Public speaking is something lots of people struggle with. Being on a stage, especially in front of a large crowd, can be stressful for even the most seasoned and confident of speakers. A recent article in the Harvard Business Review made an interesting suggestion on how to combat that anxiety: Speak from the… Read more…
Read More“I think we should do our very best to become a multi-planet species and we should do it now.” Elon Musk says SpaceX Starship rocket could reach orbit within six months – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreFoil-lined foam insulation board, scraps of lumber, and a paint-thinner can hardly sound like the tools of a radio astronomer. But when coupled with an SDR, a couple of amplifiers, and a fair amount of trial-and-error tweaking, it’s possible to build your own hydrogen-line radio telescope and use it to image the galaxy. As the
Read MoreSomething mysterious happened nearly half a billion years ago that triggered one of the most important changes in the history of life on Earth. Suddenly, there was an explosion of species, with the biodiversity of invertebrate animals increasing from a very low level to something similar to what we see today. The most popular explanation
Read MoreLift your head up from your desk and take a look around the office. Is the number of people at work today the same as yesterday? Probably not. Across the world, standard workweeks are already taking new shape and the United States is jumping on the bandwagon with Summer Friday initiatives and flexible hour scheduling.
Read MoreAlex Stamos / @alexstamos: [Thread] New UK-US treaty grants UK courts options similar to those of the US for obtaining message content, but won’t change the status quo on E2E encryption — It’s really early on a Sunday, so while I sip my coffee I’m also going to try to clear up a lot of
Read MoreStainless steel steals the show Continue reading… SpaceX’s massive Starship test rocket shines in Boca Chica, Texas Source: New feed
Read MoreDir Gute Fabrik It can be difficult to find time to finish a video game, especially if you only have a few hours a week to play. In our biweekly column Short Play, we suggest video games that can be started and finished in a weekend. For a game that’s a little experimental or offers
Read MoreElon Musk delivered an update on his company’s Starship prototype, which faces business challenges and neighbors not happy to live so close to its test site. SpaceX Unveils Silvery Vision to Mars: ‘It’s Basically an I.C.B.M. That Lands’ Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreMimi Billing / Sifted: A profile of Denmark-based independent consumer review platform Trustpilot, which has raised €162M and has 65M reviews of businesses worldwide — With 65m reviews, Trustpilot is learning to spot the fakes and fight back with the help of algorithms. — Would you ever book an Airbnb stay without checking the scores
Read MoreHardware is hard, manufacturing only happens in China, accurate pricing is a dark art. Facts which are Known To Be True. And all things which can be hard to conquer as an independent hardware company, especially if you want to subvert the tropes. You may have heard of [Spencer Wright] via his superb mailing list
Read MoreA coffee Gold Box, a deal on the Thermapen Mk4, and a discounted Dell gaming monitor lead off Sunday’s best deals from around the web. Read more… Sunday's Best Deals: Coffee, Anthropologie, Gaming Monitor, and More Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreMost of these work for other grocery stores, too. 10 tips and tricks for saving money at Whole Foods – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWelcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! Look, exercise is important. If you don’t do it, you’re probably gonna be unhealthy, and if you’re unhealthy, you’re probably gonna have a bad time. Yes, it sucks, but it’s the truth. You’re gonna have to work out. But
Read MoreThe social network says it has struggled to get the information to researchers because it also wants to protect its users’ privacy. Ahead of 2020, Facebook Falls Short on Plan to Share Data on Disinformation Source: NY Times Tech
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Read MoreThermapen Mk4 | $79 | ThermoWorks | Red and blue only Read more… Save on the Best Meat Thermometer in Red or Blue Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreDina Temple-Raston / NPR: How NSA and US Cyber Command undertook the largest and longest offensive cyber operation in US military history to disrupt ISIS’s media operations in 2016 — Toggle more options — The crowded room was awaiting one word: “Fire.” — Everyone was in uniform; there were scheduled briefings … How NSA and
Read MoreClocks which use words to tell the time in place of numbers are an increasingly popular hacker project, but we have to admit that before seeing this gorgeous clock from [Mitch Feig], we didn’t realize how badly we wanted to see one that could curse like a sailor. But don’t worry, the WordClock-1 knows more
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Read MoreOur robot colleague Satoshi Nakaboto writes about Bitcoin every fucking day. Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Rousseau used to say: Yippee! Bitcoin Price We closed the day, September 28 2019, at a price of $8,245.
Read MoreWelcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. I have a terrible habit of playing multiple videos at once. Sometimes I like watching sports highlights in one tab, and listening to podcasts in another — most often on
Read MoreWhat if I told you that there is a good chance you are carrying a parasite that is transmitted through cat poo? Two billion people around the world carry Toxoplasma gondii so there may be more than a 25 percent chance that it is in your body too. Toxoplasma is closely related to Plasmodium, the
Read MoreUnder the right circumstances, Gaussian blurring can make an image seem more clearly defined. [DZL] demonstrates exactly this with a lightweight and compact Gaussian interpolation routine to make the low-resolution thermal sensor data display much better on a small OLED. [DZL] used an MLX90640 sensor to create a DIY thermal imager with a small OLED
Read MoreMatthew Green / A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering: Snowden’s revelations exposed the breadth and scale of NSA’s surveillance and likely contributed to the NSA losing a significant portion of its capabilities — Edward Snowden recently released his memoirs. In some parts of the Internet, this has rekindled an ancient debate: namely, was it all
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