Got an idea for a tiny home? Kingspan, an Irish company that specializes in insulation products, is sponsoring a design competition for a home no larger than 269 square feet. The MICROHOME Kingspan Edition 2024/25 invites participants to conceptualize an off-grid modular dwelling … | Continue reading
Major new release for the professional video app brings new AI-enhanced features and workflow improvements. ($299.99/$49.99/$49.99 new, free updates, various sizes, macOS 14.6+) | Continue reading
Brings full support for macOS 15 Sequoia to the audio editor. ($29 new, free update, 15.1 MB, macOS 11+) | Continue reading
Jennifer Szalai at the NY Times: The Science Museum in Britain holds numerous items associated with the Nobel Prize-winning mathematical physicist Sir Roger Penrose: books on consciousness and the nature of space and time; a set of wooden puzzles made by his physician father; a m … | Continue reading
Adds CSV Reader and Dynamic Image nodes to the bulk image processing utility. ($29.99/$49.99 new, free update, 55.7 MB, macOS 12+) | Continue reading
After discussing the quirks in 3D modeling software, where a laser beam is treated as a solid object that can cast a shadow, scientists decided to experiment in real life — and found that laser beams can indeed cast a shadow under the right conditions. | Continue reading
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A moment of profound uncertainty for many of America’s environmental laws has just become even more uncertain-er. This week, as President-elect Donald Trump considers how to revise or repeal the country’s bedrock climate laws, one of the country’s oldest environmental laws has be … | Continue reading
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Robin Zeng, founder and chairman of CATL, says Musk's 4860 battery design "is going to fail and never be successful." | Continue reading
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read: Lawyer who argued for Trump’s immunity at Supreme Court is tapped for solicitor general (Josh Gerstein, Politico) Trump picks lawyer who won his... T … | Continue reading
The series centers on two sisters who are ancestors to the family who brings down Leto Atreides The post Get Ready to Learn More about the Harkonnens in Dune: Prophecy appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Damola Adamolekun is the new CEO of Red Lobster, the seafood chain stuck in bankruptcy. Those endless shrimp deals? Not coming back, he says. Last year the seafood chain made all-you-can-eat shrimp a permanent menu item … | Continue reading
Thanks @leo for the mention of Micro.blog on This Week in Google! Great discussion about Bluesky and other networks too. | Continue reading
A very long chat with Katsura Hashino, Shoji Meguro and Shigenori Soejima The post There Are Infintitely Worse Things You Can Do This Week Than Watch A Documentary About The Making Of Metaphor: ReFantazio appeared first on Aftermath. | Continue reading
She is qualifiedly Mother of God, and not the Queen of Heaven. And certainly not the Spouse of the Holy Spirit. First posted August 4, 2024; appendix added November 15, 2024. The standard […] | Continue reading
California Department of Insurance investigators watched the footage of a bear damaging the inside of a car because who wouldn’t watch that kind of video if it was submitted to them in a work setting, I know I sure would, but the thing is when the CDI investigators watched the fo … | Continue reading
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2024 How did we lose to this guy? In our view, the most interesting piece of journalism today is an editorial in the New York Post. The Murdoch empire is divided today. Is the candidate who won the election filling his playroom with toys? Writing from the hea … | Continue reading
Cochem is a beautiful town in Germany sitting along the Moselle River. We’ve now made several visits, with each experience being better than the last!… The post 7 Magical Things to do in Cochem Germany appeared first on Nothing Familiar. | Continue reading
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! 200,000 portable bed rails are being recalled by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission following 18 reported deaths in three years. The death toll appears to be for the entire nightmarish product category; those ma … | Continue reading
"Everything I Am Is Yours" by Stell and the Comedown Club impresses the listener with its melancholic production and slow tempo, featuring heavy reverberations and haunting melodies made even sadder by the pedal steel guitar. | Continue reading
Dartmouth scientists sniff out the genes — and identify a new chemical compound — that drive titus arum’s pungent odor. The unusual odor of the titan arum, commonly called the corpse flower because its scent is reminiscent of rotting flesh, draws crowds of curious visitors to gre … | Continue reading
Photo: David Pierce / The Verge The Rabbit R1 can now use AI to redesign the device’s entire interface based on a prompt. Some examples shared by Rabbit CEO Jesse Lyu show a Legend of Zelda-inspired interface, another made in the style of Windows XP, and one using a “dark green s … | Continue reading
The M4 MacBook Pro models may be featuring quantum dot technology, though the jury is still out on whether these displays are truly better than before. | Continue reading
Netflix's hit Karate Kid show returns for the second part of its sixth and final season. Here's our review. | Continue reading
AMD Radeon PRO W7700 running on Raspberry Pi After years of work among a bunch of people in the Pi community (special callout to Coreforge!), we finally have multiple generations of AMD graphics cards working on the Raspberry Pi 5. We recently got Polaris-era GPUs working (like t … | Continue reading
We begin with these three. The post Elle’s Women in Hollywood Covers Try to Predict the Awards Races a Bit first appeared on Go Fug Yourself. | Continue reading
In a mystifying move, the Nordic nation wants to make sure its known as the real Sweden. | Continue reading
Even interactions with non-hostile aliens can be perilous for humans... The post Five Works About Surviving Helpful or Indifferent Aliens appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Some of us freshly anointed moms and dads pooled together our top tech picks that make early days with baby just a touch easier (or more fun and nerdy). Continue reading… | Continue reading
The Basilica di San Petronio at the center of Bologna may stand out at first glance because it is an impressively large Italian Gothic cathedral—the largest church in Bologna, in fact. But while the church's vaulted ceilings and richly decorated chapels may be noteworthy, what tr … | Continue reading
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"I don't want to put stuff in [the] landfill if I can possibly avoid it, but it seems unavoidable." Shopper seeks advice after donation shops refuse to take their worn-out clothing: 'Does anyone have recent experience?' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
In today’s edition of Squirrel News, we wrap up the week with stories on Colombia’s landmark decision to eliminate child marriage after a 17-year fight, Redondo Beach’s success in drastically reducing homelessness, and how matchmaking programmes are building meaningful friendship … | Continue reading
A certain type of person cares very much about their constitutional right to own a gun so that they can defend themselves and their family from any perceived threat. They obviously believe in the need for a violent solution to a potential problem and are willing to take on all th … | Continue reading
A certain type of person cares very much about their constitutional right to own a gun so that they can defend themselves and their family from any perceived threat. They obviously believe in the need for a violent solution to a potential problem and are willing to take on all th … | Continue reading
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Whoever the next editor-in-chief of Scientific American turns out to be, they would be well-advised to make sure their criticisms of MAGA supporters aren't too spicy. Laura Helmuth resigned Thursday after posting, then d … | Continue reading
The considerate human to Ringo the Cat crab walked from the living room to the bedroom so as not to disturb him as he relaxed on her lap. | 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
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Microsoft is accused of using punitive licensing terms for Azure. | Continue reading
This whole series of Disquiet Junto projects got started, to a good degree, on Twitter, back when it was actually called that — and to a lesser degree on Instagram, back when it seemed like it was mostly fuzzy photos of nature and street scenes — as a result of discussions there … | Continue reading
"If we succeed in finding solutions that correspond to each material, it will result in completely different design methods and formal characters."Those words were written by Willy Guhl, one of Switzerland's first industrial designers, in 1950. He backed up that philosophy with a … | Continue reading
A political science colleague asked me what I thought of this recent article by Carlisle Rainey, which begins: Some work in political methodology recommends that applied researchers obtain point estimates of quantities of interest by simulating model coefficients, transforming th … | Continue reading
“Are you command handling idempotent?” Sounds like a douchebag question to ask. Actually, that’s not a question but a statement that we want… | Continue reading
The I-35 upper decks will be demolished soon. This view is going to look a lot different. | Continue reading
NASA elevated the air leak to the highest level of risk, but Russia isn't convinced it's that serious. | Continue reading
We call our's the Age of Information, but it would more accurately be called the Age of Attention because when information becomes abundant, attention becomes the scarce resource. But the truth is that human's have long felt that they lived in a time of information overload. The … | Continue reading