LG, Samsung and Lenovo have all been working on stretchable screens for at least two years. It looks like Lenovo will be the first to market; they've announced their ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, a laptop whose screen expands from 14" to 16.7". While that doesn't sound like much, the com … | Continue reading
Daniel Bessner in The Nation: Noam Chomsky is the most famous critic of US empire in the world. No single living intellectual comes close. Even John Mearsheimer, the international relations theorist well-known for his critiques of US foreign relations, can’t hold a candle to Chom … | Continue reading
Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Streaming TV services keep getting more expensive, and those subscription costs will only continue to rise in 2025 and beyond. Amid all these price hikes, the best we can hope for is that the companies behind them will continue to add new features … | Continue reading
The sacrifices of this proposed agreement are the cost of Israel’s weakness on October 7, Michael Oren writes. | Continue reading
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James Harr had a great idea to capitalize on a social media moment. Then most of the platforms removed him. | Continue reading
Photo by Prince Williams/Wireimage Drake’s ongoing legal battle with his label, Universal Music Group, has escalated. The artist filed a lawsuit in federal court today, accusing UMG of harming his reputation and endangering him for profit. The suit stems from the diss track “Not … | Continue reading
Micro.blog’s tweets import sometimes struggles, and it needed a few kicks before we finally got Romit Mehta’s tweet archive of over 140k tweets imported. But it works! The cool thing about the architecture is that after import it makes everything available on a separate blog and … | Continue reading
Say farewell to Red No. 3, a dye linked to thyroid cancer in rats and hyperactivity in children. | Continue reading
Transform your TV into an entertainment center where you can enjoy all the content you want for around $30. | Continue reading
Yale Climate Connections: Climate change and comedy are not a natural pairing. But a few years ago, comedian Stuart Goldsmith started to feel depressed about climate change. Goldsmith: “I just found that I couldn’t really talk about anything else. I wasn’t thinking about anything … | Continue reading
You probably heard the news that Meta has decided to get rid of fact checkers and they’ll rely more on a Twitter-style community notes type of thing. Many people have written about the pros and cons of this decision (and also about the political implications). I’m not interested … | Continue reading
The bone fragments were once thought to be some of the oldest human fossils found in Japan. | Continue reading
Western culture has long painted eating bugs as backward and gross. But learned disgust can be overcome — if the conditions are right. | Continue reading
The History Guy explained how an argument about a missed shot at a bird hunt led to the creation of The Guinness Book of Records. | Continue reading
Today's software ecosystem evolved around a central assumption that code is expensive, so it makes sense to centrally develop and then distribute at low marginal cost. If code becomes 100x cheaper, the choices no longer make sense! Build-buy tradeoffs often flip. The idea of an " … | Continue reading
Tesla's sensor-only approach fails in edge cases and is highly unreliable. Here, it sees something distinctly different from a train. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! lol, a clip of a Tesla's vision system trying to understand a train labyrinth.zone/not … | Continue reading
A total of 25 sites are listed on the watch list and face a number of threats, from war to tourism. | Continue reading
Book 4 for 2025! My goal is 30 this year. My friends at Valancourt Books have recently been reprinting the works of horror master Robert Bloch, most famous for penning Psycho (1959) but also an award winning author of many … Continue reading → | Continue reading
Good article by Jason Snell at Macworld about how Apple’s previous playback is in conflict with recent products like the Vision Pro and Apple Intelligence. Also this bit about how Apple’s culture is still in the 1990s despite their massive success: Today’s Apple is a titan, but i … | Continue reading
Jean-Michel Basquiat (Luna Luna)Over my decades as a play-based preschool teacher, I've never had to deal with a bored child. I've worked with sad and angry children, frightened and frustrated children, and even children who were experiencing emotions that our language cannot ful … | Continue reading
The Halloween and Christmas collision takes over every season in our exclusive look at Loungefly's latest fandom fashion collection. | Continue reading
A groundbreaking study led by Nobel Laureate David Baker and Timothy Patrick Jenkins introduces innovative, computationally designed proteins that can neutralize lethal snake venom toxins, offering potential for safer, more effective, and cost-efficient treatments. This new appro … | Continue reading
The biggest tech drop of 2025 is now just a week away, and saving your place in line now earns you some incredible benefits. | Continue reading
GitHub uses GitHub to build GitHub, and our CLI extensions are no exception. Read on to find out how we built the GitHub Skyline CLI extension using GitHub! The post How we built the GitHub Skyline CLI extension using GitHub appeared first on The GitHub Blog. | Continue reading
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What happens when time travel makes everything worse? The post Timecrimes: Causality and the Consequences of Very Bad Decisions appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Like the wildfire conditions in Los Angeles County, my For You page on TikTok turned overnight. I woke up last week to a phone screen filled with ravenous flames and video after video of razed homes, businesses, and other structures. … | Continue reading
A new computational model explains how neurons linked to spatial navigation can also help store episodic memories. | Continue reading
An analysis of dozens of British Iron Age skeletons has revealed that Celtic society was organized around women. | Continue reading
TL;DR: Streamline note-taking with the Focais Meet One — a voice-activated recorder on sale for $99.99 (reg. $149). Let's face it — nobody wants to replay hours of meeting recordings or sift through pages of lecture notes. Enter the Focais Meet One, a voice-activated recorder tha … | Continue reading
For consumers who want to have speed, safety, and convenience, EVs provide that while being mindful of our planet. Tesla driver shares little-known high-tech feature that makes driving a breeze: 'That's simply amazing' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
[The movement against car bloat is nascent, but it has righteousness on its side.] In recent decades, the size of cars in America has ballooned. These oversized cars increase risks for everyone else on the road, a negative externality similar to secondhand smoke. At Vox, David Zi … | Continue reading
Matt Mullenweg said something provocative on Twitter two days ago that I'm just tuning into now. "The lawsuits will go years and could potentially bankrupt me or force the closure of WordPress.org." I commented on it as a developer who views WordPress as a platform. | Continue reading
Nvidia and Krafton's PUBG Ally is a bad friend and worse co-op buddy, but I prefer it to AI which doesn't know the difference between orange and purple. | Continue reading
Garmin has confirmed its intention to expand the feature to additional regions and products as regulatory approvals are secured. The post Garmin ECG – cleared in EU and Australia appeared first on the5krunner • tri bike run. The full post can be read now at the5krunner • tri bike … | Continue reading
Four John Deere combines harvest wheat in tandem near the farm shop and maintenance yard near Pullman, Palouse Region, Washington, USA. | Photo: Getty Images John Deere’s “unfair” practices raised repair costs for farmers and kept them from being able to make repairs on tractors … | Continue reading
Microsoft is investigating a bug triggering security alerts on systems with a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) processor after enabling BitLocker. [...] | Continue reading
OpenAI's new reasoning model is doing weird, unpredictable stuff. | Continue reading
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Disney Plus / Marvel Though Daredevil: Born Again hit a few production snags that delayed its Disney Plus debut, Marvel has finally released the series’ first trailer ahead of its premiere in March. When last we saw Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox), he was getting into squabbles out in … | Continue reading
It’s a great value for anyone wanting to enhance their home security with a device that’s both intelligent and robust. | Continue reading
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On January 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded over the Atlantic Ocean mere seconds after launching from Cape Canaveral. All seven crew members perished. An investigation later revealed the explosion was caused by faulty O-rings, rubber gaskets that sealed joints insi … | Continue reading
The newly discovered "blazar," which has a mass equal to 700 million suns, is the oldest of its kind ever seen and changes what we know about the early universe. | Continue reading
Floating solar panels on hydropower dams and other reservoirs controlled by the US government could power tens of millions of homes, eventually. The post Trump Inherits A Floating Solar Bonanza appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
A clever baby cow named Mello, who lives at the McNeill Farm, keeps breaking into his human's house to hang out with his dog buddies. | Continue reading
Charlie Cox’s vigilante gets a second lease on life on Disney+. See the first official trailer for the Marvel show. | Continue reading