Online Calculator That Shows When You’ll Be the Same Age as Wilford Brimley When ‘Cocoon’ Was Released

View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Zanuck Company (@zanuckco) The Brimley/Cocoon Line Calculator is an amusing interactive online calculator | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 2 years ago

Changes to Chrome OS’s release cycle

We previously announced that Chrome will soon release a new milestone every 4 weeks, starting with Chrome 94 in Q3 of 2021. We’re excited to... | Continue reading


@blog.chromium.org | 2 years ago

Mac Power Users #592: WWDC 2021 and the Future of Mac Automation

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@512pixels.net | 2 years ago

The Internet Computer: Revolutionary or Hype?

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@cheapskatesguide.org | 2 years ago

Let’s Check in on Ashley and Amanda!

Things got mildly wild this week. | Continue reading


@gofugyourself.com | 2 years ago

If I Moved Back to My Hometown, As Envisioned by My Parents

The house of my dreams gets put on the market. I make an offer, but because the realtor is so thrilled about my decision to move back, she gives me... | Continue reading


@mcsweeneys.net | 2 years ago

Steven Aquino Examines Accessibility in Upcoming Apple Features

In addition to the work Apple does in providing explicit accessibility features, Steven Aquino notes that many of the marquee features of Apple’s upcoming operating system updates provide notable benefits to users with disabilities. | Continue reading


@tidbits.com | 2 years ago

Young Chinese choose to “lie down”

The “Why try hard when you can just skate by?” mentality embraced by some young people has not been enthusiastically received in official circles. | Continue reading


@sixthtone.com | 2 years ago

Ebiten (a 2D game library for Go) now supports Nintendo Switch

Ebiten is an open source game library for the Go programming language. Ebiten's simple API allows you to quickly and easily develop 2D games that can be deployed across multiple platforms. | Continue reading


@ebiten.org | 2 years ago

Cursive K Worksheet & Flashcard – Printable Handwriting Practice for Cursive Letter K

Let's practice the cursive letter k with these free printable letter cursive worksheets. Each printable worksheet has plenty of space for letter formation tracing and then space for cursive writing practice of both uppercase letters | Continue reading


@kidsactivitiesblog.com | 2 years ago

Netflix’s ‘The Witcher’ Series Seems to Be Plotting Something With ‘The Witcher’ Video Game Developers

Could there be a The Witcher Crossover Event coming our way that combines the Netflix show with the video game? It sure seems that way. | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 2 years ago

A Brief History and Ethos of the Digital Garden

Maggie is a designer, illustrator, and anthropologist. This is her digital garden for growing visual explanations about design, culture, and programming | Continue reading


@maggieappleton.com | 2 years ago

Little Island, A Unique ‘Floating Park’ in New York City

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Little Island (@littleislandnyc) Little Island is a unique floating park at Pier 55 on the west side of New | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 2 years ago

Open Source OpenGL ES 3.1 on Mali GPUs with Panfrost

Panfrost, the open source driver for Arm Mali, now supports OpenGL ES 3.1 on both Midgard (Mali T760 and newer) and Bifrost (Mali G31, G52, G76) GPUs, | Continue reading


@collabora.com | 2 years ago

Serving sharp images to high density screens

Why compressing images for dense screens is different, and how to serve them | Continue reading


@jakearchibald.com | 2 years ago

Trace fossils, the most inconspicuous bite-sized window into ancient worlds

“One animal could have made thousands of traces during its lifetime, but only left one skeleton." | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 2 years ago

The Barnes Brick House by YARD Architects

They were looking for a creative reinvention of the Barnes Brick House they had just bought, and the proposals took the house back to ... | Continue reading


@homeworlddesign.com | 2 years ago

NVMe is not a hard disk

So somebody tweeted about the Seagate Mach.2, a harddisk with two independent heads “combs”, and I commented in german: “It’s two drives in one chassis, even shown as two drives. And it still is rotating rust, so slow with seeks. Linear IO will be fine.” | Continue reading


@blog.koehntopp.info | 2 years ago

“Anycost GAN” promises interactive editing using AI

Photoshop Neural Filters are insanely cool, but right now adjusting any parameter generally takes a number of seconds of calculation. To make things more interactive, of my teammates are collaborating with university researchers on an approach that couples cheap-n'-cheerful quali … | Continue reading


@jnack.com | 2 years ago

Scaleway Status: Fire in the Neighborhood

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@status.scaleway.com | 2 years ago

‘Star Wars: The Bad Batch’ Breakdown: The Details and History That Enrich “Battle Scars”

In our Star Wars The Bad Batch Battle Scars breakdown, we parse through the new episode and pick out every little detail you need to know. | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 2 years ago

Have You Ever Wondered How Betta Fish Breed? This Is Beautiful! [Video]

My daughter's first pet was a betta she named Rex. He was red and blue and would follow her finger when she traced it on his bowl. Rex was so loved and so well taken | Continue reading


@kidsactivitiesblog.com | 2 years ago

Ski Rental Problem

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@en.wikipedia.org | 2 years ago

Found this interesting game online that makes learning CCS Flexbox fun and easy

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@flexbattle.netlify.app | 2 years ago

Climate change is a threat to Africa's transport systems: What must be done

Transportation infrastructure, such as roads and railway systems, is one of the sectors most threatened by climate change. Extreme weather events—such as flooding, sea level rises and storm surges—repeatedly wreak havoc on transport networks. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 2 years ago

Energy Secretary says US wants 'responsible' lithium mining

NORTH LAS VEGAS (AP) — Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm said the Biden administration wants to see lithium needed for electric cars to be mined “in a responsible way" that respects the environment and Native American tribes. | Continue reading


@apnews.com | 2 years ago

‘See’ Season 2 Trailer Pits Jason Momoa Against Dave Bautista as Apple Renews Series for a Third Season

Apple has released the See season 2 trailer with the announcement that the post-apocalyptic drama has been renewed for a season 3. | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 2 years ago

More people have died of COVID-19 in 2021 than in 2020 and it's only June

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@businessinsider.de | 2 years ago

Plant functional traits may better explain liana species distributions

Plant functional traits are morphological, physiological or phenological properties that affect plant growth, survival, and reproduction. They hold the promise to explain plant species distribution patterns. However, few studies have linked multiple traits to multiple niche dimen … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 2 years ago

Shelter from the storm: The social landscape of pets in disasters

Most researchers can draw a line from their current field of study to something in their past that first lit the spark—an engineer who had a knack for fixing things, an economics professor who was always good with numbers. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 2 years ago

Researchers warn that modern slavery has been exacerbated by COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has made more people vulnerable to modern slavery and caused an increase in worker exploitation and child labor around the world, Keele researchers have found. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 2 years ago

Novel magnet design with mirror-like properties

Researchers at Tohoku University have demonstrated the designability of novel magnets with magic mirror-like characteristics in organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite (OIHP)-type compounds. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 2 years ago

‘Black Widow’ Clip Finds Scarlett Johansson and Florence Pugh Under Fire, Tickets Are on Sale Now

Black Widow tickets are on sale now if you want to secure your screening for opening weekend. Plus, watch a new clip from the Marvel movie. | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 2 years ago

Oregon Rep Who Opened Capitol Door To Mob Expelled From House By Colleagues

Oregon State Rep. Mike Nearman (R) became the first person ever expelled from the Oregon House of Representatives on Thursday,... | Continue reading


@talkingpointsmemo.com | 2 years ago

Congress Is Going to Throw the Kitchen Sink at Big Tech

Big Technology obtained the five draft bills currently circulating around the House of Representatives that target Big Tech. If they’re signed into law, it will be bad news for the tech giants. | Continue reading


@bigtechnology.substack.com | 2 years ago

A quarter of global harvests at risk if agriculture does not adapt to climate change

Shifts in weather patterns induced by climate change will increase extreme heat and reduce rainfall across major crop growing regions, with impacts on agricultural production. Will this trigger a decline in the supply of calories needed to sustain the world's growing population? | Continue reading


@phys.org | 2 years ago

Voyage 2050 sets sail: ESA chooses future science mission themes

ESA's large-class science missions for the timeframe 2035-2050 will focus on moons of the giant Solar System planets, temperate exoplanets or the galactic ecosystem, and new physical probes of the early universe. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 2 years ago

Why do people support fish species conservation in European rivers?

An important element for the protection of biodiversity is the willingness of the public to support restoration efforts. Using a longitudinal survey design with 1,000 respondents each in France, Germany, Norway and Sweden, scientists led by the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Eco … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 2 years ago

Albinism in Tanzania: What can be done to break the stigma

The light physical appearance of people with albinism is caused by an inherited condition which results in a lack of melanin. This means people with albinism will have very pale skin, hair, and eyes. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 2 years ago

Particles at the ocean surface and seafloor aren't so different

Although scientists often assume that random variations in scientific data fit symmetrical, bell-shaped normal distributions, nature isn't always so tidy. In some cases, a skewed distribution, like the log-normal probability distribution, provides a better fit. Researchers previo … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 2 years ago

5 Smart Tips for Anyone Buying Rosé This Summer

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@thekitchn.com | 2 years ago

Adding Shadows to SVG Icons With CSS and SVG Filters

Why would we need to apply shadows to SVG? Shadows are a common design feature that can help elements, like icons, stand out. They could be persistent, or | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 2 years ago

Researchers observe sound-light pulses in 2D materials for the first time

Using an ultrafast transmission electron microscope, researchers from the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology have, for the first time, recorded the propagation of combined sound and light waves in atomically thin materials. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 2 years ago

South African worker honeybees reproduce by making near-perfect clones of themselves

A team of researchers from the University of Sydney, the ARC-Plant Protection Research Institute and York University, has found that workers in a species of honeybee found in South Africa reproduce by making near-perfect clones of themselves. In their paper published in Proceedin … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 2 years ago

Citizen scientists discover two gaseous planets around a bright, sun-like star

At night, seven-year-old Miguel likes talking to his father Cesar Rubio about planets and stars. "I try to nurture that," says Rubio, a machinist in Pomona, California, who makes parts for mining and power generation equipment. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 2 years ago

ALMA discovers earliest gigantic black hole storm

Researchers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) discovered a titanic galactic wind driven by a supermassive black hole 13.1 billion years ago. This is the earliest example yet observed of such a wind to date and is a telltale sign that huge black holes h … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 2 years ago

Climate change and melting glaciers have widely varied impacts on Asian water supplies

Climate change is causing mountain snow to melt more rapidly and glaciers to shrink, but this is making a widely varied impact on water supplies in Asia, a new paper by PSI Senior Scientist Jeffrey Kargel says. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 2 years ago

'Noah's Ark' now stuck in England in escalating international dispute

“We do have concerns about this vessel and we cannot rely on the grace of God that it can be safely towed to Holland,” officials from the Maritime and Coastguard Agency wrote in documents obtained by the Ipswich Star. | Continue reading


@thehill.com | 2 years ago