Tesla CEO Elon Musk made it absolutely clear on today’s Tesla conference call: if you don’t believe in Tesla’s AI work and robotaxi plans, you shouldn’t be invested in Tesla stock (NASDAQ:TSLA). The company is not fundamentally a car company, as he noted. It’s fundamentally an AI … | Continue reading
A bad survey won’t tell you it’s bad. It’s actually really hard to find out that a bad survey is bad — or to tell whether you have written a good or bad set of questions. Bad code will have bugs. A bad interface design will fail a usability test. It’s possible to tell whether you … | Continue reading
"It's all too much consumption." Eyebrow-raising image of Kim Kardashian's closet sparks outrage online: 'This is sick' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes My rating: 4 of 5 stars Description in one line? Cowboy Bebop meets Mass Effect with a Cuban protagonist. I grew up in Miami, Florida so having a main character speak in “spanglish” brings me back to my childhood. The narrator also nails the voic … | Continue reading
Ever since its launch, we thought Vermont's Beta Technologies might prove itself the real deal in an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) world dominated by renderings, concepts, prototypes and other "maybe somedays." Continue Reading Category: Aircraft, Transport Tags: … | Continue reading
Symbium is like TurboTax but for the permitting process. Cities partner with AI startup to eliminate red tape and help homeowners install solar panels: 'A major technological breakthrough' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Tesla doesn’t want to talk about its cars — or at least, not about the cars that have steering wheels and human drivers. Despite weeks of reports about Tesla’s manufacturing and sales woes — price cuts, recalls, and whether a new, cheaper model would ever come to fruition — CEO E … | Continue reading
Emily Tanner-Smith writes: Remote/Hybrid Postdoc Opportunity—join us as a Post-Doctoral Scholar at the HEDCO Institute for Evidence-Based Educational Practice in the College of Education at the University of Oregon! The HEDCO Institute specializes in the conduct of evidence synth … | Continue reading
It’s not only food CEOs who need to worry about their bottom lines thanks to in-demand weight loss drugs like Ozempic. Big Tobacco and Alcohol have reason to fret, too. Read more... | Continue reading
"Exceptionally preserved" fossils of an ancient shark that lived alongside the dinosaurs has finally revealed what the predator looked like — and why it may have gone extinct. | Continue reading
Bioluminescence traces back to the Cambrian era — 540 million years ago — and could have been used for communication, courtship and camouflage among the earliest ocean creatures. | Continue reading
Bioluminescence, the eerie, beautiful phenomena that allows living things to glow, is way more ancient than previously thought, according to a team of researchers that recently studied the ability in octocorals. Read more... | Continue reading
Under Trump, college kids accused of sexual assault were given the right to defend themselves. With his update of Title IX, Biden has taken it away. | Continue reading
Coronacian day. [Continued from yesterday. P.G.] ... about 4 I rose and got to the Abbey, where I followed Sir J. Denham, the Surveyor, with some company that he was leading in. And with much ado, by the favour of Mr. Cooper, his man, did get up... | Continue reading
The reservoirs are reportedly at their lowest levels in decades. Millions of people affected as major city announces water rationing: 'Let's not waste a drop of water' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
It took more than a year and a half, but over the past month, money from the Inflation Reduction Act has started to flow out in earnest. Among the grants given just in the past four weeks are: $20 million for ice cream factories in Tennessee and Vermont so they can replace their … | Continue reading
Elsa Court reported for The Kyiv Independent: Children in Latvia will no longer learn Russian as a foreign language in schools from 2026, but instead will be required to learn a language of the European Union or the European Economic Area, Latvia’s Education Ministry announced on … | Continue reading
Adam Demasi: In iOS 17.4, Apple introduced a new system called eligibilityd. This works with countryd (which you might have heard about when it first appeared in iOS 16.2) and the Apple ID system to decide where you physically are. The idea is that multiple sources need to agree … | Continue reading
The curious case of a living room screen making Windows' Settings app disappear. | Continue reading
After a fourth-month wait, Netflix viewers turned up by the tens of millions to see how Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon saga finished, but the number didn’t quite hit that of the first film. Read more... | Continue reading
Sulfur dioxide in the wine reacts with the aluminum to make hydrogen sulfide. | Continue reading
Si Nae Park came to Penn last Thursday (4/18/24) to talk about kugyŏl / gugyeol / kwukyel 구결 口訣 ("oral glossing"). Gugyeol, or kwukyel, is a system for rendering texts written in Classical Chinese into understandable Korean. It was used chiefly during the Joseon dynasty, when rea … | Continue reading
A new type of brain implant technology has given a man with total blindness a kind of “artificial vision.” | Continue reading
"I never thought to do this." Gardener urges others to follow crucial steps to prevent plant disease outbreaks: 'Pests and pathogens can accumulate over time' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Two ENERGY Star-certified smart thermostats are on sale right now at up to 32% off, which helps make investing in a connected device that offers not just convenience and greater control over your heating and cooling, but also significant energy savings, even more affordable. And … | Continue reading
Substack. Twitter. Bluesky. The blog itself. Also, our old posts are spooling at StatRetro every three hours starting with our very first post from 2004. The blog’s in all these places because people told me they were having difficulty staying … Continue reading → | Continue reading
Health experts say children under age 2 should have zero added sugars in their diets. | Continue reading
In Bend, you can’t miss the illustration work of Megan Marie Myers. It’s absolutely everywhere. There are murals. There are calendars for sale everywhere. Prints are hung up at coffeeshops, sometimes as whole exhibitions. She’s got books, stickers, hats, postcards, notecards, and … | Continue reading
A threat actor has been using a content delivery network cache to store information-stealing malware in an ongoing campaign targeting systems U.S., the U.K., Germany, and Japan. [...] | Continue reading
Thermonator, the first "flamethrower-wielding robot dog," is completely legal in 48 US states. | Continue reading
At over 13 inches tall, Mondo’s take on Bane as he appears in Batman: The Animated Series will lend plenty of charismatic villainy to your toy shelf. He comes with swappable facial expressions and hands, with options increased if you go for the deluxe version. Read more... | Continue reading
Chamber of Commerce vows to sue FTC, will try to block ban on noncompetes. | Continue reading
Non-compete clauses are a thing of the past thanks to a new ruling from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Read more... | Continue reading
Your kitchen is about to look gorgeous! READ MORE... | Continue reading
The CDC warned doctors about "counterfeit or mishandled" Botox injections that have caused clusters of illness in the U.S. | Continue reading
eScan AV updates were delivered over HTTP for five years. | Continue reading
From Letterboxd: definitely there was love, oh but the circumstances… try Carol, Never Let Me Go, Brokeback Mountain, and Ammonite, on for size. Even the not so well received One Day, recently adapted as a TV series, makes the grade. Let’s not forget Portrait of a Lady on Fire ei … | Continue reading
We’ve all been there before. You unbox your shiny new PC, everything preinstalled, and you’re so excited you’re practically molting in your chair in anticipation for it to boot up. You’re so engrossed that you forget there’s a 10-ton gorilla lying in wait just around the corner. … | Continue reading
"It's gotten to a point where I can’t enjoy a hike or a run anywhere in Austin without having to bring a trash bag with me." Hiker voices frustration after witnessing disturbing scene at popular lake: 'Why do people keep leaving it like this?' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Microsoft’s 3.8B parameter Phi-3 may rival GPT-3.5, signaling a new era of “small language models." | Continue reading
After many rumors, leaked photos, specs and speculation, the refreshed Model 3 Performance “Ludicrous” version is finally here. Previously known as “Highland,” the refreshed Model 3 was launched last year in China and Europe, this year in North America. The refreshed Model 3 offe … | Continue reading
Axon, the public safety contractor that popularized the Taser, has launched a new product that is less actively terrifying but still vaguely concerning: an AI-powered software program that lets cops automate their police reports. Read more... | Continue reading
For the first time, researchers use a combination of MEG and fMRI to map the spatio-temporal human brain dynamics of a visual image being recognized. | Continue reading
Grindr admitted sharing HIV status with software firms in 2018, said it stopped. | Continue reading
Do you have a hard time telling the difference between cloud white and decorator’s white? READ MORE... | Continue reading
Two guided behind-the-scenes tours will be returning to Disneyland for guests to enjoy starting in May 2024, and hre’s what you need to know. The Details Guided tours allow guests to to delve deeper into the magic of Disney, taking them on a guided adventure as they learn more ab … | Continue reading
The 3 Musketeers return! Filippo Valsorda, Roland Shoemaker & Nicola Murino continue their deep-dive conversation with Natalie about Go’s crypto libraries. Also listen to Part 1 and Part 2! | Continue reading
If you're worried about cars unexpectedly overtaking you while you're cycling, Trek's new CarBack may be just the ticket. It's not the only bicycle radar device on the market, but it is claimed to be the best in several ways. Continue Reading Category: Bicycles, Transport Tags: T … | Continue reading