This week on MacStories Unwind, I’m a little wired, we explore Southern expressions, share some Legion Go follow-up and have app, hardware, TV, and music picks. This episode is sponsored by: Listen Later – Listen to the Articles as Podcasts Links and Show Notes Southern Expressio … | Continue reading
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Microsoft Research Asia has revealed an AI model that can generate frighteningly realistic deepfake videos from a single still image and an audio track. How will we be able to trust what we see and hear online from here on in? Continue Reading Category: Technology Tags: Microsoft … | Continue reading
A new paper looks at 40 questions from the World Values Survey from 1981 to 2022 (n = 406,185) for the 76 nations that did this survey more than once. Overall these values diverged over these four decades. The strongest factor from a factor analysis explained 65% of variation, an … | Continue reading
I’ve taken some time to think instead of do. I like to dream, and according to my elementary school teachers I had a real talent for dreaming in class. So, I have been dreaming up … | Continue reading
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is investigating a cyberattack after threat actors breached its IT systems to steal human resources data. [...] | Continue reading
Vietnamese bánh tráng is a very versatile ingredient—stuff it a number of ways for crispy or chewy rolls, or fry it for use as a crunch cracker to layer vegetables, seafood, or meat. | Continue reading
In her new role, the professor of anthropology will seek to promote well-being and advancement within the SHASS community. | Continue reading
"Brandy Hellville & The Cult of Fast Fashion" has revealed the many controversies surrounding the popular fast-fashion brand Brandy Melville. Wild new HBO doc rips the curtain back on numerous controversies surrounding viral teen clothing brand: 'The Cult of Fast Fashion' first a … | Continue reading
A dog-like, bio-inspired robot called Spirit is still learning to walk, but could one day be deployed on the moon to explore steep, potentially hazardous areas with a team of robot companions. | Continue reading
Typically, when a person isn’t performing well at their job, they get put under review or get a stern talking to. Well, unless you’re a top executive, that is. Then you might get a 25 percent raise, as the CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery just did. Read more... | Continue reading
A surprise coronal mass ejection recently smashed into Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, briefly causing the "devil comet" to lose its tail — and a NASA spacecraft caught the whole thing on camera. | Continue reading
I quit a civil rights group because its policies will harm children. | Continue reading
I review The Boy I LIke? -- the English localization of what is effectively a freeware doujin meme visual novel | Continue reading
I’m exhausted from all the news and threats and everything. Every day we wake up to another horrible alert that another war is starting. I just wrote a thousand words and deleted all of it. It shouldn’t need an entire article to tell people how bad a war is. I’m just exhausted of … | Continue reading
A breakout anime’s first movie often falls into one of two categories. Either it’s a showcase of the source material that feels like a stretched-out arc of the anime itself, or it attempts to fill in some backstory and set up some dominoes for the season to come. In the case of t … | Continue reading
During the historic April 8 total solar eclipse, a government radio station in Colorado started sending out slightly shifted "time signals" to millions of people across the globe as the moon's shadow altered the upper layers of our atmosphere. However, these altered signals did n … | Continue reading
Last week, I reported on the Environmental Protection Agency’s monumental new restrictions on “forever chemicals” in Americans’ drinking water. At the time, I stressed that the issue doesn’t end with the water that flows out of our kitchen and bathroom taps — the government also … | Continue reading
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Accounts with stored payment information went for as little as $0.50 each. | Continue reading
I saw a variation of an email from back in the day, which provides a Mad Libs style approach to formulating a country & western song. When I was reminded of it today, I adapted it for Perchance. Give it a go! | Continue reading
Underwater archaeologist and author David Gibbins discusses his new book about shipwrecks around the world. | Continue reading
WhatsApp, Threads, Telegram, and Signal removed from Apple App Store in China. | Continue reading
He’s your current employer, and you live in his house. Not a red flag. Not for you at least. As the person in the higher class, he is the one with the most to lose. For you, there is nowhere to go but up. He lies to you about who he is when you first meet. Not a red flag. This is … | Continue reading
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"Im also improving the lives of people in my neighborhood.” ATM produces surprising result when people swipe their card: 'Why should I spend on drinking water?' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Why did leading designers in 2000 look down their nose at the web? And are things any better today? The post This Web of Ours, Revisited appeared first on Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design. | Continue reading
Following Childhood’s End, my exploration of Arthur C. Clarke books made me read three other works regrouped into a series entitled The Space Trilogy, which are Islands in the Sky, The Sands of Mars, and Earthlight, or Les îles de l’espace, Les sables de Mars, and Lumière cendrée … | Continue reading
Considering it's a freebie, I'm at a loss to why more people don't use it The post MyWhoosh Review After 500km appeared first on the5krunner • tri bike run. The full post can be read now at the5krunner • tri bike run. | Continue reading
Online baccarat then stab and choose the right side Don’t be in a hurry to switch sides. next stab Try to stab again on the same side first. By choosing to invest a double amount from the original amount that you put on the website directly because the game always The post Online … | Continue reading
Apple removed several U.S.-based messaging apps from its App Store in China, including WhatsApp, Signal, and Threads, according to the Washington Post Friday. Officially, the apps were already banned in China but could still be accessed by users with a VPN. Read more... | Continue reading
You don’t make a movie as sumptuous and engrossing as Dune: Part Two and not think of every little detail. How the planets move, who all the people are, how people get off the sandworm. In preparing and making both Dune films, Denis Villeneuve thought of everything. And, to illus … | Continue reading
Major cities across eastern China are sinking due to groundwater extraction and the weight of buildings, potentially exposing millions of people to flooding and damage in the next 100 years. | Continue reading
This week I spoke at TED2024, the iconic program’s 40th anniversary event. I joined RuPaul, Kesha, and two different astrophysicists on the stage in Vancouver. I was given 15 minutes, and took 17, to riffle through 47 slides articulating what I believe is the greatest challenge f … | Continue reading
Here's what we looked at this week:Startup Humane has debuted their Ai Pin, to damning reviews. The UI/UX design is just insane. Form follows function: NASA's zero-gravity drinking cup, prototyped in space.Some wonderful scans from "The Function of Colour in Factories School … | Continue reading
“Traffic ’s bad now because all the 9-5 people are going home.” I found it sharp and easy, […] | Continue reading
Fraudster charged with crypto market manipulation defended Mango Markets scheme. | Continue reading
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Disney has released a first look at “Smellephants on Parade,” a new family-friendly “search and sniff” interactive experience that is coming to Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World. The Details First announced in July 2023, “Smellephants on Parade,” is sponsored by Scentsy, the Off … | Continue reading
Three games are coming free to all Xbox Game Pass subscribers for the weekend, starting April 18 and going to… Continue reading Xbox puts up Dungeons 3, Eiyuden Chronicle for free play weekend The post Xbox puts up Dungeons 3, Eiyuden Chronicle for free play weekend appeared firs … | Continue reading
Cybercriminals are exploiting Google’s advertising platform to target users of the decentralized OTC trading platform Whales Market, according to a… Continue reading Google Ads exploited to target Whales Market users The post Google Ads exploited to target Whales Market users app … | Continue reading
Researchers discovered the remains of a huge dinosaur named Bustingorrytitan shiva last year and have now released artistic reconstructions of the Cretaceous giant. | Continue reading
Following an urgent appeal filed to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD) on behalf of blogger and activist Alaa Abd El Fattah, EFF has joined 26 free expression and human rights organizations calling for immediate action. The appeal to the UNWGAD was i … | Continue reading
The past week brought a downturn for both Bitcoin and altcoins, possibly triggered by the macroeconomic implications of the escalating… Continue reading Bitcoin, altcoins dip on Iran-Israel tensions The post Bitcoin, altcoins dip on Iran-Israel tensions appeared first on ReadWrit … | Continue reading
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. RoboCup German Open: 17–21 April 20 … | Continue reading
This is the twenty-sixth part of a fiction serial, in 757 words. Not long after celebrating her forty-second birthday, Hettie was informed that her classes would be increasing in size starting the following month. Agents were being recruited to replace those arrested or killed, a … | Continue reading
At roughly 11:19 a.m. on April 20, 1999, 18-year-old Eric Harris and 17-year-old Dylan Klebold emerged from their vehicles in the parking lots of Columbine High School. Clad in black trench coats, they started strolling toward the school entrance. Klebold lobbed a pipe bomb. Then … | Continue reading
Zenpack is a packaging design firm with a key difference from competitors: They also handle fulfillment, bringing design and manufacturing under one roof to offer clients a turnkey solution.They were recently hired by coffee retailer Cambio Roasters. "When Cambio Roasters was get … | Continue reading