Our farthest-away spacecraft isn't finished yet.
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft, at over 15 billion miles away and hurtling ever-deeper into the cosmos, beamed back crucial data about its health for the first time in five months. NASA released a photo of mission engineers celebrating the success of their software patch with raised arms and wide grins.
"After some inventive sleuthing, the mission team can — for the first time in five months — check the health and status of the most distant...
TL;DR: Through May 6, if you're trying to improve your posture or reduce back pain, try the BetterBack™ Luxe Posture Support featured on Shark Tank, on sale for $39.97 (reg. $59).
Correcting your posture may sound a whole lot easier than it actually is. Whether you're sitting at your desk working or trying to keep your back straight, working on your posture is a constant thing, and a little help could be welcome.
The BetterBack Luxe is a compact and ergonomic back support device that...
TL;DR: As of April 23, you can get a Bionik Pro Kit+ for Xbox Series X/S with gaming accessories for just $39.99 (reg. $89).
Attention gamers! If you'd like to elevate your Xbox Series X/S play situation, this bundle might be for you. This Bionik Pro Kit+ features things to help you create a better experience when you're behind the console. It's also on sale for just $39.99, saving you 55% on the regular price of $89.
This pro kit is designed only for the Xbox Series X/S. Gain a competitive...
TL;DR: As of April 23, enjoy a smooth shave with this Gillette Body Razor that comes with nine refill blades — on sale for $14.99 for a limited time (reg. $24).
Same trusted brand, much lower priceYour body and your face aren't quite shaped the same, so it might be time for a razor to match. The Gillette Body Razor has three lubricating strips built into every cartridge to help keep your shave smooth, clean, and comfortable. The razor itself has an ergonomic handle with anti-slip grip for...
TL;DR: As of April 23, the TYPE S 12V Battery Jump Starter, which has integrated jumper cables, a USB-C cable, and a Qi-compatible wireless charging pad — is on sale for only $69.99 (reg. $119).
A dead battery on your phone can be inconvenient. A dead battery in your car could be a whole lot worse depending on where you are. You might already have jumper cables in the trunk, but there's no guarantee another car is going to come around. Instead, you may be able to jump your car yourself...
Google's Gemini app for Android might soon show AI-generated responses in real-time.
The feature, spotted by Android expert AssembleDebug via PiunikaWeb, shows the ability to turn on "Real-time responses" in AI assistant's settings. So instead of waiting for a full response, Gemini will show its response as its processing.
Tweet may have been deletedThis is how Gemini works on desktop. When you ask the chatbot a question, Gemini answers as it's "typing" out the question....
NASA hoped its Ingenuity helicopter would fly at least once. It took flight 72 times.
The historic craft — the first to ever make a powered, controlled flight on another planet — flew distances as far as 2,315 feet across Mars' Jezero Crater, a basin that once teemed with water, likely creating a lake some 22 miles wide. It served as a reliable scout to the space agency's Perseverance rover, as these robots sleuthed the best places to look for potential evidence of past microbial life on...
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Just wondering if anyone has a spare Bentley lying around for me to take out and look cool in!
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, spring is all about pastels and patterns, but some of us prefer to stick to our roots and will never veer away from an all-black outfit.
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"Please don't speculate on who any of the real life people could be. That's not the point of our show."
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Watcher has finally addressed the massive backlash to its paid independent streaming platform. Unsurprisingly, it involves both an apology and a rehaul of how its subscription service will operate.
Adopting a much more muted tone than in their optimistic announcement last week, Watcher founders Steven Lim, Ryan Bergara, and Shane Madej, published a three-minute video apology on Monday. The digital production company has been the subject of significant criticism since Friday, when it announced...
Unlike other Firefly-powered tools that generate sections of an image, Photoshop’s new Generate Image tool will fill the entire canvas. | Image: Adobe
Adobe is adding some new generative AI tools to its Photoshop creative software that aim to give users additional ways to control the designs they generate. Powered by Adobe’s new Firefly Image 3 foundation model, these new tools are available today via the Photoshop beta desktop app, and will be generally available “later this...
Home is where your Crock-Pot lives.
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Alter Dementia helps churches craft dementia-friendly services aimed at providing solace to a community disproportionately affected by the disease.
This piece was originally published by Capital & Main, which reports from California on economic, political, and social issues.
Spotting these red flags in your behavior could save your company from becoming a toxic place to work.
California may become the latest place to ban round-the-clock work emails. Golden State lawmakers are considering a law that would give employees the right to ignore work communications after hours. If the law passes, California would join France, Australia, Canada, Italy, Belgium, and the Philippines in protecting professionals’ right to disconnect.
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Microsoft launched the next version of its lightweight AI model Phi-3 Mini, the first of three small models the company plans to release.
Phi-3 Mini measures 3.8 billion parameters and is trained on a data set that is smaller relative to large language models like GPT-4. It is now available on Azure, Hugging Face, and Ollama. Microsoft plans to release Phi-3 Small (7B parameters) and Phi-3 Medium (14B parameters). Parameters refer to how many complex...
‘People don’t care if it’s new. They care if it’s better,’ says the cofounder of the London creative agency, Without. ‘Sometimes, the route to success is simply doing something timeless really, really well.’
Flicking through the fundraising pitch for a “disruptive coffee machine” on Kickstarter recently, it struck me how the embrace of disruption has become the unshakable cliché of every ambitious business, founder, entrepreneur, and creative agency.
Imagine baking cookies with Taylor...
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