Tucked away in the recesses CES 2025’s Eureka Hall startup showcase, CaiqueTech showed off a novel take on the tried-and-true baseball radar gun. After building a standalone device, the Korean firm has created a modular version that plugs directly into a phone via the USB-C port. … | Continue reading
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened an investigation into 2.56 million Tesla vehicles after several crashes involving the automaker’s “Actual Smart Summon” remote parking feature. Tesla released Actual Smart Summon, or ASS for short, via software update … | Continue reading
On Tuesday, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing division, said that it plans to invest “at least” $11 billion in Georgia to expand its infrastructure to support various cloud computing and AI technologies. AWS estimates that its investment will create roughly 550 … | Continue reading
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The FTC and New York’s attorney general have accused Handy, the gig app customers can use to book cleaners, handymen, and more, of making deceptive claims about how much workers could earn through its platform. In a complaint filed on Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the So … | Continue reading
McGovern Institute neuroscientists use children’s interests to probe language in the brain. | Continue reading
President-elect Donald Trump’s first press conference after yesterday’s certification of his election win (four years to the day since the January 6, 2021 Capitol riots) was never going to be a normal one. And so it proved that Trump’s wide-ranging comments at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesd … | Continue reading
Most homes have far fewer electrical outlets on the outside than on the inside, which can pose a challenge when powering outdoor devices. The Power Mole V2 is here to help, by transmitting even more power right through window panes. Continue Reading Category: Around The Home, Lif … | Continue reading
Announced in 2022, the MV7 is hands down one of the best podcaster mics on the market. Last April, Shure updated the line to include the MV7+, which has USB-C connect and a few new tricks designed to get a cleaner sound. At CES 2025 on Tuesday, the audio company added yet another … | Continue reading
Associated Press: President Joe Biden is moving to ban new offshore oil and gas drilling in most U.S. coastal waters, a last-minute effort to block possible action by the incoming Trump administration to expand offshore drilling. Biden, whose term expires in two weeks, said he is … | Continue reading
“The Peace Candidate” enacting Putin’s agenda. Associated Press: President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would not rule out the use of military force to seize control of the Panama Canal and Greenland, as he declared U.S. control of both to be vital to American national s … | Continue reading
Qualcomm has just unveiled their latest Snapdragon X chips at CES 2025, which are positioned to create new opportunities for more budget-friendly Windows Copilot+ laptops starting as early as this year. | Continue reading
A French bulldog is spooked when she hears strange grunts sound coming from the other side of her doggie door. But even stranger is what she — and the rest of us — sees when her human opens the plastic flap. — Read the rest The post Turtle sex: Dog spooked by strange grunts comin … | Continue reading
At the MITEI Fall Colloquium, the administrator of the US Energy Information Administration explained why long-term energy models are not forecasting tools — and why they’re still vitally important. | Continue reading
Deep Fission's small modular reactors would be lowered on cables down a 30-inch, one-mile deep borehole. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. | Continue reading
Alabaman George Owens took a "lot of drugs" his wife thinks he "found" in his garage. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Until he pleaded guilty and took a deal, George Owens showed a surprisingly awful chain of judgment. — Read the rest The post Drug fue … | Continue reading
uv python install --reinstall 3.13 I couldn't figure out how to upgrade the version of Python 3.13 I had previous installed using uv - I had Python 3.13.0.rc2. Thanks to Charlie Marsh I learned the command for upgrading to the latest uv-supported release: uv python install --rein … | Continue reading
Using the island as a model, researchers demonstrate the “DyMonDS” framework can improve resiliency to extreme weather and ease the integration of new resources. | Continue reading
In the U.S., it’s accepted that most startups fail — and when that happens, VCs (generally) accept their losses and move on. But that’s not the case in China, where VCs are trying to claw back their investments in failed startups by pursuing the personal assets of their founders … | Continue reading
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La) has determined that DEI initiatives and "wokeness" led to the recent terror attack. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Congressperson Scalise seems to feel Police are spending too much time diversifying their wor … | Continue reading
Instagram Threads is developing new features that would bring its user experience more in line with that of X (formerly Twitter) and the social network Bluesky. The Meta-owned company is internally prototyping the ability to set a display name and add a cover image to profiles. A … | Continue reading
Ultra-high energy cosmic rays are energized by magnetic turbulence, not shock acceleration, according to new research. Tangled magnetic fields in extreme astrophysical environments propel particles to incredible energies, advancing our understanding of these cosmic phenomena. Ult … | Continue reading
That dull feeling when your once-thrilling job feels routine or your dream home becomes just four walls isn't all in your head—it's your brain doing its job. Scientists call it "habituation," and there's a way to outsmart it. "Habituation is the brain's tendency to tune out what' … | Continue reading
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Part sleek air purifier, part feline-friendly perch, LG's AeroCatTower not only cleans the air but doubles as a weight-monitoring throne for your cat. | Continue reading
OpenAI rival Anthropic is in talks to raise $2 billion in new capital in a funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, according to The Wall Street Journal. The round, which The Journal reports would value Anthropic at $60 billion, would bring Anthropic’s total raised to $1 … | Continue reading
Simple ingredients, easy to prepare, flavorful – a family favorite soup! Homemade chicken and rice soup is incredibly simple and comforting. Loaded with tender chicken meat, veggies, rice and simple seasoning, this soup is perfect any time of the year. Often, the simplest recipes … | Continue reading
Xpeng Aero HT, the aerospace company under Chinese EV startup Xpeng, unveiled at CES 2025 its “modular flying car,” the so-called Land Aircraft Carrie. It’s ssentially an electric minivan with a small folding eVTOL (vertical takeoff and landing vehicle) tucked in the back, which … | Continue reading
I Panic blends classical music stylings with pop sensibility and musical theatre resolutions, filled with dramatic twists and impeccable vocal delivery. | Continue reading
It's ironic that I've worked in schools for the majority of my adult life. Except for a year here and there, I didn't enjoy the 12 years I spent in public education. It could have something to do with attending 13 schools during that time. The years I liked happened because of sp … | Continue reading
Meta will replace its third-party fact-checking program in the U.S. with a crowd-sourced community notes program similar to the one used by X, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on his Facebook page on Tuesday morning. The wide-ranging video message framed the decision as a move to “d … | Continue reading
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The following is a portion of the introduction to Karvsnitt: Carving, Pattern and Color in the Slöjd Tradition. Cutting patterns is a natural part of working wood with hand tools. For centuries, patterns and symbols have decorated simple tools and utensils. During long winter nig … | Continue reading
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Today's a symbolically big day for Birchtree! After doing this site and its many offshoot projects since 2010, I finally put a ring on it and registered Birchtree Productions LLC. 🎉 For you, this means basically nothing at all. Footers might be updated and I might invest … | Continue reading
An album that openly deals with remembrance, loss, and change, It Was Here He Received His Only Formal Education features some of The Muster Point Project's best work yet. | Continue reading
CES 2025 is happening Jan. 7, 2025 through Jan. 10, 2025 in Las Vegas. Here are all the latest updates from one of the biggest tech events of the year. | Continue reading
The unannounced studio is reportedly now in charge of games from the former label, including the Kerbal Space Program franchise and Game Freak's mysterious new project. | Continue reading
Digital Extremes has experimented with "shadows" of a card game and a Vampire Survivors-like mode The post The Wildest Systems That Could End Up In Warframe, A Game That Already Contains Dating, Fishing, And Every Other System appeared first on Aftermath. | Continue reading
From Fodor'sTravel — a firsthand account of a seasoned traveler who found himself detained at Pattaya airport and banned from Thailand. Why? He miscounted the days between July 30 and August 30. Kimanzi Constable, a business consultant turned digital nomad, was living the dream i … | Continue reading
South Park Commons is raising $40 million for its India-specific fund over six months after announcing its outpost in Bengaluru. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. | Continue reading
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National Museum of Australia Pompeii: Inside a Lost City at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra depicts life in the flourishing Roman city of Pompeii before it was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. It pictures an ancient city frozen in time, eerily pr … | Continue reading
Aedka Studio/Shutterstock If you’ve ever had a spiny leaf insect as a pet, or you’re considering getting one, hopefully someone has warned you about this: if you put one in your enclosure, you might come back some time later to find two. How? These animals are among a handful of … | Continue reading
Oselote/Shutterstock In November 2023, the estates of two now-deceased policyholders sued the US health insurer, United Healthcare, for deploying what they allege is a flawed artificial intelligence (AI) system to systematically deny patient claims. The issue – they claim – wasn’ … | Continue reading
Shutterstock/Nils Versemann From the Torres Strait to Tasmania, and from the east coast to the west, beach shacks are an iconic part of Australian coastal history. Beach shacks have a distinctive identity as emblems of summer holidays and unadorned simplicity. Yet, their history … | Continue reading
The messaging app handed over user data on thousands of Telegram users to U.S. authorities over 2024, the data reveals. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. | Continue reading
Lenovo debuts a consumer-ready, screen-extending AI laptop to CES audiences, originally teased in 2022. | Continue reading