watched someone paint over their popcorn ceiling and the whole room got taller. like physically the same space but somehow bigger...
Inside the secretive and lucrative world of orchid breeding — It can take a decade to bring a new orchid to market, so breeders keep their hi-tech processes secret.
Broadcom Seeks More Than $60 Billion in Latest AI Debt Deal — Broadcom Inc. is in talks with a group of lenders to raise more than $60 billion in debt for an AI chip financing deal that will benefit Anthropic PBC and other companies, according to people with knowledge of the…
Exclusive: Infiltrating Myanmar’s scam syndicates — 101 East goes undercover to expose the playbook of Myanmar’s notorious scam industry.
At least 12 people killed, dozens wounded in Russian attacks on Ukraine — Russia launches 656 drones and 73 missiles at Ukraine overnight, according to Ukraine's air force.
Two buses collide in Syria, killing at least 35 people — This is a breaking news story.
Keep an Eye Out for Two Stellar Meteor Showers Peaking This Week, the Southern Delta Aquariids and the Alpha Capricornids — A nearly full moon may obscure the fireballs falling from the remains of two comets that passed through Earth's orbit
Australia Agrees to Sell Uranium to India During Modi Visit — Australia has agreed to sell uranium to India for power generation in a landmark deal signed between the two nations during a visit to Melbourne by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Who Gets to Have a Baby in America? On the High Cost of Fertility in America — For as long as people have had children, some groups and individuals have had their procreation encouraged, subsidized, even prized—think of queens celebrated for bearing male heirs to their royal …
The Sideload 037: Specs for your Specs — Welcome to episode 37 of The Sideload, a 9to5Google podcast. This week, Will is joined by Andrew Romero to discuss the ongoing...
What happens when you map every light fixture in a room and realize the shadows tell you where furniture actually wants to live — 3D floor planner that shows you the dark spots first.
North Korea thrash Bangladesh 10-0 in Asian Games women’s football — North Korea, enjoying support in the stands, were up 7-0 by half-time and are favourites for the gold.
Corne keyboard kit—the split-ortho design that kicked off the whole custom ergo keyboard movement, still worth building. https://github.com/foostan/crkbd
Zoned neighbourhood among projects from American University in Dubai — <p>Dezeen School Shows: a masterplan exploring how the built environment can shape human emotion is among the student projects from American University in Dubai. Also featured are a proposal that reimagines…
Gaza engineer builds animal shelters out of empty cans — Gaza engineer builds animal shelters out of empty cans
The Hidden Forces Shaping Everyday Behaviour | Zachary Petzel | TEDxDurhamUniversity — In his TEDx talk, “The Hidden Forces Shaping Everyday Behaviour,” Zach explores the invisible influences that shape the choices we make every day. From subtle environmental cues and…
Why did Trump scale back war games with South Korea? — US president cites good relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un
This was my guest bathroom in San Francisco. I had told/ bronze tiles that I really loved. What are your thoughts? Should I use the same tiles in my new home in San Diego.
Needle 2 - The 14 MB Agentic LLM for Tiny Devices | Cactus — An open 45M-parameter model for tool calling, device use, and structured extraction. Needle 2 runs as a 14 MB binary in 28 MB of session RAM.
someone figured out that painting just one wall a different color actually makes a room feel bigger... and now i can't stop seeing it everywhere
Hedgie (@HedgieMarkets) — 🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books…
A viral doomsday scenario aims to shake Europe out of its AI complacency — A speculative thought-experiment warns the continent could pay a heavy price for lagging behind the US
US PPI Climbs at Fastest Pace in More Than Three Years — US producer prices increased 6.5% in May from a year earlier, the fastest pace since November 2022, and advanced 1.1% from April as the fallout from the Iran war continued to fan inflation pressures. Michael McKee breaks do
Despite deflating loss, Kamario Taylor remains Mississippi State's hometown hero — It was a deflating Saturday for Mississippi State and QB Kamario Taylor, who had energized his hometown of Macon, just 40 minutes from campus.
painted my apartment white three times thinking the light was wrong. fourth time i just... left the curtains open. design tax: a room that actually exists in daylight
this designer documented every decision for her rental renovation... like literally every paint chip, fabric swatch, and why she chose that specific shade of off-white for the trim.
rearranged my room three times this month — turns out the problem wasn't the furniture, it was that i kept the same dead plant in every corner 🪴 — moved it once and suddenly everything felt different
The Last People Who Know How It Works · unix.foo — You only ever know the things you can lose to.
Reading nook, north light.
My two-part desk setup — How I turned a single long desk into a digital side for work and an analog side for reading, writing, and building LEGO with the kids.
Spent three hours arranging furniture to 'maximize flow' and my cat immediately chose the one corner I left empty 🛋️ She knows something I don't.
rearranged my room and realized the furniture wasn't bad, i just had it facing the wrong wall for two years
China Fund Closures Head for Eight-Year High as Demand Fades — China’s mutual funds are closing at the fastest pace in eight years as weak returns and investor redemptions leave hundreds of products too small to survive.
Spent three hours rearranging my bedroom and realized the whole thing looked better when I just moved my desk two feet left. Everything else stayed put.
Ukraine’s ‘volunteer army’ helps rebuild what Russia destroys — Made up of mostly locals and some foreign visitors, a large group of volunteers step in to fix war damage.
Zelensky says Russia has widened attacks to hit Ukraine's data centres and internet providers — Such strikes aim to disrupt "people's ability to stay connected, study, work", says Ukraine's president.
this person designed their entire apartment around a single vintage rug they found... and it somehow works
The coolest use for the Vision Pro — One day there will hopefully be a house on this land Over the last year, I admittedly haven’t used my Vision Pro a ton, but fairly recently I discovered a super handy use that it’s absolutely incredible at, provided you have the right…
Rearranged my bedroom three times before realizing the real problem was the one corner that never gets natural light. A single white shelf there and suddenly everything feels intentional.
watched someone design an entire apartment around a single piece of driftwood they found on a beach. the rest just kind of made sense after that
Reading nook, north light.
A color picker that shows you what your room actually looks like under different light sources — fluorescent, noon sun, tungsten, everything. Technically, the paint chip you bought is a lie.
Ordinary Abundance — A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.
Shudder To Think Announce New EP 'Who Sent You?', Share Song — The Washington, DC art-punk band Shudder To Think started in 1986 and released a series of confoundingly foxy records before breaking up in 1996. Frontman Craig Wedren went on to a prolific career scoring films and…
Explaining Hall-effect, TMR, and other new types of "mechanical" switches — Ars Technica's guide to new keyboard sensing technologies.
Apple commissions photographers for new ‘Shot on iPhone Duo’ campaign - 9to5Mac — Apple is showcasing photos from photographers Jake Michaels and Jason Nocito to highlight the new iPhone Duo’s cameras. Here are the details.
A designer photographed the same room in 50 different homes and arranged them by color — watching how people actually live in spaces is oddly moving.
Where do interior designers actually source those fabric swatches that somehow look nothing like the finished room — is it the light, or are we all just bad at imagining color? 🪟
Found out my entire apartment's vibe was ruined by choosing the wrong lightbulb temperature... like I could've saved $2k in furniture guilt by just buying warm white bulbs instead.