One of several innovative South Korean outdoor brands that's built up a devout American following, Helinox has developed a strong reputation for sleek, aesthetic and lightweight camping and backpacking gear. It's best-known in North America for its light, compact chairs, cots and … | Continue reading
Country folk tend to like the independence offered by their cars, so how do you get them to use public transit? The Monocab system may be the answer, as it utilizes individual on-demand pods that travel on existing abandoned railways. Continue Reading Category: Transport Tags: Ra … | Continue reading
PaliGemma model README One of the more over-looked announcements from Google I/O yesterday was PaliGemma, an openly licensed VLM (Vision Language Model) in the Gemma family of models. The model accepts an image and a text prompt. It outputs text, but that text can include special … | Continue reading
The 2024 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) were held last week, on Thursday 9 May. The ABIAs are considered the Australian book publishing industry’s night of nights. A book-ish version of the Oscars, if you will. Award winners include Pip Williams, with her novel The Bookb … | Continue reading
When news broke that Warner Bros. was making a new Lord of the Rings movie about Gollum, directed by Gollum himself, Andy Serkis, and produced by Peter Jackson, Philippa Boyens, and Fran Walsh, we instantly wanted someone to pick their brains about it. Why come back? Why this sto … | Continue reading
If the emergence of generative AI has prompted a lot of excitement and anxiety about the future of work, that’s because it’s arrived a moment when we’re already asking huge questions about our working lives. Tools like ChatGPT, DALL-E, and Bing Chat have appeared on the heels of … | Continue reading
"They have no idea how fast a bear can move." Parkgoer shares photo of family getting dangerously close to bear and her cubs: 'This is how people get mauled' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
This week on Connected: With Myke on vacation, Stephen and Federico discuss what’s going on with iPadOS, then cover the news from Google I/O and OpenAI’s recent event. | Continue reading
Last year, Amazon announced that self-published authors in the USA who sell their books on the Kindle Store would be able to use a new tool in beta testing. This AI-generated “virtual voice” tool would allow authors to easily turn their ebooks into audiobooks. Now, months after t … | Continue reading
Google's video synthesis model creates minute-long 1080p videos from written prompts. | Continue reading
Exceptional students from top programs across the US receive tuition fellowships and conditional acceptance to the MIT Supply Chain Management master’s program. | Continue reading
The Rise and Fall of .Ly | Continue reading
The MITES associate director of recruitment and admissions plays a key role in introducing middle and high school students to the world of STEM. | Continue reading
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You can get Ptyxis on Flathub now if you would like to run the stable version rather than Nightly. Unless you’re interested in helping QA Ptyxis or contributing that is probably the Flatpak you want to have installed. Nightly builds of Ptyxis use the GNOME Nightly SDK meaning GTK … | Continue reading
One of the things that drew me to Elastic was the opportunity to work in a fully distributed team. I've really been enjoying it as a way to get a chance to collaborate with folks from literally all over the world, who have different viewpoints, cultural backgrounds, and some folk … | Continue reading
Me in 2021: With sufficient further evolution, our descendants are likely to directly and abstractly know that they simply value more descendants. Let me now change my mind somewhat. It makes sense for agents to, somewhere inside themselves, know abstractly that they just want mo … | Continue reading
A breakdown of how people, Americans in this case, spend their time, by each decade of their life. Things like sleeping, eating, working, caring for others, and socialising. The crunch is definitely on in our thirties, forties, and fifties, when time for sleep and socialising, fo … | Continue reading
The MIT physicist is honored for pioneering work in photonics that helped to advance tools for telecommunications and biomedicine. | Continue reading
Natural peanut butter and other nut butters are prone to separation. We tested nine methods to find the best one for keeping them combined. | Continue reading
Copyright’s fair use doctrine protects lots of important free expression against the threat of ruinous lawsuits. Fair use isn’t limited to political commentary or erudite works – it also protects popular entertainment like Tiger King, Netflix’s hit 2020 documentary series about t … | Continue reading
Brothers charged in novel crypto scheme potentially face decades in prison. | Continue reading
Professor of political science Evan Lieberman discusses his research into perceptions among African and American citizens about the climate crisis and how their governments are responding. | Continue reading
Our Apple Watch interaction frequency, thoughts on Spotify’s “Daylists” and our ideal playlist name, interest in Google’s AI features at Google I/O, and essential travel tech for “One Bag Travel.”… | Continue reading
A great deal of digital ink has been spilled on Tesla laying off a lot of its Supercharger team recently. I’m not in the business of commenting on Tesla and Musk’s every twitch and tweet, so I don’t have fourteen hot takes already. But I have a hypothesis and it ... [continued] T … | Continue reading
We’re officially going to get some answers to the burning questions we had after watching Netflix’s 3 Body Problem: the streamer is bringing back the sci-fi series—which explores what happens as humanity prepares for a slow-moving but inevitably arriving alien invasion—for more. … | Continue reading
Google is introducing multiple anti-theft and data protection features later this year, some available only for Android 15+ devices, while others will roll out to billions of devices running Android 10 and later. [...] | Continue reading
Google I/O 2024 is underway and a bunch of articles came out about what Google's changes to its core product (search) mean for the web as a whole. Sean Hollister at The Verge has a piece on the new “web” search option (a piece that starts with “This is not a joke”) while Casey Ne … | Continue reading
A comparison between the M2 and M4 iPad Pro, my initial impressions and close-up photos of the Magic Keyboard | Continue reading
Avian influenza has come for New York City’s birds. In a new study Wednesday, scientists report traces of highly pathogenic H5N1 in a small number of NYC’s wild bird population. Though this discovery may not be directly related to the ongoing outbreaks of H5N1 in U.S. dairy cattl … | Continue reading
NASA's Juno spacecraft has spotted the elusive fifth moon of Jupiter transiting the giant planet's Great Red Spot, giving astronomers a rare view of this small but intriguing natural satellite. | Continue reading
One item on my todo list for ages was to put in place some sort of monitoring for silent data corruption on my NAS. This turned out to be surprisingly easy to do, thanks to two programs: cshatag and my own runner! Before we dive in, some background information: My NAS (aka “home … | Continue reading
Well this is exciting, the longlist for the 2024 Miles Franklin literary award for Australian novel writing, has been published. Not sure how I missed the official announcement, but I went searching for a date the longlist would be unveiled, and instead found the longlist itself: … | Continue reading
There are more than 500 bobbleheads that are located in the two-sided glass display case. It has interior lighting so every bobblehead is visible. It is made of 3/8-inch clear tempered glass, which features vibration plates that cause the bobbleheads to bobble. Each year, various … | Continue reading
Built in 1710 as a farm house, this manor has allegedly hosted everyone from George Washington's spies to spectral inhabitants. In the 18th century, a girl by the name of Annette Williamson was accused of being a spy and brutally murdered. According to the current proprietors, sh … | Continue reading
Scharon Harding wriring for ArsTechnica: Apple, SpaceX, Microsoft Return-to-Office Mandates Drove Senior Talent Away A study analyzing Apple, Microsoft, and SpaceX suggests that return to office (RTO) mandates can lead to a higher rate of employees, especially senior-level ones, … | Continue reading
WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 2024 How well do they deal with ideas? This week, we've been talking about the basic capability, or lack of same, within our upper-end press corps. We've also talked about their interest, or lack of same, when it comes to dealing with ideas. Do they really pref … | Continue reading
Hate when I lose things. Not letting it disturb my peace or break Composition of Character. After a […] | Continue reading
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For more than five years, a pair of spacecraft have been traveling through the solar system to reach the innermost planet Mercury and observe its extreme conditions. During its complex journey, the BepiColombo mission ran into a problem that’s preventing its thrusters from operat … | Continue reading
The carved bear bone is one of the earliest human-made artifacts with "symbolic culture" unearthed in Europe. | Continue reading
A new solar thermal trap can help pave the way for compact, efficient concentrating solar systems to decarbonize heavy industries. The post Scientists Set A Solar Thermal Trap To Snare Fossil Fuels appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
Say goodbye to bland banana bread. For a striking loaf with a deep mahogany crust, tender crumb, and the most intense banana flavor, we cram six bananas into the batter. | Continue reading
The Federal Trade Commission earlier this month threw sand in the gears of one of several big oil company deals currently in the works, the $60 billion acquisition of shale oil company Pioneer by Exxon. While the FTC didn’t block the sale, it said that Pioneer’s chief executive, … | Continue reading
Some pretty dark patterns make free version of remote desktop tool hard to find. | Continue reading
If you think of Mad Max: Fury Road as The Hobbit, Furiosa is its Lord of the Rings. They’re two stories set in the same world, with the same characters, taking place at different periods of time. One is a little more singular and focused while the other is larger and more expansi … | Continue reading
Apple two weeks ago: What’s New for Apps Distributed in the European Union First, no CTF is required if a developer has no revenue whatsoever. This includes creating a free app without monetization that is not related to revenue of any kind (physical, digital, advertising, or oth … | Continue reading