"Now I know what to do this afternoon!" Gardener demonstrates simple method to grow seemingly endless supply of protein-packed food: 'They grow very quickly' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
14:34 Vacaville. Quiet house, Nurse off with her daughters and friend. Going through this onboarding stuff, and it’s […] | Continue reading
Hackers have been targeting WordPress sites with an outdated version of the LiteSpeed Cache plugin to create administrator users and gain control of the websites. [...] | Continue reading
This location provides direct access to the gold mining underworld of Bendigo, which was responsible for Australia's Victorian gold rush. In addition to the well-maintained surface facilities, this location offers explorers the option to go deep below the earth's surface and trav … | Continue reading
Disney+ on Safari does not support 4K / HDR content. To take advantage of your Mac’s screen, you can Airplay Disney+ content from the iOS app, which streams it in Dolby Vision 4k. The post Use Airplay from Disney+ iOS app to your MacBook if you want to get Dolby Vision content fi … | Continue reading
Meanwhile, back in the real world… chefs in France recently made the world’s longest ever baguette, which clocks in at a… morsel over one-hundred and forty metres in length. (My question: did they create the world’s largest oven to cook up this oversize stick of bread?) I thought … | Continue reading
Russell T Davies may have already returned to Doctor Who with its 60th anniversary specials, but a new, full season of the show brings with it myriad opportunities. Doctor Who’s latest relaunch is no exception: a new Doctor, a new companion, new adventures, and perhaps in the big … | Continue reading
"Punishments for damaging natural places and our wildlife need to be dramatically increased in severity." Fisherman convicted for disturbing protected natural wonder with shovel: 'His actions resulted in significant financial and ecological harm' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
If your parents or grandparents grew up in the United States in the 1950s, there’s a decent chance that they know the theme song to The Howdy Doody Show. The Howdy Doody Show is one of those pieces of 1950s ephemera that has come to symbolize mid-century American childhood. For o … | Continue reading
Xbox has always been on the ball when it comes to aesthetically pleasing controller variations so there’s no surprise that… Continue reading Add a bit of heat to your Xbox setup with the new Fire Vapor Special Edition controller The post Add a bit of heat to your Xbox setup with … | Continue reading
We even have some paint suggestions so you can get the look in your own kitchen. READ MORE... | Continue reading
It’s getting hot in Texas. Forecast highs for Tuesday are 89 degrees Fahrenheit in Houston, 92 in San Antonio, and 90 in Dallas. ERCOT, which operates the energy market that covers around 90% of the state, issued an “extreme hot weather event” warning and a “weather watch” due to … | Continue reading
It’s getting hot in Texas. Forecast highs for Tuesday are 89 degrees Fahrenheit in Houston, 92 in San Antonio, and 90 in Dallas. ERCOT, which operates the energy market that covers around 90% of the state, issued an “extreme hot weather event” warning and a “weather watch” due to … | Continue reading
Archaeologists excavating a burial mound in Croatia have discovered a 2,500-year-old Illyrian helmet that may have been a votive offering. | Continue reading
Many runners don't like the way hydration packs bounce and sway with every step, nor do they like holding onto water bottles. Vessel Athletics' Hydroshirt offers what might be a better alternative to both, in that it incorporates its own snugged-down water bladder. Continue Readi … | Continue reading
By Jacqui Banaszynski ack in March, The New York Times published a how-to piece on styling bookshelves. It was written by Tim McKeough and featured Jeremiah Brent, who is on the cast of the Netflix series “Queer Eye.” (Brent must also an influencer because the story mentioned his … | Continue reading
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And the new Apple Pencil Pro does some cool things, too. | Continue reading
Eden V, also known by the name Etsuyo Maru, was a Japanese cargo ship built in 1968. On December 16, 1988, the ship was grounded on the coast near Lesina Marina, despite not having sent a mayday call. The shipwreck has been left to rot for several decades and reportedly contained … | Continue reading
Here’s our first look inside Rapunzel’s Lantern Festival, a new dark ride at Tokyo DisneySea’s Fantasy Springs based on Disney Animation’s Tangled. The attraction is a boat ride not unlike Pirates of the Caribbean that takes you through the story of Rapunzel’s dream to see the fl … | Continue reading
Boeing’s Starliner launch – delayed again – will be an important milestone for commercial spaceflight if it can manage to launch. | Continue reading
Working with cutting edge technologies to create innovative products, experiences and spaces is a dream job for many of today's designers. Ideally, these designed experiences deliver delight to the intended audience, with interactions that are as clear, understandable and enjoyab … | Continue reading
New “AI Comes Out of the Closet” system seeks to merge artificial intelligence and LGBTQIA+ support. | Continue reading
Around 4.5 billion years ago, Earth and Venus were born in the midst of a chaotic star system. With the neighboring worlds being of the same size and similar structure, it’s believed that both planets likely began with similar amounts of water. Today, however, Venus is a hellish … | Continue reading
In the ever-evolving landscape of Web Development, the Frontend arena in 2024 has seen a remarkable fusion of creativity, functionality, and technological innovation. Frontend web development, once primarily focused on crafting visually appealing user interfaces, has transcended … | Continue reading
In Aug. 19, 2021, a humpback whale named Twain whupped back. Specifically, Twain made a series of humpback whale calls known as “whups” in response to playback recordings of whups from a boat of researchers off the coast of Alaska. The whale and the playback exchanged calls 36 ti … | Continue reading
I introduced datasette-secrets two weeks ago. The core idea is to provide a way for end-users to store secrets such as API keys in Datasette, allowing other plugins to access them. datasette-secrets 0.2 is the first non-alpha release of that project. The big new feature is that t … | Continue reading
At the northern end of the Uniwersytecki bridge in Wroclaw, you might just miss this creepy hand that appears to be reaching out from between the stones that make up the bridge. As Wroclaw is said to be one of the most haunted cities in Poland, this hand may be connected to one o … | Continue reading
The Swiss Army Knife has become such a shorthand for multifunctionality that companies producing does-a-lot-of-stuff wares will often say that their goods are the “Swiss Army Knife” of whatever category they’re a part of. You can use the tool to cut stuff, snip stuff, uncork stuf … | Continue reading
Drew Barrymore slavered over Kamala as though she was the second coming. But the past four years proves the empress had no clothes. | Continue reading
If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to own a vehicle from the Halo universe, if you cough… Continue reading Halo’s iconic Razorback comes to life with this Tesla Cybertruck wrap The post Halo’s iconic Razorback comes to life with this Tesla Cybertruck wrap appeared firs … | Continue reading
This $59 coffee maker by Drew Barrymore's Beautiful line looks good and works great. READ MORE... | Continue reading
Wes Davis, writing at The Verge: The newly announced iPad Pro hides a sneaky upgrade option that Apple didn’t mention during its event today. When you cough up the $600 it costs to jump from the 256GB base model iPad Pro to the 1TB version, Apple doesn’t just double the RAM along … | Continue reading
A brightly-colored bonanza of shopping, the Ima or "Mother's" Market covers three large buildings in the city of Imphal, India. Established in the 16th century, the market hosts around 5,000 vendors who sell a variety of products, from fruit and vegetables to seafood and spices t … | Continue reading
The US places a $10 million bounty for the arrest of Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev. | Continue reading
Today is day 7 of WeblogPoMo2024, a month long daily blogging challenge. I’m challenging myself to write about a song each day, but there are many other people writing about other things. You should check them out! Today’s song is “Why We Cry at Movies” by As Tall As Lions. I kno … | Continue reading
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Today I finally got in touch with Kia’s corporate customer service after filing a complaint yesterday, and they said that they also haven’t been able to get in touch with the dealership. | Continue reading
Third post from this year's trip to Mallorca. See also A walk in Port de Sóller and Back in Port de Sóller. Have some thoughts? Send me an email. | Continue reading
I believe that many of the arguments we have around software development practices could be avoided by the simple understanding that all of our mantras need to be understood as proverbs and not laws. If you understand proverbs, then you’ll know that every proverb has an equal and … | Continue reading
I write about Sysprof here quite often. Mostly in hopes of encouraging readers to use it to improve Linux as a whole. An impediment to that is the intrusiveness to test out new features as they are developed. If only we had a Flatpak which you could install to test things right a … | Continue reading
Air-gapping GPT-4 model on secure network won't prevent it from potentially making things up. | Continue reading
Today, we’re happy to welcome a new member of the Amazon Titan family of models: Amazon Titan Text Premier, now available in Amazon Bedrock. Following Amazon Titan Text Lite and Titan Text Express, Titan Text Premier is the latest large language model (LLM) in the Amazon Titan fa … | Continue reading
Three years ago, I published my projection of grid storage demand and solutions through 2060. At the time, various compressed gas electricity storage solutions such as compressed air, liquid air, and liquid carbon dioxide were in my also-ran technologies. My review of the literat … | Continue reading
You'll be able to watch the whole series on AMC soon The post Snowpiercer’s Fourth Season Hits Tracks Sooner than Expected, With First-Look Photos to Boot appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Discover a world of laughter and exploration with these comforting TV shows! From comedy and travel to insightful documentaries, they're the perfect escape to ease anxiety. Laugh, learn, and immerse yourself in the wonders of the world, the earth, and the animal kingdom. | Continue reading
Law curtails "massive amounts of protected speech," TikTok and ByteDance allege. | Continue reading
Deterministic Quoting: Making LLMs Safe for Healthcare Matt Yeung introduces Deterministic Quoting, a technique to help reduce the risk of hallucinations while working with LLMs. The key idea is to have parts of the output that are copied directly from relevant source documents, … | Continue reading