Ruby 4.0: A lot of restructuring under the hood, few new features

The new major version with a new JIT compiler, a revised parallelization API, and a maturing type system paves the way for ...

Meet Upscayl: This free AI tool turns blurry photos into high-detail images

Upscayl uses AI technology to scale images to a larger format. The open source tool adds sharpness and brings details to ...
The New Yorker

The Curious Notoriety of “Performative Reading”

The Lede Reporting and commentary on what you need to know today. This way of perceiving social reality—and particularly a person’s reading life—may seem inane, even deranged. But performative reading ...
The Next Platform

What Do You Do When You Want GPFS On The Cloud?

While there are a lot of different file system and object storage options available for HPC and AI customers, many AI ...
SETI Institute

Breakthrough Listen observations of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS

The Breakthrough Listen Initiative, together with its network of collaborators, has undertaken observations of 3I/ATLAS using ...
Newsweek

New Yorker Films Joe Jonas Struggling to Parallel-Park—He Claps Back Online

A viral TikTok video has sparked a wave of jokes after a New York City resident captured the moment she watched singer Joe Jonas try to parallel-park for seven minutes. The clip, shared by TikTok user ...
The Guardian

Into the Woods review – Brothers Grimm gloriously mashed up by Sondheim

Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s fairytale adventure follows its archetypal characters into real-world emotion, brilliantly drawn and sung Can Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s eternally ...
The Independent

Into the Woods review, Bridge Theatre – Stephen Sondheim revival is a thing of lush and arresting beauty

There’s a sly modesty to the opening number of the Bridge Theatre’s new revival of Into the Woods. Choreographed around a raised rectangular platform, the pinballing scene-setter is as lively and ...
The New York Times

This ‘Into the Woods’ Is Not That Deep. That’s What Makes It Great.

A new London staging of the Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine musical makes the most of its comedic elements and delivers a visual treat. By Houman Barekat Reviewing from London There are no happy ...
Hackaday

Building A Multi-Channel Pipette For Parallel Experimentation

One major reason for the high cost of developing new drugs and other chemicals is the sheer number of experiments involved; ...
BBC

Man arrested after car crashes into house

A man was arrested after a car crashed into a house. The black Volvo smashed into the two-storey home in Gosbrook Road in Caversham, Berkshire, at about 22:30 GMT on Friday. The front of the house was ...
Los Angeles Times

In Israel and the U.S., parallel cases of malice against Palestinians

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. On Thursday, Mohammed Zaher Ibrahim, 16, was released from Israel’s Ofer Prison and reunited with his family. The ...