Almost three years ago now, Apple announced that it would support adding state IDs and driver’s licenses to the Wallet app on the iPhone and the Apple Watch, with the feature first rolling out to a handful of US states. Today, digital IDs in Wallet still haven’t materialized in m … | Continue reading
The internet is awash with platitudes. “Live, Laugh, Love,” “Keep Calm and Carry On,” and “Y.O.L.O.” The problem, as with any pithy quote, is that they reduce the complexities of life to Pinterest posts and souvenirs. They reduce all there is to the universe to a single mantra. N … | Continue reading
Young men are increasingly finding themselves single and struggling to meet traditional expectations. Journalist Christine Emba breaks down the masculinity crisis and what can be done to fix it. The rise of “manfluencers” like Jordan Peterson and Joe Rogan reflects a new type of … | Continue reading
Freethink's weekly countdown of the biggest space news, featuring a new kind of space communication, lots of orbital debris, and more. | Continue reading
Cleaner airplanes are a key part of creating a more sustainable transportation system. Government officials proceed with multibillion-dollar endeavor to reform aviation industry using alternative fuels: 'Next-generation technologies' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Mai Tran began catsitting in 2021 while Tran was on pandemic unemployment, often staying overnight in people’s homes. Tran has now cared for twenty-two cats and traveled to ten apartments all over New York City, observing the interior lives of cat owners and appeasing their neuro … | Continue reading
Flaring stars, black hole outbursts and gamma-rays are just some of the cosmic exotica that Einstein Probe will hunt for. | Continue reading
Many automotive dealerships, which sell the majority of new vehicles, are not prepared for the electric transition. Auto salespeople as a general rule seem not to know much about electric vehicles (EVs), so their ability to generate EV sales is commensurately lower than their int … | Continue reading
The INCLAVI consortium is seeking a European Certification Body to prepare and eventually deliver certification of the Inclusive Aviation training course. INCLAVI – Inclusive Aviation is an EU-funded project under the ERASMUS+ Programme addressing education and training for profe … | Continue reading
By Leo Babauta For many of us in the Northern hemisphere, Spring has fully arrived: gorgeous sunshine, warmer weather, green trees, blossoms. It’s glorious! With Spring comes life springing into action, full of abundance. This is the chaos of life, full and energetic and exuberan … | Continue reading
Apple announced an event for May 7, 2024, which is widely expected to showcase new iPads ahead of the companies Worldwide Developers Conference in June. At the event, or perhaps in the next version of iPadOS, the company is expected to unveil a calculator app for the device for t … | Continue reading
South Africa's minister of higher education and training, Blade Nzimande. Darren Stewart/Gallo Images via Getty Images The board of South Africa’s National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) has been dissolved by the country’s higher education and training minister, Blade Nzima … | Continue reading
A VIN is a unique string of 17 characters assigned to vehicles. welcomia/iStock via Getty Images Plus Every vehicle built after 1981 has a unique vehicle identification number, or VIN. The location of this string of letters and numbers varies, but it’s located somewhere on every … | Continue reading
What you expect can influence what you think you see. Auscape/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Animal behavior research relies on careful observation of animals. Researchers might spend months in a jungle habitat watching tropical birds mate and raise their young. They mig … | Continue reading
The conflict between Israel and Hamas is happening online as well as on the ground. Gwengoat/iStock / Getty Images Plus The news about the Israel-Hamas war is filled with reports of Israeli families huddling in fear from relentless rocket attacks, Israeli tanks and artillery flat … | Continue reading
There are, famously, no silver bullets in software engineering. Computer programming is hard and although some people are really brilliant at it, there are also a lot of people out there making their career in this field who are not. This is one reason why a lot of software sucks … | Continue reading
The Cave of Crystals in Chihuahua, Mexico, is buried almost 1,000 feet (300 meters) beneath Earth's surface and contains giant gypsum crystal beams that are up to 37 feet (11 m) long. | Continue reading
Das Cologne Convention Bureau (CCB) gibt den Relaunch seiner Website bekannt, die mit einem neuen Erscheinungsbild und neuen Funktionen sowohl für Veranstaltungsplanende als auch für Partner:innen der Kölner MICE-Branche aufwarte. | Continue reading
Mercury is about to reach its "greatest elongation west" of the sun, meaning stargazers will have their best view of the "swift planet" all year. Here's how to see it. | Continue reading
Two years after the PlayStation release of Horizon Forbidden West, PC gamers can now join Aloy and Magical AirPod’s Journey to The Forbidden West, published on Steam and Epic Game Store. This marks another PlayStation-exclusive game coming to the PC ecosystem just like Guerrilla … | Continue reading
"A material has been designed that combines the best of two possible structures: high energy density is combined with fast charging." Researchers make strides innovating fast-charging sodium-ion battery technology: 'The battery research will be further expanded' first appeared on … | Continue reading
They should have a German word that describes the feeling you get when you’re speaking English, and you experience something that you’re sure Germans have a very specific word for but for which there is no direct English translation. The Germans, I’m sure, could create a word tha … | Continue reading
Compare coverage and stay informed on breaking news by subscribing through my link https://ground.news/bigthink to receive 40% off unlimited access through the Vantage subscription. When an asteroid landed on the Yucatan peninsula 66 million years ago, it turned our planet into a … | Continue reading
In our last update before the weekend, we delve into some exciting social initiatives: A Dutch city tests a bold debt cancellation programme for struggling families, Queensland decriminalises sex work, and Belgian nursing home residents find joy on the dance floor. | Continue reading
The Lenovo Legion Pro 7i 16 comes close to having practically everything you could want or need in a gaming laptop, almost to the point of excess. There may not be many folks out there who demand numpad controls on a mobile device. Why? Because why not? The only thing it’s missin … | Continue reading
No zoning, no pollution, no advisers—just squares, circles, people, and time. | Continue reading
You receive a call on your phone. The polite call centre worker on the line asks for you by name, and gives the name of your bank. They say they're calling from your bank's fraud department. "Yeah, right!" You think. Obvious scam, isn't it? You tell the caller to do unmentionable … | Continue reading
Roxx ist offizieller Technik-Lieferant des von der European Broadcasting Union (EBU) organisierten Eurovision Song Contests 2024 in Malmö, der vom 7. Bis 11. Mai stattfindet. | Continue reading
As I said before, I don't want to make too much of this analogy, but you could do multiple of these ads just on Trump's abortion quotes. | Continue reading
Tulips to mark a stock market crash and recession, David's lust for Bathsheba, his work as a sculptor, Pygmalion and Galatea, and a summary of his career. | Continue reading
Honeymoon Flight Below, the patchwork earth, dark hems of hedge, The long grey tapes of road that bind and loose Villages and fields in casual marriages: We bank above the small lough and farmhouse And the sure green world goes topsy-turvy As we climb out of our familiar landscap … | Continue reading
The UK Gambling Commission has responded to increased pressure from the British government by tightening a host of measures such… Continue reading British gamblers who lose £500 or more a month could face extra checks The post British gamblers who lose £500 or more a month could … | Continue reading
On March 5 and 6 2024, the Mainz Reading Seminar took place at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz to talk about what the title suggests – reading promotion, reading competence, reading research... | Continue reading
We check the differences in the IAB guidelines. Also, Apple Podcasts adds a wellness category to the app. Sponsored by Supporting Cast. Don't lock your members into one platform! 🔓 With Supporting Cast, YOU own your podcast subscription and control the subscriber relation … | Continue reading
The Polish Embassy has posted a series of short interview segments with Marian Rejewski, the first person to crack the Enigma. Details from his biography. | Continue reading
The quarry’s dull roar: weather is out of the east. Hemmed in by green, the tall hawthorn hoards its mountain of snow. | Continue reading
EA continues to consolidate and shut down online servers for games, with four games due to close their doors for… Continue reading EA announces shutdown of these 4 games – with more to come The post EA announces shutdown of these 4 games – with more to come appeared first on Read … | Continue reading
Rocket Factory Augsburg, a German launch startup, nears a test-firing of its booster. | Continue reading
A new type of hybrid sodium-ion battery that offers both high capacity and rapid-charging capabilities could power mobile devices, electric vehicles and space tech. | Continue reading
The study found switching from traditional heating and cooling to a heat pump can lower the pollution created by household energy by 36% to 64%. Study answers common question about impact of heat pumps: 'It's better to switch now rather than later' first appeared on The Cool Down … | Continue reading
This is the 36th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Cory Dransfeldt and his blog, coryd.dev To follow this series subscribe to the newsletter. A new interview will land in your inbox every … | Continue reading
Hugo Gernsback was a pioneer in the world of science fiction during the first half of the 20th century—so much so that the Hugo Awards are named after him. But Gernback also edited serious tech magazines and came up with ideas that were often way ahead of their time. Or, in the c … | Continue reading
The post The Clash Of Civilizations Is The Politics Of The End of History appeared first on NOEMA. | Continue reading
As I wrote a few weeks ago I'm a big fan of Renovate. I've been using Renovate for ~5 years as a user and as an operator, using a variety of hosted and self-hosted options, leading me to being seen as "the Renovate person". Through this experience, I've learned a lot about Renova … | Continue reading
Ah the process of you,Overthinking,and the wonders you work.I have heard it said that the mindis a terrible thing to waste,to which I say, yes,I agree.It’s true. I also agree that time is a terrible thing to wasteand so is our misused energyor the passion we loseor the moments we … | Continue reading
Gray Zone Warfare is a game about getting in, getting the job done, and extracting out with the minimum of… Continue reading Gray Zone Warfare: How to complete the First Hit task The post Gray Zone Warfare: How to complete the First Hit task appeared first on ReadWrite. | Continue reading
Over a decade ago, there was a recall for the white MacBook, specifically for replacing the notebook’s bottom part. This part, made of rubber, had a tendency to peel off due to the heat generated by the computer. In the United States, MacBook users had the option to either take t … | Continue reading
In yesterday's note I added a bunch of YouTube embeds. I remembered that I've been meaning to use a better alternative for a while now. I didn't have time for that yesterday so I swapped them out today. In terms of performance, YouTube embeds are pretty woefull, downloading way t … | Continue reading