The UK firm Zircotec is adapting a high tech ceramic coating to reduce the weight and cost of an EV battery pack, leveraging its experience in Formula One racing and other motorsports. The post One Simple Trick To Send The Cost Of An EV Battery Rocketing Downwards appeared first … | Continue reading
Changes to the Earth's climate are already happening and getting more serious by the minute. We are running out of time to act. The post Climate Disruption Will Be The Precursor To Global Political Disruption appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
Apple has issued the fourth beta version of iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and MacOS Sequoia 15.1, each with Apple Intelligence features that were not available in the initial public release of iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia 15.0. The fourth developer beta version also matches the … | Continue reading
Rachel Stavis' 2022 short, Posies, is getting a spooky season re-release on Alter. | Continue reading
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Californians can now add their driver’s license or state ID to their Apple Wallets. | Image: Apple Apple announced that starting today, California residents can add their driver’s licenses and state IDs to Apple Wallet on their iPhones and Apple Watches as part of the state’s mob … | Continue reading
Online influencer "Mr Reagan" accuses California of bullying humorists. | Continue reading
A groundbreaking study using the PhanDA model offers a new view of Earth’s temperature over the last 485 million years, showing a dynamic range of climates significantly influenced by CO2 levels. The analysis identifies five distinct climate states, suggesting a predominant histo … | Continue reading
Mark Robinson, an anti-LGBTQ bigot, also expressed a love for trans porn. | Continue reading
Data the nearly fifty-year old deep space probe was returning to Earth earlier this year, was getting all scrambled up. But dutiful mission controllers sorted that out. This despite Voyager 1 being so far away that it’d take a day to reach, assuming we had a vessel that could tra … | Continue reading
"This has to stop — people must respect these magnificent animals." Bystander stunned after witnessing tourists surround wild elk herd at national park: 'Leave them alone' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Microsoft is testing a new feature in the Edge browser called the "extension performance detector," which warns you when browser extensions cause performance issues on web pages you visit. [...] | Continue reading
“My favorite teachers were unpredictable, untidy, gifted in a way that only a handful of people appreciated.” | Continue reading
Amazon has the Beats Fit Pro with the Apple H1 chip for just $159 for early prime big deal days! | Continue reading
Luckey's Anduril Industries has landed a lucrative new contract with the DoD that will bring automated headsets to America's warrior class. | Continue reading
Since at least the 1970s, electrochemists have cast their gazes upon the world’s vast, briny seas and wondered how they could harness the endless supply of hydrogen locked within. Though it was technically possible to grab the hydrogen by running an electrical current through the … | Continue reading
If you go down to the woods this autumn, you might encounter a strange organism. It erupts from dead wood, lives for… | Continue reading
Professional social network (assuming there’s such a thing) LinkedIn has started collecting user data to train its own AI bot. No surprise there. They’ve apparently auto opted all members in, whether they like it or not. No surprise there. Rachel Tobac, CEO of SocialProof Securit … | Continue reading
The homeowner was looking to optimize every corner of the kitchen. READ MORE... | Continue reading
Get ready to race with a Logitech Driving Force racing sim wheel and other peripherals, now it's as low as $278. | Continue reading
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The Terminator and Avatar creator continues to tease upcoming plans for his sci-fi franchise. | Continue reading
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2024 We still say, Pity the child: A few years back—we're not sure how many—we watched The Manchurian Candidate (1962 version) maybe four or five times. We came away thinking that it's a very deep, complex film. More and more, we find ourselves thinking ab … | Continue reading
German news outlets reported that police were able to de-identify a Tor user involved in a child sexual abuse network, but the Tor Project says the techniques used appear to rely on an outdated Tor protocol that was updated in 2018. | Continue reading
A previously classified transcript reveals Congress knows full well that American TikTok users engage in First Amendment protected speech on the platform and that banning the application is an inadequate way to protect privacy—but it banned TikTok anyway. The government submitted … | Continue reading
Space Perspective is hoping to have commercial operations underway in 2025, but a seat on the luxurious balloon is gonna cost you. | Continue reading
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Federal Trade Commission published a new report about the data collection policies of social media platforms and video streaming services, and the results are damning, if not unexpected. The report, which was released on September 19th, … | Continue reading
Photography exuding the aesthetic of American filmmaker Wes Anderson, is on show in Australia at the Accidentally Wes Anderson exhibition, in Melbourne, until early November 2024. “Accidentally Wes Anderson: The Exhibition” is a journey through more than 200 of the most beautiful … | Continue reading
The people who created the Pitted Ware Culture may have used seal hides to build boats. | Continue reading
Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his wife Margaret Macdonald were both members of The Four, a quartet from Glasgow that included Margaret's sister Frances and her husband James Herbert MacNair. The Four met at the Glasgow School of Art when they studied there at the end of the 19th … | Continue reading
These PakTech products have already been awarded recyclability certifications within the European Union and Australia. Manufacturer receives official endorsement for its highly recyclable plastic carriers: 'PakTech products [are] part of the circular economy by keeping valuable m … | Continue reading
Image: Logitech Logitech is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its G502 gaming mouse with a limited-edition aluminum version. The G502 X Plus AL Edition has the same functionality as the standard wireless G502 X mouse, plus an aluminum chassis with laser-etched markings, includi … | Continue reading
Group staged home invasions to steal cryptocurrency. | Continue reading
The very conservative Detroit News is confused about Donald Trump’s plans for Electric Vehicle production in the US. Detroit News: Republicans from presidential nominee Donald Trump on down are increasingly giving mixed messages about whether they want the United States to actual … | Continue reading
Researchers unexpectedly found traces of cocaine in the mummified brain tissue of 17th-century people buried in a crypt in Milan. | Continue reading
Astronomers have identified the largest black hole jet structure known, named Porphyrion, stretching 23 million light-years across, akin to 140 Milky Way galaxies aligned. This discovery, emerging from a galaxy about 10 times the mass of our Milky Way, suggests that such jets cou … | Continue reading
A summer class teaches PhD students and early-career archaeologists ceramic petrography, revealing the origins and production methods of past societies. | Continue reading
Many GitHub users this week received a novel phishing email warning of critical security holes in their code. Those who clicked the link for details were asked to distinguish themselves from bots by pressing a combination of keyboard keys that causes Microsoft Windows to download … | Continue reading
Image: Apple Apple has just released public betas of iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1, and they include upcoming Apple Intelligence features like text rewriting tools, the glowy new Siri design, a “Clean Up” tool to remove objects from your photos, and more. To be ab … | Continue reading
"Look at the clever things we have made out of a few building blocks — O fabulous continuum." | Continue reading
I’ve always thought setting up a podcast show would be fun. But, you know, I have no proper recording equipment, nor any idea what sort of subject matter such a “show” would feature. So the idea has sat dormant all these years. But yesterday, I learned about NotebookLM, Google’s … | Continue reading
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Richly flavored with Gruyère cheese and smoky bacon, a well-made quiche Lorraine may seem like a daunting task, but perfecting its delicate custard set in a crisp, tender, flaky crust is easier than you’d think. | Continue reading
Netflix has released a cryptic video on the site formerly known as Twitter that, if you’re able to pause fast enough, appears to include the cast for the upcoming seventh season of Black Mirror. The fifteen-second clip is of a 1994 computer filled with pseudo code. Some of what i … | Continue reading
The Tor Project is attempting to assure users that the network is still safe after a recent investigative report warned that law enforcement from Germany and other countries are working together to deanonymize users through timing attacks. [...] | Continue reading
io9 spoke with BioWare staff about the long-awaited Dragon Age: The Veilguard and how it continues the franchise's eclectic legacy. | Continue reading