Epic Tales Tavern is a blog I created late last year where I publish images generated using ChatGPT (DALL-E 3) using a Custom GPT created for this purpose. These images bring to life the unexpected and the extraordinary, illustrating known characters from various role-playing gam … | Continue reading
I don’t need another cat. I don’t need another cat. I don’t need another cat. I don’t need another cat. I don’t need another cat. Really though, what’s one more cat in the grand scheme of things? . | Continue reading
It's time for another episode centered on the complications of the Prime Directive... The post Star Trek: Discovery’s “Whistlespeak” appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Grace Jones was filming the James Bond classic ‘A View to a Kill’ in the adjacent studio at Pinewood whilst Tim Curry was filming ‘Legend’ during 1984. Jones used to hang out with Tim whilst he was having his prosthetic makeup applied for the character of Darkness. Tim’s makeup t … | Continue reading
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It’s been over a decade since the final Twilight movie, so the timing feels just right for Kristen Stewart to enter her second vampire era with Flesh of the Gods. Things are going to be quite a bit different this time around though, with Oscar Isaac as her co-star and Mandy direc … | Continue reading
Bird flu continues to be a real public health threat, but apparently not to our food supply at least. The Food and Drug Administration and U.S. Department of Agriculture separately announced late Wednesday that their tests of pasteurized milk and ground beef failed to find any li … | Continue reading
Commercial charging stations are good, but doing it at home is cheaper and more convenient. There are plenty of benefits to charging your EV at home — but having the right technology makes a big difference first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
There are tons of theories surrounding J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and, more broadly, the fictional world of Middle-Earth in which the books take place. One of these theories is that Middle-Earth is actually not a fictional world at all, but our own Earth in prehistori … | Continue reading
SHFT is the handle of a South Korean product designer who produces objects in sheet metal. Their m.o. is to post shots of prototypes on Instagram to gauge feedback, then batch-produce the things people like. One such object is this stainless steel Fold B clipboard for sketching, … | Continue reading
Preparing for the rise of 8K movies in the home cinema, JVC Kenwood has announced new additions to its high-end D-ILA laser projector family, with the new models able to input and display 8K/60p visuals with boosted brightness and contrast. Continue Reading Category: Home Enterta … | Continue reading
Obviously, we're all in on this The post Kristen Stewart and Oscar Isaac Are Starring in a Vampire Movie From the Director of Mandy appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Erik Baker in the Boston Review: One of the courses I teach is called “Science, Activism, and Political Conflict,” and one of my ambitions with that course is to show students that both of these things—activism and political conflict—are normal in science, and in academic life mo … | Continue reading
Jeremy Hsu in New Scientist: An artificial intelligence system has proven it can save lives by warning physicians to check on patients whose heart test results indicate a high risk of dying. In a randomised clinical trial with almost 16,000 patients at two hospitals, the AI reduc … | Continue reading
The final season of The Bad Batch offered something that practically no Star Wars story does: a moment's peace The post Star Wars: The Bad Batch Gave Us an Ending No One Expected appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
A team of researchers used a flattened skull of a female Neanderthal who lived some 75,000 years ago to reconstruct the woman’s likeness, providing an uncannily vision of her appearance in life. Read more... | Continue reading
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Hannah Ritchie at Sustainability By Numbers: A Moloch Trap is, in simple terms, a zero-sum game. It explains a situation where participants compete for object or outcome X but make something else worse in the process. Everyone competes for X, but in doing so, everyone ends up wor … | Continue reading
Apple confirmed today that all DMA-related change it’s applied to iOS will also apply on iPadOS later this fall. (Under the DMA it has six months to meet the iPadOS compliance deadline.)“Developers can choose to adopt the Alternative Business Terms for Apps in the EU that will in … | Continue reading
Visualizing data often means visualizing data over time. Line charts are perfect for this, and... | Continue reading
Microsoft has highlighted a novel attack dubbed "Dirty Stream," which could allow malicious Android apps to overwrite files in another application's home directory, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution and secrets theft. [...] | Continue reading
Back in 2020, a former UK central banker raging post-coronapanic inflation followed by 3-4 percent annual inflation rates starting at the end of 2022 and continuing for decades (see Inflation prediction to check in 2028). Here’s the official chart, mostly fraud because it doesn’t … | Continue reading
Two years ago, Star Wars stepped into a new animated format with Tales of the Jedi, examining the stories of two characters ostracized by the titular order in Dooku and Ahsoka Tano. Now, in celebration of Star Wars Day this weekend, it’s trying again—this time with a touch of the … | Continue reading
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The computer indicated some impressive potential. Scientists share new insights to reduce concerning byproduct of agriculture: 'Artificial intelligence can uncover patterns that traditional methods may overlook' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
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This is from the announcement of a new website. However, this image held my attention. It’s either an optical illusion or a truly bad job at photoshopping. The camera angle, the way the monitor is angled cannot happen in real life. My guess is that the laptop screen angle is for … | Continue reading
Flutter Entertainment is set to relocate its primary listing to the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) after 98 per cent… Continue reading Flutter Entertainment shareholders approve New York relocation The post Flutter Entertainment shareholders approve New York relocation appeared f … | Continue reading
Tesla may careening toward a bad ending as Elon Musk continues to lead through chaos rather than effective management. The post Tesla, Saturn, & The Conundrum Of The Cult appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
One of the most controversial aspects of Apple’s response to the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) was the introduction of a Core Technology Fee (CTF), which must be paid by developers who opt into Apple’s alternative business terms. Today, in a post on its developer website, Apple … | Continue reading
Starlink satellite internet terminals are reportedly still operating in unlicensed places, despite the company’s warning last month that the service would be shut down by May 1 in those areas. Read more... | Continue reading
Ashley Madison, the dating website devoted to cheating on your partner, was hacked in 2015, exposing the private data of 37 million users in more than 40 countries. And a new documentary series from Netflix explores the fallout from that historic data breach. Read more... | Continue reading
Inspired by Neil Clarke and Ethan Marcotte, I moved my list of crawlers to a Jekyll YAML data file, and now use it to compile both the .htaccess and robots.txt files. The premise is simple: to opt out of AI bots scraping my website and participate to the ongoing training of LLMs, … | Continue reading
Chubb, the insurer of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, is reportedly preparing to make a $350 million payout to Maryland a little more than a month after it collapsed. Read more... | Continue reading
[In the immortal words of C. Montgomery Burns, “I know what I hate. And I don’t hate this.”] Over at ImFineImFine.com, ND Stevenson has recreated masterpieces with emoji. I cannot tell you how or why, but at some point a few years back I discovered that Instagram Stories not only … | Continue reading
eDNA analysis found traces of xtabentum, as well as lancewood, chili peppers, and jool | Continue reading
Ride1Up has been disrupting the world of electric bikes with edgy designs that take some of the same affordable components found on other e-bikes and bundes them together in extremely affordable packages. The Ride1Up Prodigy was one of the best values in the mid-drive electric bi … | Continue reading
This Ourou shelving system employs an unusual wood joint. It was developed by French industrial designer Guillaume Bloget, working with craftsman Antoine Rivie`re."I wanted to make a wooden shelving system, without nails or screws, completely removable so that it could be stored … | Continue reading
Współczesna medycyna coraz częściej zauważa potencjał naturalnych środków w zapobieganiu i leczeniu infekcji. A olejki eteryczne, dzięki swoim silnym właściwościom antybakteryjnym, antywirusowym i przeciwgrzybiczym, są jednym z cennych narzędzi w tej walce. Które z nich są najsku … | Continue reading
Green hydrogen is working its way into the steel industry, and a new round of ARPA-E funding could help accelerate the trend. The post Green Hydrogen To Help Eject Fossil Fuels From Steel Industry appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
Elon Musk said he wanted to be “absolutely hardcore” about reducing Tesla’s headcount earlier this week, and it looks like he’s entered full “demon mode,” as his biographer calls it. Now, an unlikely cohort is feeling his wrath: Tesla’s summer interns. College students shared how … | Continue reading
For their Toronto office, Slack commissioned Dubbeldam Architecture + Design to craft a space that mirrors their organizational culture, emphasizing craft and technology. This office, located in a former knitting and textile factory in downtown Toronto Continue reading | Continue reading
The recent total solar eclipse on April 8 provided a rare glimpse of the Sun’s roiling corona, including some eye-grabbing prominences. Those views were neat, but a new video captured by Europe’s Sun-buzzing probe is providing some of the best close-up views of our host star that … | Continue reading
The AFEELA concept previews an EV from the joint venture, due in 2026. | Continue reading
Hi, welcome, dear music lover, here you have six acts that you shouldn't miss out on. #LT1KF Unknown But Essentials! Round-up Week 16 | Continue reading
Every time I read about how is being applied in the world, this graph immediately pops up in my head: As the potential to do harm increases, there must be a corresponding increase in the level of caution, skepticism, and […] | Continue reading
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It’s light, but still berry decadent. READ MORE... | Continue reading