If you already hate ads on YouTube, then you’re going to have a bad time with Pause Ads. During its earnings calls on Thursday,Google crowed about the success of the tests it’s run on the ads, which could indicate the “feature” will roll out to even more watchers. Read more... | Continue reading
Fish farming may be getting much more eco-friendly, courtesy of soybean processing wastewater. Microbes in the liquid have been used to produce proteins that could replace the fishmeal which is currently fed to farmed fish. Continue Reading Category: Environment, Science Tags: Na … | Continue reading
A floating offshore wind startup is gearing up to commercialize a modular, hyper-local assembly model to cut the cost of floating platforms. The post Offshore Wind Industry Saved By Lighter Floating Platforms appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
The acclaimed cellist and writer discussed his new memoir and reflected on a remarkable musical career. | Continue reading
More than 50% of the patients who used a new mouth-spray-based vaccine didn't have a UTI for up to nine years. | Continue reading
It’s universally acknowledged that 1968's Rosemary’s Baby is an influential horror classic. Attempts to directly recapture that witchy magic, however, have fallen flat: 1976 made-for-TV sequel Look What’s Happened to Rosemary’s Baby is pretty universally despised, as is the 2014 … | Continue reading
Earlier this week, I railed against Tesla’s decision to discontinue its referral program and the apparent cancellation (instead of expansion) of its fledgling advertising program. Well, Tesla’s advertising program looks like it is dead in the water, since they laid off the entire … | Continue reading
[OK, great, but where’s my centaur?] New Yorker writer Gideon Lewis-Kraus recently investigated the current status of “flying cars”. As his article notes, most past designs were “jury-rigged compromises between a lousy automobile and a stupid airplane”. But now, thanks to advance … | Continue reading
The Tesla, Inc. Q1 2024 earnings call was fascinating in how Tesla representatives drew on carefully phrased statements to appease and turn around what was then a largely disgruntled shareholder group. The revisionist language within the earnings call took coexisting, diverse, an … | Continue reading
1. Mind control, levitation and no pain: the race to find a superman in sport (2019), The Guardian: America and the Soviet Union held a common belief: the existence of superhumans. Both world powers believed in a race of cosmic beings who could, just like in the sci-fi movies, sl … | Continue reading
WP Automatic plugin patched, but release notes don't mention the critical fix. | Continue reading
After writing the last post, I decided to do the calculations necessary to make Newmark’s influence chart. | Continue reading
"Others have gotten jail time for similar stunts in NPS lands." Photo of defaced 5,000-year-old petroglyph in national park sparks outrage: 'How can we find who did this?' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Knowledge-based workers already need to skill-up to coexist with sophisticated artificial intelligence technologies. | Continue reading
Brighten up chickpeas and fava beans with a punchy lemon, garlic, and chile sauce, then drizzle it all with olive oil and a creamy tahini dressing. | Continue reading
The author is working with Graphic India on the project. The post Neil Gaiman’s Short Story “Cinnamon” to Get Animated Adaptation appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Excluding one pandemic year, emissions are lower than they've been since the 1980s. | Continue reading
Happy Alien Day to all those who celebrate. April 26, as many of you know, is the day pop culture has decided to celebrate one of the landmark franchises in science fiction: Alien. That’s because the planet in the sequel Aliens is LV-426—so, April 26. But while in the past Alien … | Continue reading
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If I do the same walk over and over my brain tells me it’s boring, I’ve seen it all a thousand times. But this isn’t true. The walk is different every time. I’m different every time. At this time of year of course it’s in your face different with the explosion of greenery on the … | Continue reading
The product’s failure should further dispel the myth of tech inevitability | Continue reading
There’s no question that coal is on its way out in the U.S. In 2001, coal-fired power plants generated about 50% of U.S. electricity. Last year, they were down to about 15%. On Thursday, however, the Biden administration arguably delivered a death blow. New carbon emission limits … | Continue reading
This is a garrulous little creature who vainly and profoundly likes to enunciate its own name. Lots more gecko gabbing here: Note the wide range of vocalizations and verbalizations. The Neo-Latin gekko and English 'gecko' stem from Indonesian–Malaysian gēkoq, it is a Malay word b … | Continue reading
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Enlarge (credit: Discord) Spy Pet, a service that sold access to a rich database of allegedly more than 3 billion Discord messages and details on more than 600 million users, has seemingly been shut down. 404 Media, which broke the story of Spy Pet's offerings, reports that Spy P … | Continue reading
NASA’s iconic Hubble Space Telescope isn’t doing so well. The observatory has been suffering from a pesky glitch affecting its gyroscope, causing it to suspend its science operations for a second time in less than six months. Read more... | Continue reading
A new blood test could determine whether someone will develop knee osteoarthritis up to eight years before structural damage is picked up by an X-ray. | Continue reading
George Lucas. Hayao Miyazaki. Stan Lee. Shigeru Miyamoto. Names such as these have defined our lives. The art and products geniuses like these have created are as important to us as anything. And while we decorate our homes and imaginations with their work, what about the people … | Continue reading
A baseball player may tap his helmet three times before stepping up to the plate, and an Argentina supporter may burn incense in front of a portrait of Diego Maradona as the Albiceleste kick off. Now, a team of archaeologists have found evidence that the ancient Maya blessed thei … | Continue reading
Amazon is offering 48% off the versatile fitness tracker-come-smartwatch, so long as you like pink or black. | Continue reading
Professor: US faces "uphill battle" justifying law against First Amendment suit. | Continue reading
Online privacy isn’t just something you should be hoping for — it’s something you should expect. You should ensure your browsing history stays private and is not harvested by ad networks. By blocking ad trackers, Magic Lasso Adblock stops you being followed by ads around the web. … | Continue reading
If you’re auditioning for your job every day, and you’re auditioning against every other brilliant employee there, and you know that at the end of the year, 6% of you are going to get cut no matter what, and at the same time, you have access to unrivaled data on partners, sellers … | Continue reading
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The film's writer-director brought the project directly to Sam Raimi. The post An Evil Dead Movie With an “Original Story” Is in Development appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Student loans continue to burden adults decades after they’ve left school, and credit card debt haunts many Americans. On the flip side, many of us make leveraged investments in our homes, taking out mortgages to buy houses that we expect to appreciate in value. In other words, d … | Continue reading
DOS 4.00 was supposed to add multitasking to the OS, but it was not to be. | Continue reading
Pixar Fest is kicking off today at the Disneyland Resort in a celebration that will span both Disney California Adventure and Disneyland. At a recent media preview, io9 visited both parks getting in on the Pixar Fest action, which runs from now until August 4 with entertainment o … | Continue reading
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"Each world bears all the worlds we might find within it. If you understand one outcropping of stone, or one wildflower, or one hummingbird — if we see our way along the tracery of cause and effect, the mystery of change and recreation — then we are led to everything we see, and … | Continue reading
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AI-generated video has received a lot of hype lately as a tool that’s supposedly going to revolutionize Hollywood. But Craig Good, a former animator at Pixar who worked on classics like Toy Story and Finding Nemo, isn’t convinced. Good thinks there’s one big problem with AI video … | Continue reading
"This approach helps to build resilience in communities, increasing their ability to adapt in the face of environmental challenges." Farmers transform their small communities with clean energy innovations: 'Embracing more technology can transform agriculture' first appeared on Th … | Continue reading
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Julia Garner's dance card is getting quite full The post Even the Apartment in Rosemary’s Baby Is Getting an Origin Story Now appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
While you usually see focaccia in savory forms, we've noticed a growing trend for sweet versions, and we're all for it. Here’s how to transform your homemade or store-bought focaccia into a dessert or a sweet snack. | Continue reading
Will AI-infused search be the end of publishing economics as we know it? Or is the hype outrunning the utility? | Continue reading