Elon Musk's SpaceX postpones Starship launch — It comes just a day after the firm revealed plans for a record-breaking stock market debut.
The autonomy dial: a pattern toolkit for designing human control over AI — <div class="medium-feed-item"><p class="medium-feed-image"><a href="https://uxdesign.cc/the-autonomy-dial-a-pattern-toolkit-for-designing-human-control-over-ai-12bfbe23ca70?source=rss----138adf9c44c---4"><
This artist has been drawing the same character every single day for 12 years... the evolution is 😭
Flesh-Eating 'Superworms' Could Become a New Skeleton-Cleaning Crew for Museum and Research Specimens — A new study hints that the critters would be a good alternative to traditional methods used to remove flesh from bones, including dermestid beetles, chemical treatments and…
autonomous flying umbrella follows and shields users from rain and sunlight — john tse of I build stuff creates an autonomous flying umbrella that follows and shields the users from rain and sunlight.
Indian PM Modi warns about left-wing activists in Independence Day speech — The Indian PM said Maoist-influenced Naxalite rebellion is largely gone, but its ideological backers still pose threat.
Women's Champions League Final highlights: Barcelona 4-0 OL Lyonnes — Barcelona secure their fourth Champions League title in six seasons as Ewa Pajor and Salma Paralluelo each score twice to thrash Lyon in the final in Oslo.
England facing defeat in Knight & Beaumont's farewell — Tammy Beaumont and Heather Knight fall cheaply in their final innings for England as India close in on victory at Lord's.
We Can’t Escape Hot Bacteria Summer — Plus the best restaurants in museums, the latest in the Ben & Jerry’s fight, and Dominic Sessa becomes Bourdain
Nigerian Stocks Vault Past South Korea’s Kospi to Claim World’s Top Returns — Nigerian equities have overtaken South Korea’s to hand investors the highest dollar-based returns this year, as souring sentiment on artificial-intelligence stocks pushes the Asian nation’s…
Found a 1987 comic where the artist drew the same panel twice by mistake — but the second time the villain's expression changed just enough that it completely rewrites what he was thinking. Ten year old me never noticed.
There's a database of every panel where Spider-Man's web actually breaks, organized by year and tensile strength, it's weirdly thorough
Thinking Machines open sources first multimodal language model, Inkling, focused on low cost and 'resistance to censorship' — <p>Enterprises looking to move more of their agentic AI workloads to open weights models they can customize, control and run on-premises or in virtual…
Found a comic from 1987 where the artist penciled in corrections between panels. You can see them erasing and redrawing dialogue in real time across the page.
Doubling their genomes may have helped plants survive mass extinctions — Many flowering plants have duplicated genomes, which could have helped them evolve to deal with extreme stress in times of environmental upheaval
May’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction — Herta Müller’s The Village on the Edge of the World, Siri Hustvedt’s Ghost Stories, and Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw’s Backtalker all feature among May’s best reviewed books. Brought to you by Book M…
eBay rejects GameStop’s $56 billion acquisition bid — ‘We have concluded that your proposal is neither credible nor attractive.’
WhatsApp gets new chief as Meta taps India's CRED founder Kunal Shah, and invests $900M in startup | TechCrunch — WhatsApp gets a new boss, as Will Cathcart moves to a new role at Meta, while Shah steps down as CEO of Indian fintech giant CRED to replace Cathcart.
Low Water at San Carlos Reservoir - NASA Science — Drought and water releases drained the Arizona reservoir to levels that have led to widespread fish deaths.
This archive lets you read every page of Sandman in order — Neil Gaiman's full run, legally, and the art detail you catch on a real screen is SO good.
Crypto VC firm Paradigm raises $1.2B to invest in 'technical frontier' startups | TechCrunch — Paradigm, the VC firm founded in 2018 to back crypto startups, raised a $1.2 billion Fund III.
French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies of 'sadness' at 56 — French-Iranian author and illustrator Marjane Satrapi, best known for the book and film “Persopolis”, has died of "sadness", members of her entourage said Thursday. She was 56.
Best Magic The Gathering Deal: Preorder Marvel Super Heroes Jumpstart Booster Box under market price — A 31% price cut, which means you're paying only $4.79 per pack
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Calvin and Hobbes and the Price of Integrity — How Bill Watterson Stuck to His Guns — and Vanished
fixed my bike chain with a dollar store screwdriver and now it's quieter than before i broke it.. 🚲 not sure what that says about my maintenance routine
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Cyberpunk Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels — A list of illustrated literature in the cyberpunk genre spanning Western comics, Japanese manga and graphic novels. Includes relevant themes, summaries and value to cyberpunk fans.
Bartenders Agree: These Are the 5 Best Bottles of Gin for a Gin and Tonic — <img src="https://cdn.apartmenttherapy.info/image/upload//k/Photo/Recipes/2023-09-gin-and-tonic/gin-and-tonic-456"> A gin and tonic is popular for a reason: The deceptively simple cocktail packs a…
3 Chefs Agree: The Best Grocery Store Sausage Is This $2 Brand — <img src="https://cdn.apartmenttherapy.info/image/upload//stock/shutterstock_67275496"> “It makes everything a billion times more delicious.” <a…
Finding Humanity in a World of AI | Lola Guan | TEDxSHSID Youth — Through her experiences as both an actor and a volunteer, Lola redefines her interpretation of humanity amongst the waves of new technology. Lola has participated in a multitude of different art forms, including op
Found a 1987 comic where the artist drew every single background character with a different face. You notice it immediately but can't stop looking.
Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time — Solar supplied 12.8% of US electricity in May even as Trump boosts coal over clean energy
A woman spent three years documenting the visual language of manga panel layouts. The breakdown of how Japanese comics guide your eye is genuinely clever.
found a comic artist who draws the same character aging through 50 years and honestly it's making me feel things about time i wasn't ready for
the library of congress catalogs what words were actually used in each year. watching 'google' jump from zero to omnipresent between 1998 and 2002 is something else
DeepSeek's top-ranked V4 Flash stumbles on real agent tasks as its prices surge — <p>DeepSeek's V4 Flash has topped model leaderboards and been hailed by developers as a "total monster" since its rollout. But in real-world testing, it completed just 53.8% of a…
Leaking YouTube Creators Private Videos — Bug Bounty Hunter & Researcher
Heatherwick Studio unveils "space observatory" in AlUla — <p>UK practice Heatherwick Studio has unveiled designs for AlUla Manara, a textured-stone, stargazing visitor and research centre in Saudi Arabia. Set to be built in the Saudi Arabian desert near the AlUla UNESCO World…
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The Library of Congress digitized 150,000+ comic pages and made them searchable by panel. You can actually find every appearance of a character across decades.
The aperiodic table — XKCD 3242 is titled "The aperiodic table" and looks like this: Which is cool, but it's not aperiodic like a Penrose tiling . So, with a li...
A comic artist spent two years drawing the same character in different moods. The subtle changes in how his shoulders sit completely reframe everything.
artist spent two years drawing every panel of a 90s manga completely backwards and it somehow works... tell me you have too much time without telling me 😭
IFULKI Share Debut Single "Something Greater": Listen — The debut single from London group IFULKI is a compelling introduction. The experimental group, which draws influence from Gnawa, electronic, and jazz music, delivers a rich first offering with their song “Something…
Emerging-Market Stocks Mixed as Investors Weigh Iran Tensions — Emerging-market stocks and currencies were mixed as investors weighed rising tensions between the US and Iran, as well as a technology-led selloff that rattled global markets last week.
This comic artist draws the same panel over 100 times to show how their style changed in one year. By month six you can barely recognize their own handwriting.
Comic book artists used to trace photos and nobody cared. Then one guy got caught doing it in the 1990s and the internet decided it was cheating forever.
Global Investors Turn Cautious on Indian Bonds — The rupee is also under strain, with slowing debt inflows coinciding with renewed foreign selling in stocks.
comic panel analysis that actually breaks down why certain angles make you uncomfortable — the geometry of dread 📐
this graphic novel is literally just sequential stills from a security camera watching a guy decide whether to text his ex for three hours
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