Once the fires stop burning in Los Angeles and the city picks itself up from the rubble, the chorus of voices asking how such a disaster could have been prevented will rise. In California, the answer to that desperate query is so often “better forestry management practices,” and … | Continue reading
Terra founder Do Kwon is finally extradited, the CFPB proposes crypto consumer protections, and Polymarket reaches new lows. | Continue reading
Enjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts: Comfort Zone Niléane is out, so Chris and Matt are left to fend on their own. Chris steals like an artist and Matt defends a new purchase. Ruminate Some snack reviews from the festive period, Robb was on another podca … | Continue reading
Officials in Los Angeles are trying to figure out why two incorrect wildfire evacuation warnings were blasted to residents in the nation's most populous county. | Continue reading
I’m writing one more article about the results of a survey conducted by JW Surety Bonds. I already wrote about the finding that 1 in 4 Americans won’t touch Tesla products due to Elon Musk, as well as findings related to Tesla robotaxis, and robotaxis more broadly. But there’s an … | Continue reading
I grew up with parents that owned their own struggling small business. Throughout my childhood, we had pretty much zero healthcare until I got to college. I went to the same doctor from birth to high school but only saw him once every 2-3 years when I was super sick | Continue reading
The author on losing his home to wildfire, finding strength in solitude, and his new book Aflame The post Pico Iyer’s Wide-Awake Silence appeared first on Nautilus. | Continue reading
The hardy bean-producing pongamia tree is carving out a niche in the sustainable aviation fuel industry, with the potential for producing human food, and animal feed as well. The post Ancient Pongamia Tree Breathes New Life Into Sustainable Aviation Fuel appeared first on CleanTe … | Continue reading
From a Bloomberg interview, spotted and summarized by Harlan Stewart, presented without further comment: | Continue reading
We're just a few days away from getting a double-dose of heavy-lift rocket action. | Continue reading
Societies that scapegoat foreign powers for domestic problems erode their ability to solve those problems. | Continue reading
Donald Trump’s defenders have little choice but to cast his trolling as a clever geopolitical stratagem. | Continue reading
A cutting-edge analysis of a skull found in Turkey in 1929 proves once and for all that it is not Arsinoë IV, Cleopatra's half sister. | Continue reading
Thoughts on laws, rules, authority, and others... | Continue reading
When Google Messages finally gets its in-development backup tool, the app should include a heads-up about remaining storage space. | Continue reading
How the Los Angeles fires have raised scrutiny in ChatGPT and other AI models' impact on the environment. | Continue reading
Delta Finishes 2024 Flush with Cash Delta Air Lines reported its year-end earnings on Friday, […] | Continue reading
A German case clarified that LGPL source isn't enough—it needs to be usable. | Continue reading
The state is seeing a sharp water divide this year, with lots of rain in the north while the south has stayed dry. A hydrologist explains what’s happening. | Continue reading
The refreshed Tesla Model Y Juniper is now in production in China, looking very much like the original car but updated gracefully. The post Tesla Model Y Juniper Revealed In China appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
His skin, hands, nails, and eyes had turned silvery gray from the exposure. | Continue reading
So, you know you should cut back on salt, but you don't like the bland taste of low-sodium foods. The Electric Salt Spoon may be just what you need, as it's claimed to boost the salty flavor of foods without actually adding any salt. Continue Reading Category: Good Thinking, Life … | Continue reading
Reliable tipsters have revealed fresh information about the upcoming OnePlus Open 2, which is expected to closely mirror the Oppo Find N5. | Continue reading
Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Meta is eliminating its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs because of the “legal and policy landscape surrounding diversity, equity and inclusion efforts” in the US, according to a memo to employees seen by Axios. Meta will al … | Continue reading
The enigmatic producer-songwriter YayRaven is happiest in the studio writing new music. In fact, when life throws curveballs, writing music is what helps to regain the pace and mental peace. | Continue reading
Hard drive that could provide access to 8,000 bitcoins is buried at the dump. | Continue reading
I just wrote about interesting new research finding that 25% of Americans are completely avoiding Tesla products because of Elon Musk. It’s a big deal, whether many Tesla fans want to acknowledge it or not. In theory, that’s 1.5 million sales rather than 2 million. But that’s not … | Continue reading
The supposed project from the Destiny 2 developer reportedly changed hands after it moved over 100 employees to PlayStation Studios last year. | Continue reading
Scientists have warned that the Paris Agreement to limit global warming will likely be breached as data reveals 2024 was the hottest year in human history. | Continue reading
An exceptionally hot outlier, 2024 means the streak of hottest years goes to 11. | Continue reading
Toadman began as a work-for-hire studio, and later became a direct subsidiary of its reformed parent company, Enad Global 7. | Continue reading
Almost no city in the country is destroyed more often than Los Angeles. America’s second-biggest city has been flattened, shaken, invaded, subsumed by lava, and calved off into the sea dozens of times on screen over the years; as the filmmaker and critic Thom Andersen has said, “ … | Continue reading
Just over two years ago, MacStories left Twitter behind. We left when Elon Musk began dismantling the company’s trust and safety infrastructure, allowing hateful speech and harassment on the platform. Meta is now doing the same thing with Threads and Instagram, so we’re leaving t … | Continue reading
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Automattic, the company that runs WordPress.com, is scaling back its contributions to the WordPress open-source project, according to an announcement on Thursday. The company says it’s decreasing contributions to “match” the amount of time compani … | Continue reading
Illustration by Laura Normand / The Verge When Elon Musk launched his own AI startup, xAI, he touted a key advantage over his competitors: access to the vast trove of data from his newly acquired social media platform Twitter. By implementing new API fees on the network he quickl … | Continue reading
Every January 1 in the Books department, we like to make an extra toast for a concurrent holiday: Public Domain Day. | Continue reading
Hailing from Sydney, Australia, Rosie Belvie is a singer-songwriter and performer with a wonderful voice and a knack for writing music in a range of different genres. | Continue reading
Scientists have collected troves of DNA and microscopic imaging data from human cells—and now they have a tool that might make sense of all that information. | Continue reading
Image: Epic Games Fortnite Festival, the game’s Rock Band-like music mode where you play along with real songs, is getting local multiplayer for up to four people on PlayStation and Xbox on January 14th. Currently, you can only play Fortnite Festival multiplayer online, but with … | Continue reading
As AGI talk sparks job loss fears, new WEF report projects AI-driven net job growth by 2030. | Continue reading
The Brutalist’s ambitious gamble with the audience mostly pays off. | Continue reading
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At CES 2025, Mashable tested the LUCI Pin, a new AI-powered camera wearable designed to log life. | Continue reading
If you have been thinking about making the switch to Mint Mobile you may want to do it before some of the best promotions end. | Continue reading
Aligning Automattic’s Sponsored Contributions to WordPress by "Automattic" (let's be honest, it's Matt Mullenweg) Automattic plan to fuck themselves over further (and by proxy, fuck their customers over) by reducing the contributions they're going to make to their own project. Re … | Continue reading
Around this time last year, Segway announced a pair of ebikes geared for adventure. Now the company has revealed full specs and pricing for the low-step Xafari and moto-inspired Xyber, as well as opening the pre-order books. Continue Reading Category: Urban Transport, Transport T … | Continue reading
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Tesla issued a recall for over 200,000 electric vehicles due to an issue with its latest computer hardware that can short circuit and disable some safety features including the rearview camera. Tesla submitted the recall on January 6 … | Continue reading