“Quartz is now a zombie brand”

Last week, G/O Media sold Quartz to a Canadian software company called Redbrick, firing the entire editorial staff along the way. It was the final death knell for Quartz, which had been cofounded by Zach Seward — now the editorial director of AI initiatives at The New York Times … | Continue reading


@niemanlab.org | 34 minutes ago

Fake Maple Syrup Could Flood the U.S. Thanks to Tariffs

U.S. tariff threats could fuel maple syrup fraud, but AI could help navigate this sticky situation. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 35 minutes ago

Babies

It is not a new or startling observation that the current regime in the USA is better characterised as a royal court than a modern state. More could be said, however, about the importance in such courts of competition for status, often taking bizarre forms – the 15th- and 16th-ce … | Continue reading


@thesphinxblog.com | 36 minutes ago

Most Americans don’t trust AI — or the people in charge of it

AI experts are feeling pretty good about the future of their field. Most Americans are not. A new report from Pew Research Center released last week shows a sharp divide in how artificial intelligence is perceived by the people building it versus the people living with it. The su … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 39 minutes ago

The Only Black Mirror Episode to Get a Sequel Is Still One of Its All-Time Best

A look back at 2017's 'USS Callister' ahead of next week's release of 'USS Callister: Into Infinity.' | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 40 minutes ago

Fug Nation Loves The Sephora Sale!

SPEND YOUR FEELINGS. The post Fug Nation Loves The Sephora Sale! first appeared on Go Fug Yourself. | Continue reading


@gofugyourself.com | 40 minutes ago

Beyond the Torment Nexus: How Does Science Fiction Help Us Prepare for the Future?

Let's talk about preparing, not predicting — and grappling with uncertainty. The post Beyond the Torment Nexus: How Does Science Fiction Help Us Prepare for the Future? appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading


@reactormag.com | 40 minutes ago

Billions of dollars in funding for critical US projects at stake in new legal battle: 'Not because we want to, but because we have to'

"We’re going to court for the communities we serve." Billions of dollars in funding for critical US projects at stake in new legal battle: 'Not because we want to, but because we have to' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 40 minutes ago

Rare colorful lightning caught on camera by ISS astronaut. 'OK, this is kind of out there'

NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured breathtaking video of a rare atmospheric phenomenon from his perch high above Earth on the International Space Station. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 40 minutes ago

Nintendo is delaying Switch 2 preorders in Canada, too

Nintendo has delayed Switch 2 preorders in Canada, which were set to start on April 9th, according to a statement shared with MobileSyrup. Last week, the company delayed preorders in the US because of the potential impact of the Trump administration’s new tariffs. “Pre-orders for … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 41 minutes ago

AI Is Evolving — And Changing Our Understanding Of Intelligence

The post AI Is Evolving — And Changing Our Understanding Of Intelligence appeared first on NOEMA. | Continue reading


@noemamag.com | 48 minutes ago

Debating Sex And Gender

Cordelia Fine and Carole Hooven at Aeon Magazine: A unique aspect of human developmental systems are our rich, cumulative cultures, which we inherit along with our genes. Thousands of years of gendered cultures, together with our evolved and unparalleled capacity for social learn … | Continue reading


@3quarksdaily.com | 49 minutes ago

Amateur astronomer discovers bright green comet SWAN25F — and you can see it too

Comet SWAN25F was discovered using photos from the European Space Agency's SOHO spacecraft and can currently be spied using backyard equipment — but it could also become visible to the naked eye in the next few weeks. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 49 minutes ago

South Korea using abandoned coal mines to prepare for life on the Moon

In South Korea's Taebaek, Gangwon Province, robots are descending into abandoned coal mines to help the country prepare for lunar missions. The Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM) sent autonomous rovers into the former Hamtae mine to test technology for us … | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 51 minutes ago

Which types of people aren’t big fans of “impartial” news? People who don’t have power

Who actually wants impartial news? Your first thought might be: everybody! After all, if news is meant to be a reflection of reality, wouldn’t you want the least biased version of that reality — the one that matches up most with the world around you? Even an outlet as partisan as … | Continue reading


@niemanlab.org | 53 minutes ago

Ideology May Not Be What You Think but How You’re Wired

Matt Richtel in the New York Times: So sharp are partisan divisions these days that it can seem as if people are experiencing entirely different realities. Maybe they actually are, according to Leor Zmigrod, a neuroscientist and political psychologist at Cambridge University. In … | Continue reading


@3quarksdaily.com | 54 minutes ago

Viral video reveals the surprising secret behind the world's fastest trains — here's what one observer noticed

The Instagram clip shows the powerful wind force generated by a bullet train passing through a tunnel. Viral video reveals the surprising secret behind the world's fastest trains — here's what one observer noticed first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 55 minutes ago

Orthodox

Visit the post for more. | Continue reading


@madorphanlit.wpcomstaging.com | 59 minutes ago

Corvette C9 Prototype Hints At Electric Future

A new concept design for the next generation Corvette has been revealed, and General Motors hints it may have a battery! The post Corvette C9 Prototype Hints At Electric Future appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 1 hour ago

Ring Just Out-Discounted Black Friday, Its Latest Battery Doorbell Is Now Even Cheaper

Take control of your home security with a video doorbell that can help you screen everyone who comes to your porch. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 1 hour ago

I Have So Many Questions

OK, what is going on here? Isn’t everyone aging all the time? Are the services getting older or am I? Ans, what’s up with the decrepit building? #Confused | Continue reading


@amerpie.lol | 1 hour ago

The Series ‘Ask a Ninja’ Returns to Answer Viewer Questions After 14 Years of Stealth Mode

Ninja from the classic series "Ask A Ninja" has emerged from stealth after 14 years to answer viewers questions in his chaotic beast mode. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 1 hour ago

Elon Musk dies to tutorial boss in Path of Exile 2 livestream

Elon Musk, seemingly keen to repair some of his gamer cred after he admitted to account boosting, streamed himself playing Path of Exile 2 during a flight as a part of an “airborne continuity test” of his Starlink internet service. But during the stream, he was bombarded by messa … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 1 hour ago

Researchers push for mind-boggling 'Internet of Animals' to reveal nature's greatest secrets: 'Who better to ask than the animals themselves?'

"It provides a new type of data." Researchers push for mind-boggling 'Internet of Animals' to reveal nature's greatest secrets: 'Who better to ask than the animals themselves?' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 1 hour ago

Seth Godin on his 10,000th blog post: I’d write this blog even if no one read it, but that the fact that you do, that you subscribe to it and share it, that’s my fuel. | Continue reading


@manton.org | 1 hour ago

NASA rover watches 'fiendish' Martian 'dust devils' collide in rare case of extraterrestrial cannibalism

Video footage captured by NASA's Perseverance rover shows a small "dust devil" merging with a much larger twister on the surface of Mars. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 1 hour ago

The Crown Estate Lays Big Plans For The UK Floating Offshore Wind Industry

In the upside down world of US energy policy, the nation’s vast potential for offshore wind energy has been sidelined by a swipe of President Trump’s pen, costing thousands of supply chain jobs all over the country. Woe is us. Elsewhere around the world, though, the offshore wind … | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 1 hour ago

Have Dire Wolves, Which Went Extinct More Than 10,000 Years Ago, Really Been Brought Back to Life?

Pioneers in the science of "de-extinction," an American company has announced the births of three pups whose genes resemble those of a species that hasn't roamed Earth for millennia | Continue reading


@smithsonianmag.com | 1 hour ago

6,500-year-old hunting weapons found in Texas cave are among the oldest known in North America

The weapons from a toolkit unearthed in Texas may be the earliest ever found in North America. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 1 hour ago

Trump’s tariffs are testing Nvidia’s chip supremacy. Can Jensen Huang weather the storm?

Stephen Witt, author of a new book on Nvidia and its CEO Jensen Huang, on how the leading AI chip designer is navigating geopolitical tensions around its products. | Continue reading


@restofworld.org | 1 hour ago

Might Makes The Best Right

Does “might make right”? | Continue reading


@overcomingbias.com | 1 hour ago

No, President Trump, the Income Tax Wasn’t A Mistake. But It Was an Accident.

by Jesse Eisinger ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. In his Ros … | Continue reading


@propublica.org | 1 hour ago

Microblog 08 Apr 2025 16:13

Just testing the layout for my social notes. nothing to see here. The post appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading


@thejaymo.net | 1 hour ago

Sam’s Club Yearly Membership Drops to Record Low $25, Costco Can’t Compete

Sam's Club needs its own "Guy." Sign up for auto-renew to bring your yearly membership price down 50%. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 1 hour ago

#8 Miriam Suzanne (OddBird) – For a Better Web

Bruce chats with Miriam Suzanne, a CSS expert and independent contributor to the CSS Working Group, to talk about all things CSS. They geek out over the latest and greatest features like Cascade Layers, @Scope, Mixins, and Container Queries, exploring how these features impact we … | Continue reading


@vivaldi.com | 1 hour ago

Lancaster University Unveils Net Zero Energy Center

In a bid to be one of the lowest carbon schools in the UK, Lancaster University has started construction of a new Net Zero Energy Center. The post Lancaster University Unveils Net Zero Energy Center appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 1 hour ago

Obama would clobber Trump in 3rd-term presidential run, says new poll

As dictator "on day one," Donald Trump has repeatedly floated the idea of running for a third term. Unconstitutional? Yes, but this is Trump we're talking about. But what's good for the goon is good for the gander, as it were, so if Trump runs for a third term, why not welcome an … | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 1 hour ago

Unsettling photo from The Shining tracked down in Getty's archives

Stanley Kubrick's film of The Shining concluded with a famously disturbing photo showing Jack Torrance (as performed by Jack Nicholson) at a 1921 party in the haunted Overlook Hotel. Alasdair Spark, a retired academic who specialized in conspiracy culture, tracked down the origin … | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 1 hour ago

The kidnapping of WonderFi’s CEO cost the company $3.6 million

The post The kidnapping of WonderFi’s CEO cost the company $3.6 million appeared first on The Logic. | Continue reading


@thelogic.co | 1 hour ago

Deadline’s Latest Batch of Emmy Contenders Includes Jodie Turner-Smith

And many more. The post Deadline’s Latest Batch of Emmy Contenders Includes Jodie Turner-Smith first appeared on Go Fug Yourself. | Continue reading


@gofugyourself.com | 1 hour ago

“Where there is a woman there is magic.”

“Where there is a woman there is magic.”Ntozake Shange. | Continue reading


@theimpossiblecool.com | 1 hour ago

The Great Dinosaur Deception: Fossil Gaps Rewrite Extinction History

Dinosaurs may not have been declining before the asteroid impact after all – new research shows that the apparent drop in species diversity could be due to gaps in the fossil record, not actual extinction trends. Using advanced modeling techniques and deep analysis of North Ameri … | Continue reading


@scitechdaily.com | 1 hour ago

My Easy Trick for Turning Glazed Carrots Into Something Magical

It’s sweet and spicy. READ MORE... | Continue reading


@thekitchn.com | 1 hour ago

Reading The Wheel of Time: Dragons Eggs and Eelfinn’s Eyes in Knife of Dreams (Part 9)

In which we learn more about dragons and dragon's eggs, Tuon and Mat's relationship, and Noal's past… The post Reading The Wheel of Time: Dragons Eggs and Eelfinn’s Eyes in Knife of Dreams (Part 9) appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading


@reactormag.com | 1 hour ago

Home cook shares clever trick to save money on Pyrex dishware: 'This is really smart'

"Good to know that's possible!" Home cook shares clever trick to save money on Pyrex dishware: 'This is really smart' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 1 hour ago

Tech neck stands no chance once you add this foldable laptop hub and stand to your desk

TL;DR: Relieve neck pain from staring down at your screen with the CASA HUB foldable stand, now $99.99 (reg. $129) while supplies last. Do you feel like you're 90 years old every time you leave your desk? Staring down at a screen from 9-5 is tough on your eyes … and even tougher … | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 1 hour ago

Kam Wah Cafe in Hong Kong

When visiting Hong Kong, it’s likely you’ll have wonton noodles, roast goose or siu mai on your eating checklist. But you may also want to consider instant noodles topped with beef satay, macaroni soup garnished with a slice of ham, French toast, or a cup of tea served with evapo … | Continue reading


@atlasobscura.com | 1 hour ago

New Research Reveals How AI “Thinks” (It Doesn’t)

Science News, Physics, Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science | Continue reading


@backreaction.blogspot.com | 1 hour ago