Date of sighting: Oct 2023Location of sighting: USA (no other info given)Source: Dept of WarLink: https://www.war.gov/UFO/?releaseDate=Release+06&release=06#LLE-UAP-PR002-Unresolved-UAP-Report-Colorado-October-2023I was looking at the Dept of War website at…
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Background Movements for civil rights were a worldwide series of political movements for equality before the law that peaked in the 1960s. In many situations…
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Background The following document was obtained by The Black Vault through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), and was part of the “Stargate Collection” release.…
Read MoreThe COP26 climate conference has thrown into a sharp light the importance of reducing carbon emissions in every area of our lives. Everyone can play a role in this, including those of us working on the web. Measuring the carbon footprint of the web isn’t an exact science, but a report by the BBC in…
Projects built using JavaScript-based frameworks often ship large bundles of JavaScript that take time to download, parse and execute, blocking page render and user input in the process. This problem is more apparent on unreliable and slow networks and lower-end devices. In this article, we’re going to cover code-splitting best practices and showcase some examples…
How do we design for touch in 2022? Mobile and touch are the new default for computing, but there are still many myths, rumors, errors and out-of-date practices on how to design for them. Let’s change that!In our brand-new book Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces, Steven Hoober shares his in-depth research and guidelines on designing…
Enlarge / View of the fossilized skull of an extinct species of stargazer fish, showing preserved fecal pellets in the brain. (credit: Calvert Marine Museum) A fossilized cranium of an extinct species of stargazer fish was stuffed with tiny fecal pellets known as coprolites, according to a recent paper published in the journal Rivista Italiana…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Cindy Ord ) Spotify on Friday removed 70 Joe Rogan Experience episodes from 2020 and previous years. Meanwhile, Rogan issued an apology after video showed him saying the n-word on various podcast episodes. The new episode removals weren't related to the COVID misinformation that led Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and others…
Enlarge (credit: Ars Technica) It's the weekend, which means it's time for another Dealmaster. Our latest roundup of the best tech deals from around the web includes a new low price on the 45mm version of the Apple Watch Series 7, which is currently down to $370 at various retailers. That's about $40 off the…
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images | Trinity College) On October 21, 1638, people were congregating at a church at Widecombe-in-the-Moor, in Devon, England, when a severe thunderstorm broke out. Witnesses described an 8-foot ball of fire hurtling through the church, tossing large stones from the walls to the ground, smashing pews and windows,…
Enlarge (credit: Star Citizen) Star Citizen developers Cloud Imperium Games' new public development roadmap will no longer include target dates for coming features more than one calendar quarter away. The change, the company writes, is largely to avoid "distraction" and "continued noise every time we shift deliverables" from "a very loud contingent of Roadmap watchers…
Just Because: Five Ways To Rock Two-Tone The love-or-hate option with a heart of steel and gold. Originally published by James Stacey on HODINKEE, April 17th 2020 With select few exceptions, along my path to a deeper appreciation (read: love) for gold watches, my taste for two-tone watches has transitioned from a sort of…
A built-in heart rate sensor is something we take for granted these days when we talk about wearables. Every smartwatch, fitness tracker and sports device has a built-in heart rate monitor, used for 24/7 monitoring and tracking workouts. But increasingly, heart rate variability (HRV) is the key metric. It's a heart rate measurement that the…
