Alpha 22 is out, this time featuring training for the main stations.

Last week, Microsoft quietly retired the phrase “Copilot+ PC” and it’s been making headlines around the tech scene. Shortly after Copilot+ PCs hit the market 2 years ago, I got my hands on one…

Why people are fleeing homogenized social profiles to build their own quirky, personalized corners of the web.

Hi folks, In this article I’d like to present all the new Windows Phone 7.5 Mango APIs. The goal is to inform developers who aren’t familiar with Mango of what new APIs are available. Since there…

How exposing your own reading lists, watch logs, and listening habits through a simple API can foster a more interconnected, open web.

Kok-Moinok lake, eleven kilometres and 1,100 metres above the trailhead. No preview on the way up: you get the whole thing at the end or nothing. When a model gets something wrong, we reach for the…

Warnings can sell an unproven promise: that dangerous power will do useful work under your control.

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This. “What I’m trying to elaborate is that I don’t want the services (that I depend on) to degrade just because someone pushed AI where it didn’t belong or skipped their job in quality,…

URLAND is een van mijn favoriete Nederlandse theatergroepen. Ze maken performances die de grenzen opzoeken van wat theater is, of zou kunnen zijn. Twee jaar geleden maakten ze een voorstelling die…

On January 22, 2013, in a post I wrote about imaginary friends, I wrote about the Manti Te’o catfishing scandal, which was, at the time, one of the biggest stories […]

Florida went to court this week and asked a judge to do something I never figured I’d see a state do. They asked a judge to make a machine stop acting like a person. The attorney general down…

Rights to relevance in a changing world The world is difficult enough these days, and then along comes “AI.” Just the presence of this tech in our world seems to stand everything we know on its head…

From telepathy to psychometry, try our quiz and find out how much you know about the range of psychic abilities that fall under the umbrella of extrasensory perception.

“In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner…

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  People feel proud about their intelect. They believe it defines them, as it took humble monkeys from the savanna and made them top of the food chain. Yet the concept is quite nebulous. Other…

Portuguese A bit of a dramatic title, it makes sound like I just lost my sense of smell, but the truth is I can’t smell anuthing for almost two decades. At some point, when I was six or seven, I…

Synth-pop fans, your 2027 plans are looking rather good. Erasure are back with “Wings of Love”, album "RADIO!! RADIO!!" and a huge arena tour!... The post Six years after their last new music,…

It finally happened. One of 2025's Thanksgiving Leftover stocks has been removed from the S&P 500 (Index: SPX ). That stock belongs to The Trade Desk (NASDAQ: TTD ), which we previously described as…

Sometimes I feel as though Grace is watching over me. The device in the picture is an apple peeler/corer; it works like a charm for preparing apples to cook, because all one need do is stick an apple…

Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) is a buzzy new technology that some experts fear is over-promoted to healthy people who don’t really need it. Nonetheless, it’s clearly a tool for…

A new Intelligence Hours index weighs AI subscriptions against minimum wages in 37 countries—and Korea's math doesn't add up.

After a successful summer on Octopus Flux, I’m facing a familiar autumn question: should I stay where I am or change tariffs for winter? My home has solar panels, battery storage, a heat pump and two…

In looking for the origins of the Goth Girl, one thing you might do is to go looking for the term. That's what I did. I searched for "goth girl" in newspapers online. The first occurrence of "goth…

Bonnie Kristian, in I n Defense of Evangelicalism: A Response to Its Cultured Despisers , rightly understands the definitional conundrum posed by “evangelical.” What do we mean by “evangelical”?…

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It's been a while...and I don't want to start this post with, once again, it's been a while, I'm still trying to find my rhythm, blah blah blah , but here I am starting it like that 🤦🏻‍♀️ I've been…

A now-retired TTAB judge once said to me that one can predict the outcome of a Section 2(d) appeal 95% of the time by looking at just the marks and the goods/services. Here are three appeals decided…

A recent lunch with my good friend Prashanth sparked a realization about the rapidly shifting landscape of software engineering. Amidst catching up, he pointed out a looming industry paradox, as AI…

Well, then he wouldn’t be Spud but there we are: The Reserve Bank of Australia has lifted its key interest rate to 4.6%, its highest level since 2011, while warning of further hikes. Did…

The notion that #SaaS is dead is simply wrong. Who would want to spend hundreds of dollars in tokens to create an app someone else offers for $5-10 per month?…

This is my personal tribute to António Guterres, outgoing Secretary General of the United Nations. I have used more quotes from António Guterres, in speeches, articles, tweets, what have you, than…

We used a random word generator for the Daily Create this morning, and then used that word (mine was “mosquito”) to build a haiku or small poem. Peace (getting a buzz on),Kevin

Harvey's gross margin went from about +50% to about −50% in six months, then back to positive. Every retelling reads it as a story about expensive frontier models and cheap open weights.…

1. A break with coffee and buttered toast with golden syrup. 2. I send a few photos to a friend, remembering a fun weekend at the Isle of Wight Festival when we were all much younger and smoother. It…

⏳ Did a Windows update yesterday and the only thing I’ve seen afterwards 🫤

F-strings are coming to Pharo. A new implementation brings readable string interpolation to Pulsar today, with proper AST support, debugger integration, and backward compatibility—and a path toward…

I'm currently away with limited internet access but i thought i'd share this quote which i saw this morning It is within my power either to serve God, or not to serve. Serving, I add to my own good…

To round off the season I took part in the Robin Hood Half Marathon, an event I enjoyed last year and one that happened to fall on my birthday this time around, so it was only fair I gave it a good…

What happens when computers can do almost everything?

If we lived in an earlier culture, a time more marked by the agricultural shifts of each season, we would celebrate Michaelmas today. It's one of the harvest holidays, one of the quarterly…

I love publishing guest posts here on Liberal England. Have you thought of writing one yourself? It could be on where the Liberal Democrats should go from here, on politics more generally or……

Ross Walking Festival 2026. A couple of garden jobs. Autumn’s arriving. ‘Tis the season for snoozing and reading. Breakfast in the conservatory on Tuesday morning with Pips choosing my…

Nobody sets out to lose their sense of wonder. We misplace it a little at a time, somewhere between the first paycheck and the hundredth status meeting. In its place we install a life of routine:…

I would have to say that David Lubar's Pastfinder is one of my favourite games of all-time. Not only does it have an interesting player craft, but there's also a compelling game buried within this…

The Tabernacle, the Ark of the Covenant, and the Shema! Key features of the Israelite religion as portrayed in the Hebrew Bible, even if widely misunderstood or virtually unknown among the populace…

When water pools on the red dirt trails above San Carlos Falls, there are abstract images to be captured. Like this dead, stripped, floating palm frond.

While we were "playing" in New York City we also had tickets to the broadway show... Disney's The Lion King at The Minskoff Theater, off Broadway but still in the theater district. The show was…

Charles Olson's The Maximus Poems made Gloucester, Massachusetts the site of a difficult American epic built on projective verse and total civic obsession.