Net-zero, sustainable homes like these are popping up everywhere. Architectural studio designs climate-proof mirrored homes with surprising energy feature: 'Better suited to our future' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
I was on a plane, the regular shuttle between Boston and Washington, DC, sitting next to Steve, who had been my mentor since the day I joined BCG (Boston Consulting Group). We were in the bulkhead seats, on the right side of the plane. Yes, I do recall this detail; it was a vivid … | Continue reading
Fiction Read in March 2024 Liberty’s Daughter – Naomi Kritzer Liberty’s Daughter follows Beck Garrison, who was kidnapped by her father to live on a techno-libertarian seastead. We get to follow Beck as she reunites with the mother she thought was dead, and finds “stuff” for peop … | Continue reading
The latest version of Genshin Impact will soon be upon us – tomorrow in fact (April 24th) and as ever… Continue reading Genshin Impact 4.6 – release date, how to pre-install, download size and downtime The post Genshin Impact 4.6 – release date, how to pre-install, download size … | Continue reading
In the first regulation of its kind in South Africa, the Remote Gambling Bill includes various measures that would apply… Continue reading South Africa’s Remote Gambling Bill seeks to reduce harm from online gambling The post South Africa’s Remote Gambling Bill seeks to reduce ha … | Continue reading
Back in 2022, the strange-looking prototype igus:bike rolled into the spotlight boasting an angular frame, funky wheels and even bearings made using recycled plastic. Now the newly-named RCYL bike is riding into production. Continue Reading Category: Bicycles, Transport Tags: Mob … | Continue reading
W wouldn’t have noticed this beautiful tree without the blog. | Continue reading
Gemini, Google’s answer to ChatGPT, is set to get an update to its app that enables real-time responses, bringing it… Continue reading Google AI Gemini to receive real-time responses in app The post Google AI Gemini to receive real-time responses in app appeared first on ReadWrit … | Continue reading
German chancellor Olaf Scholz. Photo credits: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung / Flickr German chancellor Olaf Scholz has thrown his weight behind an EU capital markets union to close the bloc’s innovation gap with the US by allowing far more private funding to flow into European start-ups … | Continue reading
I recently noticed a new folder in the root level of my Home directory, named ai_overlay_tmp: In preparation for a future Mac Power Users episode, I’ve been playing with a bunch of AI software, and I assumed something I downloaded generated this folder. I deleted it, just to be f … | Continue reading
Microsoft’s AI chief said those building AI should make sure it’s easy for the public to comprehend it—and offered his own analogy to help do so. Read more... | Continue reading
Ed Simon at The Hedgehog Review: Facing west from his white clapboard Victorian house, surrounded by acres of skeletally bare oak, maple, and hickory reaching up from the snow-covered New Hampshire woods, Robert Frost might have gazed at the granitoid solidity of Ryan’s Hill whil … | Continue reading
Microsoft has launched its smallest AI model yet, Phi-3 Mini, the first of a trio of lightweight models. With more… Continue reading Microsoft launches its smallest AI model yet: Phi-3 Mini The post Microsoft launches its smallest AI model yet: Phi-3 Mini appeared first on ReadWr … | Continue reading
Jackson Arn at The New Yorker: Imagine you’d been born in 1899. Imagine living through the invention of the Model T, the jet aircraft, the liquid-fuelled rocket, and the computer chip. Now imagine looking back on all this in 1965 and writing, as though with a shrug, “How slow wil … | Continue reading
Anni Albers’s Warp Families Posted on Tuesday, Apr 23, 2024 8:30AMTuesday, April 23, 2024 by Morgan Meis | Continue reading
Mathieu Michel, state secretary for digitalisation, has championed blockchain as a priority for the Belgian EU presidency. Photo credits: European Union Belgium has made blockchain one of the priorities of its EU presidency, in particular the relaunch of the European Blockchain S … | Continue reading
The House Slave The first horn lifts its arm over the dew-lit grass and in the slave quarters there is a rustling— children are bundled into aprons, cornbread and water gourds grabbed, a salt pork breakfast taken. I watch them driven into the vague before-dawn while their mistres … | Continue reading
And I find I’m not broken bytradition, but simply want to unfurlmy wings from the pattern ofbeing human, whilst maintainingsimplicity. | Continue reading
The new electric Porsche Macan starts at $78,800, deliveries begin later this year. | Continue reading
The near-Earth asteroid Kamo'oalewa, which orbits alongside our planet as a 'minimoon,' may have originated from Giordano Bruno crater on the far side of the moon, new research suggests. | Continue reading
“Now we’re cookin’ — Tesla the Energy Company." Tesla partners with manufacturer on development of revolutionary solution to reduce cost of rooftop solar — here's how it works first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
重要：我們建議所有使用者立即更新他們所使用的輸入法軟體以及作業系統。並建議高風險使用者停止使用任何輸入法提供的雲端建議功能，改為使用完全離線的輸入法，以避免資料外洩。 | Continue reading
Hello, space fans! Ready to explore Uranus with our printable Uranus coloring pages? This coloring set is perfect for kids… The post Adorable Uranus Coloring Pages For Kids appeared first on Kids Activities Blog. | Continue reading
重要：我们建议所有用户立即更新所使用的输入法软件以及操作系统。并建议高风险用户停止使用任何输入法提供的云端建议功能，改为完全离线的输入法，以避免数据外泄。 本文是完整版报告的摘要翻译。 重要发现 我们分析了常见云端拼音输入法的安全性，包含百度、荣耀、华为、讯飞、OPPO、三星、腾讯等九家厂商，并分析了它们发送用户输入内容到云端的过程是否含有安全缺陷。 分析结果指出，九家厂商中，有八家输入法软件包含严重漏洞，使我们得以完整破解厂商设计用于保护用户输入内容的加密法。亦有部分厂商并未使用任何加密法保护用户输入内容。 综合本研究和我们先前研究中发现的搜狗输入法漏 … | Continue reading
We analyzed third-party keyboard apps Tencent QQ, Baidu, and iFlytek, on the Android, iOS, and Windows platforms. Along with Tencent Sogou, they comprise over 95% of the market share for third-party keyboard apps in China. This is an FAQ for the full report titled "The not-so-sil … | Continue reading
In this report, we examine cloud-based pinyin keyboard apps from nine vendors (Baidu, Honor, Huawei, iFlyTek, OPPO, Samsung, Tencent, Vivo, and Xiaomi) for vulnerabilities in how the apps transmit user keystrokes. Our analysis found that eight of the nine apps identified containe … | Continue reading
KTH has received funding for a new extensive project in nuclear energy technology. The platform for nuclear materials, NuMaP - Nuclear Materials Platform, receives about 40 million SEK from the Swedish Energy Agency. KTH will receive 17 million SEK. "This collaboration strengthen … | Continue reading
On 10 April 2024, the EUA Council approved the applications of 15 new members. The European University Association is pleased to welcome the following institutions as individual full members: Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (Austria) University of South Brittany (France) Univ … | Continue reading
NCBR has announced a call for proposals for joint projects between scientists and entrepreneurs who wish to receive funding from Swiss Funds in the area of applied research. The deadline for submission of proposals is 1 July, with 15 million Swiss francs, which is more than PLN 6 … | Continue reading
The good folk at WAVLINK have sent me their Dual-Screen USB-C adapter to review. Plug it in to a USB-C socket and you now have two extra monitor ports. It'll even work on a USB-A socket, if it is USB 3.0. But is it any good? No. Not really. Hardware It's a fairly chunky hub, […] | Continue reading
Next week I’ll give a talk at the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen titled “Your perspective is quite insightful”: Deconstructing the Endless Engagement Aesthetics of AI Platforms. I’ll be sharing some in-progress work I’m looking at … | Continue reading
Jonathan Weiner in MIT Technology Review: If high intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in our heads at the same time, then most of us are geniuses about aging a few times over. We think it will never come for us. We think it might come but it will stop before it … | Continue reading
Hubble continues to deliver the goods. | Continue reading
Three teens who allegedly stole high-end cars in Australia last week have been charged with the crimes you’d expect anyone to face for stealing property, according to a new report from the Sydney Morning Herald. But two of the teens are also being charged under a new law that cri … | Continue reading
European grey herons, seen in paintings by Aelbert Cuyp, Hans Thoma, Daubigny, Frédéric Bazille, Alfred Sisley and others. | Continue reading
The AI hype in the media obscures the fact that we're clearly in another goddamn venture capital bubble right now. As the Wall Street Journal said earlier this month (article is paywalled), "... In a presentation earlier this month, the venture-capital firm Sequoia estimated that … | Continue reading
The sun climbs from clarity into murk. Feeling insufficiently caffeinated, I watch the tulip tree’s tall, green torch fade to chartreuse. | Continue reading
A giant-hail event that hit Girona in northwest Spain in 2022 was fueled by climate change, with a marine heatwave helping to intensify the storm that killed a small child. | Continue reading
Former senior White House cyber policy director A. J. Grotto talks about the economic incentives for companies to improve their security—in particular, Microsoft: Grotto told us Microsoft had to be “dragged kicking and screaming” to provide logging capabilities to the government … | Continue reading
As the streaming deal gets worse, people are going back to piracy. The industry wants to stop them. | Continue reading
Researchers at MIT are using AI to train AI not to give toxic responses, using a new method that replicates human curiosity. | Continue reading
EDITOR’S NOTE: This essay is a share from our friends at The Poynter Institute, with gratitude. By Roy Peter Clark ll good writers play with words, even when they write about grave matters. The device that makes such word play the most visible is the pun. My first sentence contai … | Continue reading
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Former President Donald Trump could pocket more than $1 billion in paper wealth by the end of the day Tuesday. Read more... | Continue reading
"This year's report is an important milestone … But this is simply not enough." UN reports optimistic trend in child mortality rates, but some experts believe it's insufficient: 'We have the knowledge and tools to save lives' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF), IBIT, has achieved an impressive milestone by registering net inflows for 70 consecutive days.… Continue reading BlackRock’s IBIT achieves 70-day inflow streak milestone The post BlackRock’s IBIT achieves 70-day inflow streak m … | Continue reading
Lions and snakes on astronomical ceiling at Dendera Rhaomi has a fabulous in-depth post on the very fabulous Dendera temple complex, home to "some of the most superbly-preserved ancient Egyptian art known, ranging from early Roman times back to the Middle Kingdom period over 4,00 … | Continue reading