Coma Beach has made an outstanding return with a gritty EP filled with chaos, pain and their unique style of obscure music we have all come to love. | Continue reading

One of the best filmmakers of all time, Francis Ford Coppola, hasn’t had a major theatrical release in almost 30 years. Instead, the man behind The Godfather, The Conversation, and Apocalypse Now has been making weird art films and his very own wine. And you know what? That sound … | Continue reading

A DNA analysis of Ludwig van Beethoven's hair shows that he likely had lead poisoning. | Continue reading

Google's I/O event came with lots of news and announcements. We've got everything in one place. | Continue reading

Congratulations to all the finalists! The post Here are the 2024 Arthur C. Clarke Award Finalists appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading

AI model updates galore at Google I/O, including 2m context window, Imagen 3, Veo, and more. | Continue reading

It’s well known that narcissists are attracted to positions of power. A new study finds that when they reach the highest tiers of management in the business world, they also tend to attract each other — at least at first. An estimated 18% of chief executive officers (CEOs) score … | Continue reading

The Mackinac Bridge, also known as "Mighy Mac" or "Big Mac," stretches some five miles long and connects Michigan’s upper and lower peninsulas. Outside a storage facility in St. Louis, Michigan, you can find a miniature replica of the Mackinac Bridge. Though it's more than 200 ti … | Continue reading

This hack is extremely economical, providing a fully functional home gardening tool for no additional cost. Gardener demonstrates cheap and easy way to repurpose empty bottles into useful plant tool: 'Love this' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading

Around 100 miles west of London in the west Wiltshire town of Bradford-on-Avon, a restored large rubber calender machine stands as a memorial to the town's 150th year of association with the rubber industry. Located on Kingston Road, it is one of the largest and heaviest objects … | Continue reading

On an early February morning in 2024 at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, David Westenberg dons safety goggles and latex gloves. The bespectacled microbiologist and professor of biological sciences for the last 27 years gently removes a series of test tubes conta … | Continue reading

Google made a big mistake recently. The company accidentally erased the private Google Cloud account of a $125 billion Australian pension fund, UniSuper. Read more... | Continue reading

It’s deja vu all over again. Boeing’s long-anticipated Starliner mission has been postponed for a second time due to a newly discovered issue with the spacecraft’s service module. Read more... | Continue reading

Comcast plans to launch a streaming bundle later this month that will include Peacock, Netflix, and Apple TV+, according to a new report from Variety. Reportedly called StreamSaver, the bundle will be discounted but only available to subscribers of Comcast TV or internet service. … | Continue reading

This morning Amazon’s Prime Videogave us our first look at Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’s second season, and it’s leaning all in on Sauron. Times are dark in Middle-earth, and it needs a returned Dark Lord just to make everything a little more ominous. And maybe some sta … | Continue reading

Google’s best new Android feature in years is Circle to Search, which is why it took center stage at today’s Google I/O opening keynote. Google announced new updates to Gemini, the AI that powers the Android operating system. Most of the new features sound helpful, though they mi … | Continue reading

Ever since she was an undergraduate student in Turkey, Simay Akar has been interested in renewable energy technology. As she progressed through her career after school, she chose not to develop the technology herself but to promote it. She has held marketing positions with major … | Continue reading

South of Panaji, the capital of the Indian state of Goa, there is a popular lookout point called the Dona Paula View Point. Hordes of tourists flock here every evening to see the sunset from a pergola perched atop a small hill. Many popular Bollywood movies have been filmed here, … | Continue reading

This tool could help farmers to continue growing the crops that people rely on even as climates become less suitable. Scientists develop computational tool to uncover genetic variations of crucial crops — and it could be a massive boon for agricultural systems first appeared on T … | Continue reading

Interviewer: Jillian York Mohamed El Gohary is an open-knowledge enthusiast. After majoring in Biomedical Engineering in October 2010, he switched careers to work as a Social Media manager for Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper until October 2011, when he joined Global Voices contracts m … | Continue reading

Middle-earth's most problematic bad boy is back, baby! The post Prepare Yourself for Sexy Sauron in The Rings of Power Season 2 Trailer appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading

Gmail will soon be able to summarize recent emails from a contact. | Continue reading

ChatGPT's latest upgrade means the voice assistant can now respond to audio, text and visual inputs in real time. The new chatbot, named ChatGPT-4o, will be rolled out to alpha testers in the coming weeks. | Continue reading