"We must live it, now, a day at a time and be very careful not to hurt each other." | Continue reading
Filipe Espósito, writing at 9to5 Mac: Back in 2020, Apple offered selected developers a custom DTK Mac mini with the A12Z Bionic chip inside, so that they could develop apps for the Apple Silicon platform. After the official launch of the M1 Macs, developers had to return their D … | Continue reading
Reprinted with permission from Populus: Living and Dying in Ancient Rome by Guy de la Bédoyère, published by the University of Chicago Press. © 2024 by Guy de la Bédoyère. All rights reserved. Certain Roman emperors led the field when it came to dining. Colorful anecdotes abo … | Continue reading
Two and bit years ago, I spotted an entry on Fandom about a “remake” of the Stanley Kubrick sci-fi classic, 2001: A Space Odyssey. Being a 2001 fan, I naturally wrote about it. I’ve had a lot of fun with the post ever since. People stumble upon it every now and again, and link to … | Continue reading
For the curious, intrepid explorer looking for a brief getaway from bustling George Town, head northwest, where a sprawling fruit paradise awaits you. Located in northwest Teluk Bahang, the Penang Tropical Fruit Farm is Southeast Asia’s largest collection of fruits. The farm sits … | Continue reading
Posted a couple of things with WordPress, having moved from Jekyll. ‘s OK, but need to change a few things like meta descriptions. Bit of work to do. | Continue reading
Link: AI Citations. One of the things about what we know as “AI” is that it’s become an all-encompassing term for what I think are a group of actually quite different things. I’m particularly interested in the research going into machine learning models to help predict cancers. T … | Continue reading
She is the Earth, a work of verse, written by Yankunytjatjara (South Australia) poet Ali Cobby Eckermann, was named the NSW Premiers Literary Awards book of the year, on Monday 20 May 2024. Award judges were unstinting in their praise of Eckermann’s writing: She is the Earth is a … | Continue reading
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It looks like a tiny semi-truck and trailer, with the driver sitting in an enclosed cab and pulling a spacious cargo trailer behind, but instead of burning fossil fuels for power, the Cityshuttle ePack is pedaled like a bicycle. This zero emission light goods vehicle could be a k … | Continue reading
Scientists have used a new technique to synthesize diamonds at normal, atmospheric pressure and without a starter gem, which could make the precious gemstones easier to grow in the lab. | Continue reading
New Phi-3 models: small, medium and vision I couldn't find a good official announcement post to link to about these three newly released models, but this post on LocalLLaMA on Reddit has them in one place: Phi-3 small (7B), Phi-3 medium (14B) and Phi-3 vision (4.2B) (the previous … | Continue reading
Link: Mania! endless revision / fixation on minutiae / sprawl / excessive wisecracking / punchiness / illusory epiphany / paranoia These are the Zone of Fruitless Intensification stage of “the right stuff” – virtues turned to self-defeating vices… necessary strengths that, pushed … | Continue reading
“At least one person from almost any department at a company like this you can imagine got some bad news today” The post Long-time Staffers At RPS, GamesIndustry.biz, VG247 Surprised By Layoffs As IGN Buys Network appeared first on Aftermath. | Continue reading
Sydney based product designer Wing Pang, whom I wrote about last week, has published a comprehensive guide to the IndieWeb. Coming from a design background, joining the IndieWeb was an incredibly exciting and rewarding, yet maze-like journey. To be honest, almost every step of th … | Continue reading
This dominant and unusual rocky formation of sandstone and siltstone was exposed during white clay mining for brickmaking at the nearby Yarralumla Brickworks for the building of Canberra in the 1940s and 1950s. It consists of two anticlines (upwards folds) with a syncline (downwa … | Continue reading
Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 launched on May 21, with reviews of Ninja Theory’s Xbox Series X and Windows PC exclusive… Continue reading Hellblade II reviews roundup: If critics agree on anything, it’s visually impressive The post Hellblade II reviews roundup: If critics agree on an … | Continue reading
Our love of bananas knows no bounds. Join us as we celebrate the versatile fruit through recipes and stories. | Continue reading
At the 2024 MIT Energy Iniative Spring Symposium, experts weighed whether hydrogen stored in the earth might be a practical energy source of the future. | Continue reading
The movie adaptation of Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club is gaining steam. Both Amblin and Netflix are behind the feature adaptation of Osman’s first book in the series, which centers on four friends in a retirement community who research cold cases for fun and end up ent … | Continue reading
At 9 p.m. ET on June 27, Americans who haven’t already set their out-of-office responders or hit the road to beat summer weekend traffic or otherwise made plans more exciting than watching two old men insult each other might find themselves tuning into the first presidential deba … | Continue reading
Netflix fantasy Sweet Tooth—based on Jeff Lemire’s DC comic series—will unveil its third and final season in June, and the stakes are sky-high for the hybrid kids and their allies. Today brought a new trailer and images highlighting new characters, including those played by Star … | Continue reading
Scientists have used the gorilla genome to probe for previously unknown genes that may contribute to infertility in men. | Continue reading
The GNOME Foundation and Black Python Devs are proud to announce that our organizations have entered into a fiscal sponsorship agreement for the mutual benefit of our communities and the greater open source world. The GNOME Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, envision … | Continue reading
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The 10 Design Fellows are MIT graduate students working at the intersection of design and multiple disciplines across the Institute. | Continue reading
Bananas have made prominent appearances in music, movies, and TV shows and might just be the most popular fruit ever—even beyond the grocery basket. Here's our list of the top 10 most impactful banana-related pop culture moments. | Continue reading
Yes tech reviewers widely panned the Rabbit R1 as not useful at all. But the scams from the company go even further with it originally being an NFT/Crypto/Clean Energy company that raised money and didn’t deliver. So the same Crypto scammers are getting in on AI scams now. | Continue reading
Blog of the .Day, yes, styled as Blog of the .Day, a collaboration between James of James’ Coffee Blog, and Joe Crawford, will highlight a new blog every day. Aside from casting the spotlight daily on a blog, another goal of the project is to bring the term blogosphere back into … | Continue reading
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Find out how you can make a real contribution to sustainable development. Visit an exhibition that will change the way you think about mobility. Who should visit the exhibition? The post Find out how the world will change in 2024! EUROBIKE 2024 will break the rules at the beginni … | Continue reading
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Sometimes I save a rant for 10 years and finally decide it's not a thinkpiece, it's a stupid joke. Today's News: | Continue reading
Robert told me about this blogging workflow trend that’s currently happening in a bunch of blogs around the web and since I thought it’s a neat idea I’m gonna share mine. I’m gonna split it into two because this blog serves as both my home on the web as well as a home for the Peo … | Continue reading
Find a summer evening adventure by visiting the Campbell Ave bridge over the Rillito river. Thousands of Mexican Free-Tailed bats take flight at sunset, filling the sky. You can stand above and watch them take flight or go on the Loop path and listen to them under the bridge. Tuc … | Continue reading
A key component: Installing known vulnerable drivers from Avast and IOBit. | Continue reading
Scientists have replicated the ingenious seed-delivery system used by wild oats, resulting in a seed-carrying bio-hybrid "robot." Scores of the tiny devices could one day be utilized for much easier, more effective aerial seeding of crops or even new forests. Continue Reading Cat … | Continue reading
Despite the fact that they’re created by humans, large language models are still quite mysterious. The high-octane algorithms that power our current artificial intelligence boom have a way of doing things that aren’t outwardly explicable to the people observing them. This is why … | Continue reading
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Threat actors were found breaching AWS accounts using authentication secrets leaked as plaintext in Atlassian Bitbucket artifact objects. [...] | Continue reading
I couldn’t resist quoting Andrew’s statistical lexicon in my abstract! It’d be great to see you in person if you’re nearby, but otherwise, the talks will go out via MS Teams (links below). Prior and Posterior Probability Checks in Stan … Continue reading → | Continue reading
Amidst the high-end Miami Design District, visitors can find an incongruous sight tucked away on a side street. A gas station billboard painted a dull gold lies tilted on its side, still flashing its advertisement for Sunoco gas. This structure isn't a discarded product of the pa … | Continue reading
Bluey’s World is opening later this year in the Heeler family’s neighborhood of Brisbane, Australia. Inspired by Ludo Studio’s hit animated series Bluey, this mini theme park experience is an upgrade from a traveling pop-up; it’s more of a permanent residence with attractions thr … | Continue reading
Out of all the big blowout declarations from Microsoft Build, from the launch of all new “Copilot+” PCs with Snapdragon X Elite chips to new software, perhaps the most standout offering is Recall. It’s an always-on screenshotting time machine that is supposed to let users search … | Continue reading
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A high-octane post-climate disaster novella. The post Read an Excerpt From Suyi Davies Okungbowa’s Lost Ark Dreaming appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Sonos jumps into the fray with Sony's WH-1000XM5 and Apple's AirPods Max. | Continue reading
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Targets for 100 percent electric vehicle adoption by 2035 cannot be achieved without an unprecedented acceleration in copper mining, according to the Secretary General of the International Energy Forum Joseph McMonigle. Copper is the most essential mineral … | Continue reading
If you didn't get enough to Jo Martin on Doctor Who, this one's for you The post The Marlow Murder Club Trailer Gives Us an Unexpected Team-Up of Sleuths appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading