Years ago The New Yorker had a reader contest, asking you to add one letter to a word, to make a new word that made sense. The amusing entry I remember was "giraffiti," meant to describe graffiti in improbably high locations. The term is now in the Urban Dictionary.Image: Steve G … | Continue reading
Fall Guys, the multiplayer team battle royale title, has a vibrant community, and they aren’t pleased about the features of… Continue reading Fall Guys fans still not happy with new update features The post Fall Guys fans still not happy with new update features appeared first on … | Continue reading
Chuck E. Cheese is pulling the plug on Munch’s Make Believe Band, the animatronic robots that terrified children and their begrudging parents with musical performances for decades. The New York Times reports that the arcade-pizzeria franchise will soon power down the bands at all … | Continue reading
Steven Shaviro in his own blog: Bérubé’s new book, The Ex-Human, is about science fiction. Bérubé offers thoughtful close readings of a number of classic science fiction texts: Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness, Cixin Liu’s The Three-Body Problem, Margaret Atwood’s Oryx … | Continue reading
L'articolo IL RESTAURO DEL TERZO MILLENNIO: A FERRARA EXPOSCENARI E PROSPETTIVE DEL SETTORE proviene da BolognaFiere Group. | Continue reading
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"This is the hack you need." Woman shares 'genius' trick to easily clean hard-to-reach areas in bottles: 'I cannot believe this works' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Rumford, Maine is one of several places that pride themselves as an important historical site remembering Paul Bunyan and his trusty blue ox. On the banks of the Androscoggin River stands a 20-foot-high statue of lumberjack and legend Paul Bunyan, and Babe the blue ox. The story … | Continue reading
The fantastical elements are always there in Byatt's fiction, underpinning the fabric of the story and guiding the fates of her characters... The post Myth, Fantasy, and Lives Shaped by Stories in the Work of A.S. Byatt appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
I think it is time for a tiny refresh/reboot….TwB 3.0. I’ve been writing and sharing in this space for quite some time now — since September of 2016 to be exact, with this post. And before that I wrote other blogs, which have long been archived, deleted, or made private. Before a … | Continue reading
A couple of months ago, I told you about a project to recreate the Supreme Court oral arguments associated with Brown v. Board of Education ("Spontaneous SCOTUS", 3/2/2024): Years ago, Jerry Goldman (then at Northwestern) created the oyez.org website as a multimedia archive devot … | Continue reading
Something is not the same. The post This Year’s Wicked Is Only Part One of Two, But the Trailer Shows Most of the Story appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Poet crossed out one racy passage, deeming it "an unbecom[ing] tale for a hist[ory]" | Continue reading
This is from a lovely blog post by David Smith: This last year has been a complicated one as an indie app developer. I’ve been in this community for long enough to know that there are always ebbs and flows in sentiment, and this year has lots of reasons to be feeling the ebb side … | Continue reading
Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II is a day-and-date launch for Xbox Game Pass on May 21. Subscribers will get it at… Continue reading Hellblade II: Senua’s Sacrifice launch times revealed The post Hellblade II: Senua’s Sacrifice launch times revealed appeared first on ReadWrite. | Continue reading
Free for personal use, but businesses will have to fork over $120 per year. | Continue reading
Introduction In this article, we are going to analyze the PostgreSQL plan_cache_mode setting and see when it’s useful to override a given generic plan using the the force_custom_plan strategy. Domain Model Let’s assume we have the following post table: The post_status type is an … | Continue reading
Boeing may be subject to criminal prosecution after the Department of Justice (DOJ) accused it of violating the terms of a 2021 settlement agreement. Read more... | Continue reading
WWDC is one month away and while I was out on a walk this morning I got to thinking about how I was feeling about it. This will be the 16th(!) consecutive WWDC which I have attended1. My first in 2009 was a few months after the birth of my oldest child. He has never known a world … | Continue reading
GM's Ultium-based EVs can power your house during an outage. | Continue reading
The most recent Terminator film—2019's Dark Fate—wasn’t quite a return to blockbuster form. But the franchise James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger kicked off in 1984 (and were “back” with in 1991) is, much like its titular killer robots, never going to die. Today, we have our … | Continue reading
How to PyCon Glyph’s tips on making the most out of PyCon. I particularly like his suggestion that “dinners are for old friends, but lunches are for new ones”. I’m heading out to Pittsburgh tonight, and giving a keynote (!) on Saturday. If you see me there please come and say hi! … | Continue reading
The 2024 Chevrolet Equinox EV addresses several shortcomings of its predecessor, the Bolt, by offering competitive pricing, modern interior design, and improved safety features. It boasts a spacious interior and advanced charging capabilities. Despite these improvements, skeptici … | Continue reading
Today's Drop discusses font popularity, AI in typography, and a featured free font! We touch on the use of CDNs for font delivery, the role of AI in creating typefaces, and the potential impact of AI on creativity in design processes. | Continue reading
Maryland is back on track to develop its offshore wind resources into a powerful multi-state hub with Virginia and North Carolina. The post A New Hope Lifts US Offshore Wind Industry Out Of Doldrums appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
Thanks to the increase of electric vehicles and other battery-using technologies, the demand for lithium is expected to skyrocket in the coming years. One odd but potent source of the metal is a Pennsylvania wastewater stream, says a new study. Continue Reading Category: Energy, … | Continue reading
Be more knowledgeable when you wish for something that applies to iPadOS these days. | Continue reading
Neuralink announced last week that the tiny wires inside the brain of its first patient had retracted, but sources say… Continue reading Elon Musk’s Neuralink faces problem with its tiny wires in brain The post Elon Musk’s Neuralink faces problem with its tiny wires in brain appe … | Continue reading
Unfortunately, some bad actors have started using Workflowy’s sharing feature to publish phishing pages. Last week, this led to us getting miscategorized as a phishing site on a few lists that track these things. Some internet providers then automatically blocked people from acce … | Continue reading
Sisters dune it for themselves The post Max’s Dune: Prophecy Is Basically an Origin Story for the Bene Gesserit appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Architizer, the acclaimed platform known for celebrating architectural innovation, has unveiled the highly anticipated shortlist for its esteemed A+Awards. Honoring the crème de la crème of architectural achievements globally, the competition stands as a beacon for ground-breakin … | Continue reading
A group of orcas known to attack boats in southwest Europe have sunk a 50-foot sailing yacht in the Strait of Gibraltar after ripping open its hull. It is the fifth time these killer whales have sent a ship to the seafloor in the last three years. | Continue reading
This is the thirty-seventh part of a fiction serial, in 747 words. The time with George in Berlin was the best that Hettie could remember. Walks in the parks, small cafes for coffee and cake, even an afternoon in a rowing boat on the river. Each date they had was memorised, from … | Continue reading
OpenAI and Google showcased their latest and greatest AI technology this week. For the last two years, tech companies have raced to make AI models smarter, but now a new focus has emerged: make them multimodal. OpenAI and Google are zeroing in on AI that can seamlessly switch bet … | Continue reading
As infrastructure spread across America in the 20th century, we learned that bridges periodically need to be inspected. Having a look at the road surface was easy; just shut down traffic and let the inspector walk it. But inspecting the underside is more challenging, particularly … | Continue reading
Pickups are a big deal in several traditional auto markets as well as in smaller markets in Africa. About 60,000 Toyota Hilux pickups are sold in South Africa each year and a similar number in Australia. This is excluding sales of other popular pickups such as the Ford Ranger and … | Continue reading
Scientists have predicted that by 2040, almost 50 percent of the world’s electric power will be used in computing. What’s more, this projection was made before the sudden explosion of generative AI. The amount of computing resources used to train the largest AI models has been do … | Continue reading
The first full trailer for Universal Pictures’ Wicked is finally here and is bursting with the star power of Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo. It also offers a fresh glimpse at Oz through the story of two friends: Elphaba (Ervivo), a powerful green-skinned outcast, and the popular … | Continue reading
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Engineers are cooking up a new clean energy solution: charging up crystals with solar energy to temperatures of 1,832 degrees Fahrenheit (1,000 degrees Celsius), potentially making them a greener substitute for the carbon-intensive processes that smelt steel and cook cement. Read … | Continue reading
Today, Apple announced a host of new accessibility features, such as eye tracking and vocal shortcuts, that should arrive on iPhones, iPads, and Apple Vision Pros later this year. Read more... | Continue reading
Virtual reality meets noir thriller in this artfully constructed tale, where the "real" and artificial worlds bleed into one another in increasingly intense and surreal ways… The post Open Your Eyes: Dreams and Nightmares of Our Own Creation appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Best known for his 1958 novel The Once and Future King, T. H. White is considered one of the greatest Arthurian authors of modern literature. A British writer born in Bombay, White settled in Alderney in 1946 and lived there for the rest of his life, but his grave can be found in … | Continue reading
Today’s CPI report has continued an 11-week trend of data arriving above 3%, leaving traders skeptical about the possibility of… Continue reading Bitcoin and Altcoins Prices Pump as CPI Report Shows US Inflation Falls to 3.4% – Best AI Cryptocurrencies to Buy Now The post Bitcoin … | Continue reading
Slowing down an asteroid by just one-tenth of a second makes all the difference. | Continue reading
Volkswagen Group Africa has reiterated its commitment to using renewable energy. Volkswagen Group Africa says transitioning to renewable energy is more than just a means to avoid the disruptive effects of power outages for Volkswagen Group Africa (VWGA), but rather a conscious st … | Continue reading
The second pattern in Juntao Qiu's series on data fetching is on how to avoid the dreaded Request Waterfall. Parallel Data Fetching queries multiple sources in parallel, so that the latency of the overall fetch is largest of the queries rather than the sum of them. more… | Continue reading
Nestled on the serene shores of Phu Quoc island, the Phu Quoc Prison History Museum carries a haunting legacy of suffering and resilience. Once a site of immense brutality during the Vietnam War, it now stands as a solemn memorial, bearing witness to the atrocities endured by pri … | Continue reading