Image: The New York Times The Daily, The Ezra Klein Show, Hard Fork, and Modern Love are some of The New York Times’ most popular podcasts — and next month, only the most recent two or three episodes of each will be free of charge. The Times announced today that it’ll now offer a … | Continue reading
Perseverance’s recent journey on Mars has led to the discovery of a striking black-and-white striped rock named ‘Freya Castle’, generating buzz among scientists and online communities alike. As the rover ascends the steep slopes of the crater rim, it continues to uncover diverse … | Continue reading
For those with an interest, here are the slides from my webinar for Contact North | Contact Nord that I gave today: How to be an educational technology (warning: large download, about 32MB). Here is a link to the video of the session. I was invited to do this webinar because my b … | Continue reading
Dragons are extinct. Witches are outcast. Magic is dying. But human lust for power is immortal. The post Read an Excerpt From Sophie Jordan’s A Fire in the Sky appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
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The X-Men '97 voice actor is optimistic about the future despite AI making her colleagues feel like a "canary in a coal mine." | Continue reading
Ezra Klein in the New York Times: Sometimes you stumble across a line in a book and think, “Yeah, that’s exactly how that feels.” I had that moment reading the introduction to Zadie Smith’s 2018 book of essays, “Feel Free.” She’s talking about the political stakes of that period … | Continue reading
Tech twitter ("tech X"?) is abuzz with Paul Graham's Founder Mode essay. How does that affect you or come into play when you're not a founder? Does it matter at all to you, your projects & your code? | Continue reading
Microsoft is bringing Apple's Handoff to Windows 11 and calling it Hand Off. | Continue reading
An early prototype of the Super5 OLED Switch Lite upgrade kit. | Screenshot: YouTube Retro Remake has announced that its Switch Lite OLED screen upgrade kits will be available for sale on September 26th at 10PM ET and will start at $49.99. The Super 5 OLED kits come with everythi … | Continue reading
The new modular jackets feature a “reinvention of the button.” | Image: Moncler You can now pre-order these modular jackets designed by Jony Ive. The new product from Apple’s former chief design officer is a collaboration between his design company LoveFrom and the French fashion … | Continue reading
The Mohegan Trail House, designed by Bates Masi Architects, reflects the unique challenges of building on a remote island in the Northeast. With limited access to tradespeople and building materials, the design adapts to the island’s isolation. Continue reading | Continue reading
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Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images The Department of Justice has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Visa, alleging that the financial services firm has an illegal monopoly over debit network markets and has attempted to unlawfully crush competitors, including finte … | Continue reading
Ten years ago, if you were a hotshot senior advisor in the Obama administration, odds are good you exited the revolving door of the White House straight into a job in Big Tech. But there’s a new career trajectory that’s looking pretty good these days: federal government to climat … | Continue reading
Image: Razer Razer, Wooting, Asus, and SteelSeries are among the keyboard manufacturers that have embraced rapid-fire strafing, letting you press two simultaneous opposing directions at the same time to dodge bullets rather than standing still. But while you’ve typically had to b … | Continue reading
As solar energy became a larger and larger portion of California electricity generation, there were rising concerns about the infamous “duck curve.” Solar energy was starting to dominate midday electricity generation, forcing curtailments even, while peak electricity demand in th … | Continue reading
Nintendo Switch with Hori’s Split Pad Compact controllers, Steam Deck OLED, and Ayn Odin 2. Also, you should play UFO 50. Picture this problem: Because of my podcast about portable gaming NPC with John and Brendon, I test a lot of gaming handhelds. And when I say a lot, I mean I … | Continue reading
The 80-year-old artist's upcoming North American live shows will be his last Beverly Glenn-Copeland has been diagnosed with dementia. The 80-year-old ambient music artist and composer confirmed the news in an Instagram video, which he appeared in alongside his wife, Elizabeth Gle … | Continue reading
This season features six new "found" videotapes The post Rev Up Your Chainsaw and Sit Down to Watch this V/H/S/Beyond Trailer appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
When a person (or monkey) is facing stakes that are too high, the stress can interfere with neurons, affecting how they direct the body to execute movements, a study suggests. | Continue reading
Save nearly 90% on a PalliPartners microscope over at Amazon and explore the unseen. | Continue reading
We're now one step closer to seeing tourists making balloon flights to the edge of outer space. Just last week, Florida company Space Perspective sent a balloon-lifted test capsule to the outer limits of our planet's atmosphere, followed by a successful splashdown landing. Contin … | Continue reading
The company is preparing to launch Starship for the fifth time pending regulatory approval. | Continue reading
Researchers have shown that dopamine does not directly cause the development of positive treatment expectations or placebo analgesia in pain management. The study used a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial with medications that alter dopamine levels, finding no significant inf … | Continue reading
Arlo cameras and video doorbells are getting an AI-powered upgrade with new facial recognition capabilities and the ability to identify specific cars. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Arlo is upgrading its security cameras and video doorbells with additional AI capa … | Continue reading
It's unfair that residents are left to deal with this mess, literally and financially. Standoff between city and environment agencies leaves troubling issue unsolved for over a year: 'Appalling and disturbing' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
An unnerving psychological portrait of a mind absolving itself of (well-deserved) guilt. The post The Guilt Keeps Us Human: “You Can Go Now” by Dennis Etchison appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge It’s time for another PlayStation State of Play livestream where Sony showcases its next big game and hardware announcements. Sony has promised we’ll see “more than 20 upcoming PS5 and PS VR2 games from studios around the world” during the … | Continue reading
More coverage of the Social Web Foundation has been rolling in. (See my coverage of the announcement over here .) The New Stack : The fediverse has been a critical development in the open web over the past several years, since most of the social media landscape is dominated by ce … | Continue reading
Gavin Newsom said he opposes mandate on mobile operating system developers. | Continue reading
I guess we’ll call it a pre-preorder? | Image: Samsung Hardware leaks are common these days, but here’s an unusual one from Samsung: the Galaxy S24 FE preorder page is live even though the phone hasn’t even been announced yet. X user Roland Quandt spotted the preorder page live o … | Continue reading
Philip Seargeant tells us how AI will shape the future of our language use. | Continue reading
Enjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts: This week, Federico and John cover the highlights of macOS Sequoia, a good update that feels unfinished. In the latest episode, we share our thoughts on the Nintendo Switch 2 rumors, Sony’s PS5 nostalgia-fest, and mor … | Continue reading
Grant stars along with Yellowjackets' Sophie Thatcher in the latest film from the creators of A Quiet Place. | Continue reading
Scott Aaronson at Shtetl-Optimized: When Rafi invited me to open this event, it sounded like he wanted big-picture pontification more than technical results, which is just as well, since I’m getting old for the latter. Also, I’m just now getting back into quantum computing after … | Continue reading
A Haitian nonprofit has asked that arrest warrants be issued for Trump and Vance. | Continue reading
Researchers blast silica with an intense X-ray burst, watch it evaporate. | Continue reading
The recent survey doubles the count of known geoglyphs, bringing the total count to over 700, while showcasing how AI can be used in cultural heritage contexts. | Continue reading
Infostealer malware developers released updates claiming to bypass Google Chrome's recently introduced feature App-Bound Encryption to protect sensitive data such as cookies. [...] | Continue reading
There might be something scarier than German power. That’s German weakness in this dangerous moment for Europe—and the free world. | Continue reading
It turns out seaweed doesn't just make a tasty wrap for sushi rolls. Researchers share promising results after studying cows' burps — here's what they found first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley sabotage each other’s right to exist in Coralie Fargeat’s Hollywood horror satire The post The Substance is a Satirical Body Horror Picture of Dorian Gray appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Figma announced Make Designs in June as a way for designers to use generative AI to help start app designs, but early users quickly showed how it could mock up a weather app that looked remarkably close to Apple’s iPhone weather app. Although Figm … | Continue reading
The innovations map the ocean floor and the brain, prevent heat stroke and cognitive injury, expand AI processing and quantum system capabilities, and introduce new fabrication approaches. | Continue reading
Here’s one last bit of followup on my Finder/Terminal tool posts. In the first post on the topic, I mentioned that I had created a bunch of zero-length JPEG files using the touch command. And in both the first and second posts, I talked about how long the sel command took when th … | Continue reading