Ted Olson in The Conversation: In early 1824, 30 members of Vienna’s music community sent a letter to Ludwig van Beethoven petitioning the great composer to reconsider his plans to premiere his latest work in Berlin and instead debut the symphony in Vienna. Beethoven had lived in … | Continue reading
The results offer a better understanding of how employees and employers can collaborate to mitigate job-related stress. Mindfulness, the practice of focusing on the present... | Continue reading
Better Siri might be here by the spring. | Screenshot: YouTube Siri will finally get better in spring 2025 when Apple makes its Apple Intelligence AI system available to everyone via its iOS 18.4 update, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in the latest Power On newsletter. That … | Continue reading
A recent study found that eating ultraprocessed plant-based foods was linked to heart attack and stroke risk. But the devil is in the details. | Continue reading
"You just won't find anything like this anywhere else." Massive sustainable property with one-of-a-kind features hits market — here's what's behind its $5 million price tag first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Today's Knowledge Drop is a first attempt at helping me avoid doomscrolling by using AI to summarize missed socmed content. Perplexity successfully generates accurate summaries; and local LLM/GPT Gemma v2 27b also provides fast summarization (on Apple Silion, anyway). There's eve … | Continue reading
Loyal readers may remember my proposal to Save lives by limiting cars to 35 mph? (apply coronalogic to other situations in which human lives are at risk) Maybe European readers can tell us if this is the month when Europeans begin to follow the Science. Back in 2022, Autoweek sai … | Continue reading
Luke Harding in The Guardian: For four years, the Ukrainian writer Oleksandr Mykhed lived in the town of Hostomel, not far from Kyiv. Weekends were idyllic. He and his wife, Olena, would have brunch in a cafe, walk their dog, Lisa, in the forest, and eat prawn curry for dinner. O … | Continue reading
Louie Mantia: Qualifying Art We are all too different from each other and it is not sustainable for every piece of artwork or every product to reach 100% market saturation . Appealing to a global palate is a surefire way to make the blandest art. Yes, yes, yes! Add this to | Continue reading
June saw plugin EVs take 19.8% share in Germany, down YoY from 24.6%, as macroeconomic woes, stubbornly high entry EV prices, and incentive cancellation, all took their toll. Overall auto volume was 297,329 units, up by some 6% YoY, but still at least 10% below 2017–2019 seasonal … | Continue reading
The Chevron deference was an essential legal precedent that conferred upon federal agencies the capacity to interpret and to make laws more explicit. The Supreme Court’s recent overturning of Chevron has placed the future of many regulations on clean water and clean air in the ha … | Continue reading
An international research group utilized the James Webb Space Telescope to witness the dramatic interaction between a quasar inside the PJ308–21 system and two massive... | Continue reading
Reasons to use your shell's job control Julia Evans summarizes an informal survey of useful things you can do with shell job control features - fg, bg, Ctrl+Z and the like. Running tcdump in the background so you can see its output merged in with calls to curl is a neat trick. | Continue reading
Killing a fan favorite character is always a calculated risk, and in AMC's case, it may have been bad at math. | Continue reading
Alyssa Mercante for Kotaku: Star Wars: The Acolyte Is Doing a Different Kind of Fan-Service, and It Rocks The Disney+ series ticks many boxes that the more traditional, masculine fans of the franchise have been begging for for years (High Republic lore, rare aliens, wild lightsab … | Continue reading
Weighing thousands of pounds and exceedingly muscular, hippos' running trot results in a brief aerial phase. | Continue reading
7-7-24 Run done. 5.07 miles @ 9:21 pace. Kids up, not much time to write. Need coffee. This […] | Continue reading
This sustainable dairy initiative aims to cut dirty gas pollution in half by 2030. Iconic food company Mars announces massive investment exceeding $45 million — here's where the money will go first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Here’s some potentially good news for Apple Watch owners who have Apple Watch Ultra screen envy: the Apple Watch Series 10 — may get the same size screen as the company’s 49mm outdoorsy watch. That’s in addition to other possible improv … | Continue reading
Another day, another bike tour. Today’s tour is the first part of my planned trip between my both flats. The first half of the tour was easy regarding elevation, the second parts challenging. But I made it, and I didn’t even have to get off the bike to walk instead of biking. &#x … | Continue reading
The base need for the product should be obvious to all endurance athletes. The post FLOWBIO Sweat and Hydration Sensor – First Thoughts appeared first on the5krunner • tri bike run. The full post can be read now at the5krunner • tri bike run. | Continue reading
Europol is proposing solutions to avoid challenges posed by privacy-enhancing technologies in Home Routing that hinder law enforcement's ability to intercept communications during criminal investigations. [...] | Continue reading
A new study led by archaeologists at the University of Auckland may have revealed the origins of hierarchical society in Sāmoa and throughout Polynesia. New... | Continue reading
While working with ChatGPT API, I noticed that the JSON response I normally receive contains many whitespace characters used for indentation. Here’s a fragment of the response, to illustrate that: Output tokens still cost quite a lot in 2024 (assuming we process lots of data), so … | Continue reading
While the financial impacts are certainly welcome, the overall quality of life and the environment is perhaps the more exciting development. New report reveals staggering increase of wind and solar power generation in last 5 years: 'A historic, permanent shift' first appeared on … | Continue reading
This is T-Minus, where Freethink’s Kristin Houser breaks down the biggest developments in space, from new rocket launches to discoveries that advance our understanding of the universe and our place in it. Humanity is reaching new heights in space exploration. Make sure you’re par … | Continue reading
Kyle Orland, "The telltale words that could identify generative AI text", ars technica 7/1/2024 In a pre-print paper posted earlier this month, four researchers from Germany's University of Tubingen and Northwestern University said they were inspired by studies that measured the … | Continue reading
In reply to a reply by David Shanske No worries, David. I think we had some exchanges about it at the time (2021) in the IndieWeb IRC chat. A migration tool would be useful for others I’m sure. In my case, I used the opportunity to style things differently too. So it wasn’t just … | Continue reading
Like Charlie Cox, Vincent D'Onofrio, and other actors before him, Jones wants another shot at playing his Marvel Netflix character under the MCU's guidance. | Continue reading
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I didn’t expect to see a cat on my way in the mountain today but here she is. It was hot today – the weather, the soup. I did well and feel fine. | Continue reading
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New research introduces a non-thermal method for magnetization using circularly polarized XUV light, which induces significant magnetization changes through the inverse Faraday effect, potentially transforming... | Continue reading
E-commerce platform Shopify denies it suffered a data breach after a threat actor began selling customer data they claim was stolen from the company's network. [...] | Continue reading
Ultimately, Lost was a show about good versus evil, and that was clear from the very beginning — even if not everyone realized it. | Continue reading
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It’s a July weekend afternoon. The sun’s strong, the air’s humid. And then, you hear that jingle. The truck pulls up. A wall of ice cream offerings—including popsicles made to look like out-of-date cartoon characters, quintessential items that have thrived for decades, and so man … | Continue reading
The newest Apple Watch retails for between $400 and $700 new. Shopper thrilled after stumbling upon like-new Apple Watch for less than $10 at local bin store: 'I can't wait to rock it' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
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SUNDAY, JULY 7, 2024 Having noticed, he asked: To his credit, Victor Blackwell did his job—performed his role within our failing "democracy." Victor Blackwell had noticed something. Having noticed, he asked! Blackwell serves as host of CNN's early morning weekend program, First o … | Continue reading
Samsung’s next Galaxy Unpacked event is coming up fast at 9AM ET on July 10th in Paris, France. The company isn’t being coy about at least a couple of things it’s talking about — the graphic in its announcement video clearly hints at foldables, and the video’s description reads i … | Continue reading
The following came in the email, subject line “Paid Link Insertion Request”: Hello Andrew, I hope this message finds you well. In the course of our ongoing collaborations with clients, we’ve received feedback indicating their interest in incorporating a link … Continue reading → | Continue reading
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Articles rarely carry titles written by their authors. My longtime favorite assigned to me was “About Face,” about the type foundry and magazine Emigre. Then came “The Man Who Fell for Earth,” an interview I did with science fiction author and environmentalist Kim Stanley Robinso … | Continue reading
Researchers have pinpointed specific variants in a gene that significantly raise the likelihood of developing various cancer types. This discovery has the potential to enhance... | Continue reading
Flexibility or Consistency? Why not have both? Wouldn’t it be great to have MongoDB flexible schema and PostgreSQL consistency? MongoDB is a… | Continue reading
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Anyone making use of Ubuntu 23.10 “Mantic Minotaur” should be aware that official support for the release ends on July 11, 2024. Which, to reorient the blissfully slow who, like me, feel 2024 is still new, is this week: July 11 is on Thursday. What happens when support for an Ubu … | Continue reading