As runners, we’re often hard on ourselves. I’m so slow, you might think as you check your watch. Or: my feet hurt, am I starting to get a blister? Or the perennial favorite: Oh god, I’m only halfway. But a new set of mindful running tracks from Headspace, featuring comedian Kevin Hart, got me thinking about my inner…
Source: LifeHacker – What to Think About When You Run, According to Kevin Hart
The show 30 Rock packed in a lot of food jokes over the years, but “Put potato chips on a sandwich!” isn’t one; it’s just good sense. The thin, crispy slices of fried potato add textural contrast, lots of salt, and sometimes more, depending on the flavor of your chip. (I’m a plain Lay’s girl myself.)
Source: LifeHacker – Put a Potato in Your Sandwich
PDF Arranger 1.7.0 has been released with new features, like the ability to crop white borders, allow export to individual files, allow selection of odd or even pages, support for editing more PDF metadata tags, and more.
Source: LXer – PDF Arranger 1.7.0 Released With New Features And Enhancements
Renewable energy became the biggest source of electricity in the European Union in 2020, beating fossil fuels for the first time. Germany and Spain also hit that milestone individually last year — so did the UK, which officially left the EU in January 2020. From a report: Renewables powered 38 percent of electricity in the EU last year, according to a report released today by energy think tanks Ember and Agora Energiewende. That gives renewable energy a narrow lead over fossil fuel-fired generation, which accounted for 37 percent of Europe’s electricity. The remaining quarter comes from nuclear energy.
The rise of renewables is good news for the health of the planet. Still, renewable energy will need to grow at an even faster rate to stave off a future with more climate change-induced disasters. “Renewables overtaking fossils is an important milestone in Europe’s clean energy transition. However, let’s not be complacent,” Patrick Graichen, director of Agora Energiewende, said in a statement. “Post-pandemic recovery [programs] need to go hand-in-hand with accelerated climate action.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Renewable Energy Production Beat Fossil Fuels in Europe
Cloth masks, by themselves, were never the best option for everybody to wear during a pandemic; they were, instead, just the best way to get a lot of masks to a lot of people without too much of an effect on supplies for healthcare workers.
Source: LifeHacker – Are Two Masks Really Better Than One?
Late last week, we brought you some scintillating performance numbers for Intel’s upcoming Core i9-11900K Rocket Lake-S processor, which is rocking what should be the company’s last hurrah for the 14nm process node on the desktop. Besides a shift to Cypress Cove CPU cores which bring a big IPC uplift, Rocket Lake-S processors also support
Source: Hot Hardware – Intel Core i9-11900K, Core i7-11700K Rocket Lake-S CPUs Dominate In New Single-Threaded Benchmark
An unusual mortality event of gray whales off the coast of Mexico is disturbingly persistent, according to a study published this week in the Marine Ecology Progress Series. The die-off began in 2019, and the gray whale death count is currently at 384, though the actual number may be higher.
Source: Gizmodo – Gray Whales Off Baja California Are Dying En Masse, and Scientists Don’t Know Why
When the 2021 Indycar season starts on April 18th, you’ll be able to watch some of the action through Peacock Premium. NBCUniversal announced today it will stream live coverage of qualifying and practice sessions that lead up to the Indianapolis 500,…
Source: Engadget – Peacock will stream Indycar practice and qualifying sessions this season
If you use Microsoft Teams and Outlook at work, you may have noticed that bringing files between the two platforms was a pain. Seemingly, 11,571 other people agreed when they upvoted a suggestion on the Microsoft Teams forum from 2016 that asked for the ability to drag and drop files between Outlook and Teams. Now, that feature has finally
Source: Hot Hardware – Microsoft Teams Adds Super Easy Drag And Drop File Transfer Integration With Outlook
Everyone’s go to gaming console Nintendo is finally booted by mainline Linux Kernal.
Source: Linux Today – It Took 25 Years for Linux to Boot on a Nintendo
We first met Camina Drummer in The Expanse’s second season, when she was introduced as Fred Johnson’s (Chad L. Coleman) security chief on Tycho Station. Though the character appears in the books, her role in the series has been expanded over the years—and now, in the show’s outstanding fifth season, she’s provided a…
Source: io9 – In Praise of The Expanse’s Camina Drummer
Rumors circulating today stemming from a week-old news release suggest Japanese entertainment conglomerate Konami has shut down its video gaming division. Konami assures us it has not.
Source: Kotaku – Konami Has Not Shut Down Its Video Gaming Division
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Source: LifeHacker – The 10 Best Deals of January 25, 2021
Now more than ever, there are many ways to sabotage yourself when searching for a job. Social media and digital profiles are baked into so many aspects of our lives, but even if you’re not leaving incriminating posts on Twitter or Instagram, an older gaffe still remains that could see your chances of landing a new job…
Source: LifeHacker – Change Your Voicemail Greeting When You Job Search
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Variety: AMC Theatres, the world’s largest cinema chain, has raised $917 million in new equity and debt capital, the company said on Monday. “This increased liquidity should allow the company to make it through this dark coronavirus-impacted winter,” the company said, adding that its “financial runway has been extended deep into 2021.” AMC has raised the finances from Dec. 14, 2020. Of the $917 million, AMC has raised $506 million of equity, from the issuance of 164.7 million new common shares, along with the previously announced securing of $100 million of additional first-lien debt and the concurrent issuance of 22 million new common shares to convert $100 million of second-lien debt into equity.
In addition, the company has executed commitment letters for $411 million of incremental debt capital in place through mid-2023, unless repaid before then, through the upsizing and refinancing of its European revolving credit facility. The chain says that it presumes that it will continue to make progress in its ongoing dialogue with theater landlords about the amounts and timing of owed theater lease payments, and is hopeful that the ongoing vaccination push will result in an increase in cinema attendance. As a result, AMC shares soared 36% in premarket trade Monday.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – AMC Raises 7 Million To Weather ‘Dark Coronavirus-Impacted Winter’
In a fascinating example of the physical world entering the digital and then hurtling itself back out again, the now-famous photo of Sen. Bernie Sanders looking like a petulant seventh-grader waiting for his mom to pick him up after band practice is now a 3D-printable trinket.
Source: Gizmodo – 3D Print Your Own Pouting Bernie
The first step in being a responsible pet owner is knowing whether you can afford one to begin with. Beyond the initial adoption costs, you’ll need to budget for hundreds to thousands of dollars in annual expenses—for years to come. Here’s a breakdown of what to expect for different types of pets.
Source: LifeHacker – Can You Really Afford a Pet?
After getting off to a rocky start, TNT’s Snowpiercer ultimately found its footing over the progression of its first season. Years of post-apocalyptic simmering class conflict between the titular train’s cars erupted in its climax, setting the stage for a second season that wants to try and explore those conflicts…
Source: io9 – Snowpiecer’s Second Season Welcomes in a New, if Unsurprising Tyranny
White House physician Dr. Sean Conley will have to find a new patient to give wildly optimistic press conferences about.
Source: Gizmodo – New Guy to Assure Nation Old President Is Very, Very Healthy
Want to spend an exorbitant amount of money on a basic wool coat because some grizzled old guy in a video game sports one too? Well, Capcom has just the deal for you.
Source: Kotaku – Capcom Is Selling A Coat For ,500 Because Chris Redfield Also Wears Coats