Pixel Launcher's new search bar lets you quickly find apps, shortcuts, widgets, settings, contacts, conversations, tips, and more. | Continue reading
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Trees fall every day in São Paulo, Brazil, the largest and most populous city in Latin America, but most tree falls occur in the rainy season owing mainly to the effects of temperature, strong winds and heavy rain. When trees fall in the dry season, the main direct cause is not w … | Continue reading
Wikipedia’s non-English editions are vulnerable to manipulation and abuse. Why not create one Wikipedia for all? | Continue reading
One of the most important optimisation goals underlying the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device at Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) in Greifswald has now been confirmed. An analysis by IPP scientists in the journal Nature shows: In the optimized magnetic field cage, the en … | Continue reading
I swear I learn something new every day and today is no different. I was today years old when I learned that the count of the crayon box you buy matters almost as much as | Continue reading
If you're hand-sanding the surface of any car that isn't a 1980s Volvo, you're going to run into issues with body contours. Malco's Conformable Sander, aimed at auto body repairpersons, is designed to solve that problem. The flexible sanding block is first pressed against the des … | Continue reading
Glass is an ad free subscription based photo sharing app that focuses solely on photography. | Continue reading
The ultimate ranking of the world’s most powerful people by wealth, influence and decision making power. | Continue reading
A radical collaboration between a biologist and an engineer is supercharging efforts to protect grape crops. The technology they've developed, using robotics and AI to identify grape plants infected with a devastating fungus, will soon be available to researchers nationwide worki … | Continue reading
I'm just going to go ahead and say it right up front here: if you had certain expectations in May/June about how the pandemic was | Continue reading
Influenza A viruses spread through contact, large and small respiratory droplets (aerosols), but the relative importance of these modes of transmission is unclear. Cowling et al. model data from community trials of face masks and hand hygiene and find that aerosol transmission ac … | Continue reading
Annie Clark (a.k.a. St. Vincent) loses herself in her rock star persona in a mockumentary also starring Carrie Brownstein. See the Nowhere Inn trailer. | Continue reading
Salmon are much more likely to avoid a black bear-shaped object than a white one. | Continue reading
I used to be a pathological overthinker. Everything had to be carefully planned, from the words I would say to the baker to order a baguette to all the insignificant details of any of the projects I worked on. Is it better to tweet at 18:00 or 18:05? Rust or Go? Functional or imp … | Continue reading
Exclusive interview by Kate Vass with generative artist - Manolo Gamboa Naon, aka - Manoloide . | Continue reading
After years of disputes between AWS and Elastic, the smaller company has now changed access policies to code libraries that are designed to make life harder for developers who aren’t using its commercial products. | Continue reading
An electromagnetic rifle, a device that uses electromagnetic coils to push a steel projectile down its barrel, is now being offered for pre-order in the US | Continue reading
In theory, every marketing website has the same basic job “Here’s what this thing is, here’s how it can help you.” | Continue reading
A Node.js and TypeScript Framework on top of Express/Koa.js. It provides a lot of decorators and guidelines to write your code. | Continue reading
Apple has made some interesting and difficult choices with its CSAM policy that are worth exploring and debating. | Continue reading
Netflix has released the Clickbait trailer for its new thriller series starring Adrien Grenier as a man that allegedly abuses women. | Continue reading
If you’re putting up with slow or unreliable Internet connectivity and are willing to pay for better service, the Speedify VPN promises to combine multiple Internet sources into a single connection that’s faster and more reliable. | Continue reading
Riding waves nowhere near the beach. | Continue reading
John Rapley in Aeon: Neo-Malthusians credited environmental feedback loops, not moral failings, for regime collapse. In the 1960s and ’70s, works by Paul Ehrlich and Donella Meadows et al argued that the world’s population was growing so fast it would soon outstrip resource suppl … | Continue reading
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) took down a network of cryptocurrency exchanges used to anonymize transactions since the beginning of 2021. | Continue reading
This Bamboo Washing Machine concept, designed by a team of no less than eight ID students from China's Dalian Minzu University, is intended to free up time for those living in extremely rural circumstances. "Laundry is very time-consuming, especially in rural communities," the te … | Continue reading
A team of human-centered designers created Famous Last Words, a toolkit to activate agency and intentional connection during the lonely COVID-19 period | Continue reading
Michael Omotosho's grandmother has arthritis, which makes it difficult for her to pull plugs out of wall sockets. Luckily for her, her grandson is an industrial designer. Learning of her trouble—and finding that even the non-arthritic struggle "with pulling out stiff and fiddly p … | Continue reading
Maps is unique among Apple system apps. Most system apps, like Notes or Reminders, are only updated at the same time that major revisions of the company’s underlying operating systems are released. Tweaks are sometimes made with OS point releases but never separate from the OS up … | Continue reading
Here's a Finch first look image featuring Tom Hanks, a robot, and a dog named Goodyear. | Continue reading
A cross-platform tool for flashing images to SD cards & USB drives. | Continue reading
Facebook, Google, Isovalent, Microsoft, and Netflix announce eBPF Foundation | Continue reading
Insert control characters inside a text terminal to enhance your personal notes or improve shell one-liners. | Continue reading
A breakdown of the largest project our team has ever embarked on—moving from our colocated data center to AWS—with some of the lessons we’ve learned on this journey and tools we used to be successful. | Continue reading
Our recent trip through the charred American economic landscape involved three rental cars and five Uber/Lyft rides. Nobody in Detroit wants to work, apparently, so it was tough to get rides. We en… | Continue reading
Headless CMS and application framework built with Node.js, React and MongoDB | Continue reading
Having started as an "Excel guy" for hire in high school and gone on to found dbt Labs a few decades later, there are few more qualified to give lessons on the past, present, and future of the modern data stack. | Continue reading
Intel 11th Gen Intel Core vPro CPUs with support for the Hardware Shield and TDT features will be able to detect ransomware attacks at the hardware level, many layers below antivirus software. | Continue reading
Once criticized for being a profligate user of water, fast-growing Phoenix has taken some major steps — including banking water in underground reservoirs, slashing per-capita use, and recycling wastewater — in anticipation of the day when the flow from the Colorado River ends. Fo … | Continue reading
Our Don't Breathe 2 review looks at the horror sequel hitting theaters this weekend. | Continue reading
I need answers. | Continue reading