"I am slowly coming around to this way of thinking." Gardener issues warning against common landscaping product marketed as natural: 'Natural doesn't mean safe' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Pine64 has confirmed that its open-source e-ink tablet is returning. The PineNote was announced in 2021, building on the success of its non-SBC devices like the PinePhone (and later Pro model), the PineTab, and PineBook devices. Like most of Pine64’s devices, software support is … | Continue reading
Research still needs to be done about the effects of these particles on our bodies, but the evidence gathered so far is discouraging. Scientists sound the alarm over unsettling health risk from foods we eat: 'Very concerning' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
10-2-24 16:03, :04…. In VV a little early. Another hot day. Unplanned lunch with other AE’s at Redwood […] | Continue reading
VPNs are continually making headlines due to the many advantages they offer. Today, we present NordVPN's exclusive promotional offer. Don’t miss it—this won't last long. | Continue reading
Research indicates that methane emissions from slurry stores on dairy farms could be significantly higher than current estimates, suggesting up to a fivefold discrepancy. The potential for converting these emissions into biogas could generate substantial economic benefits for the … | Continue reading
All this morning at Pegg Kite's with my uncle Fenner, and two friends of his, appraising her goods that her mother has left; but the slut is like to prove so troublesome that I am out of heart with troubling myself in her business. After we had done... | Continue reading
Toyota Camry I’m a regular guy like you. I drive cars, sometimes several at once, and say “zoom zoom” and “brrrrrbrrrbrrrrbbbbbbrrrrr” when I drive fast. Just like you do. I know cars—in fact, I’m married to a car, but please don’t check. So, when I look at a Toyota Camry, I see … | Continue reading
"The magnitude of the impact will vary." Scientists highlight growing trend affecting rainfall in major cities: 'This is everywhere' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Image: The Verge Charter’s Spectrum TV Select cable plan will include a free ad-supported Peacock Premium subscription next year, reports Reuters. The addition comes as Charter announced today that it has reached a new “multi-year deal” with NBCUniversal, which owns Peacock, to k … | Continue reading
Tesla has released its 3rd quarter production and delivery (aka sales) numbers. On the back of two straight quarters of dropping sales (year over year), there was much anticipation to see how much Tesla could bounce back and see sales growth in the third quarter. The result: Tesl … | Continue reading
I had a fun time live blogging OpenAI DevDay yesterday - I’ve now shared notes about the live blogging system I threw other in a hurry on the day (with assistance from Claude and GPT-4o). Now that the smoke has settled a little, here are my impressions from the event. Compared to … | Continue reading
The New York Review of Books recently spammed me with an email that led off with this: I have mixed feelings about those "collective nouns" for different kinds of animals. A flock of birds, a herd of cows, a pack of wolves — fine. A flock of wolves, a herd of birds, a pack of […] | Continue reading
Subscribers tolerated the current ad load, so Amazon is adding more commercials. | Continue reading
Like many of you, I was quick to install Let’s Encrypt once it was available. It reduced the barrier to entry significantly for HTTPS by rendering the experience of buying, installing, and renewing certificates affordable and easy. I let other commercial certs lapse because Certb … | Continue reading
Ah! Well. Nevertheless The post Streamer Who Lives In Fear Of Saying N-Word Because It Could End His Career Has Actually Said N-Word Multiple Times, Still Has A Career appeared first on Aftermath. | Continue reading
A year ago, I was having fun with the Odyssey of the Hydrogen Fleet, a tragicomedy in six parts. One of the many enactments of this tragicomedy had left Act 5, where the hydrogen fleet is permanently parked. The provincial government of Quebec quietly returned roughly 50 fuel cel … | Continue reading
In what might be described as a real-life Black Mirror episode, a Harvard student uses facial recognition with $379 Meta Ray-Ban 2 smart sunglasses - to dig up personal data on every face it sees in real time. Continue Reading Category: Technology Tags: LLM (Large Language Model) … | Continue reading
In the modern premium coffee-obsessed world, the Aeropress has proven itself a much-loved tool for superior coffee-making. It's never been the best-looking piece of kit, though. That changes with the Aeropress Premium, a more upscale press made from all glass and metal and comple … | Continue reading
A miniaturized 24 GHz transmitter is at the heart of a new wireless energy transfer system for energy-saving electrochromatic window technology. The post Miniature Wireless Energy Transfer Device Will Make Electrochromatic Windows Happen appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
Marvel's new Battle of Jakku miniseries has kicked off with an intriguing look at Leia's interiority after the events of Episode 6. | Continue reading
"The benefits of overwintering pepper plants will help the plants regrow more quickly, healthy, larger yields." Urban gardener shares surprisingly simple hack to save money on next year's plants: 'I'm so glad I just saw this' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
New research shows that Antarctic krill store as much carbon as key coastal habitats like mangroves and seagrasses, highlighting their role in carbon storage. However, global warming and overfishing threaten krill populations, and researchers urge for their protection similar to … | Continue reading
The iPad-like Echo Show 8 is now available at a 43% discount on Amazon ahead of Prime Day. | Continue reading
OpenAI is now valued at $157 billion, a close read of OpenAI's statement might provide some hints about the future. | Continue reading
When successful, attacks install a backdoor. Getting it to work reliably is another matter. | Continue reading
October is transport month in South Africa. One of the highlights of the month is the Smarter Mobility Africa Summit currently being held in Midrand, near Johannesburg. The Smarter Mobility Africa Summit is an annual gathering that inspires and connects visionary mobility solutio … | Continue reading
Some Communities Have Not Been Heard from. | Continue reading
The Supreme Court will hear oral argument next week in a challenge to a 2022 federal rule that seeks to regulate “ghost guns” – firearms without serial numbers that, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives says, almost anyone can quickly assemble with parts... Th … | Continue reading
Hurricane Helene is, by conventional measures, the deadliest hurricane to strike the continental United States since Katrina. At least 182 people have been confirmed killed by the storm, with hundreds of people still unaccounted for. Although all hurricanes are deadly, only a han … | Continue reading
solarpunkfuturenow reblogged anarcho-communism-revolution no-borders-no-nations Follow Close notes | Continue reading
Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Welcome to the streaming era of the wrestling wars. WWE’s flagship weekly show, Raw, is ditching cable and headed for Netflix in January. And today, Warner Bros. Discovery and All Elite Wrestling announced a multiyear rights extension that will br … | Continue reading
Why did the former Alameda Research CEO receive only two years imprisonment for her role in the FTX collapse? | Continue reading
We’re thrilled to announce that EFF’s “How to Fix the Internet” podcast is a finalist in the Signal Awards 3rd Annual Listener's Choice competition. Now we need your vote to put us over the top! signal-badge_finalist_voteforus.png We’re barraged by dystopian stories about technol … | Continue reading
Like yesterday, I’m seeing brick; this time, however, it’s more of a distance away. Tonight’s event is at 7 at the Unity Temple on the Plaza, hosted by Rainy Day Books (all the details are here). If you’re in Kansas City I hope I’ll see you there. Tomorrow: Boulder! I’ll be at th … | Continue reading
The organization behind Project 2025 is trying to identify government employees to be purged. | Continue reading
MIT’s innovation and entrepreneurship system helps launch water, food, and ag startups with social and economic benefits. | Continue reading
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Image: Nintendo The Nintendo Museum opened today in the company’s hometown of Kyoto, and it is already limiting some gift shop items to one per person in an attempt to discourage visitors from flipping exclusive merch online. The two-story museum highlights the company’s history … | Continue reading
This Halifax Examiner article, by Philip Moscovitch, which features a number of quotes by Matt Pearce, a Los Angeles Times journalist, recorded on a recent episode of the Tech Won’t Save Us podcast, has been doing the rounds. The upshot being hyperlinks, links from one webpage to … | Continue reading
io9 sat down with Absolute Batman team Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta to discuss reshaping Batman—literally and metaphorically—for a new age. | Continue reading
"This is getting beyond ridiculous." Footage catches selfie-stick-wielding tourist getting dangerously close to wildlife: 'Leave the animals alone' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Earlier this week, ProPublica published an investigation revealing that the Heritage Foundation, home of Project 2025, has been flooding the federal government with Freedom of Information Act requests targeted at federal employees, meant to discover which have used words includin … | Continue reading
The random number generator picked Shetland from the suggestions for this post, suggested by Amanda McCartney, one of my Patreon | Continue reading
The word I drew from the words suggested on Patreon for this post is Shetland, suggested by Amanda McCartney, a | Continue reading
Aissa Dearing discussed the ways Afrofuturism can open doors to new worlds and ways of thinking in these difficult environmental and sociopolitical times: Afrofuturist thinking and practice explore futures where white supremacy holds no power, fashioning worlds based on the possi … | Continue reading