Meta's smart glasses companion app ships a complete, dormant face-recognition pipeline on a stock account. — Stella is the companion app for Meta's smart glasses. Inspecting version 273.0.0.21 of the Android build (com.facebook.stella), I found the entire computational and storag
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Who is Mark Kelton? (Full Episode) | Inside the CIA: Secrets and Spies | National Geographic — In this full episode of Inside the CIA: Secrets and Spies from National Geographic, open up the CIA's case files to learn about the arrest of an American in Pakistan that threatens…
A roaster in Portland mapped out where every coffee bean actually comes from, down to the specific farm and altitude, then let you taste the difference blind, turns out terroir hits different when you can't see the label
Every operating system concept in one video… — Railway is the easiest way to deploy anything. Get $20 in free credits - https://railway.com/?referralCode=fireship Everything that happens inside your computer from the instant you press the power button to the moment you rage quit
Can you see three trees? — There's a simple three-part test for whether your city has enough nature. Most fall short.
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.
Starlink charges $10 monthly hardware fee in move away from one-time purchases — Starlink, SpaceX's top moneymaker, also raised service prices by $5 to $10.
Lost Cities with Albert Lin: Ancient Engineering (Full Episode) | SPECIAL | National Geographic — In locations like the vast, dry, deserts of Jordan, how did an ancient civilization survive? In this episode of Lost Cities from National Geographic, explorer Albert Lin uncovers…
'Premier League goalkeepers will be throwing food at the TV' - Hart — Joe Hart analyses the decision to rule out Marc Cucurella's goal against Austria for a foul on Austrian goalkeeper Alexander Schlager during their round of 32 game in Los Angeles, with Hart believing the…
A big win for Android interoperability – Open Home Foundation — Google gatekept key Android features, and the European Commission asked what we thought about it. Now Alphabet must open 11 Android features to all.
King Charles warns of 'existential danger' of AI falling into wrong hands — Representatives from tech firms such as Nvidia and OpenAI were also part of the summit.
Panama canal traffic facing further cuts as drought from El Niño worsens — Planned daily reductions will further choke one of the world’s most important shipping lanes
Apple brings encrypted RCS chats to iPhone — Look for the “Encrypted” text when talking with your Android friends.
Incredible Egypt (Full Episode) | Egypt with the World's Greatest Explorer | Nat Geo — Join National Geographic to explore Egypt, with the 'World's Greatest Explorer', Sir Ranulph Fiennes and his cousin, actor Joseph Fiennes, star of Shakespeare in Love, The Handmaid's Tale, and
The U.S. just approved a giant space mirror to test ‘sunlight on demand.’ Low Earth orbit is getting weird — From space hotels and artificial meteor showers, to a new giant mirror that reflects sunlight to Earth — low-Earth orbit is getting weird.
The Public Domain Review — Online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to the exploration of curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas.
PostgreSQL for Everything — You need simplicity if you want to move fast. PostgreSQL can very well replace Kafka, Redis, Clickhouse and Elastic. And many successful companies are doing exactly that. Let's check out how.
Guest Post: Rust Is Tier-1 Language at Microsoft — By now it’s no surprise that Rust is of strategic importance to Microsoft. From bold mission statements when Azure CTO Mark Russinovich outlined our future strategy for native code, to millions of dollars invested by Microsoft…
Voices in Print: New Jersey Black Women Printmakers Shaping the American Narrative — The exhibition at Morven Museum & Garden in Princeton focuses on the contributions of Black women artists across generations.
GrapheneOS (@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social) — We're well into the process of converting the Messaging app included in GrapheneOS into a modern app. We'll be making a new release later today with a completely overhauled user interface written in Android Compose. We've made a…
3 Levels of Car Theft — Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Creative Boom – Magazine & Community for Creatives — News, inspiration, insight and advice for designers, illustrators, photographers and artists. Trusted by over a million creatives worldwide since 2009.
Glowing Paintings by Francesco Pirazzi Meditate on the Enigmas of Absence — Deceptively simple architecture, trees, walkways, and other features of the landscape glow amid uncanny lighting.
Women Sport Puffer Coats in Bold Baroque Portraits by Nieves González — For Nieves González, the Spanish Baroque art historical legacy informs a painting practice that merges past and present.
Required Reading — This week: Nancy Spero’s pro-choice art, Valentina Di Liscia on “Casa Cueva,” Brooklyn’s smallest museum, Jamaica Kincaid’s eyebrows, Israeli cuisine and Palestinian erasure, and more.
Ukraine fires drone barrage as Russia launches elections — Russia's first parliamentary election since the invasion opens with no antiwar party on the ballot.
Apple home hub device built around Siri AI may be almost ready — A smart display from Apple that would compete with Amazon's Echo Show may finally launch soon.
Ellen Pau’s Elegy to a Vanishing Hong Kong — In the video art pioneer's first US exhibition, water’s changing states become a metaphor for the city.
Decades of Effort Restore Steelhead and Salmon Passage on California's Alameda Creek — A NOAA-funded project removed the final barrier on an urban San Francisco Bay Area creek that was once the Bay’s largest producer of steelhead and Chinook salmon.
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Why Tom Hiddleston is Fascinated with Pompeii | Pompeii: Out of Time | National Geographic — What exactly happened to the city of Pompeii and its citizens when Mt. Vesuvius erupted over 2000 years ago? Join Tom Hiddleston and National Geographic on a journey into the past to…
9/11 Reunited NOW STREAMING — On September 11, 2001, first responders, co-workers, and strangers were brought together through unbelievable acts of bravery and community. Now, 25 years later, they have a chance to reunite for the first time and say thank you. #911Reunited is…
This Android storage cleanup trick found gigabytes I didn’t know I was wasting — This simple trick can claw you back more than 10 gigabytes of storage.
Measuring input latency on Linux: X11 vs Wayland, VRR, and DXVK - Marco Nett — I built a device to measure end-to-end input latency, then used it to find out what actually moves the needle.
Artist Sells $25 Trash Souvenirs Found Outside Taylor Swift's Wedding — “It wasn't as dirty as I was expecting,” said Justin Gignac, who suited up to collect garbage with a claw grabber outside Madison Square Garden.
Scan More than 60 Million Stars in the Most Detailed Photo of the Milky Way Ever Taken — Scientists can pinpoint exoplanets and measure their mass by monitoring tiny changes in starlight over time in a process called microlensing.
The Leadership Skill No One Teaches You | Alicia Dugar Stephenson | TEDxThird Ward Salon — What if becoming a better leader starts with learning how to regulate yourself? Alicia Dugar Stephenson shares a deeply personal journey through difficult relationships, chronic illness,…
Amateur Entomologists' Society (AES) - The gateway to entomology — The Amateur Entomologists
What to watch in the US’s Delaware primary elections — It's the last state primary scheduled before November's midterm elections.
Switzerland's Federal Government is Replacing Microsoft on 3,000 Computers — This is the pilot phase, with 3,000 workstations moving away from Microsoft 365. The federal administration has over 54,000 computers.
Europe Gas Prices Reach Highest Since 2022 on Middle East Supply Risks — European natural gas prices rose to the highest since late 2022 as heightening tensions in the Middle East boosted concerns about prolonged supply disruptions and winter fuel inventory levels.
I'm Coming For You, Brother (Full Episode) | 9/11: One Day in America | National Geographic — On September 11, 2001, a group of firefighters were inside the North Tower when it collapsed, but miraculously survived. This episode of 9/11: One Day in America from National…
Haroutiun Galentz’s True Colors — A new book traces the function of color as both a mask and a mirror in psychological portraits by the modernist painter, who lost his parents during the Armenian Genocide.
Grit: rewriting Git in Rust with agents — We used agents to port all of Git to library-first, memory-safe Rust and it passes the entire C Git test suite.
I read every major CS paper of the last 100 years... — Coder lets you self-host your coding agents with enterprise-grade security - https://fandf.co/4tZvtU5 These 10 mind-blowing computer science papers made everything in modern computing possible. In today's video, we'll take…
Anthropic and OpenAI take their beef to the midterm elections — The rival AI companies are backing super PACs spending millions to attack congressional candidates — and each other.
How to get Spotify's best audio quality — Spotify's default audio settings let you enjoy music wherever you go, but you're not always getting the best quality. A few tweaks can make all the difference.
AppZapper 3000: 'The uninstaller Apple forgot' returns for the modern Mac era - 9to5Mac — AppZapper is one of the first Mac apps I bought when I switched from PC to Mac in 2009. Coming...
watched a painter spend an hour mixing a single gray until it matched the light hitting a wall at 3pm. the whole piece was about that one moment... there's a video of her process and it's hypnotic
Bing Wallpaper showing Ad for Harry Potter and Fantastic beasts box set — I have been using Bing Wallpaper happily for years. Today, for the first time I noticed a hecking ad in place of my wallpaper. Why this level of nickel and diming. This is atrocious UX, its ad over entire…
Paid content for Visit Maine. — National Geographic Explorer and photographer Kiliii Yüyan’s journey continues at the Whaleback Shell Midden State Historic Site, a state park in Damariscotta, Maine. Here, the remnants of ancient oyster shells provide a reminder to visitors that…
James Stanley - Should you wash your solar panels?
Remembering Bruno Lucchesi, Pat Oliphant, and Edward Lucie-Smith — This week, we honor a figurative sculptor, a political cartoonist who revolutionized the form, and a prolific poet and writer.
San Francisco Art Book Fair Celebrates 10 Years — Presented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation, SFABF returns this July, welcoming 160 independent publishers from around the world.
Uncovering Atlantis (Full Episode) | Lost Treasures of Ancient Civilizations | National Geographic — Is the lost city of Atlantis real? In this full episode of Lost Treasures of Ancient Civilizations from National Geographic, historian Dan Snow travels to Greece to discover the…
The biggest mistakes new Linux users make aren't technical — You're treating Linux like Windows — stop these common newbie traps.
Anthropic spent this week in hot water over cybersecurity — An Anthropic researcher’s resignation letter went viral, and the company released details of four concerning cybersecurity incidents.
Lawmakers home in on midterm messages as Congress returns to session — Congress returns for a short last session ahead of the midterm election with a full plate as lawmakers look for messaging bills they can take back to voters.