A previously overlooked seismic signal portended the gargantuan volcanic eruption. | Continue reading
Michael Levin at Noema: We, as humans, seem driven by the desire to create a sharp line between us — or at best, living things — and “mere machines.” In a bygone era, it was easy to draw that line around the idea that human beings might have an immaterial essence that makes up ou … | Continue reading
“Is wearing Taylor Swift merch or a trash bag considering electioneering in Kansas? What if you dress your kid up as Donald Trump or Kamala Harris?” “A used car dealership owner in Texas told his employees he’d reimburse anyone who votes $20 worth of food at one of several local … | Continue reading
We invite all those interested in interdisciplinary research and the field of art to submit a project related to the objectives and lines of research of the Mobile Communications Research Group (MCG) of the Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications (iTEAM) UPV. … | Continue reading
Get up to $800 in instant trade-in credit when you make this gorgeous 14.6-inch tablet your pre-Black Friday buy. | Continue reading
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Authorities in Canada have arrested a man suspected of stealing information from around 165 companies using Snowflake’s cloud storage services, according to reports from Bloomberg and 404 Media. The Canadian Department of Justice confir … | Continue reading
Bedtime Stories for Computers is the triumphant third album in a groundbreaking trilogy (following Giack Bazz Is not Famous and Just a Little Bit More Famous). | Continue reading
Haaniya Farrukh in Tribune: Drama serial Kabhi Main Kabhi Tum has driven its audience to a riotous appreciation that reaches far beyond the nation’s borders. Amassing millions of views on each episode uploaded on YouTube, the series takes us through the unsteady domestic lives of … | Continue reading
A new 450-million-year-old arthropod fossil, Lomankus edgecombei, has been uncovered in New York, revealing crucial evolutionary shifts in appendage function from predation to environmental sensing among ancient arthropods. A new 450-million-year-old fossil arthropod, preserved i … | Continue reading
Sara Reardon in Nature: Welcome to the healthier, happier world of 2030. Heart attacks and strokes are down 20%. A drop in food consumption has left more money in people’s wallets. Lighter passengers are saving airlines 100 million litres of fuel each year. And billions of people … | Continue reading
Instant Debugging with the debugger Keyword Triggering Debugging from the Console DOM Breakpoints: Monitoring DOM Changes XHR Breakpoints: Uncovering Hidden Network Calls Simulating Environments for Debugging Debugging Layout and Style Issues Final Word As a Java developer, most … | Continue reading
'Trails Through Daybreak' is one of the best games the long-running series has ever seen, and its sequel is already shaping up to be special too. | Continue reading
Katy P.'s father-in-law recently retired after 27 years with the fire department. Naturally, his fellow fire fighters ordered an appropriately decorated cake to celebrate: (You know what my favorite part of this Fire Department Theme cake is? The balloons.) Thanks to Katy for sho … | Continue reading
In 1905, Albert Einstein was working as a patent clerk in Switzerland when he asked one of the most profound questions in the history of physics: “What would happen if I rode alongside a beam of light?” The question was simple but counterintuitive. It was also, in retrospect, a m … | Continue reading
In times of anxiety and uncertainty, humans tend to split the world into good and evil. It’s a natural tendency, a way to feel more comfortable, says best-selling author Amanda Ripley. Today, you see it among many, many millions of people because there’s a lot of anxiety about th … | Continue reading
The Tower of the Scipios, also known as the Torre dels Escipions in Catalan, was built in the 1st century BC as part of a Roman mausoleum dedicated to the illustrious family of Scipio, who were among the most influential and powerful of the time. The mausoleum, together with the … | Continue reading
Matthew Foster and John Mikel Amiel Regida finish their account of how they incrementally modernized a mobile application by looking at the results of their work. They achieved a significant shortening of time to new value, and found that changes in the new application could be p … | Continue reading
Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge Alexa didn’t get a big splashy launch event, or come with a bunch of grand proclamations about being the future of anything. Instead, like a phone charger with a made-up name or a knockoff version of your favorite blush, it just kind of appeared on … | Continue reading
There's got to be something. Maybe an election somewhere? | Continue reading
Twice as cheap as the Fenix 8, the Garmin Fenix 7 offers the best value for your money. | Continue reading
Happy Election Day, America! Went for a short walk to pick up a coffee. Beautiful cool fall day in Austin. | Continue reading
Current conditions: Typhoon Yinxing is expected to bring heavy rain to the Philippines this week • India is considering cloud seeding to trigger artificial rain to combat dangerous air pollution • It will be 59 degrees Fahrenheit and cloudy in Washington, D.C., where security fen … | Continue reading
Aaaahhh The post Open Thread: Election Day appeared first on Aftermath. | Continue reading
Ziff Davis says their analysis of publicly available datasets makes it clear that AI firms rely disproportionately on commercial publishers of news and media websites to train their LLMs. The paper — authored by Ziff Davis' lead AI attorney, George Wukoson, and its chief technolo … | Continue reading
We all know who Obi-Wan Kenobi is. But at one point, 'The Phantom Menace' was going to hide the character in plain sight. | Continue reading
"When it’s damp, the likelihood of [this] increases.” Scientists warn of dangerous issue cropping up weeks after hurricane devastation — here's what you need to know first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
by cgrand (X 🦣) Today no Datalog nor interop: let's talk data structures! In ClojureDart we took pride in writing our own persistent collections. A design goal for our collections was to make them have a canonical layout so as to be able to leverage canonical layout and s … | Continue reading
This enchanting LEGO Harry Potter Advent Calendar is a magical delight for both kids and adults. | Continue reading
GaryOderNichts, a hacker working on Nintendo's Alarmo alarm clock, has gotten Doom running on it. The classic threshold of functionality for owned hardware, Doom runs fine on the tiny bedside device—and is even playable with the gadget's glowy control knob. There's no sound, yet, … | Continue reading
Jude Rogers at The New Statesman: Fifty years ago in West Germany, a country at the heart of the growing European Communities, several innovations jumped off the production line. One was a government led by a new, outward-looking chancellor, Helmut Schmidt, who helped set up the … | Continue reading
An analysis of 18 years of data on user behavior and its moderation reveals that the failure stems from five common misconceptions about toxicity. | Continue reading
Today's typography-centric edition of the Drop discusses Google's initiatives to enhance typography through projects like Oxidize and Fontations, focusing on migrating font manipulation to Rust for better performance and memory safety. It also covers type revival for film and TV, … | Continue reading
Apple never discounts its products directly, but you can find some great deals on Amazon. | Continue reading
In 1990, Sheila Keen-Warren dressed as a clown and killed the wife of a man she later married, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the death of Marlene Warren, and was released from prison Saturday after serving 18 months there. The case was "strange even by Florida standar … | Continue reading
Austrian aviation company CycloTech has revealed it's building a demonstrator version of an eVTOL to showcase its propulsion system for electric flight. The firm is hoping to take the wraps off its BlackBird flying car by the end of this year, and commence test flights in early 2 … | Continue reading
Curated tips from the HBR archive. | Continue reading
Wait, it isn't supposed to be pronounced "clan via Pokemon Go garage city of cocoa"? I've been saying it wrong my whole life! 😅 | Continue reading
Dave Winer, OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears. | Continue reading
A conversation with the University of Oxford’s Karthik Ramanna on how managers can effectively navigate increasing political polarization. | Continue reading
New research offers groundbreaking insights into the formation and dynamical evolution of globular clusters, showing multiple formation events and distinct motions within these ancient star populations that inform our understanding of the universe’s early days. A study published … | Continue reading
'Ghostwire Tokyo' is a wonderfully unique horror game that gives you a dazzling, but exceedingly eerie, version of Tokyo to explore. | Continue reading
Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space telescopes | Continue reading
The breakthrough could lead to a safer battery for electric vehicles and devices. Scientists make mind-blowing breakthrough in battery safety with prototype that actually works when cut: 'The battery continues to function' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
[Let’s do this one more time, everyone.] Today is election day in America. It’s time for America to move past the incredibly unfit Donald Trump, and time to send Kamala Harris to the White House as America’s first female president. America, let’s do this. Here’s how: If You’re Re … | Continue reading
Sauli Niinistö, former president of Finland and special adviser to the European Commission president, has published a major report, Safer Together: Strengthening Europe’s Civilian and Military Preparedness and Readiness, which presents a detailed strategy to bolster the European … | Continue reading
If you’re finding today a bit stressful for some reason, grab a respite by sinking into any of these web design inspiration websites. The post Web Design Inspiration appeared first on Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design. | Continue reading
If you have a large home, a Dyson "Outsize" is a must-have for efficient cleaning. | Continue reading
Throughout November I'll be releasing new weird sci-fi short stories. Each one is a campfire horror yarn, with a technological twist. Your feedback is highly appreciated. Everything you read is possible - there's no magic, just sufficiently advanced technology. Chapter 4 - The Gu … | Continue reading