Someone at Kia is apparently a big NBA fan. The award-winning EV9 is getting an update that allows those with exceptional amounts of team spirit to show what NBA team they support — just in time for the playoffs. Unfortunately, the sample images include a big error — they support … | Continue reading
While cold winters in the south and hot summers across the country are the most dramatic times for electricity usage — with air conditioners blasting as weary workers return home or inefficient electric heaters strain to keep toes warm from Chattanooga to El Paso before the sun i … | Continue reading
Transformers is known for being “more than meets the eye.” But when it comes to the characters from Transformers One, it’s more than meets the eyes, nose, and mouth. Read more... | Continue reading
Farmers spread treated human waste on their crops. It's full of forever chemicals. | Continue reading
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
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
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
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
"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
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
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
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
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
This is the fourth official episode of our ongoing series breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Power Broker by our hero Robert Caro. This week, Roman and Elliott also sit down with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the U.S. representative for New York’s 14th congr … | Continue reading
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
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
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
Pixar Fest returns to Disneyland Resort from April 26-August 4, 2024, and the culinary teams have been hard at work creating Pixar-themed dishes for guests to enjoy. All across the resort you’ll be met with celebratory bites and sips inspired by some of your favorite Pixar charac … | Continue reading
It's warmer than white or gray, but not quite beige or taupe, or even greige. READ MORE... | Continue reading
Sometimes when I’m working on a charted design, one of my drafts that doesn’t get published will have a motif | Continue reading
A remembrance from Doug Hofstadter | Continue reading
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
Senior Olivia Rosenstein balances cross-country competitions with research in quantum gasses and early-universe radio wave signals. | Continue reading
"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
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
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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
"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
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
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
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
It has saved me so much time and money in the grocery store aisle. READ MORE... | Continue reading
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
A "complete focus on improving the base game" will happen before more paid DLC. | Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
Producer remained vague about whether AI was used to edit photos. | Continue reading
Proton irradiation decreases the rate of corrosion in certain metal alloys — potentially good news for promising nuclear power reactors . | Continue reading
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
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
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
The retractable camera lens works like a mini point-and-shoot! | Continue reading
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