GM Picks Up The Electric Pickup Truck Torch Dropped By Cybertruck

GM pushes the electric pickup truck envelope with new vehicle-to-home EV charging package, starting with the new Chevy Silverado EV. The post GM Picks Up The Electric Pickup Truck Torch Dropped By Cybertruck appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 21 minutes ago

A Gefilte Fish Recipe for People Who Think They Hate Gefilte Fish

It's time to stop maligning gefilte fish. Good gefilte fish is light and tender with a delicate, balanced flavor. And we can think of no other food that makes prepared horseradish taste so good—not even roast beef. Here's how to make gefilte fish you'll be proud to serve and happ … | Continue reading


@seriouseats.com | 27 minutes ago

Review: Zoom H6essential talks the talk and walks the walk

I’ve used Zoom audio recorders for many years, including the Podtrac P4 I wrote about here a couple of years ago. I carry a Zoom H4n Pro in my backpack for radio field work.… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 28 minutes ago

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Trackers

A new bioadhesive makes it easier to attach trackers to squid. Note: the article does not discuss squid privacy rights. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here. | Continue reading


@schneier.com | 32 minutes ago

Video captures shocking behavior as driver attempts to navigate off-road at state park: 'I hope you got and reported the plates'

"I called the cops but she left before the cops got there." Video captures shocking behavior as driver attempts to navigate off-road at state park: 'I hope you got and reported the plates' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 38 minutes ago

Diamond Jubilee

In today’s newsletter, I write about the new Cindy Lee triple album, Diamond Jubilee: [It] isn’t streaming — you can only listen to it, officially, via a YouTube video or by downloading the WAV files on a Geocities website. As I was drawing KBB-style diamonds on my newly burned C … | Continue reading


@austinkleon.com | 39 minutes ago

The Cybertruck Recall Is Different

You have to give TikTok user el.chapito1985 credit for not panicking. In a video posted a few days ago, he explained how the cover on his Tesla Cybertruck accelerator pedal came loose and then wedged itself in just the right spot to leave the pedal stuck in floor-it position. The … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 40 minutes ago

How Deep Space Nine's Dominion War Nearly Wrecked Star Trek's Utopia

Star Trek likes to imagine itself as a franchise that is largely above conflict, but it is defined by it: and how its most idealized heroes in Starfleet and the Federation react to, and become shaped by it. While Trek’s history is littered with devastating battles, few conflicts … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 53 minutes ago

Kevin Drum lowers the boom on Fox!

FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 2024 With a great deal more to be said: The headline on the Kevin Drum post is surely overstated: Fox News has destroyed American confidence in itself Kevin's post contains a startling graphic concerning the loss of faith in American institutions. Surely, it can … | Continue reading


@dailyhowler.blogspot.com | 1 hour ago

The joy of podcasting

Over the last few weeks, I restarted recording some short podcasts while I drive home from work. It was fun to do, and I decided on the last one to not do any post-processing or edits, and thought it sounded ok. WordPress automatically creates an enclosure, so anyone could subscr … | Continue reading


@andysylvester.com | 1 hour ago

LT1KF UBS ROUND-UP BRAND-NEW GEMS FOR YOU WEEK 16

Hi, welcome, dear music lover, here you have six acts that you shouldn't miss out on. #LT1KF Unknown But Essentials! Round-up Week 16 | Continue reading


@lessthan1000followers.com | 1 hour ago

Move Over, White and Gray Kitchens — There’s a New Neutral in Town

It's warmer than white or gray, but not quite beige or taupe, or even greige. READ MORE... | Continue reading


@thekitchn.com | 1 hour ago

Fred: a charted design for any craft

Sometimes when I’m working on a charted design, one of my drafts that doesn’t get published will have a motif | Continue reading


@gannetdesigns.com | 1 hour ago

Daniel Dennett, 1942-2024

A remembrance from Doug Hofstadter | Continue reading


@garymarcus.substack.com | 1 hour ago

Hype Taxi Using Massive European Grants To Pay For Champagne-Scale Hydrogen Costs

In the crazy world of hydrogen for transportation plays, some endeavors stand out. Ballard’s $1.3 billion in losses, $55 million a year, since 2000 with no profits ever is one. The $1.2 billion that California received as a hydrogen hub which is going to go down the drain because … | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 1 hour ago

The many-body dynamics of cold atoms and cross-country running

Senior Olivia Rosenstein balances cross-country competitions with research in quantum gasses and early-universe radio wave signals. | Continue reading


@news.mit.edu | 1 hour ago

New study uncovers major progress made in slashing food waste in US: 'The national goal ... may, in fact, be possible'

"This is hands down the largest progress in reducing food waste we've ever seen reported." New study uncovers major progress made in slashing food waste in US: 'The national goal ... may, in fact, be possible' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 1 hour ago

Daniel C. Dennett, Widely Read and Fiercely Debated Philosopher, Dies at 82

Jonathan Kandell in the New York Times: Daniel C. Dennett, one of the most widely read and debated American philosophers, whose prolific works explored consciousness, free will, religion and evolutionary biology, died on Friday in Portland, Maine. He was 82. His death, at Maine M … | Continue reading


@3quarksdaily.com | 1 hour ago

Wagner Moura on Filming One Particularly Difficult Scene in Civil War

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@gizmodo.com | 1 hour ago

The Snowdrop: Lost in the Arctic

Paul Brown in Singular Discoveries: The message in a bottle washed ashore on a rocky beach at Coldingham Bay, Scotland, on the morning of March 11, 1909. For anxious relatives and friends, the hastily-scrawled note seemed to confirm their fears that the two-masted sailboat and it … | Continue reading


@3quarksdaily.com | 1 hour ago

Climber Alex Honnold's morning routine and his 'win-win' climate solution: 'Taking any step at all is better than doing nothing'

"If it smells weird, just eat it anyway." Climber Alex Honnold's morning routine and his 'win-win' climate solution: 'Taking any step at all is better than doing nothing' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 1 hour ago

AI now beats humans at basic tasks — new benchmarks are needed, says major report

Nicola Jones in Nature: Artificial intelligence (AI) systems, such as the chatbot ChatGPT, have become so advanced that they now very nearly match or exceed human performance in tasks including reading comprehension, image classification and competition-level mathematics, accordi … | Continue reading


@3quarksdaily.com | 1 hour ago

Danish green-roof beach house boasts sustainable sophistication

Nestled amid the picturesque hills of Jutland, Denmark, the Heatherhill Beach House stands as a testament to the seamless integration of traditional Danish aesthetics with contemporary design elements. Conceived by Norm Architects, this holiday home boasts a green roof and calmin … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 2 hours ago

A Love Letter to Matzo

What other foods can you name that are, without exception, always at their very best…and simultaneously at their very worst? Matzo is so bad. I still love matzo. | Continue reading


@seriouseats.com | 2 hours ago

I Started Using a Reverse Grocery List — Here’s How It Works

It has saved me so much time and money in the grocery store aisle. READ MORE... | Continue reading


@thekitchn.com | 2 hours ago

Nobody knows better than Donald Trump

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@3quarksdaily.com | 2 hours ago

The unfinished business of John F. Kennedy’s vision for world peace

Philip A. Goduti, Jr. in The Conversation: In my view as a scholar of Kennedy’s life, he set the modern-day standard for public service that is all but absent in the 2024 presidential election dominated by the legal woes of Donald Trump and the age of 81-year-old President Joe Bi … | Continue reading


@3quarksdaily.com | 2 hours ago

Cities: Skylines 2 team apologizes, makes DLC free and promises a fan summit

A "complete focus on improving the base game" will happen before more paid DLC. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 2 hours ago

HelloKitty ransomware rebrands, releases CD Projekt and Cisco data

An operator of the HelloKitty ransomware operation announced they changed the name to 'HelloGookie,' releasing passwords for previously leaked CD Projekt source code, Cisco network information, and decryption keys from old attacks.. [...] | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 2 hours ago

Tickets on Sale Now for Berea, Ky., Chairmaker Event

Tickets are on sale now for the June 2 “Backwoods Chairmakers” Event in beautiful Berea, Ky. The all-day event (9 a.m.-5:30 p.m. EDT) will feature 13 Appalachian chairmakers from Andy Glenn book. We’ve asked each demonstrator to bring some of their chairs so you can see the work … | Continue reading


@blog.lostartpress.com | 2 hours ago

Solar-cell-packin' drone uses sunlight for on-the-spot recharging

Multirotor drones may one day be able recharge their batteries while out and about, instead of having to return to a charging station. They could do so via onboard ultra-thin solar cells, which have already been successfully tested on a small quadcopter. Continue Reading Category … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 2 hours ago

AT&T amiGO Jr. Tab for kids with extensive parental controls launched

AT&T has introduced a new tablet device which it has named amiGO Jr. Tab. The tablet is primarily aimed at the kids and is designed accordingly, with plenty of cladding all around along with what can be considered a holder at the top right corner. It also comes with a special Eye … | Continue reading


@goodereader.com | 2 hours ago

HarperCollins to produce AI-generated Audiobooks

HarperCollins Publishers has joined forces with ElevenLabs, a pioneering leader in AI voice technology to produce audiobooks for its foreign language business, The Bookseller reported. With this collaboration, HarperCollins is looking to diversify its audiobook catalog using Elev … | Continue reading


@goodereader.com | 2 hours ago

Three More Offshore Wind Projects Bite the Dust

Things are looking down again for New York’s embattled offshore wind industry. The state is abandoning all three of the offshore wind projects it awarded conditional contracts to last October, after failing to secure final agreements with any of the developers, Politico reported … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 2 hours ago

Netflix doc accused of using AI to manipulate true crime story

Producer remained vague about whether AI was used to edit photos. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 2 hours ago

Future nuclear power reactors could rely on molten salts — but what about corrosion?

Proton irradiation decreases the rate of corrosion in certain metal alloys — potentially good news for promising nuclear power reactors . | Continue reading


@freethink.com | 2 hours ago

Abigail's Melissa Barrera and Alisha Weir on Being Horror Frenemies

An iconic horror duo makes its debut in Abigail with Alisha Weir’s vampire ballerina and Melissa Barrera’s would-be kidnapper Joey. The Radio Silence film introduces a friends-to-enemies relationship you root for between Barrera—one of this generation’s best final girls, having l … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 hours ago

Moats in AI, facebook and OpenAI

Justin Searls writes: I’ve been pairing with ChatGPT (using GPT-4) every day for the last few months and it is demonstrably terrible 80% of the time, but 20% of the time it saves me an hour of headaches, so I put up with it anyway. Nevertheless, my experience with Llama 2 was so … | Continue reading


@gurupanguji.com | 2 hours ago

Anya Taylor-Joy Had to Do Driving Stunts on Furiosa All Without a Driver’s License

She still doesn't have one, by the way The post Anya Taylor-Joy Had to Do Driving Stunts on Furiosa All Without a Driver’s License appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading


@reactormag.com | 2 hours ago

Huawei phone has a pop-out camera lens, just like a point-and-shoot camera

The retractable camera lens works like a mini point-and-shoot! | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 hours ago

Cooking Through ‘Tenderheart’: Recipes to Make on Repeat

Was one of your resolutions for 2024 to “try something new”? Still looking for that new thing even as we enter the middle of spring? The Food52 Cookbook Club has you covered! We cook through a new book each month, and our member-selected title for April is The Global Pantry Cookb … | Continue reading


@food52.com | 3 hours ago

The Beatles’ 1970 Film ‘Let It Be’ to Air on Disney+ in May 2024

Fans of The Beatles are in for a rare treat as director Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s original 1970 film about The Beatles, “Let It Be,” will launch exclusively on Disney+ in May 2024. The Details First released in May 1970 amidst the swirl of The Beatles’ breakup, “Let It Be” has been … | Continue reading


@thedisneyblog.com | 3 hours ago

Government official insists dirty power source cannot be replaced: 'It will never work'

An abundance of untapped, electricity-producing sun rays continue to shine on the country with great potential. Government official insists dirty power source cannot be replaced: 'It will never work' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 3 hours ago

Fahrbike’s Affordable UrbanCarry Cargo / Utility E-Bikes Come In 3 Sizes

Fahrbike’s UrbanCarry line of cargo e-bikes look to be a great option for those looking for some affordable wheels that can carry both you and your gear, whether that’s children or the groceries or a workbag or three. Fahrbike has several UrbanCarry bikes to choose from — the Min … | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 3 hours ago

Joe Manganiello to Zombie It Up in Mountain Man Adaptation

Another man walking through the undead wasteland, so alone, so utterly alone The post Joe Manganiello to Zombie It Up in Mountain Man Adaptation appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading


@reactormag.com | 3 hours ago

MacStories Unwind: Cattywampus

This week on MacStories Unwind, I’m a little wired, we explore Southern expressions, share some Legion Go follow-up and have app, hardware, TV, and music picks. This episode is sponsored by: Listen Later – Listen to the Articles as Podcasts Links and Show Notes Southern Expressio … | Continue reading


@macstories.net | 3 hours ago

Io: New image of a lake of fire, signs of permanent volcanism

Juno captures images of Io's violence as study says it has always been that way. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 hours ago

Zack Snyder Digs Into His Rebel Moon vs. Barbie Ratings Discourse

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@gizmodo.com | 3 hours ago