Powered speakers, those with amplification and inputs built in, have been around for decades, but it took a long time to get an all-in-one stereo system that worked seamlessly with your TV like a soundbar. Klipsch’s awkwardly named system, The Fives, were the first powered speakers I tried that did it right, and they’re still… Continue reading We’re Tracking the Best October Prime Day 2024 Deals Live
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Hurricane Helene Couldn’t Stop Birders From Using eBird
Last week, Hurricane Helene spun north into western North Carolina causing catastrophic damage, particularly in the Asheville area and surrounding counties. Entire homes and businesses were flooded, some floating away in a horrific wave of debris. In the midst of it all, some bird-watchers noticed something: People in some of the most heavily impacted areas… Continue reading Hurricane Helene Couldn’t Stop Birders From Using eBird
This Man Found 1,650 Ways to Turn a Profit While Decarbonizing
What role do governments play in this? It is still allowed today to be inefficient. It’s still allowed to put CO2 in the atmosphere and plastic into the oceans. So, we need to modernize the legal framework in order to really push the legal need to be efficient. If it is a necessity to use… Continue reading This Man Found 1,650 Ways to Turn a Profit While Decarbonizing
The OpenAI Talent Exodus Gives Rivals an Opening
When investors poured $6.6 billion into OpenAI last week, they seemed largely unbothered by the latest drama, which recently saw the company’s chief technology officer, Mira Murati, along with chief research officer Bob McCrew and Barret Zoph, a vice president of research, abruptly quit. And yet those three departures were just the latest in an… Continue reading The OpenAI Talent Exodus Gives Rivals an Opening
Elon Musk Spoke at a Trump Rally, Referenced ‘Dark MAGA,’ and Urged Supporters to Vote
In Butler, Pennsylvania, a billboard read “In Musk We Trust.” A Tesla Cybertruck parked on the side of the road sported a TRUMP 2024 flag. With a month left in the presidential campaign, former president Donald Trump returned to Butler for a rally less than three months after the assassination attempt on Trump’s life that… Continue reading Elon Musk Spoke at a Trump Rally, Referenced ‘Dark MAGA,’ and Urged Supporters to Vote
These 5 Automatic Cat Feeders Were the Best We Tested
As seen with the rise of automatic litter boxes and pet tracking, technology has made it so we can closely monitor our pets without having to do a lot of manual labor. Automatic dry-food dispensers were invented nearly a century ago and now come in every type, using gravity or stoppers to regulate food. Most… Continue reading These 5 Automatic Cat Feeders Were the Best We Tested
Stealthy Malware Has Infected Thousands of Linux Systems for Years
Other discussions include: Reddit, Stack Overflow (Spanish), forobeta (Spanish), brainycp (Russian), natnetwork (Indonesian), Proxmox (Deutsch), Camel2243 (Chinese), svrforum (Korean), exabytes, virtualmin, serverfault and many others. After exploiting a vulnerability or misconfiguration, the exploit code downloads the main payload from a server, which, in most cases, has been hacked by the attacker and converted into a… Continue reading Stealthy Malware Has Infected Thousands of Linux Systems for Years
I Own a Chevy Bolt, and Superchargers Are a Total Game Changer
It should not be so exciting to eat a breakfast quesadilla in your car. But this quesadilla was from Wawa, this Wawa hosted a Tesla Supercharger, and this car was the 2023 Chevrolet Bolt EUV, hooked up to that Supercharger through an NACS/CCS adapter. More than a year after GM’s switch to NACS was announced,… Continue reading I Own a Chevy Bolt, and Superchargers Are a Total Game Changer
Waymo’s New Agreement With Hyundai Raises Questions About China
Soon you could see Waymo self-driving tech in Hyundai cars. The autonomous driving tech developer Waymo said this week that it would partner with the Korean automaker Hyundai to equip a fleet of its electric vehicles with self-driving technology. The vehicles, modified Ioniq 5s, will hit the road as part of Waymo’s self-driving ride-hail service… Continue reading Waymo’s New Agreement With Hyundai Raises Questions About China
She Asked TikTok If Her House Was Haunted. Then the Cops Came
This all started like four or five days ago. How many followers have you gathered in that amount of time? I went from, let’s see, I haven’t honestly been on TikTok in hours. I went from 6,000 to 576,000, so I’ve gained 570,000 followers. [Editor’s note: As of this writing, she now has 1.6 million… Continue reading She Asked TikTok If Her House Was Haunted. Then the Cops Came