In a 1937 Chips from the Chisel column, which is also featured in “Honest Labour: The Charles H. Hayward Years,” Hayward wrote, “The influence of mind upon mind is extraordinary.” The idea being there’s often room for improvement. (You can read the entire column here.) Recently, … | Continue reading
Wildlife crossings help decrease the millions of vehicle collisions with large animals that occur every year in the US | Continue reading
Meta is back to its usual tricks again—fudging the facts. Meta’s new Maverick AI model ranked second on LM Arena, a human-rated benchmark system, but there’s a crucial catch: the tested version is an “experimental chat version” optimized specifically for conversationality, distin … | Continue reading
Meta is back to its usual tricks again—fudging the facts. Meta’s new Maverick AI model ranked second on LM Arena, a human-rated benchmark system, but there’s a crucial catch: the tested version is an “experimental chat version” optimized specifically for conversationality, distin … | Continue reading
Meta is back to its usual tricks again—fudging the facts. Meta’s new Maverick AI model ranked second on LM Arena, a human-rated benchmark system, but there’s a crucial catch: the tested version is an “experimental chat version” optimized specifically for conversationality, distin … | Continue reading
TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 2025 ...by billionaire volunteers? Johnny Carson was one of the first to raise one form of the question. He did so at the start of his career: Who Do You Trust? Who Do You Trust? [was] an American television game show. Under the title Do You Trust Your Wife?, th … | Continue reading
The sttp client is an open-source HTTP client for Scala, integrating with every Scala stack, be it synchronous, a.k.a. direct-style, Future-based, or using functional effect systems such as cats-effect, ZIO, Monix, Kyo. The library is available for Scala 2.12, 2.13, and 3 on the … | Continue reading
An ambitious new timber tower in Toronto, Canada, is due to begin construction soon. Thanks to its innovative prefabricated wooden design, the residential building named 230 Royal York is expected to rise in a mere 90 days. Continue Reading Category: Architecture, Lifestyle Tags: … | Continue reading
One of the most original and optimistic thinkers in America helps build out some big through lines on what's possible with AI in the next 25 years. | Continue reading
The vaccine comes at a crucial time in the fight against the disease. Officials issue urgent warning as deadly disease prompts historic vaccine rollout: 'We must work together' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
A focus on the tariff's impact on Apple specifically, and how Apple itself contributed to China's technological development. | Continue reading
The first edition of Rustikon is officially behind us! It burst onto the tech scene as Poland's first-ever Rust conference, with its great vibes, experts and a thriving community, all gathered in one place in the heart of Warsaw. Co-located and inspired by the Scalar Conference w … | Continue reading
Save 46% on the Jackery solar generator 1000 v2 bundled with a 200W solar panel for a limited time. | Continue reading
if switching to Wahoo, get one of these new Gen ELEMNT bike computers rather than the older ones The post Wahoo Bolt 3 and Wahoo Roam 3 appeared first on the5krunner • tri bike run. The full post can be read now at the5krunner • tri bike run. | Continue reading
Colossal Biosciences has done the unthinkable: birthing extinct dire wolves through 20 precision genetic edits. It is not just sci-fi anymore – they’ve turned ancient DNA into living, breathing reality. The dire wolf, largely assumed to be a legendary creature made famous from th … | Continue reading
Billionaire Trump aide Elon Musk "ragequit" an online game after repeatedly dying and enduring the mockery of those gamers paying attention. He called them "retards" and logged off Path of Exile 2. Musk went live on X on Saturday, showing himself playing Path of Exile 2 aboard hi … | Continue reading
Sutty, an observer from Terra, arrives on the planet Aka to find a singular, oppressive capitalist state has taken over the entire population in the years she spent traversing the stars to get there. | Continue reading
Plus, A24's Death Stranding movie finds an intriguing director. | Continue reading
Social signals stop young labyrinth spiders from hunting their siblings even when they are starving. However, the cannibalistic spiderlings quickly feed on the corpses of their brothers and sisters. | Continue reading
[Always Be Checking-if-your-design-is-vulvular] One of my favorite things about minor league baseball is how teams simply do not care about their identities. They’ll start with the most ridiculous name, and then change it to something else preposterous for a single night. In a ri … | Continue reading
The billionaire class stands to lose more than the average American from Trump's dumb trade war. | Continue reading
One of the things people have been warning about for years, long before Elon Musk brought a blowtorch to the Tesla brand, is the fact that Tesla has quite a limited, simple product line. Whereas Chinese EV producers are rolling out new models approximately twice a day (or, well, … | Continue reading
Microsoft is working on a new Windows 11 Start menu design that’s bigger and more customizable than what exists today. Windows watcher phantomofearth discovered the new design in recent builds of Windows 11, where the updated Start menu has a larger layout and finally lets you di … | Continue reading
Japanese engineers have unveiled a concept design of the Corleo, a four-legged robotic horse that could one day carry people across a vast range of terrains. | Continue reading
Scientists have identified a key vulnerability in pancreatic cancer by targeting transcription-replication conflicts—cellular disruptions that cause genetic instability in tumors. Their novel approach uses a drug called AOH1996, which slowed tumor growth in lab models and reduced … | Continue reading
Our reality just keeps getting stupider. | Continue reading
Motorola is refreshing its budget-oriented stylus phone with the 2025 edition of the Moto G Stylus in two bold colors: blue, and for a change of pace, blue. They both come with a “leather-inspired” back panel finish and a stacked spec sheet when you consider its $399 price — thou … | Continue reading
The current wave of AI hype was kicked off by the rollout and subsequent development of ChatGPT. And in the public mind, it is with this kind of application that AI is most strongly associated — the LLM-powered chatbots that we can talk and listen to in natural language. But it i … | Continue reading
In 1934, a destitute radio musician named Paul Myers was wandering the docks of San Diego in a drunken stupor when he heard the sound of a ship’s bell. He felt a call to become a preacher, and within months had turned his life around, reunited with his family, and begun hosting a … | Continue reading
Dear Atlas is Atlas Obscura’s travel advice column, answering the questions you won’t find in traditional guidebooks. Have a question for our experts? Submit it here. * * * Dear Atlas, What advice do you have for a 60ish-year-old single woman who wants to travel but doesn’t have … | Continue reading
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"This could significantly lower the environmental footprint of lithium production." Scientists uncover unexpected use for EV battery parts in major tech breakthrough: 'This could open the door to a new class' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Last week, EFF joined 30 civil society groups and academics in warning UK Home Secretary Yvette Cooper and Department for Science, Innovation & Technology Secretary Peter Kyle about the law enforcement risks contained within the draft Data Use and Access Bill (DUA Bill). Clause 8 … | Continue reading
In most ways, Nintendo’s Switch 2 is exactly what we wanted: a Switch, only better. Nintendo has an occasional tendency to follow its best and most successful consoles with some of its weirdest ideas – Wii U, anyone? — but this time seems to have stayed the course in the b … | Continue reading
Strandings of these jellyfish-like animals, sometimes called "by-the-wind sailors," usually mean spring is coming | Continue reading
Sometime last year, I ran across this cartoon. I'm not really sure its origin or where I even ran across it, but I immediately related to it. I shared it with a couple of friends and like anything else neat I find online, I waited for it to fade into a distant memory. But it didn … | Continue reading
Save 41% on this 24,000mAh three-port charger that can fire up a MacBook despite being the size of a soda can and just 1.5 pounds. | Continue reading
The northern bald ibis was extinct in Europe. Now it’s back, and people are helping it to migrate for winter The post Soaring high with a flock of birds and their human ‘foster parents’ appeared first on Positive News. | Continue reading
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In today’s snapshot, we provide a setting to adjust the number of items in URL dropdown and continu chipping away at improved ad blocker rule capatiblity. | Continue reading
After I built my little counter last year, it got a flurry of attention. It got pretty large and was killed off a bunch as well. But after a while the attention fell off and I was really the only one tending to it, growing it. And something so big and bold needed more activity. | Continue reading
"If you're going to feed them, you're inviting other animals to come and eat there also." City residents warned to stay vigilant after unusually frequent encounters with urban predators: 'Don't let them hang around' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
A report from UK-based climate and energy think tank Ember notes that clean energy sources accounted for 40.9% percent of electricity produced around the world in 2024. Continue Reading Category: Energy, Technology Tags: Clean Energy, Solar Power, Wind Power, Electricity | Continue reading
Framework, makes of modular and repairable high-end laptops, has stopped selling some models due to new tariffs on imports. "Due to the new tariffs that came into effect on April 5th, we're temporarily pausing U.S. sales on a few base Framework Laptop 13 systems (Ultra 5 125H and … | Continue reading
What companies need to know about PFAS—and how to reduce risks to employees and customers. | Continue reading
The unsung hero of the tablet world is just a buck above its all-time lowest price while this 30% off Amazon deal is still running. | Continue reading
What to do after you’ve identified where gaps exist. | Continue reading
Meta is broadening Instagram restrictions that prevent minors from being exposed to inappropriate contact and content, bringing those protections to Facebook and Messenger and adding new limits for teenage Instagram users. After introducing “Teen Accounts” to Instagram in Septemb … | Continue reading