Strengthening Open Science for Cultural Heritage: EOSC Beyond and EUreka3D Sign MoU

This collaboration reinforces the projects contributions to fostering innovation and ensuring that the benefits of Open Science are widely accessible. The EOSC Beyond project, coordinated and represented by the EGI Foundation, and the EUreka3D initiative, along with its continuat … | Continue reading


@digitalmeetsculture.net | 1 hour ago

New year, new productivity suite: Microsoft Office 2024 is now an additional $30 off

Enter 2025 on the right foot and grab the latest version of Microsoft Office hot off the shelves for only $119.97 (reg. $149) through January 12. | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 1 hour ago

Enter the new year with a like-new MacBook Air for less than $230

This Grade 'A' refurbished MacBook Air comes with a 13.3-inch display, 128GB of storage, and an Intel Core i5 processor for $229.97 (reg. $999). | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 1 hour ago

Your AI Swiss Army knife is just $80 for life

Get lifetime access to 1minAI’s Advanced Business Plan for $79.97 — your one-stop platform for writing, design, and productivity tools. | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 1 hour ago

Rule the PDF world with this app

Master your PDFs the easy way — edit, annotate, merge, and convert with PDF Expert for Mac, now just $79.99 for a lifetime. | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 1 hour ago

This smartphone is the size of a credit card and only $90

Don't miss the NanoPhone tiny smartphone for just $89.97 (reg. $199) plus free shipping. | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 1 hour ago

Hands on with the ultralight Asus Zenbook A14 at CES 2025: MacBook Airs should be scared

At CES 2025, Mashable got to spend some time with the new Asus Zenbook A14 — the "world's lightest Copilot+ PC" with a 32-hour battery life. | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 2 hours ago

The One About Fiber

In our 89th episode, we talk about the wires that bring us the bits. And then Derrick the editor time travels. Enjoy it now, or download for later. Here’s a handy feed or subscribe via Overcast or iTunes. https://traffic.libsyn.com/rands/theimportantthing0089.mp3 | Continue reading


@randsinrepose.com | 5 hours ago

The Verge: ‘Mark Zuckerberg Lies to Joe Rogan’s Face’

Elizabeth Lopatto, for the Verge, listened to Mark Zuckerberg’s appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast so none of us need to. Lopatto does a good job in this article of walking through some of the claims made by Zuckerberg and the conspicuous things he omits. It is a good piece. Howev … | Continue reading


@pxlnv.com | 6 hours ago

Hot Wheels and Barbie are Getting a New Manga

Mattel has partnered with TOKYOPOP to create a new publishing initiative. Some of the toy makers’ hottest properties will be getting a manga-styled graphic novel series for Mattel’s Hot Wheels and Barbie. The first titles are set to debut in print in early 2026. This series will … | Continue reading


@goodereader.com | 6 hours ago

Free SwiftUI University Course from-Boston College Professor

Professor John Gallaugher of Boston College has a free course on making apps with SwiftUI, to be updated in 2025: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9VJ9OpT-IPSM6dFSwQCIl409gNBsqKTe On his website, there’s a previous iteration of the course using UIKit (which I believe is st … | Continue reading


@christiantietze.de | 6 hours ago

Jeff Goodell on Climate Disasters and Insurance Risks

Good discussion. Good report on climate disasters and the Crisis in Home insurance. It’s not just happening in California, Florida, or Louisiana. Midwestern states are seeing rapid rise in Insurance rates, and Fed Chairman Jerome Powell told the US Senate last year that insurance … | Continue reading


@thinc.blog | 6 hours ago

Last chance: Microsoft Office for Mac is only £33 for a few more days

For a limited time, get Microsoft Office Home & Business 2019 for Mac for £32.76 (reg. £187.59) at the Mashable Shop. | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 6 hours ago

Get bite-size summaries of best-selling books with Headway Premium for just £49

The Headway app summarises books into 15-minute reads or listens so you can get key insights on the go. Unlock lifetime access for just £49.14. | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 6 hours ago

Google is Providing AI-powered Recaps of the Days Top Stories

Google is testing a new feature for its main app for Android and iOS. It is called Daily Listen and will pull stories on topics you are interested in for a five-minute recap. You have to opt in to try this experiment with Search Labs. In addition to the audio, the app will provid … | Continue reading


@goodereader.com | 7 hours ago

Lenovo Legion Tab Gen 3 Sells Out in 48 Hours

There is a pent-up demand for smaller tablets. For example, the new Lenovo Legion Tab Gen 3 sold out within 48 hours of going on sale for $499.99. This device is aimed at gaming, which is not the case with many tablets. There is no word yet, on when it will be back on sale […] Th … | Continue reading


@goodereader.com | 8 hours ago

Status Quo

I wrote over on WordPress.org about breaking the status quo with a Joost/Karim fork. It’s a perfect time as Automattic is re-focusing its work while the legal stuff is going on. | Continue reading


@ma.tt | 9 hours ago

Phi-4 Bug Fixes by Unsloth

Phi-4 Bug Fixes by Unsloth This explains why I was seeing weird suffexes during my experiments with Phi-4 the other day: it turns out the Phi-4 tokenizer definition as released by Microsoft had a bug in it, and there was a small bug in the chat template as well. Daniel and Micha … | Continue reading


@simonwillison.net | 10 hours ago

Homeschooling Essay Challenge - "Role of Software in Taking Man to the Moon"

# What’s the Plan? You are going to dive into an exciting essay-writing challenge. You’ll research, write, and polish an essay while earning points along the way. At the end, we’ll celebrate with a family movie night watching Apollo 13 and enjoying pizza together. # How You’ll Be … | Continue reading


@jjude.com | 10 hours ago

Mark Zuckerberg lies about content moderation to Joe Rogan’s face

Mark Zuckerberg takes his “no, really, Mr. Trump, I’m your guy!” tour to Joe Rogan | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images I’ll spare you the experience of listening to one of the richest men in the world whine and just tell you straight out: Mark Zuckerberg’s interview … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 11 hours ago

Nissan day-camping combo vaporizes the stress of everyday life

Nissan is taking a break from releasing overnight camper van concepts in all sizes and styles to present a concept more rightfully classified a day camper. What it lacks in sheltered sleeping and cooking amenities, it makes up for with a wavy ergonomic trailer lounge and slide-ou … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 11 hours ago

Zuckerberg trash talks Apple in interview with Joe Rogan

Laura Normand / The Verge Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg thinks Apple “[hasn’t] really invented anything great in a while” and that it has been coasting off of its past success. “Steve Jobs invented the iPhone and now they’re just kind of sitting on it 20 years later,” he said this wee … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 11 hours ago

Zuckerberg Talks About Apple With Joe Rogan: ‘They Haven’t Invented Anything Great in a While’

Chance Miller listened so we don’t have to: Zuckerberg also took issue with AirPods and the fact that Apple wouldn’t give Meta the same access to the iPhone for its Meta Ray-Ban glasses: They build stuff like AirPods, which are cool, but they’ve just thoroughly hamstrung the abil … | Continue reading


@9to5mac.com | 11 hours ago

False Evacuation Orders Are the Last Thing L.A. Needs

In my neighborhood—a mobile-home park on the western side of Malibu—the power and gas have been out for days, and cell service is intermittent at best. If I drive to the right vantage points, I can see the Palisades Fire and Kenneth Fire—two of the five major fires blazing across … | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 11 hours ago

It's time for some more YouTube videos just in time for the weekend

This behind-the-scenes of one of my favorite 2024 movies was so much fun Shout out to Truth social, which got called out as having the best UX in this video...which is based on Mastodon The internet's dad, Hank Green, is starting a new podcast I'm | Continue reading


@birchtree.me | 11 hours ago

It may be time to start accepting that the US TikTok ban is actually going to happen

A last-ditch effort to protest the ban before the Supreme Court is not looking favorable for ByteDance. | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 12 hours ago

Breaking Fossil Domination in Plastics: CleanTech Talk Interview with Lignin Industries CEO Fredrik Malmfors

I really enjoyed sitting down with Fredrik Malmfors, CEO of Lignin Industries, to talk about how his company and its patented technology are taking on fossil based plastics, leveraging good old fashioned horse sense, supply chains, waste materials, and … carbon sequestration tech … | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 12 hours ago

CES 2025: ShiftCams tiny portable drive is a content creators dream

ShiftCam showcased its latest product for iPhone content creators at CES 2025: A tiny SSD called Planck. | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 12 hours ago

Microsoft sues service for creating illicit content with its AI platform

Service used undocumented APIs and other tricks to bypass safety guardrails. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 12 hours ago

Amazon is ‘winding down’ some of its DEI programs

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Like Meta, Amazon is ending some of its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. In a memo sent last month, Candi Castleberry, Amazon’s VP of inclusive experiences and technology, said the company has been “winding down outdated pro … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 12 hours ago

Friday 10 January 1661/62

To White Hall, and there spoke with Sir Paul Neale about a mathematical request of my Lord's to him, which I did deliver to him, and he promised to employ somebody to answer it, something about observation of the moon and stars, but what I did not... | Continue reading


@pepysdiary.com | 12 hours ago

James Thomson on the Origins of the MacOS Dock

James Thomson: So, we are coming up on a little anniversary for me this weekend. On the 5th of January 2000, Steve Jobs unveiled the new Aqua user interface of Mac OS X to the world at Macworld Expo. Towards the end of the presentation, he showed off the Dock. You all know the Do … | Continue reading


@tla.systems | 13 hours ago

Barnes and Noble will Open 60 New Bookstores in 2025

Barnes and Noble is the largest bookselling chain in the US and has announced that it will open 60 new bookstores in 2025. The bookseller opened up 57 stores in the US in 2024, so a further 60 is reasonable. They currently run over 600 stores, and sales are strong. Bookstores are … | Continue reading


@goodereader.com | 13 hours ago

Los Angeles Fires: The Damage in Maps, Video, and Images

Just heartbreaking, and a scale of destruction that’s hard to comprehend. ★ | Continue reading


@theguardian.com | 13 hours ago

One Reason That Trump Wants Greenland: Critical Minerals

A top aide to incoming President Donald Trump is claiming the president-elect wants the U.S. to acquire Greenland to acquire more rare minerals. “This is about critical minerals. This is about natural resources,” Trump’s soon-to-be national security advisor Michael Waltz told Fox … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 13 hours ago

Rock On, Readers

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.Last week, I pronounced unequivocal judgement—as I tend to do regarding many things … | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 13 hours ago

National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii

Even before World War II, proposals had been made to build a military cemetery in Hawaii, but the need for such a cemetery became more pressing after the devastating loss of life during the war. An extinct volcanic crater located inland from downtown Honolulu was chosen as the si … | Continue reading


@atlasobscura.com | 13 hours ago

Ads in popular apps exposed a mountain of your location data to hackers

Location data hack highlights just how many apps are involved with efforts to track you. | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 14 hours ago

Study suggests how the brain, with sleep, learns meaningful maps of spaces

Place cells are known to encode individual locations, but research finds stitching together a “cognitive map” of a whole environment requires a broader ensemble of cells, aided by sleep, over several days. | Continue reading


@news.mit.edu | 14 hours ago

Enormous, mountain-size asteroid will be visible from Earth this weekend in rare 'once in a decade' event

The enormous near-Earth asteroid (887) Alinda has made its closest approach to our planet in decades, and it's about to peak in brightness in a rare once-in-a-decade event. Here's how to watch it live this weekend. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 14 hours ago

Public health emergency declared amid LA’s devastating wildfires

Responders, medical equipment, and supplies are ready for deployment, HHS says. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 14 hours ago

The Wind Forecast Brings New Worries in L.A.

On Friday, Angelenos awoke to their first good news in three days: that the battle against the city’s unprecedented fires had finally turned in firefighters’ favor. Though the two biggest blazes — the Palisades and the Eaton — were still only single-digit contained, at 8% and 3%, … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 14 hours ago

The Telsa Model Y "Juniper" gets a brand-new face and more

Tesla's Model Y electric crossover SUV became the world's best-selling car of 2023. Not just the best-selling EV, but the best-selling vehicle, even outselling the Toyota Corolla, making the Model Y a key player in EV adoption. Now we get to see what's new in the 2025 version. Co … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 14 hours ago

Wildfires can contaminate drinking water systems with harmful chemicals − here’s what Los Angeles needs to know

Water runs from a pipe where a home once stood in the Pacific Palisades community of Los Angeles in January 2025. Jay L. Clendenin/Getty Images The wildfires in the Los Angeles area have destroyed more than 10,000 structures, many of them homes, and firefighters continue to battl … | Continue reading


@theconversation.com | 15 hours ago

Elon Has Appointed Himself King of the World

After helping Trump win the election, the world’s richest man is turning his attention to Europe. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 15 hours ago

Could More Controlled Burns Have Stopped the L.A. Fires?

Once the fires stop burning in Los Angeles and the city picks itself up from the rubble, the chorus of voices asking how such a disaster could have been prevented will rise. In California, the answer to that desperate query is so often “better forestry management practices,” and … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 15 hours ago

Issue 73 – Degen volunteer fire brigade

Terra founder Do Kwon is finally extradited, the CFPB proposes crypto consumer protections, and Polymarket reaches new lows. | Continue reading


@citationneeded.news | 15 hours ago

Renault 5 Is Car Of The Year In Europe 2025

I will never forget the sight of a bright yellow cool looking car hurling up the narrow gravel road to my house — in 1976! Yes, my dad was testing a brand new Renault 5 and just had to give me — 7 years old — a ride in it. ... [continued] The post Renault 5 Is Car Of The Year In … | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 15 hours ago