While Southern California experienced a historically dry rainy season, Pacific Palisades’ emergency water supply was bare. | Continue reading
Tesla seemed as if it was on a smooth road trip looking ahead to the next four years. CEO Elon Musk single-handedly rallied voters in November’s win for the right-wing entourage of Donald J. Trump. Sure, the allegiance came at a cost of $238 million from a fundraising arm that .. … | Continue reading
Get lost in a tiny detail. Memorize. Find the one flaw. Here’s how to truly enjoy every experience. | Continue reading
A new mega-database of half a million mutations may flag new ways of treating genetic disease, scientists say. | Continue reading
Archaeologists have discovered 321 silver coins still wrapped in a cloth and lead pouch from a time in English history marked by upheaval due to the coronation of a new Anglo-Saxon king. | Continue reading
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I recently lost my Apple TV remote (the latest model) and despite apparently being somewhere in the couch according to Find My, my wife and I can not find it. We were using our phones as remotes for a couple days, which was annoying, but got the job done. But | Continue reading
A couple weeks ago, news broke that Shell Recharge is getting out of the software market. Normally, getting out of software means not sending out installation files to customers anymore, allowing competing software companies to take care of people’s needs. But, in the case of EV … | Continue reading
Recently, when I saw a video about pulling a travel trailer that brings its own power to the game. And, after seeing too many memes about making undesired modifications to rifles, I immediately thought to myself, “You know what? Screw you! *Turns your truck into a hybrid*” Why wo … | Continue reading
Los Angeles has a long way to go before city and state officials can start looking for lessons to take away from these fires. Likely topics of discussion will include building resilient structures, vegetation management, and community preparedness. But there are also some more ou … | Continue reading
A new analysis of the 6,000-year-old stone circle known as Rujm el-Hiri (also Gilgal Refaim) in Golan Heights suggests that it was not built to observe the heavens. | Continue reading
Turkey vultures feed on dead carcasses, helping to lower greenhouse gas emissions. | Continue reading
Android is belatedly getting a Bluetooth tracker feature which doesn't rely on proprietary apps. Long-time readers will know that back in 2016 I reviewed both the Chipolo and the TinTag. Both of those were adequate at finding things which were in range of your phone, but hopeless … | Continue reading
Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta is changing its moderation policy. The announcement was posted on Threads in 6 points and struck me as unusual. I went over these points several times and used ChatGPT to additionally separate the meaning from the PR. Came up to the conclusion … | Continue reading
December saw plugin EVs take 23.4% share in Germany, down from 30.0% share YoY. BEV volume was sharply down YoY in a hold-back ahead of tighter 2025 emissions regulations. Overall auto volume was 224,721 units, down 7% YoY. The bestselling BEV in December was the Tesla Model Y. T … | Continue reading
Eleven dead. Thousands displaced. Entire neighborhoods burned to rubble. Four Angelenos tell us what they lost—and what they’re still holding on to. | Continue reading
Restrictive zoning policies helped create America's housing shortage. Zoning reform could help end it. | Continue reading
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
In terms of both absolute length and relative to body size, which living animal has the longest tail? | Continue reading
Almost all car crashes would be avoided if the driver were just going a bit slower. (That’s why it’s more accurate to call them “crashes” and not “accidents.”) That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have bold plans. That’s essential. It’s the last-second shortcuts that get us into troubl … | Continue reading
“AI and All Its Splendors.” I continue my mulling on AI and its underlying temptations in this lengthy essay for Christianity Today. I aim to craft a book proposal this summer that gathers together and brings some order to the various responses to AI I’ve been thinking about in r … | Continue reading
Another challenge 😅, but this time I didn’t really choose to do it, but I got tagged by Adam with other bloggers to answers these questions: So let’s do it. | Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
Jan 11, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend. | Continue reading
Recently, one of my kids came to me telling me about the Egg by Enron. He’s too young to remember the original Enron, and he didn’t know that the new Enron website is a parody (more on that here). So, when he saw a video announcing the Enron Egg, a ... [continued] The post Enron … | Continue reading
Much of the discussion around robotaxis these days is focused on how well they work and how quickly they can scale up and reproduce. However, some of the initial premises on why robotaxis could be good and helpful have probably not gotten enough attention. Bloomberg recently inte … | Continue reading
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
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
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
Montana Renewables will expand its renewable fuels facility to scale up sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production. As part of the Biden-Harris administration’s Investing in America agenda, the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Loan Programs Office (LPO) announced today the closing of … | Continue reading
If you’re anything like me, you care. And sometimes caring means stress, especially when the things you care about don’t go as you hoped. A few years ago, I hit a wall. I’d been working in the environmental space for 25+ years, and been a solo entrepreneur 4 times. I ... [continu … | Continue reading
South Korea’s ProLogium is at CES 2025 this week to introduce its 4th generation lithium ceramic battery (LCB) system, which it says can redefine the EV driving experience. The company says its new battery technology addresses many of the concerns electric car drivers experience … | Continue reading
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
With the rules on the $7,500 US EV tax credit getting updated at the turn of the year, the list of electric vehicles that now qualify for the US EV tax credit has changed as well. It’s widely expected that Republicans in Congress and Donald Trump will kill the US ... [continued] … | Continue reading
# 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
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
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
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
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
Evolution is often depicted as a steady forward march from simple to complex forms. But new research shows that certain ferns can evolve ‘backward.’ | Continue reading
I came across a weird shell syntax today—dynamic shell variables. It lets you dynamically construct and access variable names in Bash scripts, which I haven’t encountered in any of the mainstream languages I juggle for work. In an actual programming language, you’d usually use a … | Continue reading
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
Service used undocumented APIs and other tricks to bypass safety guardrails. | Continue reading
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