If you're thinking about grad school, you might spend some of your holiday time sparkling up that portfolio as the application deadline is soon approaching for SVA's MFA in Products of Design program in NYC.Natya.AI is an app designed specifically for Bharatanatyam dancers, offer … | Continue reading
Back for a fourth year, I’ve compiled the top 10 posts published this year (see last year’s if you’re interested, 2022’s and 2021’s edition). I’ve actually published much less this year (202 vs. 226) but life happens! Anyway, here’s the top 10: The post The top 10 posts of 2024 a … | Continue reading
If we hope to see a climate-hardy world in the years to come, we must recast the way we design our urban environments — they must become ecologically sound and robust sustainable spaces. Possible pathways to achieve such goals are winding and tenuous, sure, and an array of novel … | Continue reading
Monsters—especially those familiar creatures we just can't get away from—are in a boom time right now. | Continue reading
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-Base No model card or announcement yet, but this new model release from Chinese AI lab DeepSeek (an arm of Chinese hedge fund High-Flyer) looks very significant. It's a huge model - 685B parameters, 687.9 GB on disk (TIL how to size a git-lfs repo). The ar … | Continue reading
"World-class ... vehicles that far exceed consumer expectations." Hyundai and Kia just had a record-setting month for EV sales — here's why Americans are buying them up first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
[Just in case you need something to argue about today.] Did you know that the NOAA has an official definition for a “white Christmas”, and that it’s incredibly nitpicky? A white Christmas is officially defined as having at least 1 inch of snow on the ground at 7 am local time Chr … | Continue reading
Michael Timothy Bennett & Elija Perrier in The Conversation: On December 20, OpenAI’s o3 system scored 85% on the ARC-AGI benchmark, well above the previous AI best score of 55% and on par with the average human score. It also scored well on a very difficult mathematics test. Cre … | Continue reading
Our likelihood of investing in smart home tech with Apple’s entry, our technology goals for 2025, our end/start of year tech rituals, and predictions for how technology will improve the world in 2025.… | Continue reading
JayByrd Films did an amazing drone tour of The White House on Christmas Eve, documenting all the wonderful holiday decorations. | Continue reading
An excavation of three Viking graves in Norway reveals beads, coin jewelry and a stone carved to look like female genitalia. | Continue reading
"It will take all of us working together to safeguard our communities." Researchers make concerning discovery about factor impacting drought recovery time: 'It has weighted the dice' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
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2024 will be remember, I think, as one of the best years ever for progressive Jewish American Democrats. Last month’s election could have been improved, of course, but the pain of that loss is more than made up for the fact that Hanukkah and Kwanzaa are almost perfectly aligned t … | Continue reading
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Today we are making a popsicle stick menorah craft. Kids of all ages will love making this menorah craft for… The post Popsicle Stick Menorah Craft For Kids appeared first on Kids Activities Blog. | Continue reading
"Such a great way to reduce waste." Woman shares ingenious leftovers hack you have to try this holiday season: 'What a great idea' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Once a startup has raised its seed round, the perennial question becomes how much should the founders pay themselves and their first few employees? Kruze Consulting, a CPA firm that specializes in venture-backed startups, recently analyzed average salary ranges for over 450 seed- … | Continue reading
While poking around for Christmas music, I found this little-known recording of Louis Armstrong reading ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas, recorded shortly before he died. The poem, first published in 1823, would be Armstrong’s final commercial recording. Armstrong taped it on Feb … | Continue reading
David Krane is in an enviable position. As the CEO of GV, the venture firm that is funded entirely by Google to the tune of $1 billion a year, his team of roughly 100 gets to make a lot of bets — with just a couple of notable restrictions. During a TechCrunch StrictlyVC event in … | Continue reading
Facebook memories reminding me of the wine story, past, St. Francis and the other wineries I’ve seen and […] | Continue reading
Single individuals make less of a difference to the success or failure of a technology project than you might think (and that’s a good thing). | Continue reading
After years of rising obesity rates in the US, the numbers dipped slightly during 2023, though experts disagree about the exact cause | Continue reading
David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan, and Nicholas Hoult star in the upcoming DC film, out July 11. | Continue reading
Here are our biggest archeology stories of 2024. | Continue reading
Every January, French families gather to eat galette des rois—kings' cake—a crisp, flaky pastry filled with fragrant almond cream. | Continue reading
"You could do it with … any herb of your choosing." Woman shares simple hack to reuse old pasta sauce jars: 'It's just so convenient' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Nurse left around 08:00. Me with a cup of coffee, Henry playing with one of his toys behind […] | Continue reading
Chelsea Follett at Human Progress: The writer P. J. O’Rourke famously quipped, “When you think of the good old days, think one word: dentistry.” So let us take his advice. James Wynbrandt’s The Excruciating History of Dentistry: Toothsome Tales & Oral Oddities from Babylon to Bra … | Continue reading
Ok, we all know the Big Guy was born on Christmas Day. Actually, Jesus was likely born in the spring based on the dates for the Roman census, astronomical records and the time for lambs to be born in the field in Palestine. The celebration of his birth close to the winter solstic … | Continue reading
John C. Worsley remixed "Next Generation", "Deep Space Nine", and "Voyager" characters to sing "Deck the Halls" from the Holodeck. | Continue reading
I am ready to start programming ChatGPT, the same way I have built my own code writing and deploying software on Macintosh. I want to create rules in some kind of macro language that it will never violate. I find it has huge problems with memory, it says it's remembering somethin … | Continue reading
ChatGPT Search risks manipulation by hidden content through prompt injection, but experts think OpenAI can address it. | Continue reading
It was Jewish Americans like Irving Berlin who drew on Yiddish and the rhythms and chords of traditional cantorial music to create our most beloved Christmas tunes. | Continue reading
Life expectancy prediction using data collected over four decades reveals southern right whales' exceptionally long lives — far longer than scientists previously thought. | Continue reading
This comes despite numerous executive orders from the president. Scientists sound the alarm over detrimental trend wreaking havoc on public lands: 'It tends to make the fires burn faster' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
AMD has its work cut out for it at CES 2025. Competitor Nvidia has been sucking the oxygen out of every room it graces, as the chipmaker remains at the forefront of the AI boom. So, how will AMD compete with Nvidia’s reported RTX 5000 announcement? The company should show of its … | Continue reading
Windows 11 is far from perfect, but it does make Task Manager significantly better. In this article, we're going to take a closer look at some of our favourite Task Manager features. [...] | Continue reading
Glympse Glympse Glympse is a helpful iOS app that allows you to temporarily, safely and securely share your location with anyone who can receive text messages, regardless of platform. The message contains a URL to a map with an icon representing the locale of the sender. Although … | Continue reading
Hindsight is how we connect the dots that figure our lives. To look back on even a single year is to see clearly the contour of who we are in its points of attention and priority. “How we spend our days,” Annie Dillard wrote, “is how we spend our lives.” How we spend our minds is … | Continue reading
In 1979 John Denver performed "The 12 Days of Christmas" with The Muppets as part of "John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together". | Continue reading
The rights we have in the offline world–to speak freely, create culture, play games, build new things and do business–must be available to us online, as well. This core belief drives EFF’s work to fight the misuse of the patent system. Despite significant progress we’ve made over … | Continue reading
For a while, ever since they lost in court, a number of industry giants have pushed a bill that purported to be about increasing access to the law. In fact, it would give them enormous power over the public ability to access, share, teach, and comment on the law. This sounds craz … | Continue reading
From a historic ban on police using face recognition, to landmark CCOPS legislation, to the first ban in the United States of police deploying deadly force via robot, for several years San Francisco has been leading the way on necessary reforms over how police use technology. Unf … | Continue reading
Twenty-eight years ago as of December 20, the human race lost one of its finest. Carl Sagan passed away. As an astrophysicist, science communicator, husband, and father, Carl Sagan spent much of his adult life inspiring others. Not by spouting flowery falsehoods, but by conveying … | Continue reading
Turns out, pirates might be bad, maybe? The post Star Wars: Skeleton Crew Finds Its Feet in “You Have a Lot to Learn About Pirates” appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
For many people, the holidays mean crunchy, golden, deep-fried-delicious foods. Hanukkah is the festival of lights, but real ones know its really just as much about celebrating the oil that kept the lamps lit. That’s why we make latkes and sufganiyot (jelly donuts) every year. Bu … | Continue reading