There are loads of simple white bread recipes out there, many of which yield multiple loaves worth of dough. Whether you’re a seasoned bread baker, or trying your hand at yeast breads for the first time, sometimes you just want one small loaf of bread. Here’s a recipe for a single, mini loaf of bread with a short…
Source: LifeHacker – Make a Mini Loaf of Bread With a Single Cup of Flour
My latest book, The Hard Switch, is about the crew of a small cargo ship, comprising Ada, Haika, and Mallic (an extractor, pilot, and engineer, respectively), and as I was thinking about this central trio, I started musing on “crews” in general. What makes a great crew? Which crew would I most happily join (impending…
Source: Gizmodo – 9 Great Sci-Fi Crews That Inspired My Interstellar Graphic Novel
One month after an experimental procedure to transplant the heart of a genetically modified pig into a patient with end-stage heart disease, doctors say the heart is functioning on its own and shows no signs of rejection. From a reoport: In September, 58-year-old Lawrence Faucette underwent the surgery, only the second ever performed in a human. Faucette’s heart disease and pre-existing conditions made him ineligible for a traditional human heart transplant. “The physicians taking care of him believe his heart function is excellent,” said Dr. Bartley Griffith, director of the Cardiac and Lung Transplant Program at the University of Maryland School of Medicine who performed the surgery. “We’ve had no evidence of infections and no evidence of rejection right now.”
Dr. Muhammad Mohiuddin, director of UMMC’s Cardiac Xenotransplantation Program, said in an update shared on Friday, “we are withdrawing all the drugs that were initially supporting his heart. So now his heart is doing everything on its own.” Mohiuddin said the focus now is making sure that Faucette has the strength to perform routine functions. “We are working very hard with our physical therapy team who are spending a lot of time helping him regain the strength that he’s lost during last one month of hospital stay,” Mohiuddin said.
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Source: Slashdot – One Month After Experimental Pig Heart Transplant, Doctors Say They See No Signs of Rejection or Infection
For this instalment in the series, we’re going to examine the power consumption of the NUC 13 Pro Mini PC and compare that to a couple of desktop machines.
Source: LXer – Intel NUC 13 Pro Mini PC Running Linux: Power Consumption
Counter-Strike 2 is the sort of fast-twitch game you’d like to play at a least a couple hundred frames per second, and the more the better. Intel’s Core i9-14900K can already help drive this and much more in Counter-Strike 2, but extreme overclockers Team AU at SXSW Australia were able to push the 14900K to 8GHz and hit 1,300 FPS in Valve’s
Source: Hot Hardware – Core i9-14900K Gaming PC Overclocked To 8GHz Hits Blistering 1,300 FPS In Counter-Strike 2
In these interesting economic times when unemployment is low because everyone has, like, four jobs (but still can’t afford rent), you have to get creative. The good news is that no matter how chaotic things are out there, some fundamental economic rules always apply, like the fact that you can often substitute sweat…
Source: LifeHacker – Use ‘Curb Alerts’ to Get Free Stuff in Your Neighborhood
Netflix has dropped a trailer for the upcoming reality series Squid Game: The Challenge. The forthcoming show starts with 456 contestants competing for a $4.56 million prize in events repackaged (minus the brutal violence) from the scripted series. What better way to follow a fictional critique of modern capitalism’s exploitation of the financially desperate for profit and entertainment than to embrace a reality TV spectacle that exploits the financially desperate for profit and entertainment?
Among other games ripped from the South Korean show, the competition’s trailer showcases the original series’ creepy “red light, green light” doll as players in green tracksuits nervously scoot across the floor, ready to stop at a moment’s notice. (In this version, the “gunshots” fired at infringing players involve pre-placed blood packets exploding on their chests.) In standard reality TV fashion, there are hints of shameless backstabbing and plenty of lusting over the prize money. Masked guards create an ambiance of intimidation as Sammy Davis Jr.’s “I’ve Gotta Be Me” plays in the background, echoing the source material’s theme of unlikely riches as the sole path to fulfillment in a late-capitalist hellscape.
When the competition was filmed earlier this year, each player subjected themselves to this exhibition for a 0.22% chance at a couple of million dollars after taxes.
The reality series made headlines earlier this year when several contestants reportedly required medical attention, proving that irony has flatlined, and Netflix is selling tickets to view its corpse. “It was like a war zone,” one player told The Sun. “People left in tears.” The report described frigid conditions: one exhausted player was hauled away on a stretcher while others crawled to the finish line.
“Even if hypothermia kicked in then people were willing to stay for as long as possible because a lot of money was on the line,” one competitor said. “Too many were determined not to move so they stood there for far too long. There were people arriving thinking they were going to be millionaires but they left in tears.”
As a contestant says in the trailer, “This is a savage game.” Squid Game: The Challenge begins streaming on Netflix on November 22.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/netflixs-squid-game-the-challenge-trailer-confirms-it-missed-the-message-185144569.html?src=rss
Remember the days when graphics cards, like any other expansion card, simply took up a single slot? Sure, there’d be some cooling apparatus on them, and occasionally you’d see some ultra-high-end board with an extremely overbuilt cooler that took up two slots, but for years and years, graphics cards were single-slot.
Nowadays, you’re hard-pressed
Source: Hot Hardware – Check Out The First-Ever GeForce RTX 4060 Ti With A Single-Slot Blower Cooler
Sure, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom has been delayed multiple times, but that just means the DC Movie Machine has had more time to prime the media on what to expect from the second installment in the Jason Momoa-led franchise. Today’s fanservice character of the day is “Topo.”
Source: Gizmodo – Aquaman’s James Wan Says More Topo Is on the Menu
Though Amazon Prime Day has come and gone, and Black Friday fast approaches, Amazon still has some pretty great deals going on. From accessories to enhance your style and connectedness, to laptops to help you get work done, here are a few great ways to save on tech if you are in the market.
Leading us off, if you are looking for something
Source: Hot Hardware – Gorgeous Fossil Smart Watch Headlines These Great Amazon Tech Deals
Accelerated ice melt in west Antarctica is inevitable for the rest of the century no matter how much carbon emissions are cut, research indicates. The implications for sea level rise are “dire,” scientists say, and mean some coastal cities may have to be abandoned. From a report: The ice sheet of west Antarctica would push up the oceans by 5 metres if lost completely. Previous studies have suggested it is doomed to collapse over the course of centuries, but the new study shows that even drastic emissions cuts in the coming decades will not slow the melting. The analysis shows the rate of melting of the floating ice shelves in the Amundsen Sea will be three times faster this century compared with the previous century, even if the world meets the most ambitious Paris agreement target of keeping global heating below 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.
Losing the floating ice shelves means the glacial ice sheets on land are freed to slide more rapidly into the ocean. Many millions of people live in coastal cities that are vulnerable to sea level rise, from New York to Mumbai to Shanghai, and more than a third of the global population lives within 62 miles (100km) of the coast. The climate crisis is driving sea level rise by the melting of ice sheets and glaciers and the thermal expansion of sea water. The biggest uncertainty in future sea level rise is what will happen in Antarctica, the scientists say, making planning to adapt to the rise very hard. Researchers said translation of the new findings on ice melting into specific estimates of sea level rise was urgently needed.
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Source: Slashdot – Rapid Ice Melt in West Antarctica Now Inevitable, Research Shows
In today’s fast-paced world, as glaring screens and blaring social media notification demand our attention, the allure of a cozy podcast offers a soothing respite. Picture yourself nestled under a warm blanket, a steaming cup of your favorite drink in hand, and the gentle voice of a host guiding you through a world of…
Source: LifeHacker – 12 Cozy Podcasts to Warm Your Mind, Body, and Soul
The guts of the Pixel 8 Pro, once the cooling pad has been removed. Check out that sweet Google logo! [credit:
iFixit ]
The Pixel 8 Pro has been out for a few days now, and iFixit got hold of one for a teardown on its YouTube channel.
Opening it up doesn’t seem much different from last year. Step one is getting past all the phone glue, which involves heating up the screen, pulling the screen away from the body with a suction cup, and cutting the glue around the edge with a soft pick. iFixit says the adhesive was “easier to get into [than that in the iPhone] 15 Pro Max.” Unlike the iPhone 15 design, though, the Pixel 8 Pro only opens from one side, so you’ll most likely have to remove every single part in the phone to swap out the back.
The guts of the phone look just like the Pixel 7 Pro, but Google has started to pick up on a few of Apple’s tendencies to make the phone’s insides look nice. This year the battery is cleanly branded “Google,” whereas last year it was just covered in manufacturer information and warnings. Of course, you’ll only see this after you peel off the graphite cooling pad, which, for the second year in a row, has seen a big increase in area; it now covers about 60 percent of the battery. The Pixel phone runs a “Tensor” SoC made in partnership with Samsung, so more cooling will definitely help.
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Source: Ars Technica – Pixel 8 Pro teardown reveals better cooling, interior “Google” branding
In this tutorial, we’ll explain how to install InfluxDB on Ubuntu 22.04. InfluxDB is an open-source database with high read and write speed developed by InfluxData.
The post How to Install InfluxDB on Ubuntu 22.04 appeared first on Linux Today.
Source: Linux Today – How to Install InfluxDB on Ubuntu 22.04
Temperatures are currently cooling down across the U.S., but much of the country is in for a warmer, wetter winter than usual, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in this year’s winter outlook.
Source: Gizmodo – The U.S. Is in for a Warm, Wet Winter With El Niño
Enlarge / Gillian Anderson’s likeness has been promoting Star Citizen since 2015. (credit: Cloud Imperium Games)
Eleven years ago, Wing Commander designer Chris Roberts announced Star Citizen, an online multiplayer game that he said would “change the way people perceive games for the PC.” Roberts told Ars’ Kyle Orland soon after that he didn’t enjoy the four-year development of another hit, Freelancer, because “spending that many years disconnected from your audience, sort of working off by yourself, wasn’t creatively fun for me.” With Star Citizen, Roberts said he could keep development from dragging on by engaging fans and using a pre-built engine, as opposed to what Roberts said would be “two years” building his own.
Roberts has definitely engaged his audience in Star Citizen, to the tune of $616 million raised from more than 4.8 million “Star Citizens.” It has just taken a bit longer than two years to give them a true release.
Roughly 11 years after Star Citizen‘s initial announcement that included it, then nine years after its first potential release date, Squadron 42, the single-player campaign, is now “feature complete” and has “entered its polish phase.” Roberts announced this in a video released Sunday as part of an annual CitizenCon for backers, along with footage from the game and details on its development.
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Source: Ars Technica – Star Citizen’s Squadron 42 campaign is “feature complete” after 11 years
The Venn diagram of HomePod owners and YouTube Music subscribers probably doesn’t have a lot of overlap. However, those who use both Apple’s speakers and Google’s music streaming service may be pleased to learn that the two now play more nicely together. YouTube Music is now available natively on HomePod, meaning that you can ask Siri to play tracks from the service even if your iPhone, iPad or Apple Watch aren’t close by.
It’s now possible to set YouTube Music as the default music service on HomePod. That means you won’t have to add “on YouTube Music” when you bark a command at Siri. If you configure your HomePod in that way, you can still play music from another supported service by saying its name when you make your Siri request (for example “Siri, play Bad Bunny on Deezer” or “Siri, play Taylor Swift on Apple Music”).
To change the default music service on HomePod, open the Home app on your iPhone or iPad. Tap the More button (the one with the three dots) and then Home Settings. Go to your user profile under People, then select a default service in the Media section.
Having native YouTube Music support is a welcome update. HomePods don’t support too many services natively beyond the likes of Apple Music, Deezer, Pandora, TuneIn Radio and iHeartRadio. It’s possible to stream audio to a HomePod from an iPhone, iPad or Mac as well.
With iOS 17, you can ask your HomePod to play music from Spotify and it will do so as long as your iPhone is nearby. Siri needs to route the request through your mobile device via AirPlay. While there’s no native Spotify support on HomePod as yet, that change should certainly make things a little easier for some folks.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/apple-homepods-now-have-native-youtube-music-support-180428371.html?src=rss
Source: Engadget – Apple HomePods now have native YouTube Music support
The White House on Monday announced it is designating 31 technology hubs in an effort to improve American competitiveness in the technology sector. The hubs will be able to compete for $40 million to $75 million each in grants, the White House said. From a report: A tech hub designation is “a strong endorsement of a region’s plan to supercharge a critical technology ecosystem and become a global leader over the next decade,” the U.S. Economic Development Administration said on its website. The move was authorized under the CHIPS and Science Act, the White House said, which President Joe Biden frequently touts as a highlight of his economic agenda. The act, which the president signed in August 2022, aimed to improve semiconductor manufacturing and supply chains in the U.S. It also authorized $10 billion to invest in technology hubs nationwide, according to the administration.
“These Tech Hubs will catalyze investment in technologies critical to economic growth, national security, and job creation, and will help communities across the country become centers of innovation critical to American competitiveness,” the White House said in a news release. The hubs focus on a wide range of technological areas, including quantum computing, artificial intelligence, clean energy, medicine and biotechnology. The location of the hubs spans 32 states and Puerto Rico and include areas with a tribal government, coal communities and states with smaller populations, according to the U.S. Economic Development Administration.
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Source: Slashdot – White House Announces 31 Tech Hubs To Improve American Competitiveness
Matthew Vaughn, the director of X-Men: First Class (2011), the Kingsman franchise, and the upcoming Argylle, shared a few opinions on superhero films at New York Comic Con last week. “I genuinely don’t know what’s happening with the superhero in the sense that, I do think, maybe we all need a little bit of time off…
Source: Gizmodo – Matthew Vaughn Says Superhero Films Should Be Better
NASA’s Voyager team has rolled out important measures in an attempt to further prolong the interstellar journey of the two Voyager spacecraft, which have been transmitting data from deep space since 1977.
Source: Gizmodo – Interstellar Tune-Up: NASA’s Voyager Spacecraft Get Crucial Updates
