Nick Wingfield, writing today’s The Briefing column for the paywalled (alas) The Information: Sonos has always been a bit of an odd duck. There aren’t that many consumer electronics startups of its size created in the last quarter century (Sonos was founded in 2002) that have sur … | Continue reading
Just days by Amazon had a sale going which offered the new 2024 Kindle Scribe for a 19 percent discount. That had made the latest Kindle Scribe model even cheaper than the original. While that deal has since been withdrawn, here is the original Kindle Scribe that is now on sale f … | Continue reading
E-book reader devices these days come in various shapes and sizes. There are what can be termed the conventional e-reader devices of the sort of the Kindle Paperwhite or the Kobo Clara. There also are the likes of the Boox Palma (Palma 2 being the latest iteration) which happens … | Continue reading
Wi-Charge, one of the pioneers when it comes to wireless electricity announced it has partnered with E Ink to power the latter’s large-format Spectra 6 color e-paper displays. Wi-Charge provides the means to transmit electric charge wirelessly using infrared beams. With this, Wi- … | Continue reading
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Mike Davidson: I grew up on Iliff Street, right in the middle of the ashes that up until a few nights ago, was a sunkissed neighborhood known as Pacific Palisades. It was 1978, and I remember my dad climbing up on our roof with a garden hose. Every couple of hours, he would wet t … | Continue reading
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Ross Douthat face off against Adam Carolla and Michael Shermer on February 27 in Austin, Texas. | Continue reading
[Is it really you, yuxingbeng.ziefen-1981mijingtan_cishikang@gmx.us?] Two days ago, I read an article about scammy text messages that request you reply to them. The very next day, I received the following: Can you guess why this text wants me to reply “Y”? It’s because the“Filte … | Continue reading
TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2025 ...of our failing nation: We awoke today to what we'd call a stumblebum conversation. It occurred in the first half hour of this morning's Morning Joe. At issue was the FBI background check—or the lack of same—which has been conducted—or possibly not—on … | Continue reading
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Current conditions: Nearly 10 million people are under alert today for fire weather conditions in southern California • The coastal waters off China hit their highest average temperature, 70.7 degrees Fahrenheit, since record-keeping began • A blast of cold air will bring freezin … | Continue reading
Introduction In this article, I’m going to explain you should use compact table columns when designing your database schema. By using compact table columns, you can cache more table records and index entries and, therefore, speed up your SQL queries. Database caching As I explain … | Continue reading
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Biden’s transgender prison policy goes to court. Is Taylor Swift a threat to free speech? And much more. | Continue reading
The country has a dire shortage of nurses, so to fill the manpower gap, it’s using AI for preventive care. | Continue reading
Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy Two storefronts have gone dark at 68-70 Avenue A between Fourth Street and Fifth Street. Angels Boutique, which sold vintage fashion collectibles and accessories, closed at No. 70 last Thursday after seven months. It was a spin-off business of v … | Continue reading
Here's a look at the in-progress new state-of-the-art facility for Barrier Free Living at 270 E. Second St. between Avenue C and Avenue D... The 12-story new building with a twisting façade will be known as "Freedom Village." Here's a look at the rendering (which we have posted i … | Continue reading
Photos by Stacie Joy Back on Friday, we shared the news that Ilana Wiles was closing The March Hare on Jan. 31. She bought the toy store at 321 E. Ninth St. between First Avenue and Second Avenue in April 2022. As Wiles wrote, she bought the shop not only to help the owners who w … | Continue reading
Trump’s inauguration is right around the corner, and there is so much to cover about the new White House. | Continue reading
Photo by Steven Here's a December closing we never noted: Brick Lane Curry House shut down at 79 Second Ave. between Fourth Street and Fifth Street. The modestly priced British-style curry spot had been operating for 23 years from several East Village storefronts, including at 30 … | Continue reading
Imagine waking up one morning and deciding to become William Shakespeare. You have fantasized about it for years and now you’re taking the fateful step. Overcome by a heady mixture of zeal, naivete, and hubris, you’re freed from feelings of shame or guilt. Although you live in th … | Continue reading
When it comes to our understanding of crime and criminals, lawyers and novelists—and lawyers-turned-novelists—might offer the same caution: presume nothing. At the forefront of this elite group of storytellers is attorney Scott Turow, who redefined the legal thriller with 1986’s … | Continue reading
I’m a TV writer by profession, and when I’m not staffing a show, I develop TV series adaptations with the goal of selling one to a buyer. My favorite novel genres to adapt are mysteries and thrillers because I love suspenseful, propulsive storytelling and because thrillers make d … | Continue reading
In 2013, Tim Kreider achieved true Internet meme stardom when he concluded his New York Times essay, “I Know What You Think of Me,” with the line, “if we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known.” The meme-ification of this stateme … | Continue reading
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Am Beginn meiner Autorenschaft im TP-Blog stand eine Idee: Von den vielen an österreichischen Studiengängen mit touristischem Schwerpunkt erarbeiteten Erkenntnissen sollte – maßgeblich durch Gastbeiträge von Forscher/-innen sowie Student/-innen getragen – etwas an die interessier … | Continue reading
Is there something one can put into the water in a humidifier to kill off things that might otherwise grow in it that is, nevertheless, safe for humans to breathe? I ask not because I have a humidifier, but because I have something just like a humidifier, only considerably worse. … | Continue reading
Photo credits: zverge / BigStock Brazil has a longstanding history of R&D collaboration with the EU, dating back to a scientific and technological cooperation agreement that was signed in 2004. Building on this foundation, in October 2016, the European Commission and the Brazilia … | Continue reading
Photo credits: BigStock South Korean academics now have near-full access to the big collaborative grants of Pillar 2 of Horizon Europe, after a transition agreement kicked in last week. Seoul and Brussels https://sciencebusiness.net/news/horizon… Subscribe to read more | Continue reading
Photo credits: tashatuvango / BigStock CVs that replace metrics and timelines with a narrative description of a researcher’s achievements are becoming more common in applications for research funding. But the switch from traditional CVs can be a challenge, which is why a group of … | Continue reading
Photo credits: European Union / Flickr Look at the organisations that collaborate most in Horizon Europe and it is the research councils with large networks of institutes that rise to the top. And France’s National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) is ubiquitous. CNRS… Subscr … | Continue reading
Photo credits: BigStock Funding to help start-ups take advantage of the EU’s new silicon chip design platform dominates this year’s calls from the Chips joint undertaking (JU), a partnership formed in 2023 to implement the EU Chips Act. More than half of the budget assigned to Ch … | Continue reading
When it was first released, the Amazon Kindle Colorsoft had significant issues. There were persistent yellow bars or bands at the bottom of the screen. This was even more noticeable when the front-lit display was turned on, as the screen’s brightness made the issue even more pron … | Continue reading
Xu Wenkan is well known to readers of Language Log, both because he was memorialized in an obituary here — "Xu Wenkan (1943-2023)" (1/10/23) — and because he was cited in many posts on IE languages (especially Tocharian), Sinitic lexicography / lexicology, and the Sinographic wri … | Continue reading
Enlightenment 0.27, released this week, brings a wealth of incremental improvements to users of this unique desktop environment. Though not as well known or widely used as GNOME, Xfce, KDE Plasma, et al, Enlightenment (often abbreviated as just ‘E’) differentiates itself through … | Continue reading
I sent the above photograph of a body lotion (bodirōshon ボディローション) bottle to Nathan Hopson and asked him why it has so many katakana words, also why they have to give a phonological gloss for yuzu, which should be a fairly common word in Japanese (even I know it!). He replied: Tw … | Continue reading
Rhonda Fleming says being forced to shower with male inmates violates her constitutional right to bodily privacy. On Tuesday, a court will hear her case. | Continue reading
Marketoonist (3/26/23): AI warp & woof TL;DR TL:DW Selected readings "Pablumese" (3/22/23) "ChatGPT: Theme and Variations" (2/21/23) | Continue reading
Does your app get fake signups, throwaway emails, or users abusing your free tier? Or worse, bots attacks and brute force attempts? WorkOS Radar can block all this and more. A simple API gives you advanced device fingerprinting that can detect bad actors, bots, and suspicious beh … | Continue reading
The seventh-gen iPad is the cheapest tablet in Apple’s current lineup to support Apple Intelligence. | Photo: David Pierce / The Verge If you’re in the market for a highly portable tablet, Apple’s smallest tablet has fallen to its lowest price to date at multiple retailers. Right … | Continue reading
Yesterday, I had a nice event to attend, and less time than I would’ve preferred to get ready for said event. I really needed to wash my hair, but I was out of conditioner. I knew I didn’t have time to go all the way to the closest Sephora, buy my conditioner, come all the […] | Continue reading
President-elect Donald Trump’s team is drafting an executive order to “halt offshore wind turbine activities” along the East Coast, working with the office of Republican Rep. Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey, the congressman said in a press release from his office Monday afternoon. “T … | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 14 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00112-4 Philanthropic foundations must step in to shield science from Trump’s cuts | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 14 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00037-y The research community has flocked to the social-media platform Bluesky. Tell us about your experience. | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 14 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00113-3 Advising policymakers can’t be taught — researchers must learn by doing | Continue reading
Nature, Published online: 14 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00061-y An energy-efficient lesson for the kitchen that is still relevant 150 years later, and the automation of long-distance communication by telephone or text gathers pace, in our weekly dip into Nature’s archiv … | Continue reading