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
Android is adding more accessibility and customization options for physical keyboards and mice. | 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
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
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
"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
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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If you’re an hourly worker, the number of go-to options you have for finding new jobs is shrinking a little. JobGet — a Boston startup that operates an hourly job-hunting site with social features built in, a la LinkedIn — is acquiring Snagajob, one of its rivals in the U.S. mark … | Continue reading
zin4enko/Shutterstock In England, rising concerns around escalating costs of living during last winter prompted the development of local initiatives aimed at creating “warm spaces”. The idea was to provide a warm environment, often with the addition of a hot drink, internet acces … | Continue reading
You can trade in any smartwatch model in any condition for a $100 discount, bringing the Galaxy Ring price down to $300. | 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
An annual photography competition, celebrating scientific microscopic images, has unveiled this year’s winners. A startling cross-section shot of a flower has been awarded the fifth annual Evident Image of the Year Award, leading a mesmerizing gallery of miniature marvels. Contin … | Continue reading
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! A deputy with Coweta County Sheriff's Office in Georgia rammed a driver off the road after he refused to pull over and led depities on a three-county chace, then set a dog on him. — Read the rest The post Atlanta man die … | Continue reading
Inspired by Sylvia and mgx, I decided to create a Bear Micro Blog, or status log, or shorts page – whatever you want to call it. It's quite a simple solution, using tags and the Bear class_name snippet. Having it all in the post template also makes it pretty easy to publish posts … | Continue reading
The Reading List is supported by Vivaldi browser, who give me a reasonable salary yet don’t beat me around the head when I read interesting stuff when I should be bolting the networking stack onto browser engines. We recently released a brand new Vivaldi for desktops and mobile w … | Continue reading
I’m old enough to remember when gelatin salad wasn’t just something you brought up on TikTok for a laugh but an actual staple on the dinner table. It was the Swiss Army knife of 60s and 70s cuisine — equal parts food, centerpiece, and science experiment. I mean, who looked at a w … | Continue reading
Challenges abound. fizkes Smart homes have become increasingly popular in recent years. Where once they simply referred to automated systems for things like lighting and heating, nowadays the definition has expanded to include voice assistants and a wide variety of sensors and re … | Continue reading
The Faces/Shutterstock Cases of mouth cancer have reached a record high in England and Scotland, a new report shows. Last year, there were more than 10,000 new cases. Mouth cancer has increased by 38% in the past decade and by 133% compared with 20 years ago. Last year, more than … | Continue reading
A virologist named Beata Halassy recently made headlines after publishing a report of successfully treating her own breast cancer by self-administering an experimental treatment. Having previously undergone a mastectomy and chemotherapy, Halassy informed her doctors that she want … | Continue reading
An Islamic scholar in Gaza has issued a legal ruling – or fatwa – denouncing the October 7 2023 attack on Israel by Hamas. Salman al-Dayah’s fatwa condemned Hamas’s actions for violating Islamic principles governing jihad, because they resulted in harm to Israeli and Gazan civili … | Continue reading
Today's Drop covers a CLI tool to work with Bluesky Starter Packs to enhance user onboarding by personalizing curated account lists; Libravatar, a federated alternative to Gravatar, which ensures consistent avatars across platforms; and shpool which offers lightweight shell sessi … | Continue reading
NFTs became a punchline. But some people are taking another look. | Continue reading
Amazon’s latest Fire TV Stick 4K Max is a snappy streaming stick with impressive Alexa integration. | Image: Amazon If you missed out on Amazon’s fall Prime Day event, the retailer’s early Black Friday sale is offering everybody another chance to score steep discounts on Amazon d … | Continue reading
Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge Bluesky hit 15 million users this week. And then 16 million. The vibes on Bluesky are immaculate, and it seems to have a real and renewed chance to be the place that replaces Twitter for a lot of people. But then there’s Threads, which grew by appro … | Continue reading
The G20 Leaders’ Summit takes place on November 18 and 19, in Rio de Janeiro, with the presence of leaders of the member countries, plus the African Union and the European Union. The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, will not attend. Putin faces arrest if he travels abroad on a … | Continue reading
Breast cancer patients have been given fresh hope after a new vaccine showed “promise” in treating an aggressive form of the disease. The results came in a clinical trial involving American patients with triple-negative breast cancer who received an experimental drug designed to … | Continue reading
Wake up and smell the ashes, Ms. Washenko. | Continue reading