This Space-Frame series of furniture, by Berlin-based architect Gustav Düsing, was designed over a decade ago as an experiment. It's a pity it wasn't pursued further. Made of Baltic Birch plywood, the pieces could conceivably be cut on a less-than-full-size CNC mill and would obv … | Continue reading
One of the biggest challenges for robotics right now is practical autonomous operation in unstructured environments. That is, doing useful stuff in places your robot hasn’t been before and where things may not be as familiar as your robot might like. Robots thrive on predictabili … | Continue reading
The experts believe their filter technology can help catch a lot of trash before it hits the water. Company develops high-tech solution to prevent major waterways from getting polluted: 'It's way easier' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Filled with castles, quests, and princess brides, these books take the fairy tale formula to new and exciting places... The post Five Fantasy Novels With Fairy Tale Vibes appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Performance analysis indicates that SQLite spends very little time doing bytecode decoding and dispatch. Most CPU cycles are consumed in walking B-Trees, doing value comparisons, and decoding records - all of which happens in compiled C code. Bytecode dispatch is using less than … | Continue reading
They're gonna get away with it, too The post Ruh Roh! It Seems to Be Time for Another Scooby-Doo Series appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
We appear to have concrete proof that rich people have problems too: Matthew Prince, the billionaire CEO and co-founder of tech giant Cloudflare, is currently suing two of his millionaire neighbors because, according to court papers, the neighbors’ overly enthusiastic Bernese Mou … | Continue reading
Arabica coffee plant appears to have evolved between 600,000 and 1 million years ago after two other coffee species crossbred in the forests of what is now Ethiopia. | Continue reading
Carbon-framed ebikes can cost a pretty penny, but the latest lightweight city model from Fiido currently comes in at well under $2k, has the stealthy look of a regular bike and boasts a low-maintenance Gates carbon belt drive. Continue Reading Category: Bicycles, Transport Tags: … | Continue reading
TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 2024 But then, up jumps the Times: As far as we know, President Lincoln never voiced concern about the future of "our democracy." His moral insights and intellectual skills came from the realm of the gods. In one of his two most famous speeches, he used languag … | Continue reading
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Clare Easdown is no stranger to the vulnerable and the honest, always writing incredibly personal and intimate lyrics that hit you like a train. On "Sitgma Enigma", of course, is no different | Continue reading
We hope you like TVs because that’s what April had to deliver in 2024. Samsung showed off its latest Neo QLED 4K TV, while Sony refreshed its entire QLED-based Bravia lineup. Read more... | Continue reading
A 26-year-old Finnish man was sentenced to more than six years in prison today after being convicted of hacking into an online psychotherapy clinic, leaking tens of thousands of patient therapy records, and attempting to extort the clinic and patients. | Continue reading
By Nat Chin Welcome to our deep dive into the world of invariant development with Curvance. We’ve been building invariants as part of regular code review assessments for more than 6 years now, but our work with Curvance marks our very first official invariant development project, … | Continue reading
"If we’re going to have a true space economy, that means logistics and supply services." | Continue reading
Tesla is also getting rid of its public policy team, despite robotaxi ambitions. | Continue reading
This recently-published graph is misleading but also has the unintended benefit of revealing a data problem: Jrc brought it up in a recent blog comment. The figure is from an article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, … Continue reading → | Continue reading
The sodium-ion battery of the future is coming to decarbonize US data centers and backup generators, now do electric vehicles. The post Buh-Bye, Conflict Minerals: US Gets First Sodium-Ion Battery Factory appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
For decades DevOps teams have been under pressure to do four things: make software faster, make it cheaper, keep it secure, and accelerate time to market. But with fewer engineering resources, enterprises that use Java must find a way to speed up application innovation and fortif … | Continue reading
At TSMC’s North American Technology Symposium on Wednesday, the company detailed both its semiconductor technology and chip packaging technology roadmaps. While the former is key to keeping the traditional part of Moore’s Law going, the latter could accelerate a trend towards pro … | Continue reading
Been There, Smelled That explores the aromas of places around the world. Travel writer Maggie Downs investigates some of the world’s most potent smells, looks at how odor cultivates a connection to place, and presents how humans engage with smells, from scents that have endured g … | Continue reading
May is almost here, so what better occasion could there be for some fresh and inspiring desktop wallpapers? Created with love by artists and designers from across the globe, the wallpapers in this post come in versions with and without a calendar. Enjoy! | Continue reading
In the latest Stack Overflow for Teams Enterprise release, you'll see updates that make collaboration smarter and knowledge discovery easier. This release also includes OverflowAI, a GenAI-powered paid add-on to Enterprise subscriptions. | Continue reading
Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but there’s a new, unexpected twist on a classic fairytale in the works. Jeff Daniels talks about the upcoming Arachnophobia remake. Plus, get another look at Barriss Offee’s return in Tales of the Empire. Spoilers, away! Read more... | Continue reading
A helium reservoir in Minnesota has astonishingly high concentrations of the gas, potentially opening doors for commercial extraction. | Continue reading
Previously I’ve shown off VimiumC as a way to navigate content inside your web browser without needing to take your hands off the keyboard to reach for your mouse, but now I’ve found a tool for macOS that lets you do the same thing for the entire operating system called Homerow. … | Continue reading
"I believe Le Creuset has a lifetime warranty and you can send them an email if something is damaged or missing." Shopper over the moon after stumbling upon cult-favorite cookware at thrift store: 'Loads of potential' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
It’s hard enough to give candid feedback to a friend or subordinate. Giving it to your boss is one of the most difficult things to do—and can get you booted if you botch it. Why it matters. Very few of us make it through life without running into a moronic, mushy, or mediocre man … | Continue reading
Just two weeks after Tesla laid off at least 14,000 workers across the world, CEO Elon Musk is planning layoffs for hundreds of additional staffers — including the bulk of the company’s Supercharger team and several executives. Read more... | Continue reading
This past week has been one of contrasts. We recently invested in having Jaime Lee Mann write copy for us. The impetus was an ad run we are contracted to have for our Sleep Tight … | Continue reading
Since last year, a subreddit has been toiling away to find the source of a particular ‘80s song and it finally hit the jackpot. Read more... | Continue reading
Andrea Capra at The Book Haven: It is today my belief that once ordinary language is laughed out of the room, philosophical theories are no longer held responsible at all to the ways we actually speak and actually live. And aren’t the humanities ultimately for a good part connect … | Continue reading
The Air France-KLM group has made its largest loss since the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new data revealed by the company. In the past quarter, the group made an operating... | Continue reading
Jojo is back in the house! Back in 2014, after we’d launched our Shop and it took off, Merrill and I realized we needed to bring on an experienced team. Industry friends kept telling us to hire Jojo Feld. So we did. It didn’t take long to see her strengths. She had an eye for gre … | Continue reading
Kamal Nahas in The Scientist: Transcription factors that tune the expression of multiple genes could be key players in regulating behavior, but scientists need to scout for them. Peter Hamilton, a neuroscientist at Virginia Commonwealth University, has contributed to this search … | Continue reading
Audrey Wasser at nonsite: What would it mean to subtract context from writing, in each and every sense of “context” that Derrida proposes here? And would this be a remotely helpful exercise for thinking about the relation between text and context in literary studies? It’s hard to … | Continue reading
Derrida : The Documentary Posted on Tuesday, Apr 30, 2024 8:23AMTuesday, April 30, 2024 by Morgan Meis | Continue reading
Current conditions: Floods in Saudi Arabia forced some schools to close • Nearly 50 fires were reported in Greece over 24 hours • Tornado alley could see more severe storms this afternoon. THE TOP FIVE 1. Biden finalizes permitting reform rule The Biden administration today final … | Continue reading
Eventually, silence became a mistressin our house.I’d look at my hands while he’d look towardsthe door.Aside from little snippets like, “Will you be home for dinner?”and the bands on our fingers,we’d be separate paintings within our four walls,I — on a white couch — and he —miles … | Continue reading
Mark Blacklock at Literary Review: Evidently, the time is ripe for a survey of the branch of cultural production concerned with the end of the world. And yet, as Lynskey points out, tales have been told about it for as long as we’ve been doing story. J G Ballard, whose work is gi … | Continue reading
Marlene Cimons in The Washington Post: Most of us think of inflammation as the redness and swelling that follow a wound, infection or injury, such as an ankle sprain, or from overdoing a sport, “tennis elbow,” for example. This is “acute” inflammation, a beneficial immune system … | Continue reading
According to a recent report by Electrek that repeated paywalled reporting by The Information, Tesla has conducted another round of layoffs, this time getting rid of the entire Supercharger team. Without further confirmation from a company that notoriously maintains no press cont … | Continue reading
A recent article at the San Francisco Chronicle leads with (as of this writing) a headline saying, “Tesla superchargers in California now available for all EVs.” The paywalled article cites a social media post by Governor Gavin Newsom, but there’s just one problem: the headline i … | Continue reading
Apple’s latest clash with the EU has left European Safari users potentially vulnerable to web activity tracking. Apple has a… Continue reading Apple’s ‘incredibly private’ Safari users could still be tracked in Europe The post Apple’s ‘incredibly private’ Safari users could still … | Continue reading
At AWS re:Invent 2023, we previewed Amazon Q Business, a generative artificial intelligence (generative AI)–powered assistant that can answer questions, provide summaries, generate content, and securely complete tasks based on data and information in your enterprise systems. With … | Continue reading
When Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched Amazon Q Developer as a preview last year, it changed my experience of interacting with AWS services and, at the same time, maximizing the potential of AWS services on a daily basis. Trained on 17 years of AWS knowledge and experience, this … | Continue reading