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Faber to Publish Sally Rooney’s Fourth Novel, Intermezzo | News | Faber
Intermezzo, the fourth novel from the international bestselling writer Sally Rooney, will be published by Faber on 24 September 2024.
Canada: Queen’s to launch Taylor Swift law class this fall
What with new album an' all it's just Taylor, Taylor Taylor at the moment! A professor at Queen's University is launching a Taylor Swift-themed law course this September to make entertainment law more relatable and relevant for students. A self-described Swiftie, Mohamed Khimji is also a professor of business law at the…
Tekken fans pester developer to add a Waffle House stage
Are you a bad enough dude to fight at the Waffle House?
Yes, Strava for Dogs Is Now a Real Thing
The fitness platform is partnering with a smart collar company to share the athletic pursuits of your favorite four-legged mountain athlete
Niners players: We didn't know overtime rules
Multiple 49ers players said they were not aware of the NFL's postseason overtime rules.
MAGA Lawyer Doesn't Have A Computer, Has To Borrow One From The Government - Above the Law
Lawyers have a reputation for being luddites, but this is ridiculous
Chopped Cheese | Basics with Babish
Thanks to Cheez-It Snap'd for sponsoring today's video. Learn how to level up your lunch with Cheez-It Snap’d by checking out my episode of "What's For Lunch...
Órla Baxendale: Dancer with allergy eats mislabelled Stew Leonard's cookie and dies
The British woman suffered anaphylactic shock after eating a mislabelled cookie from a US store.
Trolls have flooded X with graphic Taylor Swift AI fakes
While some accounts have been suspended, many posts remain live.
These billionaires want to disrupt death—and keep their fortunes forever
Sci-fi meets Silicon Valley meets the trust industry.
The Quiet Death of Ello's Big Dreams - Waxy.org
Ello launched in 2014 with big dreams, but the artsy social network suddenly shut down last year, deleting nine years of posts without warning. What happened?
What happens when a school bans smartphones? A complete transformation
Teachers say mobile phones make their lives a living hell – so one Massachusetts school barred them
The Vatican's top expert on AI ethics is a friar from a medieval Franciscan order
ROME (AP) — Friar Paolo Benanti wears the plain brown robes of his medieval Franciscan order as he pursues one of the most pressing issues in contemporary times: how to govern artificial intelligence so that it enriches — and doesn’t exploit — people’s lives. Benanti is the Vatican’s go-to person on the technology and he […]
He spent his life building a $1 million stereo. The real cost was unfathomable.
Ken Fritz spent 40 years turning his living room into what some audiophiles called the world’s greatest hi-fi system. What would it all mean in the end?
At 93, he’s as fit as a 40-year-old. His body offers lessons on aging.
The human body maintains the ability to adapt to exercise at any age, showing that it’s never too late to start a fitness program.
Redesigned Apple Watches not subject to import ban, U.S. Customs says (via: theglobeandmail.com)
According to Masimo’s filing with the Federal Circuit, Apple told the U.S. law enforcement agency that its redesigned watches ‘definitively do not contain pulse oximetry functionality’
2023: The year we played with artificial intelligence - and weren't sure what to do about it | CityNews Toronto
Artificial intelligence went mainstream in 2023 — it was a long time coming yet has a long way to go for the technology to match people’s science fiction fantasies of human-like machines. Catalyzing a year of AI fanfare was ChatGPT. The chatbot gave the world a glimpse of recent advances in computer science even if […]
I’m an Ultrarunner. Taylor Swift’s Treadmill Workout Wrecked Me.
After three-plus hours on the treadmill belting out every song on the Eras tour, I can tell you why Swift’s concert training regimen works
How Twitter broke the news
“No one chasing money in media ever chased Twitter. But anyone chasing power found themselves irresistibly drawn to the platform.”
Next year's 'it' colour is here. And it's Peach Fuzz | CBC News
In a countdown so highly anticipated in the design world that it's akin to New Year's Eve, the 2024 Pantone colour of the year was revealed this morning. And it is: Peach Fuzz.
McDonald’s will use Google AI to make sure your fries are fresh, or something?
AI is on its way to a drive-through near you.
Anything Can Become Gluten-Free Pasta
More parmesan on your durian-seed rigatoni?
I’d Knit That: Kendall Ross’s Knitted Wearable Artworks
I love these busy, wordy, and brightly colored sweaters from Kendall Ross. From her about page: Kendall Ross, aka “I’d Knit That”, is an Oklahoma City based fiber artist. She is best known for hand-knitting colorful, wearable ar
Crochet a Watermelon Cactus Amigurumi
This pattern is an 9-page downloadable PDF to make your very own beautiful watermelon cactus – makes a great gift! Get the pattern via Etsy, designed by Rosalie Bull of Simply Rose Creations.…
First-Gen Social Media Users Have Nowhere to Go
The collective erosion of X, Instagram, and Facebook marks a turning point for millennials, who are outgrowing a constant need to be plugged in.
The people who ruined the internet
SEO experts got very rich filling the web full of garbage. But are they to blame or is Google?
AI Seinfeld Is Broken, Maybe Forever
Nothing, Forever is getting another round of virality as people gawk at what might be the end of the first big AI show.
When Matthew Perry Met Windows 95 - Slashdot
I blogged this years ago but it’s worth looking at again. I still can’t believe Matthew Perry is gone.
Donovan Bailey entered a race on a whim. It led to Olympic stardom | CBC Radio
It was 1990, and Donovan Bailey was doing well for himself. But the Jamaican Canadian had a nagging desire to race. So when he went to see some friends who were in town for a track competition, he decided to compete — and he won.