Here's what we looked at this week:A man was ordered by the city to build a visual screen to conceal his boat. He complied. This incredible mobile bridge, designed and built in Switzerland, diverts traffic overhead during road repairs.This TriqBriq production system turns oth … | Continue reading
Neanderthals are our closest relatives who went extinct around 40,000 years ago. Here's how they differed to us. | Continue reading
Neanderthals and humans mated millennia ago, and their legacy lives on in us today. Here's how. | Continue reading
Non-Africans carry around 2% Neanderthal DNA in their genomes — yet there's one chromosome where DNA from our ancient cousins is nowhere to be found. | Continue reading
Around 2% of the genomes of modern Eurasians contains Neanderthal DNA. Here's how it affects our health. | Continue reading
While still the topic of ongoing debate, some scientists think Neanderthals could talk and may have had language. | Continue reading
Espresso machines can be semi-automatic, super-automatic, automatic, or manual. Here are the differences between each. | Continue reading
The recent study revealed that the berry boosts average 5K running times by a startling 38 seconds. The post the heart-healthy ‘super fruit’ that improves 5K performance like a ‘super shoe’ at a fraction of the price: appeared first on the5krunner • tri bike run. The full post ca … | Continue reading
This week on MacStories Unwind, Federico proposes an iPad Pro experiment and he and I both recommend Steam Early Access games, one of which is also on iOS. This episode is sponsored by: Kolide – It ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust … | Continue reading
This article dives into how smartwatches are changing the online gaming space and what the future might hold for smartwatches. The post Edge On Your Wrist: Redefining Betting Strategies appeared first on the5krunner • tri bike run. The full post can be read now at the5krunner • t … | Continue reading
This upcoming election has consequences. In 2020, we saw then-President Donald J. Trump refuse to concede after losing reelection to Joe Biden, serving as an exclamation point on a term that was marred with turmoil, crises, and outright lies. As we head into 2024 with Trump as th … | Continue reading
Montana’s TikTok ban violates the First Amendment, EFF and others told the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in a friend-of-the-court brief and urged the court to affirm a trial court’s holding from December 2023 to that effect. Montana’s ban (which EFF and others opposed) prohibits … | Continue reading
Today, I was writing a test for a Laravel application that uses MySQL full-text search. I was testing a search query that uses the MATCH and AGAINST operators. The test was failing as no results were returned from the search. Running the same code outside the context of the test … | Continue reading
Conspicuously absent from the incredible news this week that Nicolas Cage was coming to Prime Video to play Spider-Man Noir was a single mention of Silk: Spider-Society, another Spider-Verse show that has been in the works for a long, long time. Read more... | Continue reading
If you find yourself sitting in traffic on 1-35 in South Austin, you might find your eye drawn to Whip In's vintage neon sign. For almost 40 years, this fusion eatery has been a touchstone of the city's craft beer scene. In 1986, Amrit and Chandan Topiwala bought a convenience st … | Continue reading
Chinese researchers have found a way to make aqueous batteries more energy-dense, by adding bromide to the electrolyte solution | Continue reading
The New York Police Department plans to use drones to respond to some 911 calls in a new program, according to testimony delivered Thursday at a House Homeland Security Committee hearing in Washington, D.C. And while that’s concerning enough, one Republican congressman had some i … | Continue reading
Over the past several decades, America has waged a covert war against the young. One front in this war is our income tax system, which favors Owners over Earners. Young people are almost all Earners, while Owners are typically older, and the tax code is a wealth-transfer vehicle … | Continue reading
I instinctively mistrust any service that offers to describe an image for you – to automatically generate alt text, for example. Firstly, this implies that describing images – and by extension, making your article understandable to people using AT – is a problem. More fundamental … | Continue reading
In 2010, I was consulting to Canadian National Railroad, at the time with the legendary Hunter Harrison as CEO. It was one of many times my decarbonization proposals bounced off of organizations, something that’s been inordinately useful in helping me understand how hardcore busi … | Continue reading
OpenAI’s Superalignment team, charged with controlling the existential danger of a superhuman AI system, has reportedly been disbanded, according to Wired on Friday. The news comes just days after the team’s founders, Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike, simultaneously quit the company. … | Continue reading
"Not being able to give up is not to be able to allow for loss, for vulnerability; not to be able to allow for the passing of time, and the revisions it brings." | Continue reading
The third and final episode of “Tolerance Is Extinction,”the season finale of X-Men ‘97, had a lot to pay off—not just from the plot threads it wove throughout its own debut season, but in bringing to a head years of lingering character work dating back to the original X-Men: The … | Continue reading
Today we celebrate the 20th anniversary of what used to be called “gay” or “same-sex” marriage here in the U.S., in which Maskachusetts led the way (modern-style opposite-sex marriage, in which divorce litigation may ensue, seems to go back about 4,300 years to Mesopotamia). Let’ … | Continue reading
My thanks to Kolide for sponsoring Six Colors again this week. You might have heard about the September 2023 MGM ransomware attack. But beyond the broken slot machines and other anecdotes is the fact that it’s an example of an emerging style of attack that we’ll certainly be seei … | Continue reading
In the Paris suburb of Noisy-le-Grand stands a massive, high-density housing complex sometimes described as a "palace," known for its postmodern architecture often associated with dystopian aesthetics. Named Espaces d’Abraxas after the Gnostic deity, it was designed by Spanish ar … | Continue reading
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"Omg that's fantastic!" Local brides passing single wedding dress around community receives heartwarming reaction online: 'I love the community we've built around sharing things' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Atmospheres — do Earth-like alien planets have them or not? This is the killer question currently facing astronomers. In this context, “Earth-like” means terrestrial (i.e. rocky worlds) planets close enough to Earth’s mass and other conditions that we might imagine them hosting t … | Continue reading
The U.S. Department of Justice charged two suspects for allegedly leading a crime ring that laundered at least $73 million from cryptocurrency investment scams, also known as "pig butchering." [...] | Continue reading
Canfield Scientific, a manufacturer of imaging systems for science and healthcare applications, wanted to refresh their Vectra H1 handheld system. They contacted industrial design and engineering consultancy HSD, a/k/a/ HS Design. "HSD worked to not only aid in improving lighting … | Continue reading
“This shade has no personality nor style. It just makes the kitchen look dull, old, and boring.” READ MORE... | 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). In the early twentieth century, some prairie dog towns stretched for hundreds of miles. Cowboys and naturalists pas … | Continue reading
> Reply to can you share the sample library_inventory.erl ? · Issue #3 · srijan/rebar3_dialyzer_html · GitHub Yes, it's here: https://github.com/srijan/library_sample | Continue reading
X.com stops redirecting to Twitter.com over a year after company name change. | Continue reading
While millions of people who couldn't normally see the aurora borealis took in the recent color-filled spectacle in the night sky, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory was looking straight at the sun to catch all the action. The fiery footage is well worth a watch. Continue Reading … | Continue reading
Georgia’s struggle with the “foreign agents” bill highlights broader issues of democratic backsliding and geopolitical tug of war. The law is seen as a threat to civil society and democratic principles, prompting widespread protests and international condemnation. Georgia’s polit … | Continue reading
A friend asked me for a recommendation on where to start with Alastair Reynolds’ books. With the caveat that I haven’t (yet!) read his Merlin or Poseidon’s Children series, I have three suggestions. Pick the one that most resonates with you: Revelation Space series: classic hard … | Continue reading
"Static recompilation" is "the difference between weeks of work and years of work." | Continue reading
Optoma USA has launched a compact new ultra-short-throw laser projector designed to meet home entertainment and home office needs, but has also been optimized for PC gamers with an input lag reduced to just 8.6 milliseconds. Continue Reading Category: Home Entertainment, Technolo … | Continue reading
Winter is a magical season filled with snowflakes dancing through the air, blanketing the world in a shimmering coat of… The post Snowflake Template For Many Snowflake Crafts! appeared first on Kids Activities Blog. | Continue reading
Apple unveiled some new accessibility features this week, including Eye Tracking. The iPads announced at last week's event are now avalable. The reviews have also dropped, so Dave and I take a look at what people are saying. GPT 4o was demoed and it's absolutely incredible—unless … | Continue reading
It looks a bit like a boat, or a stout fedora. So what the hell is this rusty brown gossamer of a space cloud? Read more... | Continue reading
One of the goals of the new GNOME project handbook is to provide effective guidelines for contributors. Most of the guidelines are based on recommendations that GNOME already had, which were then improved and updated. These improvements were based on input from others in the proj … | Continue reading
A message to physical media and merch loving people - Blindness & Light has limited edition CD's and vinyl available on their Bandcamp for their first full-length self-titled album. | Continue reading
AMRO 2024 was held in Linz from May 8 to 10, 2024 The 2024 edition of Art Meets Radical Openness (AMRO), the biennial festival for art, hacktivism, and open cultures, has just come to an end. Held in Linz from May 8 to 10, it offered a context for discussing the … Continue readin … | Continue reading
Ocean Drive Apartment, designed by mwworks, is a stunning 6,112-square-foot single-floor condominium unit situated within a new residential tower in Miami Beach, Florida. Continue reading | Continue reading
The last thing an alcoholic wants to see is YouTube ads featuring alcohol, which can trigger the desire to drink. The same goes for someone who has perhaps experienced a miscarriage and continues to see YouTube ads for diapers and baby clothes, sending people into a spiral of dep … | Continue reading