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Tuesday April 23, 2024. 01:30 PM
The story of the Diorama restaurant in Osaka is the heartwarming story I absolutely needed today. Like many restaurants, they struggled during COVID. They were on the verge of closing when the owner took in a tiny, seemingly abandoned kitten. The kitten's mother and siblings ...
Project Farm heads into the kitchen for a snack: a toaster roundup covering everything from a $20 Amazon Basics model to a $220 Smeg and a $330 touchscreen thing. It's interesting to see so many quantitive tests—electrical draw, bread weight loss percentages, toastage...
'I have this rather weird hobby,' writes Paul Goes. 'I create romhacks of the original Donkey Kong Arcade game.' His creations include a Donkey Kong Pac-Man Crossover, Random Donkey Kong and a two-player duel, and you can play all of them online, free of charge! — Read the re...
Express, found in malls across the nation, has filed for bankruptcy protection. It will close 95 stores and try to stay alive by selling itself, reports NPR. Last month, the New York Stock Exchange delisted the retailer because of its languishing stock value. — Read the re...
While the employee benefits of the AI PC are intriguing, they may not be enough to convince IT buyers to go all in just yet, according to a Forrester report. Despite the enthusiasm generated by PC vendors and chipmakers at the 2024 Consumer Electronics Show, where advanced...
In what appears to be a response to Apple's recent success with the Vision Pro, Meta has unveiled its own open computing initiative with the introduction of Meta Horizon OS. This new mixed reality operating system is part of Meta's strategy to recover ground in the rapidly...
Arizona loser Kari Lake's quest to overturn her electorial defeat in the 2022 gubernatorial election was turned away Monday by the Supreme Court. Her lawsuit, challenging electronic voting machines, was already dismissed by two lower courts, which found that neither Lake nor ...
People who are worried that candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will siphon more voters from President Biden than Donald Trump (helping Trump win) will be pleased to know that a new Marist poll shows just the opposite. When respondents were asked who they'd vote for if it were...
A misconfigured North Korean Internet cloud server has provided a fascinating glance into the world of North Korean animation outsourcing and how foreign companies might be inadvertently employing North Korean companies on information technology (IT) projects. The incident...
Snake bite victims in Australia have been urged not to bring the snakes with them to the hospital. It's not necessary and only creates a new problem, say officials. 'We honestly don't want people interacting with snakes any more than they already have,' said Dr. — Read the re...
Companies use shrinkflation to increase profits by reducing product size without raising prices. Most people will notice a change in price, but will often miss a change in size, especially when the change is concealed by the outside packaging. Even matzoh for Passover was...
The Open Home Foundation has announced its existence as a home and support resource for free home-automation projects. We created the Open Home Foundation to fight for the fundamental principles of privacy, choice, and sustainability for smart homes. And every person who...
I don't know anything about Minecraft, but I was delighted to learn of this complete, detailed Minecraft Disneyland. 'Mouskegamer' started the project five years ago with two friends, but others have taken up the mantle since 2023. Here is a video walkthrough of Minecraft...
When a veterinary assistant brought home six kittens from a junkyard that was populated with feral cats, she kept them cordoned off from her two other cats. She thought she'd foster them until they were old enough to be neutered and adopted, but her male cat, Bundy, had...
Monday April 22, 2024. 11:30 PM
Prompt engineering tools are software platforms that help business owners, content creators and prompt engineers craft effective prompts that maximize output from their large language models (LLMs) and generative AI tools. In other words, the best prompt engineering tools...
Cory Doctorow, nailing it as usual. If you care about how people are treated by platforms, you can’t just tell them to pay for services instead of using ad-supported media. The most important factor in getting decent treatment out of a tech company isn’t whether you pay with...
The Debian project leader election results are in and Andreas Tille has been elected. In a fairly competitive vote, Tille beat Sruthi Chandran to fill the position for the coming year. We looked at the election and the candidates a few weeks back.
Audacity, the renowned open-source audio editing software, has just been updated to version 3.5, and it's packed with features that are bound to excite both amateur and professional audio manipulators alike. One of the most anticipated additions in Audacity 3.5 is the...
Apple just went full Android in the EU. While sideloading, the act of installing apps from sources other than the OS's official app store, is a familiar practice for Android users, it marks a departure from the tightly integrated ecosystem that has long characterized Apple's ...
Today we’re taking the next step toward our vision for a more open computing platform for the metaverse. We’re opening up the operating system powering our Meta Quest devices to third-party hardware makers, giving more choice to consumers and a larger ecosystem for...
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