In a chilling Italian lab, scientists utilize extreme cold and ancient materials to challenge existing physics laws. Their research, aiming to detect phenomena like neutrinoless double beta decay, could redefine understanding of matter and antimatter in the universe, involving st … | Continue reading
A batch of raw milk sold in California comes with a freebie drinkers might not want: bird flu. Whole raw milk from Raw Farm, LLC, tested positive for the virus and has issued a voluntary recall for the batch, which has a best by date of November 27. — Read the rest The post Bird … | Continue reading
Studies at the University of Chicago are uncovering how environmental pollutants like air contaminants impact cancer risk, especially across different races and ethnicities. Their research is crucial for understanding cancer disparities and guiding targeted public health interven … | Continue reading
On morning kissed streets Mercuries fleet streak past As mothers perambulating, solidarity meet Whilst old men for whom the die’s cast Each other knowingly greet. The shopkeeper with wares Opening for the day As youth, hale and fair Blazing bright, much to say Easy rolling gaits, … | Continue reading
Streaks first appeared on Daring Fireball back in 2016, and since then has won an Apple Design Award and remained one of the most well-known and effective habit-tracking apps. It’s a once-off purchase, and the latest update has added seasonal themes, just in time for Christmas (a … | Continue reading
In the simplest terms, nearly every modern car on the planet uses disk brakes: a rotor attached to a hub with a caliper with brake pads fixed to the control arm at each wheel. The driver presses the brake pedal and hydraulic fluid is pushed down the brake lines into the caliper, … | Continue reading
After adding millions of new users in weeks, the company tells Platformer that it will quadruple the size of its moderation team | Continue reading
Amazon S3 adds new functionality for conditional writes Amazon S3 can now perform conditional writes that evaluate if an object is unmodified before updating it. This helps you coordinate simultaneous writes to the same object and prevents multiple concurrent writers from uninten … | Continue reading
TL;DR: Black Friday came early, so save 25% on the Toybox Alpha two 3D printer that comes with a catalog of 7,000+ prints and filament for $308.99 (reg. $415). Wondering what to get for your kids or nieces and nephews this holiday season? — Read the rest The post Your kids will l … | Continue reading
Disconnecting nerve connections helps control overeating and weight gain linked to a malfunctioning “liver clock.” People who work night shifts or irregular hours and eat at unconventional times are more susceptible to weight gain and diabetes, likely because their eating schedul … | Continue reading
I recorded this on 11/23/2024, so I am using that in the title, even though I am posting it 2 days later. Coves the election, what to do next, and what technical projects I think I will work on next. Links referenced in the podcast: Emptywheel: What next? Emptywheel: Lessons from … | Continue reading
Apple’s latest AirPods Pro are some of our favorite wireless earbuds — and they’re currently on sale for just $154. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Since the beginning of November, Amazon and other retailers have been releasing a steady drip of early Black Friday deals. Howeve … | Continue reading
If you regularly work with CSV files, you should investigate Modern CSV, a cross-platform app that allows direct manipulation of data using menu commands, avoiding the trouble of importing them into a spreadsheet and writing formulas. While Modern CSV is powerful, it lacks a Mac- … | Continue reading
Sony might be working on yet another gaming handheld The post Bring Back The UMD, You Cowards appeared first on Aftermath. | Continue reading
A lot of barcode scanners are basic human interface devices — essentially behaving like a keyboard and not requiring any special drivers. Essentially, they just type on a keyboard very quickly. They’ll support lots of different styles of codes — from the 1D barcodes you see on a … | Continue reading
USTC researchers created a high-energy battery using Mars’ CO2-rich atmosphere, showing potential for long-lasting energy solutions in Martian environments. A research team led by Prof. Peng Tan from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), part of the Chinese Ac … | Continue reading
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Zoom is changing its name from Zoom Video Communications Inc. to just Zoom Communications Inc. In a post on the company blog, Zoom Communications CEO Eric Yuan writes that Zoom is now an “AI-first work platform for human connection” that de … | Continue reading
While the only Time Machine we know of is the easy to use and fantastic backup tool for Mac users, some of us have geeky dreams of digital time machines, where we can get lost in flashbacks to retro computing, like the early Macintosh days of Classic MacOS System 7. While there a … | Continue reading
The National Book Awards, established in 1950, celebrate the finest achievements in American literature. Managed by the National Book Foundation, these prestigious awards recognize exceptional works across categories such as Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Young People’s Literature, … | Continue reading
Photo by Prince Williams/Wireimage Musically speaking, I’d say Drake lost the tit-for-tat feud this year between himself and Kendrick Lamar, which culminated in Lamar’s hit song “Not Like Us.” But Drake (real name: Aubrey Graham) doesn’t seem to want to accept defeat that easily. … | Continue reading
Apple might recommit to the smart home, Smart Siri feels a long way off, Apple’s movie movies anger Hollywood creatives, and Jason’s done with the era of App Store exclusivity.… | Continue reading
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Google and the Department of Justice met one final time in an Alexandria, Virginia courtroom to debate the future of Google’s online ad tech juggernaut. Over about three hours of closing arguments, attorneys for each side delivered t … | Continue reading
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An astrophysicist has cracked the mystery behind strange “zebra” stripes in radio signals from the Crab Nebula. This discovery sheds light on the behavior of a pulsar at the nebula’s center—a rapidly spinning neutron star that emits powerful beams of radiation. The findings could … | Continue reading
Life's rich pageant The post Shitty Rich Dudes Have Drastically Different Days appeared first on Aftermath. | Continue reading
A little rain, also nothing substantial. A mood find me, frustrated with this job and how slow it’s […] | Continue reading
Thanksgiving—like baseball, “the cloud,” and your nephew’s can’t-miss crypto investment—is packed with data. Some of it’s boring—especially the stuff about calories. But many of the stats, facts and figures behind Thanksgiving are, at worst, interesting enough to serve as a life- … | Continue reading
Illustration: The Verge The Google App for iOS can automatically convert some website text into links to Google Search results, as announced in a community post that SERoundtable spotted. Google calls the feature “Page Annotations” and says it “extracts interesting entities from … | Continue reading
Writing in Practicing New Worlds, Andrea Ritchie documents a pattern of crisis response that, far from interrupting the crisis, merely serves to lengthen it. I will quote at length here: | Continue reading
Report aims to “ensure that open science practices are sustainable and that they contribute to the highest quality research.” | Continue reading
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 867 for the week of November 17 – 23, 2024. The full version of this issue is available here. In this issue we cover: Ubuntu Discourse policy change: Technical Support topics are now welcome Call for nominations: 2024 Ubuntu Technica … | Continue reading
Photo: Dennis Troper (Facebook) YouTube has shared a final blog post from Susan Wojcicki, the company’s former CEO and one of Google’s earliest employees, detailing her unexpected diagnosis and two-year battle with lung cancer. Wojcicki wrote the message in the last weeks of her … | Continue reading
I just looked for the word “weave” among my half-million photos, and found this: We’ve been trying to solve identity problems online since the Internet showed up, roughly in the middle of the curve in the image above. It wasn’t much of a problem before then. Consider what Walt Wh … | Continue reading
Each holiday season, I look forward to the new batch of Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories series from Biblioasis. This year marks the 10th anniversary of these beautifully designed pocket-sized books that revive the Victorian tradition of sharing spooky tales on Christmas Eve. — Rea … | Continue reading
Andrea Ritchie draws from Black feminist abolitionist politics, emergent strategies, and speculative fiction to light up a path for surviving racial capitalism, growing fascism, and the climate crisis | Continue reading
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By examining antigen architectures, MIT researchers built a therapeutic cancer vaccine that may improve tumor response to immune checkpoint blockade treatments. | Continue reading
Marzyeh Ghassemi works to ensure health-care models are trained to be robust and fair. | Continue reading
A gadget with no subscription fee and no terms of service. Nilay’s main love language is trolling, and so he sent me this video of Sam Altman talking about note-taking, because he knew it would annoy me. View this post on Instagram A post shared by FORTUNE (@fortunemag) Now I rec … | Continue reading
TL;DR: Save over 70% on the Seido knife set, which comes with eight blades handmade in Japan for only $109.97 (reg. $429) ahead of Black Friday. Are your knives letting you down right at the start of the year's busiest cooking season? — Read the rest The post Black Friday came ea … | Continue reading
Magic Lasso’s blog: Is Chrome the New IE? So Chrome becomes dominant – much like IE was back in its day – and web developers start focusing on building for Chrome and not open web standards. So let me just say at the jump that corporate blogs should | Continue reading
Recent findings indicate that the chirality of molecules, critical to life’s structure, might not have been as fixed in early Earth as previously thought, suggesting a more versatile and adaptable origin for life. A new paper from researchers at UCLA and NASA’s Goddard Space Flig … | Continue reading
Many disposable objects are made of black plastic, which has so far proven to be very hard to recycle. US scientists have devised a new method of recycling black polystyrene, however, simply using sunlight and an ingredient that's already present in the plastic. Continue Reading … | Continue reading
المؤلفون: جيفري نوكل، جاكوب داليك، نورا الجيزاوي، محمد أحمد، ليفي ميليتي، وجاستن لاو. ملاحظة للقراء: هذا المستند هو ترجمة غير رسمية وهو نسخة مختصرة من التقرير الكامل تتضمن أقساماً مختارة. لذا يرجى الملاحظة أنه لا يشمل التحليل الشامل والمناقشات التفصيلية الموجودة في النسخة الأصلية … | Continue reading
Smart cabinet and countertop changes really open up the space. READ MORE... | Continue reading
No, despite being the Babylon of the post-information society, San Francisco is not the top digital city in America, according to a study that is subjective in nature but telling nevertheless. Chicago, thanks to high penetration and lower prices of broadband, has the best digital … | Continue reading
Countries are meeting in South Korea this week to hash out the final details of a global treaty aimed at eliminating plastic pollution — here's what experts say it needs to include | Continue reading
Home Sports remembers that bowling was the best part of Wii Sports. | Image: Meta A new game called Home Sports is coming to the Meta Quest 3 and 3S on December 11th, and from its aesthetic to its music, this $19.99 title is clearly trying to be the Wii Sports (or Nintendo Switch … | Continue reading