Like a lot of people, once I saw the trailer for Alex Garland’s “Civil War,” a dystopian thriller set in… | Continue reading
Hanoi, Vietnam — VinFast Auto (Nasdaq: VFS) today announced that it received a record-breaking number of 27,649 non-refundable and non-transferable pre-orders for the mini-SUV VF 3 within 66 hours, setting a Vietnamese automotive record, demonstrating the impressive appeal of the … | Continue reading
Hangzhou, China — Zhejiang Geely Holding Group (Geely Holding), China’s largest private-owned automotive group, this week welcomed new equity investors to Zeekr, global premium electric mobility technology company following the completion of an initial public offering on the New … | Continue reading
It was standing room only when the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Geothermal Technologies Office (GTO) Director Lauren Boyd stepped onto the stage for a panel discussion at CERAWeek 2024. “Geothermal: How Big is it Going to Get?” was the Tuesday morning hot topic, featuring an … | Continue reading
There's a long way to go, but the Australia-Asia PowerLink may be the massive cornerstone of a cleaner, safer future. Billionaire bets big on largest solar project ever proposed to deliver power across oceans: 'At the forefront of the clean energy transition' first appeared on Th … | Continue reading
AI-generated code is going about as well as you’d expect. Fun! We start with The Register: Pulumi AI and its online archive of responses, AI Answers, is a case in point. Google’s search crawler indexes the output of Pulumi’s AI and presents it to search users alongside links to h … | Continue reading
AM Craft’s CEO says that the wider adoption of 3D printing should enable airlines to accelerate sustainability goals that the industry is pursuing. Latvian start-up AM Craft this week announced the closing of a 600,000 euros pre-seed funding round led by Change Ventures, with the … | Continue reading
Waymo has spent most of my adult life working on self-driving vehicles (originally under the Google brand, until about 7½ years ago). For a long time after it finally started offering robotaxi service for non-employees, the service was free. Since December 2018, though, Waymo has … | Continue reading
"Who wants to pay for a new fence? No one." Homeowner concerned neighbor's overgrown lawn will unleash invasive species on their property: 'I am afraid it will only spread more' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
n a world with lots of noise trying to grab any attention, Frank Joshua's music welcomes the inner silence, providing a calming, soothing sound to dive deep under the quiet surface. | Continue reading
The resurgence of Belton Lake was a cause for celebration for local residents. Lake nears record water levels after years of severe drought: 'It's been a while since we've seen this' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Like many websites, it used to be a good one The post DeviantArt In 2024 Sure Sounds Like A Shithole appeared first on Aftermath. | Continue reading
Far greater control over file compression/decompression than Files allows. | Continue reading
When social justice protests swept the country in 2020, tech companies mostly welcomed employee activism. The Gaza demonstrations are getting a much different reception | Continue reading
"I don't understand how people can just carelessly do stuff like this." Passerby shares frustrations after finding trash left in a natural area: 'This place deserves better' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Market segmentation is a technique for determining who will buy or use your product. Essentially you brainstorm a boatload of possible user types, organize them, and rank them. By the end of the exercise, you should have a shortlist of customer segments you can research and inter … | Continue reading
Yet another incredible story on Cabel Sasser’s blog, this one about a supposedly vintage Apple Employee badge: Wow. Someone was selling Apple Employee #10’s employee badge?! … | Continue reading
My talk for Google I/O 2024 | Continue reading
This year is already off to a very good start at the movies but 2025 is looking even bigger, in more ways than one. Fresh off the huge success of last year’s Oppenheimer and this year’s Dune: Part Two, IMAX just revealed 14 titles in 2025 that will not only be released in IMAX, b … | Continue reading
"I'm buying it because it's ironic." Designer brand faces backlash for selling jeans that look urine-stained: 'You can sell anything to people if you market it as the latest trend' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Up early to see whether the work of my house be quite done, and I found it to my mind. Staid at home all the morning, and about 2 o'clock went in my velvet coat by water to the Savoy, and there, having staid a good while, I was called into the... | Continue reading
Alleged $6.8M conspiracy involved "laptop farm," identity theft, and résumé coaching. | Continue reading
Ty Walker squats on the grassy banks of a 150-foot-long, 10-foot-wide earthen pond lifting a net filled with thrashing young rainbow trout from the churning spring water. He nudges a pair of curious Great Pyrenees away, then carefully drops a dozen fish into a large bucket of wat … | Continue reading
Being assertive doesn’t come naturally to me iRL. I’ve been getting better at recently, but I still let people walk over me more than they should in social settings. Some of the best advice I’ve received mirrors what this advice columnist wrote with regards to a wedding, emphasis … | Continue reading
I tend to wear my emotions on my sleeve here thesedays! And the last couple of days were awful. Back now, coffee and RSS reader in hand though, so let’s get back to it. Hope you’re going well! Is that a new hat? By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2024-05-17. | Continue reading
The debut season of Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power—for those that actually ended up making it through all eight episodes—often struggled to really really feel there was narrative moment outside of that one hella cool moment when a mountain blew up. By its climax, it felt l … | Continue reading
HAPPY THURSDAY! This year for Sumo Day, we’re giving away a Cybertruck!! (I wish I could win, but I’m not eligible 😢) Enter here for a chance to win: https://appsumo.com/sumoday/giveaway Now onto this week’s article 🤝 == At AppSumo, we spend nearly $1m a year on s … | Continue reading
The high dose of capsaicin paired with a heart defect appear to have contributed. | Continue reading
Join via Zoom (if you can’t make it to Bloomington in person) at 6 p.m. Eastern on May 24, for the 2024 Rosemary Miller Lecture, this year celebrating the life and work of Nancy Hiller (1959-2022). Duncan Campbell will speak about Nancy and her deep commitment to historic preserv … | Continue reading
A new meme coin on Solana, Sealana, has raised over $1.2 million in its presale within the first few weeks… Continue reading Solana Meme Coin ‘Sealana’ Raises Over $1.2 Million in Crypto Presale – Next Slothana? The post Solana Meme Coin ‘Sealana’ Raises Over $1.2 Million in Cryp … | Continue reading
You probably didn’t notice it because the previous domain is now forwarding to this one but the domain of this blog is changed and you’re now connected to the new address. Everything is working fine as far as I know and the previous domain is set to be redirected to the new one. … | Continue reading
Look at you being so spoiled | Continue reading
Whenever a new set of Star Wars toys is announced, fans have come to expect to see characters in some sort of armor. Be it Mandalorian armor, stormtrooper armor, or Clone Trooper armor, toy companies love it because all they have to do is make a new head and reuse an old body. It … | Continue reading
Strava has just announced a slate of updates at their annual Camp Strava event, where they show off a bunch of newness. This years event is the first time new CEO, Michael Martin, is at the helm, after starting … Read More Here → | Continue reading
In a video on Threads, Quinn Nelson shows how the Apple Pencil casts a tool-specific faux shadow on the surface of the page. I love this sort of thing — a detail like this that, once you notice it, brings a little joy to whatever you are doing, whether that is creating art or jus … | Continue reading
Presidential candidate believes Meta’s chatbot can reliably reveal shadowbans. | Continue reading
"Texans are now bracing for a second flooding event in less than a week." Evacuations ordered amid water levels rivaling historic Hurricane Harvey floods: 'This is a life-threatening situation' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Is this the most or least pessimistic comic yet? Today's News: | Continue reading
While Floridians suffered through record heat, DeSantis signed legislation keeping "windmills off our beaches." | Continue reading
Natural gas utilities spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year on pipelines and related infrastructure — costs they typically recoup from ratepayers over the course of decades. In the eyes of clean energy advocates, these investments are not only imprudent, but also a miss … | Continue reading
Average monthly prices for regular-grade retail gasoline in the United States could increase by more than 10 cents per gallon (gal) if refinery output is lower than expected, according to an analysis we published on May 14. In our May Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), which serve … | Continue reading
With summer on its way in the Northern Hemisphere, the latest edition of Periodic Graphics in Chemical & Engineering News looks at… | Continue reading
The 2024 International Booker Prize shortlist has been revealed, showcasing literature from six nations, translated from six languages, that skillfully intertwines the personal and political in uniquely innovative ways. Chosen by this year’s judging panel, chaired by distinguishe … | Continue reading
YouTube: 2024 Youth Regional Championships | Vertical World Climbing Team. My fav climbing gym just put up a little video from the regional campionship they had this past weekend. It was a fun event, where my daughter got to participate and I got a chance to lead belay a bunch of … | Continue reading
Few claims in the history of the modern technology age are more baloney than “updates automatically.” Games, apps, software, and… Continue reading Xbox user interface update promises automatic updates; we’ll believe it when we see it The post Xbox user interface update promises a … | Continue reading
Chris, writing at uncountable thoughts: RSS is a pervasive, but little known, web technology that allows you aggregate all your content into one place for easy reading. There are very few websites without an RSS feed, although many don’t advertise the link (or, even realise they … | Continue reading
Reactions for Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis have begun to hit the internet and they are as all over the place as the film itself seems to be. Megalopolis is a sci-fi love story between architect Cesar (Adam Driver) and socialite Julia (Nathalie Emmanuel), who become caught u … | Continue reading
You can now buy a brand-new McLaren for just US$7,950! We should point out that the vehicle is not a supercar but an electric mountain bike – one of four models that the British automaker has just announced. Another in that lineup is said to be the most powerful of its kind. Cont … | Continue reading