iReader has introduced a significant update for its e-reader and e-note devices. The update, which brings the operating system to version SmartOS 2.4, boosts the device performance while introducing new features and other enhancements. For instance, the new Fast Refresh Mode ensu … | Continue reading
It’s been a long day of driving around Ireland, scrambling through forests, navigating to a hashpoint, exploring a medieval castle, dodging the rain, finding a series of geocaches, getting lost up a hill in the dark, and generally having a kickass time with one of my very favouri … | Continue reading
They are seeking "potentially millions of dollars in damages" to cover medical costs and loss of property value. Poultry giant Perdue faces class-action lawsuit after facility's neighbors make toxic discovery: 'This is very much an emerging issue' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
I updated my /now page - What I’m reading and watching, plus links to this week’s blog posts, the week’s best purchase, and the links I added to my personal bookmarks. | Continue reading
Tim Cook and then-President Donald Trump, speaking to the Press in Austin, Texas in 2019. | Photo: Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty Images Apple CEO Tim Cook managed to forge a personal relationship with Donald Trump during his first Presidential term that other tech firms struggled t … | Continue reading
Sam Wilson may be just a guy, but Brave New World will show why he's the right guy to pick up Steve's mantle. | Continue reading
💻My work laptop was super slow and crashing a lot, especially after the company installed a zero-trust service called Zscaler on all computers. After complaining with IT, they said I was due for a laptop update anyway, because my current one was 3 years old. They issued m … | Continue reading
The Steadfast diagnostic kit, developed by DxD Hub, NIES, and A*STAR BII, rapidly detects and distinguishes H5N1 AIV strains, improving outbreak response and global pandemic readiness. The Diagnostics Development Hub (DxD Hub), a national platform hosted by the Agency for Science … | Continue reading
Paul Kafasis concluded a post about the recent elections in the US with this, but I think it broadly applies: Even as cruelty is ascendent, we must not be done with kindness. Let us also not be done with joy. Instead, we should locate humor wherever we can and revel in it. The da … | Continue reading
This checkin to GC6VYP1 Congratulations reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. We really wanted to attempt this one, but it wasn’t to be. We added up all the numbers we’d collected on our journey but got a number three out from the requisite checksum. … | Continue reading
"A warning of the growing vulnerability of forests." New study highlights alarming trend in forest fires with far-reaching consequences: 'Poses a significant challenge' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
I saw a post recently by a person from a younger generation asking if parents in the 80s and 90s really let their kids just roam around freely. Yeah, dude. We drank from the hose, too. I remember being a child, growing up in the Riverside neighborhood of Buffalo, on Tonawanda St, … | Continue reading
As I noted earlier today, I love the way my team does standups in an asynchronous, and always-updating manner. As I've started to keep a single comment on GitHub Discussions up-to-date - be that for my daily team standup updates, or my on-call handover notes - I've been spending … | Continue reading
Revealed: The 5 glaring historical inaccuracies in the Gladiator II trailer - including American accents and a cup of TEA | Daily Mail Online Email etiquette: How to ask for things and get a response | Zapier Leonardo da Vinci | PBS TSA’s New Facial Recognition PreCheck Becomes G … | Continue reading
"Plant once and you can grow it forever!" Gardener shares money-saving method to grow the most expensive spice in the world in your own garden: 'I never knew' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
“If you feel like a color change needs to be done, don’t be afraid!” this DIYer says. READ MORE... | Continue reading
Now I've been a-lookin' for a job, but it's hard to find. There's winners and there's losers. And I am south of the line. Well, I'm tired of gettin' caught out on the losin' end. But I talked to a man last night. Gonna do a little favor for him. Atlantic City by Bruce Springsteen … | Continue reading
Now I've been a-lookin' for a job, but it's hard to find. There's winners and there's losers. And I am south of the line. Well, I'm tired of gettin' caught out on the losin' end. But I talked to a man last night. Gonna do a little favor for him. Atlantic City by Bruce Springsteen … | Continue reading
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Sometimes I look out the window and think of how many babies are now part of a personal brand. Today's News: | Continue reading
Online publishing platform Substack, founded in 2017, was all anyone could talk about by 2022. Writers were scrambling to jump on the bandwagon, having heard tales of six-figure revenues being earned by some publishers. Even though we’ve heard those sorts of stories before. I eve … | Continue reading
The researchers noted that the results are similar to those of studies done with humans and hospitalizations. Researchers discover worrisome cause behind uptick in vet visits: 'Particularly concerning' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! This fish owner feeds her tiny little sausages. The fish is cute beyond words, and appears to smile after he gulps down the sausage. Feeding my pet fish wouldn't feel like a chore at all if this is what the situation loo … | Continue reading
New research by Northwestern Medicine reveals how humans have evolved advanced brain regions to interpret others’ thoughts, connecting these areas with the amygdala, a part of the brain involved in emotional processing. Study sought to better understand how humans evolved to beco … | Continue reading
My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring last week at Daring Fireball. With WorkOS you can start selling to enterprises with just a few lines of code. It provides a complete User Management solution along with SSO, SCIM, and FGA. The APIs are modular and easy-to-use, allowing integrati … | Continue reading
My post this week about Shazam’s history got me thinking about Apple’s track record with acquired apps. Apple acquired Shazam in 2018, and soon integrated its capabilities into Siri. But they’ve also kept the Shazam app going, including the Android version. They even still have a … | Continue reading
These clever finds will make you fall in love with your space again, and since they're all $30 or less, you might want to pick up more than one. | Continue reading
Scaling laws were supposed to be, well, laws. | Continue reading
Here are the slides from from my keynote at the 8th International Conference on Education and E-Learning in Tokyo yesterday. Sadly I was not actually in Tokyo for this but the online integration was well done and there was some good audience interaction. I am also the conference … | Continue reading
Love 'em or hate 'em, the pop-rock band helped lay the foundation for what Arcane and its music would become. | Continue reading
They ordered them for an electronics project in their technology class. Teacher baffled after opening unbelievable contents of online order for classroom supplies: 'They realized it's quicker and easier' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
follow_theirs.py Hamel Husain wrote this Python script on top of the atproto Python library for interacting with Bluesky, which lets you specify another user and then follows every account that user is following. I forked it and added two improvements: inline PEP 723 dependencies … | Continue reading
The Art of Storytelling analyzed the chords of "The Matrix", determining that the same dissonance was reflected in the plot. | Continue reading
Recent advancements at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility have enabled physicists to explore the internal structure of neutrons in unprecedented detail. Using a new detector, researchers have achieved a deeper understanding of how quarks and gluons contribute to t … | Continue reading
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There are several things I really love about working in my team at Elastic, but one of the things I really enjoy is how we run our standups in my team. Working in a globally distributed, asynchronous-first team with team members across three continents, and ~8 timezones is that, … | Continue reading
open-interpreter This "natural language interface for computers" open source ChatGPT Code Interpreter alternative has been around for a while, but today I finally got around to trying it out. Here's how I ran it (without first installing anything) using uv: uvx --from open-interp … | Continue reading
If you use Microsoft Office for personal tasks, there's no reason to choose a monthly license. It's way more beneficial to invest in a lifetime purchase like this one. | Continue reading
It's the best soundbar you can get for under $300, and it offers great value for money. | Continue reading
Some people asked about us not using Basecamp. We had considered dropping it for a while. A post-election DHH post also frustrated me, although I usually try to separate that from whether it’s a good, unique product, which it is. Right now the cost just doesn’t make sense for our … | Continue reading
Even if you don't know what 3D microfluidic networks are, that doesn't change the fact that they have some very valuable possible uses. Scientists have now devised a much easier method of making the things, by taking casts of plant roots. Continue Reading Category: Science Tags: … | Continue reading
by Rutger Claassen and Ingrid Robeyns Let’ s establish an upper limit on the personal wealth any individual can possess. This is the core principle behind ‘limitarianism’. Limitarianism represents one of the more radical proposals in the debate on wealth inequality. Over the past … | Continue reading
"These mailers are one-time use and end up in a landfill. If you use them again, at least they get a second use." Man shares simple hack for reusing padded mailers more than once: 'It ain't much, but it's doing something' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
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LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! When a Vancouver Island couple tore down a wall in their home, they were expecting to find old insulation or wires. Instead, they uncovered hundreds of stuffed animals packed inside. — Read the rest The post Couple disco … | Continue reading
Today we have a fun and educational activity! Our free cube outline printables are perfect for crafting, learning, and decorating!… The post Free Cube Outline Template appeared first on Kids Activities Blog. | Continue reading
Is async Django ready for prime time? Jonathan Adly reports on his experience using Django to build ColiVara, a hosted RAG API that uses ColQwen2 visual embeddings, inspired by the ColPali paper. In a breach of Betteridge's law of headlines the answer to the question by this head … | Continue reading
Heart pumps can dramatically boost muscle cell regeneration in damaged hearts, offering new hope for heart failure recovery. Following severe heart failure, the heart’s ability to regenerate new cells is minimal. However, a new study from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, publishe … | Continue reading