Last year we saw these non-functioning Casio watch rings by a Japanese toymaker: Apparently Casio thought it was a good idea. To celebrate their 50th anniversary, this year the company is releasing this fully-functional Casio Ring Watch: The tiny, working watch module was made p … | Continue reading
Here is a strange set of objects that speaks of a modern human need.Digital publishing was supposed to kill print books. Instead, after the pandemic (and perhaps because of it), print books exploded in popularity. Barnes & Noble, the bookseller formerly at death's door, is on tra … | Continue reading
Harley-Davidson has pivoted with the times. Once known for producing heavy, gas-powered, ear-splitting hogs, the company released its Livewire electric motorcycle in 2019; it then spun Livewire off as its own electric motorcycle brand. And Livewire is now reaching downmarket to t … | Continue reading
Aubrey Gavello and Alex Wood showcased the outrageous items at their local HomeGoods by pretending be shoppers looking for that item. | Continue reading
Vampires? Helicopters? Mumblecore time travel? No one knows! The post Christopher Nolan’s Mysterious New Movie Adds Robert Pattinson to Its Star-Studded Cast appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Microsoft Edge is here to help you navigate the busiest time of the year. From finding the best deals on your shopping list, helping you prepare for holiday travel, or even giving you ideas for a DIY ugly holiday sweater, Edge has the built-in tools The post Holiday Shopping and … | Continue reading
Illustration: The Verge WhatsApp is introducing a new transcription feature that makes it easier (and more convenient) to communicate using voice messaging. The feature is rolling out globally to Android and iOS users “in the coming weeks” according to WhatsApp, and will automati … | Continue reading
As transportation sectors like shipping and aviation remain difficult to decarbonize, a French startup claims to have developed a promising solution to reduce carbon emissions in these industries. Aerleum, founded in 2023, says its technology can pull carbon dioxide from the air … | Continue reading
In cabernet. The post Rachel Zegler Is a Vixen first appeared on Go Fug Yourself. | Continue reading
Microsoft and the Justice Department have seized over 240 domains used by customers of ONNX, a phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform, to target companies and individuals across the United States and worldwide since at least 2017. [...] | Continue reading
This Dance Central postmortem was first published in Game Developer Magazine in January 2011. | Continue reading
ASP.NET Core TagHelpers have been around for quite some time but only few people seem to like them. Here's why I think they're awesome. ASP.NET Core is one of the most underrated Web Frameworks. This might be an unpopular opinion these days when Single Page Apps, JSX/TSX, Next.js … | Continue reading
I have a lot of sympathy for Winnipeg. I’ve been there for work many times. I’ve been there in their frigid, tens of degrees Celsius below zero winters. I’ve been there in their dusty summers. I’ve even tried to get across the main intersection that pedestrians still aren’t allow … | Continue reading
GET BOING BOING AD-FREE Mercadona, a supermarket in Spain, illegally fired a worker who ate a deep-fried snack that was headed to the trashcan after the store close for the day. A court in Barcelona upheld an earlier ruling criticizing the company and it must reinstate the worker … | Continue reading
Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth was mortified when Donald Trump announced the former Fox News host as his cabinet pick. Not because he was accused of sexual assault — that's an asset on the Trump team, for God's sake — but because the MAGA leader had the gall to mention … | Continue reading
A new study suggests that nicotinamide riboside (a form of vitamin B3) may reduce lung inflammation in COPD patients, with promising results showing significant decreases in inflammation markers and potential benefits for delaying cellular aging. People are living longer than eve … | Continue reading
A Scandinavian Airlines flight from Stockholm to Miami encountered terrifying turbulence. Back in the early 1990s, I was regaling a friend with tales of how slapped together the global internet infrastructure was. My friend worked at a facility that made parts for passenger aircr … | Continue reading
Jesse Singal at Reason: When Scientific American was bad under Helmuth, it was really bad. For example, did you know that “Denial of Evolution Is a Form of White Supremacy“? Or that the normal distribution—a vital and basic statistical concept—is inherently suspect? No, really: T … | Continue reading
It’s weird to me that after I urged everyone not to disable form controls, a bunch of them decided that making them read-only was somehow better. But here we are. What’s in the box? Photo by Michael Heiss, no edits, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. HTML The readonly attribute is only allowed… | Continue reading
New phone day for Android users should get a whole bunch easier. | Continue reading
Please note the author name on Gromit's book below. The post Gnome Good Deed Goes Unpunished in Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Black Friday is still a week away but you can grab these high-rated wired headphones for 60% off right now. | Continue reading
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The new Apple smartwatch was launched in September and has already dropped by almost 20% in price! | Continue reading
In collaboration with the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre and Altair Engineering, Richard Vijgen simulates the behaviour of the electromagnetic cloud from a single cell-phone in different urban environments and visualize how the electromagnetic waves are absorbed and reflected by … | Continue reading
Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo star in the Wizard of Oz-inspired musical, out Friday. | Continue reading
The clock on Česká Street is a fairly popular meet-up spot in Brno. If you wait for a friend here, there's someone to keep you company, even if you don't see him. He happens to be the smallest public statue in the city. Created by sculptor Václav Sigurson Kostohryz, the 20-centim … | Continue reading
A climate action consortium in Massachusetts deployed renewable energy credits to support a new 208-megawatt solar project in Texas. The post Texas Sends A Renewable Energy Love Letter To Massachusetts…And Sweden appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
"I'm trying this right now." Home cook shares 'genius' hack to get your money's worth from near-empty peanut butter jars: 'This is so smart' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Illustration: The Verge A federal lawsuit over Minnesota’s “Use of Deep Fake Technology to Influence An Election” law is now directly dealing with the influence of AI. In a recent filing, attorneys challenging the law say an affidavit submitted to support it shows signs of contai … | Continue reading
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Acousticians put a traditional "knock" test for delaminated areas to the test. | Continue reading
The GitHub Foundations Certification exam fee is now waived for all students verified through GitHub Education. The post Students: Start building your skills with the GitHub Foundations certification appeared first on The GitHub Blog. | Continue reading
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Drew Binsky visited Samarkand, Uzbekistan where acrobatic bakers dive headfirst into tandoors to stick bread loaves onto the wall for baking. | Continue reading
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Today's Drop features three tools: Ripunzip, a Rust-based parallel unzipper that starts decompression during downloads; Pipe Viewer (pv), a terminal utility for monitoring Unix pipeline data flow with real-time stats; and Joker, a minimalist daemon management tool providing basic … | Continue reading
Save $400 on a portable power station from Jackery that can be used for both outdoor activities or emergency situations. | Continue reading
Tesla Inc. has officially launched its first showroom in the Philippines. I waited for two weeks after the launch last November 8 because I wanted to see how the Philippine EV market would take on the American-made electric vehicle before making this report. So far, according to … | Continue reading
When it comes to selling clean technology, each kind of technology goes through several phases. At first, it’s too expensive because it hasn’t reached mass production. Then, as more copies are made, prices start to fall. Then, as adoption goes mainstream and then into a majority, … | Continue reading
Niantic, the company behind Pokémon Go, has been scraping users’ scans of the world to build a model that will help robots navigate physical space. Some experts are worried about the potential applications. | Continue reading
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AirTags are popular personal trackers, allowing you to keep track of bags, pets, luggage, even pets and people. They’re a handy Apple product that is easy to setup and use, and you can grab a 4 pack for $80 on Amazon allowing you to deploy several AirTags for multiple different p … | Continue reading
Rosenworcel had to lead agency without Democratic majority for most of her term. | Continue reading
Back in 2015, Tynan DeBold and Dov Friedman created a series of graphics for the WSJ showing the impact of the introduction of vaccines in the US. Here’s the infographic for measles: And for polio: Vaccines are in the running for the greatest human invention ever. You can see the … | Continue reading
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Thursday morning read: Supreme Court rejects RFK Jr. group’s attempt to protect anti-Covid-vaccine doctors from investigations (Lawrence Hurley, NBC News) Revealed: trans … | Continue reading
I didn’t run yesterday morning, cos I was getting ready to catch a plane to San Diego to attend this year’s SBL/AAR meeting. (I’m also giving a paper at the pre-meeting NetVUE conference, about which I blogged last time, I think). Travel went smoothly, if not exactly comfortably. … | Continue reading