Louis Menand, writing for The New Yorker. How familiar does this sound: Between 1998 and 2020, more than half of the independent bookstores in the United States went out of business. It was a similar story for personal websites and blogs, though definitely across different timefr … | Continue reading
The 5.3-mile-wide crater is now confirmed to be 66 million years old, suggesting that the dinosaurs' extinction was marked by the impact of at least two giant space rocks. | Continue reading
"Can we the people do a citizen arrest?" Footage captures unruly tourist ignoring safety signs to venture on dangerous hot springs: 'This is what scares me' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Sony has released new firmware updates for its premium wireless WF-1000XM5 earbuds and WH-1000XM5 headphones that adds support for new features introduced with the company’s LinkBuds Speaker as well as compatibility with Google’s Find My Device ne … | Continue reading
Yukinobu Tatsu’s manga comes to vivid, energetic life in its anime adaptation, in one of the best-looking shows of the fall—and maybe 2024. | Continue reading
Save 35% on the Nespresso Vertuo Plus coffee and espresso maker in this Prime Early Deal. | Continue reading
French table wines are easy-drinking, affordable, and have great food-pairing potential. We spoke with three experts—while also drawing on our own expertise—to learn more about how to pair these wines with classic bistro foods. | Continue reading
Multi-species machine-learning model can unlock insights into new whale species. | Continue reading
Finally giving a home to most of Gentry Blue's great singles from the past years as well as throwing in a couple of new tracks, Fragments is an album that does not mess around. | Continue reading
The ongoing dockworkers' strike in the U.S. is disrupting operations at 36 ports nationwide, presenting a serious threat to the supply chain. Delays in receiving essential goods are likely to affect meetings and events. -Andrea Doyle | Continue reading
Advisors commended for providing exceptional individualized mentoring for postdocs. | Continue reading
Maungauika (the Mountain of Uika) is named for one of its original Māori inhabitants of around 800 years ago, and at over 50,000 years old, is one of the oldest cones in the Auckland volcanic field. In the 1880s during the global "Russian scares," the government rushed to build f … | Continue reading
The former county clerk suggested at her sentencing that God would get revenge against prosecutors because she's a "child of God." | Continue reading
Brendan Riley at the LARB: CISCO BRADLEY’S The Williamsburg Avant-Garde: Experimental Music and Sound on the Brooklyn Waterfront (2023) chronicles a vital and now-vanished facet of American musical and cultural history in New York City from the mid-1980s to 2015. The book investi … | Continue reading
Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B is now production ready Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B is "a smaller and faster variant of 1.5 Flash" - and is now released to production, at half the price of the 1.5 Flash model. It's really, really cheap: $0.0375 per 1 million input tokens on prompts <128K $0.15 per 1 … | Continue reading
10-3-24 12:50. Still in office. Meeting this morning then some sales calls, then another meeting, now another. Working […] | Continue reading
Damaged mouse skin looked almost as good as new in less than two weeks, thanks to a protein from a parasitic roundworm. | Continue reading
Scientists studied the O2 tidal turbine in Scotland, revealing how tidal flows and environmental factors affect its performance and placement. Their findings emphasize the need for site-specific assessments and highlight the reliability of tidal power, despite challenges in scali … | Continue reading
A new scheme for AI fuel could offload financial risk from Microsoft's business partner onto the American taxpayer. | Continue reading
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This sweet new color will be on everyone’s wishlist this holiday season, but it’s only available at QVC for a limited time. READ MORE... | Continue reading
Archaeologists think the coin dates to the first years of the region's rule by the Ottoman Empire. | Continue reading
Filled to the brim with unabashed punk attitude and an impeccable sense of melody that only challenges their own urgency, Spirit Gun's new EP is a work unlike most. | Continue reading
Steak haché features juicy patties of ground beef cooked like steak and served with the sauce of your choice. | Continue reading
If you are in the market for an Amazon Kindle Oasis 10th Generation e-reader and don’t want to risk buying it on eBay or other third-party marketplaces, you are in luck. Amazon has a limited number of them in stock on the US version of their website. The Kindle Oasis is back to i … | Continue reading
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"It reduces the carbon footprint for communities, offers clean energy at a discount for residents, and creates revenue for property owners." Major storage unit company leases out millions of square feet in rooftop space for impressive energy project: 'A win-win-win' first appeare … | Continue reading
Yasaka Kōshin-dō is a distinctive temple in Kyoto’s Higashiyama district, close to the city’s famous Kiyomizu-dera pagoda. Yasaka Kōshin-dō, as a rare example of a Kōshin temple, presents a cultural and religious tapestry of Buddhist, Taoist, and Shinto elements. Yasaka Kōshin-dō … | Continue reading
The Quebecois company behind the one-time fastest electric motor technology on water, Vision Marine Technologies shows no signs of slowing down. This year, the company has been hard at work on securing patents for a number of e-drive technologies and components, as well as launch … | Continue reading
Inspired by the viral chocolate bar filled with pistachio cream and shredded phyllo dough, this dessert is the ideal combination of crispy, creamy textures and sweet, nutty flavors. | Continue reading
At first, I struggled to understand why anyone would want to write this way. My dialogue with ChatGPT was frustratingly meandering, as though I were excavating an essay instead of crafting one. But, when I thought about the psychological experience of writing, I began to see the … | Continue reading
Remember the PineNote E Ink tablet that Pine64 had introduced back in 2021? The company had introduced the device as a Developer Edition, something that was meant to be used by advanced users who already possess some amount of hardware and software knowledge. Priced at $399, the … | Continue reading
Double the Joy! Amazon is including a $100 gift card with the purchase of a new Samsung Galaxy S24 FE, which is currently over 10% off. | Continue reading
Their sounds are fuller and richer on this new project as the band seem to be having the time of their lives on each song. Across the ten tracks and roughly forty minutes that compose the album, we get to hear and feel Pork Pie diving deep into 60s inspired classic rock anthems t … | Continue reading
Nuclear fission’s stalled growth might give way to fusion’s clean energy potential | Continue reading
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A little over a year after the collapse of the crypto banks Silvergate and Signature, financial institutions are very interested in crypto. PayPal has used its proprietary stablecoin to pay auditors Ernst & Young LLP, using a hub provided b … | Continue reading
To celebrate a decade of Star Wars Rebels, io9 goes back through its archives for our best articles, interviews, and more. | Continue reading
Fifteenth in the News Commons series. This semester’s Beyond the Web salon series for the Ostrom Workshop and Hamilton Lugar School at Indiana University is themed Think Globally, Eat Here—Small Solutions for Big Tech Problems. I will give the opening talk, about the News Commons … | Continue reading
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It remains a source of anxiousness and confusion that I’m not having to worry about teaching this year. I dreamed about it last night, which suggests that I’m worrying about it anyway… I’m not sure if it this relieved or accentuated by continuing to think about the whole GenAI th … | Continue reading
Human Error by Crones stands tall as a fine example of a band at their prime, taking their inspirations and making them even broader this time around. | Continue reading
Announcing FLUX1.1 [pro] and the BFL API FLUX is the image generation model family from Black Forest Labs, a startup founded by members of the team that previously created Stable Diffusion. Released today, FLUX1.1 [pro] continues the general trend of AI models getting both better … | Continue reading
The ocean’s twilight zone is iron-deficient, limiting bacterial growth and affecting carbon storage. New findings show high siderophore levels in deeper waters, indicating a broader impact on marine biogeochemical cycles and necessitating further study. Researchers have shed ligh … | Continue reading
I was flying (not this trip; I took the train to Amsterdam) and the guy in-front of me didn’t activate airplane mode, just browsed reddit till he lost reception. Then got back on coming down. I glared at him invisibly from between the seatbacks. And that’s fine I guess? Like I do … | Continue reading
An anthology of unsettling tales from contemporary China, translated into English for the very first time. The post Read the Introduction to Sinophagia: A Celebration of Chinese Horror appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
"Stop throwing out empty berry containers!" Sustainable living expert shares useful ideas to repurpose empty plastic fruit containers: 'Great ideas' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
It is certainly not the most famous and visited church in Bergamo, but the Chiesa del Santo Spirito (Holy Spirit Chuch) is one of the hidden jewels the Italian city. The exterior is an incoherent mix of styles spanning a period of 400 years, from the 14th to the 18th centuries, b … | Continue reading
Me every time I open a drawer at my desk: Wow I have a lot of stickers in this drawer that I've never used because I'm paralysed with choice about where to put them and if I get it wrong there's no going back No more! I have freed myself from the shackles of sticker doubt by stic … | Continue reading