‘Twas the afternoon before Star Wars Day, and all through the internet, Hasbro was stirring our wallets with yet another big stream of reveals from the galaxy far, far away. Appropriately, given that 2024's Star Wars Day coincides with the 25th anniversary of The Phantom Menace, … | Continue reading
Each week, Atlas Obscura is providing a new short excerpt from our upcoming book, Wild Life: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Living Wonders (September 17, 2024). You’re walking in the woods in Mozambique, humming to yourself. Suddenly, a small brown bird appears. You glimpse h … | Continue reading
Physical media is very popular these days. Nostalgia, fandom, and streaming burnout have caused certain segments of American society to switch off their Amazon Prime accounts and fire up their Blu-ray players. One of the many advertised benefits of physical media is that it offer … | Continue reading
Yan Lianke at Literary Hub: In China we have a saying that reading a banned book on a snowy night is one of the true joys of life. From this, one can well imagine the kind of satisfaction that reading a banned book may bring—like candy locked up in a cabinet, it releases a sweet… | Continue reading
April saw plugin EVs take a 56.9% share in Sweden, up modestly YoY from 55.7%. The BEV share fell slightly YoY, while PHEV share climbed higher. Overall auto volume was 21,977 units, up some 7% YoY. The new Volvo EX30 was March’s bestselling BEV, its first time in the top ... [co … | Continue reading
Daniel Immerwahr in The Guardian: The German forester Peter Wohlleben’s surprise bestseller, The Hidden Life of Trees (published in English in 2016), has inaugurated a new tree discourse, which sees them not as inert objects but intelligent subjects. Trees have thoughts and desir … | Continue reading
Infections can trigger pregnancy complications, and now, new miniature versions of the placenta are helping show why. | Continue reading
Can we buy tickets yet? The post This Blue Is Mine Sounds Like the “Mental Breakdown or Alien?” Movie We Didn’t Know We Wanted appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Thanks to Listen Later for sponsoring this week’s posts at Pixel Envy. Some sponsors provide their own Friday posts, but I was asked to write a little something of my own for Listen Later and I am happy to do so. I only accept sponsorships for products I actually like and would u … | Continue reading
The Maud Rise polynya has been sporadically opening up in Antarctica's ice since at least the 1970s. Now climatologists finally know why. | Continue reading
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The Acorn giveaway has ended, and I have winners to announce! The winners! Congratulations to: Theo Thevenot Steve Gutierrez You should have received an email with details, please let me know if you didn’t hear anything! But I didn’t win! If you didn’t win, sorry, but Acorn is st … | Continue reading
Here's what we looked at this week:A good example of improving an existing product's UX by listening to customers' pain points: Star-M's special Raceway Bit speeds installation times for electricians. Milwaukee's alternative designs for vacuum-based drill dust shrouds.Elements Ed … | Continue reading
Jeremy Hsu in New Scientist: Artificial intelligence is enabling India’s politicians to be everywhere at once in the world’s largest election by cloning their voices and digital likenesses. Even dead public figures, such as politician and actress Jayaram Jayalalithaa, are getting … | Continue reading
Wooden wind turbine blades can outperform conventional composites while reducing costs and improving recycling rates. The post Elegant Wind Turbine Blades Made Of Wood Can Outperform Composites appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
On a cold New Year's Eve in 1967 in Ashley, North Dakota, newlyweds Donna and Delbert Eszlinger sliced excitedly into a large, round yellow onion. First, they split it lengthwise down the middle. Then, carefully, the couple peeled back the onion’s layers, laying 12 fresh, eye-wat … | Continue reading
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From my father, there’s still an old Commodore 64 he used when he was young. I kept it since I thought I might try some retro-computing. But now (some years later) in the process of cleaning up my flat and throwing out things I no longer need, I tried to connect it to the TV, but … | Continue reading
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier ended in 2021, and Captain America: Brave New World isn’t arriving until 2025. But Marvel doesn’t want you to forget about one of its signature heroes, now played by Anthony Mackie, amid all the Deadpool & Wolverine hype, teasing Sam Wilson’s new … | Continue reading
Google has rolled back a recent release of its reCaptcha captcha script after a bug caused the service to no longer work on Firefox for Windows. [...] | Continue reading
This white spice paste is the cornerstone of many Indonesian meals and is the base of many other essential flavorings within the cuisine. Plus: Having a jar in my fridge means I can whip up my favorite meals at a moment’s notice. | Continue reading
Write freely. Don’t think. One paragraph to the next. Don’t think about what to write – where you […] | Continue reading
Yes, fine, kaadu egg on my face—I unwittingly designed a planet-destroying, fully armed, and operational battle station. But put yourself in my shoes: you’re a mid-tier, ambitious architect, and you get singled out of your whole firm, Coruscant Skyline Legacy, to design the bigge … | Continue reading
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"I love how colorful you've made them with just what disposable stuff you had or found." Gift-giver gets creative using toilet paper rolls as DIY present: 'I loved this idea' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
09:19 Laundry on…. Several errands to run. Running, not today. Taking the day to situate the new office […] | Continue reading
A companion bill to the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) was introduced in the House last month. Despite minor changes, it suffers from the same fundamental flaws as its Senate counterpart. At its core, this bill is still an unconstitutional censorship bill that restricts protected … | Continue reading
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Really you start to wonder about all those pale blonde princesses in storybooks. Today's News: | Continue reading
Every celebrity has various trolls who say mean things about them online, a fact of life for most famous people in the modern era. But Tiffany Haddish isn’t just a passive observer when people insult her on social media networks. Haddish says she’s tracked down people trolling he … | Continue reading
In 2021, it cancelled an EV months before production—now it's preparing for 2025. | Continue reading
It’s fair to say Apple AirPods, both the pro and non-pro versions, are some of the most popular earbuds on… Continue reading Apple AirPods 4: Release date, specs, price and everything we know so far The post Apple AirPods 4: Release date, specs, price and everything we know so fa … | Continue reading
Let’s continue our origami adventure! Today, we’re going to learn how to make a cool origami cube. To get started,… The post How To Make Origami Cube appeared first on Kids Activities Blog. | Continue reading
McDonald’s is currently featurong Happy Meal toys from Marvel Studios’ “Captain America: Brave New World,” even though the movie is now scheduled for February 14 2025. This is because the movie was scheduled to be released July 26, 2024, but a date change in November 2023 bumped … | Continue reading
There is a fashion these days amongst tech pundits to go on and on about how awful Siri is, but in my experience it’s not, it’s amazing. I use it all the time. I use it mostly through my watch, where I have Raise to Speak turned on so I don’t even have to say […] | Continue reading
A Chinese probe is on its way to the far side of the Moon to collect samples and drop them off at Earth in what would be a historic first. The Chang’e-6 mission launched from the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center at 5:30 a.m. ET on Friday. The lunar probe was riding on board China … | Continue reading
Though OpenAI is yet to make its Sora text-to-video model available to the public, it's ability to produce realistic, high-resolution video clips already has movie makers worried for job security. Now the tool has moved into the world of pop music videos. Continue Reading Categor … | Continue reading
Does he love facing mortality or what? The post Robin Hood Will Never Die, But Hugh Jackman Will Star in The Death of Robin Hood appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Eurobot Open 2024: 8–11 May 2024, L … | Continue reading
Alfie is a science fiction thriller novel written by French author Christopher Bouix, published in 2022. The story is told by Alfie, the artificial intelligence of a powerful home automation system. Alfie is an high-end AI-based home automation system made by AlphaCorp. Implement … | Continue reading
New James Webb Space Telescope observations of the exoplanet WASP-43b reveal that the hot gas giant is tidally locked, meaning one side permanently faces its sun while the other always stares out into space. | Continue reading
Valorant’s developers have stepped in to dispel sinister rumors about anti-cheat client Vanguard. Controversial posts have been surfacing that say… Continue reading Valorant developers speak out on Vanguard security concerns The post Valorant developers speak out on Vanguard secu … | Continue reading
Dave Winer kindly let me know about a proposed standard for linking to OPML blogrolls. Given that I added a page containing my blogroll last year, it was easy enough for me to add a tiny bit of code to the header to add support for automatic detection of my blogroll. | Continue reading
A few photos from a newish $500/night Marriott hotel in Newport Beach, California: Note the circular waterfall in the middle of the driveway. One of the more interesting features is a massive video screen above the bar at the end of the pool: Why can’t we have this in every room … | Continue reading
The TikTok account Globetrots combines Google Earth and text-to-speech to show top-ten lists… Tags: AI, generative, listicle, storytelling, TikTok | Continue reading
If you long for a web of yore were things were better, somehow: The thing is: none of this is gone. Nothing about the web has changed that prevents us from going back. If anything, it’s become a lot easier. We can return. Better, yet: we can restore the things we loved about the … | Continue reading
More of this, please. The post Romain Gavras’s Sacrifice Has an Excellent Cast and a Wild-Ass Premise appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
A fusion reactor in San Diego surpasses a limit on plasma density. | Continue reading