Parkopedia To Improve Public EV Charging Experience For BMW & MINI drivers

Detailed Point of Interest (POI) data provided by Parkopedia now includes photos and ratings to assist EV drivers in assessing which charging locations are most suitable for their needs Parkopedia continues to increase market coverage for the service – adding data for Spain, Ital … | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 22 minutes ago

The three dots that "prove" macOS could never work on a touch screen

Turns out I'm not done with this topic… A couple days ago I saw this post pop up on Threads and it’s the “checkmate” move people like to bring up when dismissing the idea that macOS could ever work on a touch screen | Continue reading


@birchtree.me | 29 minutes ago

Earth-size planet found orbiting nearby star that will outlive the sun by 100 billion years

An Earth-size planet discovered around a nearby star offers astronomers their first chance for exoplanetary geology. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 41 minutes ago

Apple touts record-breaking success after convincing manufacturing partners to make a clean change: 'More hard work is ahead'

"These ambitious targets are already translating into cleaner air and a healthier planet for all of us." Apple touts record-breaking success after convincing manufacturing partners to make a clean change: 'More hard work is ahead' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 41 minutes ago

Three Gentle Introductions

An excellent idea from Merlin Mann: the idea is to see if I can get somebody interested in a band I love (or sometimes even one specific aspect of a band I love) by curating a playlist of seven and only seven songs [...] Just seven really good songs that might help you fall in lo … | Continue reading


@rknight.me | 59 minutes ago

Jones Cove Farmhouse / Altura Architects

Jones Cove Farmhouse, designed by Altura Architects, is nestled in the picturesque mountain farm property in Buncombe County, Asheville, North Carolina. The clients envisioned a modern home that would cater to entertaining friends and hosting their large family Continue reading | Continue reading


@homeworlddesign.com | 1 hour ago

32 animals that act weirdly human sometimes

From chimps that wage war over territory to parrots that outperform Harvard students on memory tests, many other members of the animal kingdom demonstrate surprisingly human-like behavior. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 1 hour ago

Apps Put a Psychiatrist in Your Pocket

Nearly every day since she was a child, Alex Leow, a psychiatrist and computer scientist at the University of Illinois Chicago, has played the piano. Some days she plays well, and other days her tempo lags and her fingers hit the wrong keys. Over the years, she noticed a pattern: … | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 1 hour ago

Universe Was Once Divided into Cells, New Study Says

Science News, Physics, Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science | Continue reading


@backreaction.blogspot.com | 1 hour ago

Government greenlights collaborations with China on clean energy developments: '[It will] maximize our competitiveness'

"These are historic, extraordinary moments for the country." Government greenlights collaborations with China on clean energy developments: '[It will] maximize our competitiveness' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 1 hour ago

I've Made Dozens of Brownies, but These Are the BEST Ones

They’re decadent and deeply chocolaty. READ MORE... | Continue reading


@thekitchn.com | 1 hour ago

Are weight-loss meds the next wonder drugs?

If the COVID-19 vaccines were the most significant FDA approvals of the 2020s so far, GLP-1 agonists to treat obesity are a strong runner up. Though these drugs have been used to treat type 2 diabetes for nearly two decades, it wasn’t until 2021 that the FDA approved one of them … | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 1 hour ago

JMC House / Atelier d’Arquitectura Lopes da Costa

Designed by Atelier d'Arquitectura Lopes da Costa, the JMC House is situated in Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal. Nestled on a triangular plot with a steep slope, the unique topography of the land has significantly influenced the house's shape and volume. Continue reading | Continue reading


@homeworlddesign.com | 1 hour ago

Google AI Overview has a ways to go

…or maybe I should say, "is deeply stupid, so far". At least, that's the verdict from my first encounter with this heralded innovation. I updated a Chromebook, re-installed Linux, and thought (incorrectly) that I might need to add repositories in order to install some non-standar … | Continue reading


@languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu | 1 hour ago

Casa do Sobreiro / Skemba Arquitectura & Engenharia

Casa do Sobreiro, designed by Skemba Arquitectura & Engenharia, is a single-family residence located in Amarante, Portugal. This project centers around a remarkable century-old Cork Oak tree, making it the focal point of the design. Continue reading | Continue reading


@homeworlddesign.com | 1 hour ago

2024 Honda Business Briefing On Electrification Initiatives & Investment Strategy Summary (Doubling Investments)

Approach to electrification targets: Honda has not changed its belief that EVs are the most effective solution in the area of small mobility products such as motorcycles and automobiles, and Honda’s electrification target to make EVs and FCEVs represent 100% of its global vehicle … | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 1 hour ago

My Mom’s Clever Trick for Making Vegetables Taste Amazing (I’ve Been Doing It for 25 Years!)

Do it once and you'll rely on it forever. READ MORE... | Continue reading


@thekitchn.com | 2 hours ago

Disneyland's Characters and Parade Performers Successfully Unionize

Unionization was in full force throughout the entertainment industry in 2023, particularly over at Disney. VFX artists across several in-house teams—including those for the MCU and the Avatar franchise—successfully unionized, a trend that’s now continuing in the corporation’s the … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 hours ago

Dirt Cheap Batteries Enable Megawatt-Scale Charging Without Big Grid Upgrades Right Away

Battery prices have continued to plummet, frankly faster than even battery optimists such as myself dreamed of. We’re seeing commercial, scaled, price points that we didn’t expect to see until 2030 or later. That has big implications for electric trucking. In 2022, a kilowatthour … | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 2 hours ago

First installation

First installation The BirdNET-Pi system aims to provide out-of-the-box bird identification. It's slightly more awkward than that, but still pretty straightforward to get up and running. My first hardware plan was to use a Raspberry Pi Zero as the compute host with a Waveshare WM … | Continue reading


@simondobson.org | 2 hours ago

Sam Alito’s flag flew upside down. Are his ethics?

Ruth Marcus in The Washington Post: The upside-down U.S. flag flying at the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. — only days after the Trump-inspired insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021 — shouldn’t come as much of a surprise. After all, Alito has been doing the moral equiva … | Continue reading


@3quarksdaily.com | 2 hours ago

This Plastic Is Embedded With Bacterial Spores That Break It Down After It’s Thrown Out

Edd Gent in Singularity Hub: Getting microbes to eat plastic is a frequently touted solution to our growing waste problem, but making the approach practical is tricky. A new technique that impregnates plastic with the spores of plastic-eating bacteria could make the idea a realit … | Continue reading


@3quarksdaily.com | 2 hours ago

Shopper shares astonishing value of unassuming ring picked up at thrift shop: 'I likely would have walked right past it'

"Good for you!!" Shopper shares astonishing value of unassuming ring picked up at thrift shop: 'I likely would have walked right past it' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 2 hours ago

The Rise of Mesoeconomics

William H. Janeway at Project Syndicate: Whether mobilizing for war or (re)constructing advanced manufacturing capabilities in peacetime, success turns on the functioning of complex supply chains. But this truth was long forgotten – or at least under-appreciated. Not until recent … | Continue reading


@3quarksdaily.com | 2 hours ago

How to Survive and Thrive in the AI Apocalypse

Eric B. Schnurer in The Hedgehog Review: For thousands of years, humankind has fancied itself the apex of creation and the dominant force in the world. Yet humans are now gripped by the fear that yet another species of our own creation—artificially intelligent machines—will prese … | Continue reading


@3quarksdaily.com | 2 hours ago

I’ve spent decades overseeing relief operations around the world, and here’s what’s going wrong in Gaza

Raymond Offenheiser in The Conversation: I spent 20 years as the president of Oxfam America, an international humanitarian organization, and have overseen humanitarian responses to some of the biggest crises of the past three decades, from the war in Kosovo to the conflicts in Ir … | Continue reading


@3quarksdaily.com | 2 hours ago

Cannibalinguistics: Language-learning and people-eating

Michael Erard in the European Review of Books: Language as self, language learning as magic, the mortifications of the flesh: these themes run through The Centre, a debut novel by British-Pakistani writer and translator Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi. Its narrator, Anisa, is a Pakistani … | Continue reading


@3quarksdaily.com | 2 hours ago

Fast groq-hosted LLMs vs browser jank

Fast groq-hosted LLMs vs browser jank Groq is now serving LLMs such as Llama 3 so quickly that JavaScript which attempts to render Markdown strings on every new token can cause performance issues in browsers. Taras Glek's solution was to move the rendering to a requestAnimationFr … | Continue reading


@simonwillison.net | 3 hours ago

Jeep to release its first all-electric model this fall with promising all-terrain feature — here's what we know

Jeep does not want to sacrifice speed when going electric. Jeep to release its first all-electric model this fall with promising all-terrain feature — here's what we know first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 3 hours ago

Not eating sweet potatoes: Is that gonna kill me?

Dean Eckles writes: I thought this NPR report was an interesting example of how demand for life advice seems closely connected to low standards of evidence. Like if this didn’t supposedly tell how to live longer, lose weight etc., would … Continue reading → | Continue reading


@statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu | 3 hours ago

T.J. Maxx Is Selling a $5 Daisy Mug and Shoppers Are Buying 2 at a Time

It’s so beautiful! READ MORE... | Continue reading


@thekitchn.com | 3 hours ago

Bonus Drop #49 (2024-05-19): 🦙s All The Way Down

The weekend Bonus Drop covers various AI-centric tools like llamafile, whisperfile, and Firecrawl. llamafile simplifies the deployment of LLM/GPT models for local use, while whisperfile focuses on converting audio files. Firecrawl is a tool for crawling web content and converting … | Continue reading


@dailydrop.hrbrmstr.dev | 3 hours ago

Oil companies contaminated a family farm. The courts and regulators let the drillers walk away.

The oil and gas industry has reaped profits without ensuring there will be money to plug and clean up their wells. In Oklahoma, that work could cost more than $7 billion if it falls to the state. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 3 hours ago

Sunday Sweets' Crowning Achievement

My friend Aimee has been celebrating "Tiara Tuesdays" for about a month now - by wearing a tiara around the house every Tuesday. Which is pretty fabulous. So when I read that Friday is International Tiara Day, I realized the one thing Tiara Tuesday is missing: Sunday Sweets! ( Th … | Continue reading


@cakewrecks.com | 3 hours ago

Machine Learning vs. Deep Learning: What's the Difference?

Artificial intelligence is everywhere these days, but the fundamentals of how this influential new technology works can be confusing. Two of the most important fields in AI development are “machine learning” and its sub-field, “deep learning.” Here’s a quick explanation of what t … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 hours ago

A Pro Designer’s $25 Kitchen Decor Haul at Dollar Tree (You’ll Use Them All the Time)

BRB, immediately adding to cart. READ MORE... | Continue reading


@thekitchn.com | 3 hours ago

Sunday Poem

Acadian Lane Indigo against ocher, Atlantic Blue abutting shore cliffs, bluffs, and sand, All of the earth on Prince Edward Island The red of dry blood, of weather-worn brick, Of the rutted, twisting road leading down Through the fishing village to the harbor Where lobster boats … | Continue reading


@3quarksdaily.com | 4 hours ago

Soaring

I got on a plane for the first time in about 6 years this week, and about 11 years since my first solo trip. Not a huge amount has changed; the local airport is slightly nicer, and its security is less burdensome, but it’s still akin to cramming into an aluminium tube and taking … | Continue reading


@chrismcleod.dev | 4 hours ago

Costco’s $5 Strawberries Are Flying Off Shelves (They Taste Like a Pineapple!)

The perfect summer snack! READ MORE... | Continue reading


@thekitchn.com | 4 hours ago

Apple ][+ Sketch

Where it all began, for some of us... | Continue reading


@rasterweb.net | 4 hours ago

Family's home produces more energy than it uses and offers flexible lifestyle — here's how they do it

"The resulting home is proof that families do not need to compromise on style, space, or comfort." Family's home produces more energy than it uses and offers flexible lifestyle — here's how they do it first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 4 hours ago

How the perils of space have affected asteroid Ryugu

Ryugu's parent body appears to have had a fair amount of water present, too. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 4 hours ago

My Weekly Creative Summary for the Week of 2024-19

After a short break, I’m happy to resume my weekly creative summaries! This one is about a trip, a new iPad and processing images and my job. | Continue reading


@numericcitizen.me | 4 hours ago

An adult gap year?

I've got about another 10 months left at my current job and after that... I don't know what I'll do. I've already moved down to 4 days a week in an effort to glide down to FIRE. Do I really want to go back up to 5 days? Could I find somewhere that would be […] | Continue reading


@shkspr.mobi | 5 hours ago

New research shows gas stove emissions contribute to 19,000 deaths annually

California is considering a law that would require warning labels on gas stoves. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 5 hours ago

Rising fog in paintings 2

Into the 20th century, fog became a popular compositional device. Examples from Monet, Pissarro, Vallotton, Hodler and others. | Continue reading


@eclecticlight.co | 5 hours ago

The Persistence of Memory

When I first started keeping a diary, I did it mostly out of imitation. Isaac Asimov kept one, and I liked the idea. As he [...] | Continue reading


@jamierubin.net | 5 hours ago

5/19/2024

Overcast and cool. A pair of love-struck squirrels appear to have designs on my house, climbing the red cedar, peering in the windows. | Continue reading


@morningporch.com | 5 hours ago