833 I’m 37 and I used to think AI would make people more productive – now I think it mostly exposes how much of modern work was never meaningful to begin with

Newark apartment complex bought for much less than prior value

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George Avalos @ Silicon Valley 1 place · 02/07/2106 01:28 EDT

An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›

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PG&E buys San Jose building to bolster South Bay operations

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George Avalos @ Silicon Valley 2 place · 02/07/2106 01:28 EDT

A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›

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Bluesky has an official CEO again

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Engadget 1 place · today 09:07 EDT

Toni Schneider, who took over after Jay Graber stepped down, is now Bluesky's official CEO. Read more ›

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I attended one of the most popular FIFA Fan Festivals in the US. Here's what attendees enjoyed about the party in Atlanta.

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Manseen Logan @ Business Insider 1 place · today 09:06 EDT

The Atlanta FIFA Fan Festival at Centennial Olympic Park offers free entry and a lively atmosphere, drawing over 450,000 visitors. Read more ›

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South Africa vs Scotland Free Streams: How to watch Nations Championship 2026 game, TV Channels, Preview

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TechRadar 1 place · today 09:05 EDT

All the ways to watch South Africa vs Scotland live streams online – including for FREE – as the Scots try to shock the Springboks in the Nations Championship. Read more ›

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The Sahel is home to roughly 300 million people on the Sahara’s southern edge — a strip of thin soil and scarce rain where a single failed harvest becomes a crisis with no safety net

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Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals 1 place · today 09:03 EDT

Roughly 300 million people live along the Sahel, the semi-arid belt on the Sahara's southern edge where rainfall is scarce, soils are thin, and a single failed harvest cascades into crisis because there is almost no safety net to catch it. Read more ›

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Лёгкий кастомный стратокастер из дешёвых комплектующих

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Lunathecat (RUVDS.com) @ Habr 1 place · today 09:01 EDT

Привет, Хабр! Древесину корпуса этой электрогитары пытались грызть насекомые. Чтобы такое безобразие не повторилось в дальнейшем, а также для создания позитивного настроения, дека и перо грифа самодельного инструмента были украшены изображениями весёлых птиц на цветущих веточках. Может быть, птицы отпугнут жучков.Кроме оригинального оформления, зелёный стратокастер может похвастаться двумя яркими синглами и одним жирным хамбакером с автоотсечкой, позволяющей мгновенно получить желаемое классическое звучание Read more ›

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The Great Green Wall stretches 8,000 km across Africa’s entire width — from the Atlantic coast to the Red Sea, a green belt long enough to cross the United States twice

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Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals 2 place · today 09:01 EDT

The African Union's Great Green Wall is meant to run 8,000 kilometres from Senegal's Atlantic coast to Djibouti's Red Sea shore — a belt of restored land long enough to cross the continental United States twice. Nearly two decades in, only a fraction has actually taken root, and the project has quietly redefined what a wall of trees can be. Read more ›

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Monevium Enters Special Administration After Shareholder Arrest

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The Fintech Times @ The Fintech Times 1 place · today 09:00 EDT

S&W's joint special administrators will prioritise returning customer funds held in segregated accounts at Monevium's correspondent banks. Read more ›

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SK Hynix says 2027 will be the 'worst year' for memory shortage, forecasts crunch to last until 2030 — CEO shares grim outlook on the day SK Hynix gets listed on Nasdaq

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Tom's Hardware 1 place · today 09:00 EDT

SK Hynix CEO Kwak Noh-jung says the memory shortage will get even worse in 2027, and claiming the RAM crunch will last at least until the turn of the decade. Read more ›

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ICE are heavily armed killers. They’re also huge losers

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TC. Sottek @ The Verge 1 place · today 09:00 EDT

Donald Trump's Homeland Security regime has been at the center of two critical stories in the past two weeks. In the first, federal agents shot and killed a man and quickly got to work justifying the use of force under the flimsiest of pretenses. In the other, it made house calls to people who said […] Read more ›

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I took the new Sony RX10 V superzoom and a pro Sony mirrorless camera with 400-800mm lens on a bird photography trip — here’s how the two systems compared

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TechRadar 2 place · today 09:00 EDT

Can Sony’s new RX10 V replace pro Sony mirrorless camera gear? Here are the real-world differences Read more ›

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I went to the Goodwood Festival of Speed 2026 —here are the top 5 EVs and concept cars I saw, from BYD to Mercedes

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TechRadar 3 place · today 09:00 EDT

The coolest electric cars and concepts from Goodwood Festival of Speed 2026 Read more ›

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How to watch Muchova vs Nosková for FREE: Wimbledon 2026 Women's final live streams and TV channels

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TechRadar · today 09:00 EDT

All the ways to watch Karolina Muchova vs Linda Nosková online and from anywhere as the two Czech players commence battle in the Wimbledon final. Read more ›

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Kalshi's 'unusual' management style has more than 100 employees report to both founders, CEO says

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Natalie Musumeci @ Business Insider 2 place · today 08:58 EDT

Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour described the prediction market's management style as deliberately "chaotic," but that leads to "constant adaptability." Read more ›

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Навайбкодил десктоп-клиент для «Яндекс Книг» на WinUI 3

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kvch @ Habr 2 place · today 08:54 EDT

Периодически хочется почитать книги с ноутбука, особенно в дороге. Но у «Яндекс Книг» есть только мобильные приложения и сайт, а отдельного клиента для Windows нет. Через браузер читать можно, пока есть нормальный интернет, однако в поезде или за городом этот план иногда заканчивается одновременно с мобильной сетью.Можно было скачать книгу где-нибудь ещё, поставить обычную EPUB-читалку и не усложнять себе жизнь. Но библиотека и подписка у меня уже находились в одном... Read more ›

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Up To $280K: How The US Navy Is Trying To Keep Its Pilots On The Job

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SlashGear 1 place · today 08:45 EDT

The US Navy is fighting a massive pilot exodus to commercial airlines with a $280,000 payout. Discover the strict catch required to get the cash. Read more ›

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Microsoft struggles to fulfill its 2030 sustainability promise amid carbon-heavy AI expansions — the company's chief sustainability officer claims the target is still feasible

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Tom's Hardware 2 place · today 08:45 EDT

Microsoft's carbon emissions jumped 25% in FY2025 as AI data center expansion outpaced sustainability gains, despite progress in water conservation and waste reduction. Read more ›

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In 1991, two researchers at Cambridge pointed a grainy camera at the Trojan Room coffee pot and wired it into the building’s network, because they were tired of climbing the stairs to find the jug empty — and without meaning to, they built the first webcam

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Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals 3 place · today 08:44 EDT

In 1991, two researchers at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory pointed a grey-scale camera at a coffee jug to save themselves a wasted trip down the stairs — and accidentally built the world's first webcam, watched by 2.4 million people before it was switched off in 2001. Read more ›

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I used to roll my eyes at my mom's overprotective texts. Now I send the same messages to her and to my daughter.

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Aruna Gobalan @ Business Insider 3 place · today 08:42 EDT

Caring for my aging mother while parenting a college-aged daughter has made me realize how motherhood comes full circle. Read more ›

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Psychologist Carl Rogers suggested the good life is not a state you arrive at but a direction you keep choosing, not a fixed self to defend, but a process of becoming, whether you cling to who you have been or keep opening to who you are becoming

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Mal James @ Silicon Canals · 07/04/2026 12:00 EDT

I have caught myself, more than once, defending a version of me that had already moved on. Something in the way I described what I do, or what I care about, or what I am no longer willing to try, would be a year or two out of date the moment I said it out ... Read more Read more ›

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We assume tech clusters form around talent, but the AI boom is increasingly chasing cheap power — how Northern Virginia, Iowa and Ireland became data-centre capitals

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Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals · 07/04/2026 15:16 EDT

Where the internet physically lives is being redrawn, and what’s pulling it isn’t engineers — it’s electricity. Across the industry, the biggest new data-centre campuses are chosen first for access to cheap, plentiful power. The old draw of a nearby talent pool now comes a distant second. Iowa cornfields, an Irish suburb near Dublin, and ... Read more Read more ›

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The truth about 10,000 steps a day: the number wasn’t science, it was the brand name of a pedometer a Japanese company launched around the 1964 Tokyo Olympics — and later research finds real health benefits from as few as 4,000 steps

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Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals · 07/04/2026 18:33 EDT

The daily step goal on hundreds of millions of wrists and phones did not come out of a laboratory. It came out of a marketing department. In the mid-1960s, riding the fitness buzz around the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, the Japanese clock and instrument company Yamasa released a step counter called the Manpo-kei. The name means, ... Read more Read more ›

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Carl Jung argued we spend the first half of life building a mask and the second deciding what to do with it — whether we keep performing the role we polished for the world, or begin the harder work of integrating the parts it left out

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Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals · 07/04/2026 21:30 EDT

Carl Jung split a human life down the middle and gave each half a different job. The first half, he said, is spent building something the world can see: a role, a reputation, a face that fits. The second half is spent deciding what to do with all of it. Do you keep playing the ... Read more Read more ›

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Psychology says people who feel emotionally lighter within minutes of arriving at the ocean aren’t imagining it — studies show that simply looking at water can lower blood pressure and slow the heart rate in less than two minutes, before a single wave has been heard.

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Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals · 07/05/2026 01:47 EDT

There is a particular feeling that arrives before the holiday has properly started. You step out of the car near the ocean, or reach the end of a street where the water suddenly opens in front of you, and your body seems to loosen before your mind has built an explanation. It can feel sentimental ... Read more Read more ›

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In 2010, a Brigham Young University psychologist named Julianne Holt-Lunstad analyzed 148 separate studies of 300,000 people to compare the mortality risks of various lifestyle factors — and found that chronic loneliness increases a person’s risk of dying early by the same amount as smoking 15 cigarettes a day

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Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals · 07/05/2026 06:30 EDT

In July 2010, three American psychology researchers — Julianne Holt-Lunstad and Timothy B. Smith of the Brigham Young University Department of Psychology in Provo, Utah, and J. Bradley Layton of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Epidemiology — published in the open-access journal PLoS Medicine the substantial 21-page meta-analytic paper “Social ... Read more Read more ›

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In 1979, a Harvard psychologist named Ellen Langer took eight men in their late 70s to a retreat house redecorated exactly like 1959 — old magazines, radio broadcasts, and furniture — and asked them to live as their younger selves for a week, and by the end their eyesight, hearing, memory, and grip strength had measurably improved

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Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals · 07/05/2026 07:30 EDT

In September 1979, at an old converted Catholic monastery in the wooded countryside of Peterborough, New Hampshire — approximately 90 kilometres northwest of Boston, and approximately six months before Ellen Jane Langer would become, in the specific spring of 1981, the first female professor to receive tenure in the history of the Harvard University Department ... Read more Read more ›

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Psychology says the people who read everything on social media but never post anything are not the shy ones or the antisocial ones — they are usually the most careful observers in the room, and they have learned that watching quietly gives them information about other people that speaking would immediately take away

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Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals · 07/05/2026 08:15 EDT

The population of people who use social media without posting is much larger than most active posters realise. The Pew Research Center’s 2019 study “Sizing Up Twitter Users,” based on a nationally representative sample of U.S. adult Twitter users, found that the median user posts just twice a month, while the most prolific 10 percent ... Read more Read more ›

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The Vjosa in southern Albania runs 270 kilometers from the Greek mountains to the Adriatic without a single dam — making it the last truly wild river left in Europe outside Russia

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Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals · 07/05/2026 22:16 EDT

The Vjosa in southern Albania runs 270 kilometres from the Pindus mountains to the Adriatic without a single dam on its main stem — the last free-flowing wild river in Europe outside Russia, and since March 2023 the continent's first national park built around one. Read more ›

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Nearly a million wallets have lost $3.8 billion on Trump’s memecoin while the president cleared $636 million — and the SEC has formally declared the whole arrangement outside its jurisdiction

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Canal Letter @ Silicon Canals · 07/05/2026 23:29 EDT

Nearly one million retail investors have lost a combined $3.8 billion buying President Donald Trump's $TRUMP memecoin, while the president personally cleared $636 million from the same instrument, according to a blockchain analysis by cryptocurrency analytics firm Nansen. Read more ›

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