"That's a great idea." Mom shares thrifty alternative to annoying plastic tablecloths: 'Pretty, festive, inexpensive, and far better' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
A review of S.A. Barnes's new SF horror novel. The post Read an Excerpt From S.A. Barnes’s Ghost Station appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Today's links Cigna's nopeinator: When computer says no, doctors are the moral crumple-zone. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin' … | Continue reading
LGBTQ+ organizations in Canada are gearing up for a “Rainbow Week of Action” that will feature rallies across the country calling on governments to do more to support LGBTQ+ communities. Such events are part of a long history of LGBTQ+ campaigning and protest. However, in a time … | Continue reading
The quest for faster EV charging reached another milestone this month as Israeli battery maker StoreDot demonstrated its silicon-dominant EV battery technology in a prototype Polestar electric car. In the demonstration, the company was able to reach sustained charging rates of ov … | Continue reading
The U.S. got Manuel Noriega out of the Vatican’s embassy in Panama City by playing Van Halen 24/7. I wonder if administrators at elite universities could clear their “river to the sea” encampments of Hamas/Hezbollah/UNRWA/Palestinian Islamic Jihad supporters via the magic of Tayl … | Continue reading
For its Amazing Spring Savings sale, which is running right now, Blix has a selection of e-bikes discounted by as much as $700, and in some cases, is throwing in free accessories worth hundreds of dollars, so if spring has you thinking green, perhaps now is the time to take a ... … | Continue reading
A review of the second novel in Terry J. Benton's YA contemporary fantasy series Blood Debts. The post A Chaotic New Orleans Mage Crew: Blood Justice by Terry J. Benton-Walker appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Lode Runner running in Virtual II on the Mac, where all emulation is allowed. And just like that, Apple embraced retro game emulators in the App Store.… | Continue reading
I’ve started liking Mastodon. After the fall of Twitter, I basically took a break from most interactive social media. Consume, Build, Live. That’s what I was focusing on. Now it feels like I’m ready to Talk again and Mastodon feels like the place to do it. Not a fan of the defaul … | Continue reading
Jared Leto may be the main star of the upcoming Tron: Ares, but we now know the face of the franchise will also join him. In a new podcast, Jeff Bridges revealed that he’s returning to the third film in a franchise that he headlined both in 1982's original and 2010's sequel. Read … | Continue reading
Humza Yousaf’s resignation as first minister of Scotland was, in the end, expected, after a chain of events made his position untenable. It was trailed from early in the morning that he would be resigning, so when he finally addressed the media at lunchtime, there was no sense of … | Continue reading
Could you throw a lifebuoy all the way out to a distressed swimmer located one kilometer away? Nope, you couldn't … but your could fly one out to them, in the form of the TY-3R Flying Lifebuoy drone. Continue Reading Category: Drones, Technology Tags: Lifeguards, Swimming, Rescue | Continue reading
In November 2023, we made two new Cohere models available in Amazon Bedrock (Cohere Command Light and Cohere Embed English). Today, we’re announcing the addition of two more Cohere models in Amazon Bedrock; Cohere Command R and Command R+. Organizations need generative artificial … | Continue reading
"Always wondered how these worked." Home expert reviews pros and cons of electric 'robot' lawn mowers: 'They say you'll never have to mow the lawn again' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
This movie definitely counts as a happy memory. The post The People’s Joker Re-Mixes and Re-Mx-es Our Modern Myths with Sheer Trans Joy appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
TorNet, a public artificial intelligence dataset, could help models reveal when and why tornadoes form, improving forecasters' ability to issue warnings. | Continue reading
Digital Chinese-language keyboards that are vulnerable to spying and eavesdropping have been used by one billion smartphone users, according to a new report. The widespread threats these leaky systems reveal could also present a concerning new kind of exploit for cyberattacks, wh … | Continue reading
Over the last two newsletters (three, if you include my reply to Google’s “rebuttal” of the Prabhakar Raghavan newsletter), I’ve made the case that while rot economics are responsible for making technology products manifestly worse, this transformation was only possible thanks to … | Continue reading
If Conan the Barbarian was a desktop gaming PC enthusiast, and you asked him what is best in life, his answer would probably be the standard “crush those framerates… see the pixels driven before you… hear the lamentations of your CPU fan,” or something of that nature. He’d want t … | Continue reading
Stage Zero: Unwelcome Discovery Your rather unrefined friend sends you a link to an AI-generated violin concerto. “Cool, right?!” she texts, followed by the laughing emoji. You touch the callus on your neck from your twenty-two years of playing violin. Suddenly, the memory of the … | Continue reading
In all good X-Men stories, out of the fires of chaos something new and exciting is reborn in phoenix-flame. There’s perhaps no better example of that right now than the consolidation of the Fox X-Men movie era into mutantkind’s renaissance on the small screen for X-Men ‘97—and th … | Continue reading
Other changes include the unusual up-sloping top tube toward the headset The post Team GB – Track Bike for 2024 Olympics – a new aero Hope? appeared first on the5krunner • tri bike run. The full post can be read now at the5krunner • tri bike run. | Continue reading
At MIT’s Festival of Learning 2024, panelists stressed the importance of developing critical thinking skills while leveraging technologies like generative AI. | Continue reading
I continue to be an AI-sceptic. But if you're feeling uninspired on a Monday morning, try feeding your to-do list into an AI songwriter and ask for something uplifting so you can start your day with a cheerleader on your side! | Continue reading
Canadian pharmacy chain London Drugs has closed all its retail stores to contain what it described as a "cybersecurity incident." [...] | Continue reading
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OpenAI is under scrutiny in the European Union again — this time over ChatGPT’s hallucinations about people. Read more... | Continue reading
Despite dedicating years of innovation and research toward convincing consumers to buy electric vehicles, automakers are still grappling with a lack of charging infrastructure across the United States. But California — a leader in EVs — says that isn’t too much of a problem for i … | Continue reading
I’ve made some important fixes and handy improvements to the Marked Conductor since it was first published. I’ve made my own config available as an example. Not all of the scripts are polished, but it’s complete enough to show how I’m using it. I still need to finish breaking my … | Continue reading
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An expert in robotics and AI, Shah succeeds Steven Barrett at AeroAstro. | Continue reading
"The speed at which things are going wrong is such that we have to resort to these kinds of [measures] to at least buy some time." Startup to test unusual method of restoring Arctic sea ice: 'We have to start somewhere' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
A festival of religions takes place aboard Babylon 5, while G'Kar tries to avoid an assassination plot. The post Babylon 5 Rewatch: “The Parliament of Dreams” appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
It's been two years since we first saw the 2x2 Ultra Bike prototype, which had electric motors—and gas tanks!—in each wheel.Produced by Russian company Robo Systems, it's now being offered for sale through mobility company TheArsenale. The current version of the bike looks like r … | Continue reading
At San Francisco Climate Week, everyone wanted to talk about artificial intelligence. “I was looking through all of the events on SF Climate Week, and it seemed like every single one of them had AI somewhere in the name,” joked (sort of) Rohan Nuttell of OpenAI last week, while m … | Continue reading
In a bid to fight back against censorship, over 45,000 gamers have signed a petition titled ‘Free Stellar Blade’ with… Continue reading ‘Free Stellar Blade’ petition closes in on 50,000 signatures in fight against censorship The post ‘Free Stellar Blade’ petition closes in on 50, … | Continue reading
On the road to delivering 100 miles of EV range in five minutes by the end of 2024, tech firm StoreDot has installed its extreme fast charging cells in a Polestar 5 prototype, and zapped the 77-kWh pack to 80% capacity in 10 minutes. Continue Reading Category: Automotive, Transpo … | Continue reading
With applications for the 2024 Skift Meetings Awards well underway, let’s take a moment to look back at the 2023 winners. A heads up, as well, that the early-bird deadline for submissions is tomorrow, April 30, at 11:59 p.m. ET. -Adam Stacey | Continue reading
Get lost in a book- literally Any passionate reader knows that it’s easy to get lost within the pages of a good book. As bestselling author Steven King once said, “Books are a uniquely portable magic.” But what if you could actually step inside a book’s realm? Discover six remark … | Continue reading
Director Matt Reeves was not messing around when he made Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. He wipes out most of the human race before the title card, then unfurls a powerful story of two opposing societies destined for war despite having every possible opportunity at peace. It’s bl … | Continue reading
“EPCOT Becoming — Inside the Transformation” a new special about the changes that have recently happened to the theme park at Walt Disney World, debuts on National Geographic on April 29, 2024. The Details In this special, Disney fans will get to take a behind-the-scenes look at … | Continue reading
Being both an EV charging nerd and being way into national parks, I spend more time than I care to admit looking at national parks on Plugshare. It’s a weird hobby, but I’m at least trying to make something useful out of it by building a website with EV travel ... [continued] The … | Continue reading
For Maria, who loves many plants, herbs, and flowers, this was a labor of love – her ailing cactuses. The round one on the left has particular meaning to both of us. I was in my Hebron farmhouse when she and I first met; she has been caring for it ever since. This year, the […] | Continue reading
The EU’s decision to draw iPad under the scope of the DMA will ensure that fairness and competition are preserved, EU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager said in a statement. She said that despite not meeting all the thresholds for being earmarked, an investigation showed … | Continue reading
Scientists have yet to reach the bottom of the Taam Ja' Blue Hole in Mexico's Chetumal Bay, which new measurements hint could be connected to a labyrinth of submarine caves and tunnels. | Continue reading
These traditional Scottish oats are made from steel-cut (also known as pinhead or Irish) oats, cooked in lightly salted water until creamy but still flowing, and topping with little more than butter and maybe a sprinkling of good sea salt. | Continue reading