Meta is once again facing investor skepticism over its spending; I can understand reasonable doubt in the short and medium term, but the long-term bet on Mark Zuckerberg still seems worth making. | Continue reading
I’d love to do the countdown for an important rocket launch or be busy in the control room. I watched the Starship attempts live and watched some of the previous milestones for SpaceX live. I always have goosebumps before the launch and enjoy words like “Nominal” and “RUD”. I enj … | Continue reading
This week on AppStories, we are joined by Susan Prescott, vice president of developer relations, education, and enterprise at Apple, along with 2024 Swift Student Challenge winners Harshitha Rajesh and Roscoe Rubin-Rottenberg to talk about the challenge and the students’ projects … | Continue reading
Pitch-black darkness. Crushing squeezes, muddy passages, icy waterfalls. Bats and spiders. Abseiling over ledges into the unknown. How far would you go for a fossil? On a two-year retrieval mission of nearly 60 hours in an underground cave, we met our limits—and went beyond. Read … | Continue reading
The album of the week is for “What We Fear the Most” by Attic Theory. This is 9Albums/EPs You Should Liste To Week 17, 2024. | Continue reading
Financial Business and Consumer Solutions (FBCS) is warning 1,955,385 impacted individuals in the United States that the company suffered a data breach after discovering unauthorized access to specific systems in its network. [...] | Continue reading
Cobbler's ability to perfectly balance all of the possibilities and boil them down into their emotional core is definitely proof of how remarkable he is as an artist and producer. | Continue reading
John Voorhees at MacStories: Today, the European Union announced that it has added iPadOS to the products and services subject to the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The designation gives Apple six months to comply with the DMA. iOS is already subject to the DMA, and Apple’s response … | Continue reading
Our summer themed activity pack is summer fun for kids no matter what the season or weather. Your kids will… The post Printable Summer Activity Sheets appeared first on Kids Activities Blog. | Continue reading
This year’s winner of the Green Alley Award designs a metal-free and chipless RFID tags The post Scanning the future: the startup behind chipless, metal-free, paper RFID tags appeared first on Positive News. | Continue reading
Mechanical watches that can show a date correctly are pretty rare, and the ones that do are very expensive (starting at $10k). But why? Let me explain. | Continue reading
A “perpetual learner,” Nunez was beloved at MIT and in her community. | Continue reading
Women have written science fiction for as long as the field has existed; here are five highlights from days of yore... The post Five Vintage Works of SF From Women Writers appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
"Why am I this age without knowing this?" Laundry expert shares common product making clothes less effective at absorbing sweat: 'I'm never buying it again' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Do you love origami animals? Let’s learn how to make an adorable origami bunny! This tutorial is perfect for kids… The post Cute Origami Bunny Tutorial for Kids appeared first on Kids Activities Blog. | Continue reading
Jess Weatherbed at The Verge: Following an almost eight-month investigation into whether Apple’s iPadOS holds enough market power to warrant stricter regulation, the European Commission has now designated the iPad operating system as a Gatekeeper service under its flagship Digita … | Continue reading
Structured concurrency allows to run asynchronous tasks within clearly defined boundaries of supervision. Introduced as a preview feature in Java 19, it helps to manage the lifecycle of running forks by requiring the developer to define a scope and enforcing the rule that tasks c … | Continue reading
NHTSA has opened an investigation after two separate fatal crashes at night. | Continue reading
My wife and I spend a lot of time together. We're not attached at the hip or anything, but we're really close, we get along, and we have plenty of things in common. Maybe it's cliche, but we really are best friends. So it's going to be weird when she leaves early tomorrow morning … | Continue reading
Disney has released the first trailer for Mufasa: The Lion King, Barry Jenkins’ continuation of the live-action Disney remake universe. It certainly has Mufasa. It certainly has a lot of other animals that exist in this trailer just for you to go “look, animals! Lion King!” It al … | Continue reading
Auditory pareidolia is a phenomenon in which people can hear familiar sounds from seemingly static background noise. | Continue reading
MONDAY, APRIL 29, 2024 How well do we know ourselves? "Your concerns are my concerns," the Hemingway character said. We refer to the Mariel Hemingway character in the 1979 feature film, Manhattan. According to the leading authority on the topic, "the film received critical acclai … | Continue reading
Insufficient moderation of political ads risk undermining electoral process. | Continue reading
Welcome to a world where your reading list becomes your listening playlist. We are thrilled to introduce you to ListenLater.net — an innovative service that turns articles into podcasts, making your favourite reads accessible in your favourite podcast app. Have you ever stumbled … | Continue reading
L'articolo BOLOGNAFIERE: L’ASSEMBLEA DEGLI AZIONISTI APPROVA IL BILANCIO 2023 INTEGRATO IL COLLEGIO SINDACALE proviene da BolognaFiere Group. | Continue reading
In 1978, Dan White murdered San Francisco city Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone. Of this, there was no doubt. White had turned himself in, then tearfully and remorsefully confessed to shooting each of the men — his former colleagues — multiple times. At White’s 197 … | Continue reading
Want to experience twice as fast load times in Safari on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac? Then download Magic Lasso Adblock – the ad blocker designed for you. It’s easy to set up, blocks all YouTube ads, and doubles the speed at which Safari loads. Magic Lasso Adblock is an efficient … | Continue reading
When installing raceways or conduit brackets, each installation screw requires two holes on opposite channel walls. One hole is sized to fit the shaft of the fastener, while the opposite hole must be larger than the fastener's head. This is so the installer has enough room to dri … | Continue reading
Shane Frederick, who sometimes sends me probability puzzles, sent along this question: Among married couples, what’s your best guess about how often the wife is taller than the husband? • 1 in 10 • 1 in 40 • 1 in … Continue reading → | Continue reading
This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know! Mastodon forms new U.S. non-profit Mastodon has established itself as a US 501(c)(3) with a really exciting new board. I'm a long-term fan of Esra’a Al Shafei in pa … | Continue reading
Walt Disney Studios has releases a first look at “Mufasa: The Lion King,” a prequel to “The Lion King,” with a teaser trailer. The Details “Mufasa: The Lion King” is a live-action/animation hybrid movie that uses Rafiki to relay the legend of Mufasa to young lion cub Kiara, daugh … | Continue reading
Rabbit R1, the bright orange AI gadget that became the talk of the town during CES 2024, was launched and demoed at a private event in New York last week. The “pick-up party” as the company called it was exclusively for the first few hundred buyers and now we’re seeing some early … | Continue reading
The firmware which drm/kms drivers need is becoming bigger and bigger and there is a push to move to generating a generic initramfs on distro's builders and signing the initramfs with the distro's keys for security reasons. When targetting desktops/laptops (as opposed to VMs) thi … | Continue reading
The slide-on Joy-Cons may be seeing a switch up on the newest variant of the Nintendo device, according to a… Continue reading Joy-Cons on Nintendo Switch 2 said to be ‘magnetically’ attached The post Joy-Cons on Nintendo Switch 2 said to be ‘magnetically’ attached appeared first … | Continue reading
There really is nothing more terrifying than a creepy baby doll. I'm serious. They freaked me out as a kid and still manage to scare the pants off me today, what with their static staring eyes and little outstretched zombie arms and all. Thankfully, there's a new baking trend tha … | Continue reading
A third Happy Death Day could be on the way. Isabela Merced teases her role in The Last of Us season 2. Plus, a new look at the season finale of Ghosts. To me, my spoilers! Read more... | Continue reading
This Santa Fe salad is the ultimate Southwestern salad. It's loaded with tender, juicy chicken, fresh veggies, and creamy black beans. The post Santa Fe Salad appeared first on Budget Bytes. | Continue reading
Join physicist Sean Carroll in a thought-provoking exploration of how life emerges in a universe governed by the second law of thermodynamics, which dictates an inevitable increase in disorder. This video delves into the intriguing contradiction between the universe’s natural pro … | Continue reading
Explaining our disposition to work has two major dimensions. However, neither is widely understood or practiced. Many organizations seem perplexed or even agnostic about employee motivation. For companies genuinely intent on understanding how to make their workplaces better, who … | Continue reading
"Jackpot!" Thrilled shopper shares photo of cult-classic kitchen appliance found at thrift shop: 'It's got decades of life left in it' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
With the creators of Fallout enjoying a new surge in players since Amazon Prime’s television series has been a huge… Continue reading Fallout 5 may be released sooner than we all expected The post Fallout 5 may be released sooner than we all expected appeared first on ReadWrite. | Continue reading
I reflect my age by (among other things) getting drowsy in the early afternoon and early evening. Methamphetamine would be helpful in counteracting that, and is calorie-free, but chocolate is also effective and delicious, and is legal. | Continue reading
Current conditions: An orange alert for severe thunderstorms is in effect across China’s southern provinces • More rain is expected in Kenya, where extreme flooding has killed at least 70 people • Bangladesh reopened its schools despite an ongoing heat wave. THE TOP FIVE 1. Hundr … | Continue reading
An executive at Elon Musk’s social media company X has revealed the platform’s payments “end goal” could play havoc with… Continue reading Elon Musk’s X platform ‘end goal’ could shake up crypto market The post Elon Musk’s X platform ‘end goal’ could shake up crypto market appear … | Continue reading
Sony has rolled out a massive new PlayStation 5 update that will allow players to help others. The new feature,… Continue reading Sony unveils groundbreaking Community Game Help PS5 update The post Sony unveils groundbreaking Community Game Help PS5 update appeared first on ReadW … | Continue reading
Quantum physics is certainly confusing. How can both these things be true? Well, to clarify this, let’s look at objects that do have an intrinsic size, such as protons and neutrons. How are their sizes actually determined? While this question is addressed in the book’s Chapter 17 … | Continue reading
Today at Squirrel News, we delve into the proposition of a tax for major fossil fuel companies to confront the climate crisis, the Mexican Senate passing legislation to outlaw conversion therapy, and the inspiring efforts of cities paving the way in housing solutions for the home … | Continue reading
We've seen some impressive nature-inspired flying bots from the creative minds at Festo's Bionic Learning Network over the years, but the autonomous BionicBee is not only the smallest so far but also the first capable of swarming. Continue Reading Category: Robotics, Technology T … | Continue reading