now the … | Continue reading
Players looking to harness desert power will have to wait as Dune: Awakening has been delayed. Funcom, developers of the MMORPG based on Frank Herbert’s Dune sci-fi series, announced the news saying the game will be pushed back from its May release date to June 10th. Players who … | Continue reading
DOGE engineers were at the NLRB for a week but didn’t specify what… Tags: DOGE, government, NLRB, NPR, privacy | Continue reading
A timid rescued golden retriever named Dove runs into her human Johnnie's reassuring arms to be held like a baby whenever she's scared. | Continue reading
The physician talks about weight loss, chronic illness, sleep, stress management, MAHA, and so much more. | Continue reading
The price of pharmaceuticals will likely go up soon, and generics are poised to be hit the hardest. | Continue reading
Karn and Meero will still be hunting for Cassian Andor, but it looks like they'll also be doing... something else? | Continue reading
Heidi J. Larson & David M. Bersoff in Nature: Science has a trust problem — at least, that is the common perception. If only, the argument goes, we could get people to ‘trust’ or ‘follow’ the science, we, as a society, would be doing more about climate change, childhood vaccinati … | Continue reading
TechCrunch: OpenAI ships GPT-4.1 without a safety report. I don’t want to overreact to this, but as an OpenAI customer it is a little concerning. System cards are fascinating and even if they don’t paint a perfect picture, the transparency is good. | Continue reading
From river walks to local art and culture, these destinations deliver outdoor thrills and cultural surprises just off the C&O Canal | Continue reading
If you want a mental escape from today’s constant bombardment of alarming news, one method is to lose yourself in a good book — and an excellent way to do that is to read that good book on one of Amazon’s Fire tablets. Amazon has put many of the latest Fire HD tablets on sale […] | Continue reading
Discover interesting facts about the origins of primates, what they eat, and if they have thumbs. | Continue reading
“Our current challenge is how we perceive progress.” Farmers devastated as sudden drop in key crop production threatens livelihoods: 'We need to change our mindset' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Google, for the first time, inked an agreement to purchase geothermal energy for its facilities in Asia. The deal also marks the first geothermal power purchase agreement for Taiwan, according to the company. Google is working toward climate goals of cutting the company’s planet- … | Continue reading
OpenAI working on a social app? From The Verge: Entering the social media market also puts OpenAI on more of a collision course with Meta, which we’re told is planning to add a social feed to its coming standalone app for its AI assistant. When reports of Meta building a rival to … | Continue reading
Do Not Comply: A Lesson from the Last Three Months of Anti-Trans Attacks. “The cruelty lies in the ambiguity. These orders don’t explicitly bar specific conduct but deputize decision-makers to interpret them in ways that inflict the greatest harm…” | Continue reading
'Eternal Strands' is adding a new coastal region and attempting to fix some of its biggest lingering issues in the 'Stargazer' DLC. | Continue reading
Scientists discovered a 480-million-year-old phosphatic sponge in South China, making it the oldest known stromatoporoid and extending its fossil record by 20 million years. International scientists have discovered the oldest known phosphatic stromatoporoid sponge in South China, … | Continue reading
The long-rumored remaster of ‘The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion’ is real, as new screenshots give us an in-depth look at the game that could be coming very soon. | Continue reading
Remember that periodic table you ignored in high school? The one with all those unpronounceable elements at the bottom, like yttrium, and praseodymium? Surprise — they're actually important, and China's got them all locked up tighter than a missile silo. As reported in CNBC, Chin … | Continue reading
Mike Flanagan's new Stephen King adaptation looks a little less horrifying The post The New Trailer for The Life of Chuck Aims for the Heart appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
12 new reasons to play Larian's classic RPG. | Continue reading
'Black Mirror' Season 7 broke the anthology structure, and the director wants to do it again. | Continue reading
My main project has honestly been progressing slower than I initially expected. My senior design project has had many deliverables, and I have had to focus most of my attention on that. Because of my senior design project, I have not been able to focus solely on the project. Beca … | Continue reading
Cyber Netcore Fashion I’m creating a cyber netcore fashion collection that breathes new life into discarded technology. My pieces will transform electronic waste into wearable art. Key Pieces The centerpiece is a tactile vest adorned with salvaged keyboard keys arranged in mesmer … | Continue reading
Last week, Nieman Lab reported that Gannett, the country’s largest newspaper chain, had removed references to “diversity” from its corporate site and would stop publishing diversity information for its newsrooms. This week, it’s the parent company of Reuters that is erasing “dive … | Continue reading
It's dreamy. The post Bridal Week: Markarian Spring/Summer 2026 first appeared on Go Fug Yourself. | Continue reading
It's easier than ever to de-censor videos Last month I asked people to hack part of my YouTube video, specifically to de-pixelate the contents of a folder I had pixelated starting at the 4:57 mark. Your browser does not support the video tag. For years, people have used the censo … | Continue reading
European allies who have reservations about working with Elon Musk’s Starlink will have more to worry about if they side with Chinese satellite internet services, Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr told the Financial Times. Carr said that politics having an infl … | Continue reading
Veo 2 is about to turn your social media into a feed of AI videos. | Continue reading
Doing more with less: This Sisto piece is just six pieces of plywood, butt-jointed and with exposed fasteners. Its simple construction aside, its configurations are manifold: A pair of them lets you do even more: Sisto is by Copenhagen-based furniture designer Edoardo Lietti. I … | Continue reading
"Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt." The post So It Goes: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Google is letting Gemini Advanced subscribers try out Veo 2, its text-to-video AI model that it says is capable of creating high-resolution clips with “cinematic realism.” Starting today, subscribers can select Veo 2 from the Gemini model dropdown on the web and mobile, where the … | Continue reading
An emergency meeting has been called to announce Among Us 3D will launch on May 6th. The game was originally planned to be a VR-exclusive before the development crew at Innersloth and Schell Games pivoted to making this version of the game accessible to those without the expensiv … | Continue reading
"Wow! That is nice." Shopper speechless after spotting original tags on designer jacket in thrift store: 'You find the best stuff' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Anthropic is launching two major features today: Research and Google Workspace integration. The company announced today that Claude can now connect directly to your Gmail, Google Calendar, and Documents, turning the AI assistant into what Anthropic calls “your frontline workplace … | Continue reading
Japan is home to some of the world’s coolest abandoned places, many industrial in origin, much loved and enjoyed by dedicated enthusiasts. One of the lesser-known fan favorites is the Winding Tower of the Shime Coal Mine, located a little off Fukuoka City in southern Japan. The o … | Continue reading
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Microsoft announced it will begin disabling all ActiveX controls in Windows versions of Microsoft 365 and Office 2024 applications later this month. [...] | Continue reading
Hard to have much respect for Energy Secretary Chris Wright, who portrays himself as a hard headed, data driven guy (just not so much on climate data). He took the job knowing that the “Drill Baby Drill” mantra was bullshit, that oil companies could not and would not follow that … | Continue reading