This is where wishes come true. Their own league and Interview with a Vampire converge and diverge. League the movie, based on a real-life league founded in 1943, erased how common queer women are in this space. (One of the show’s consultants, the original “All the Way Mae,” Mabel Blair, came out at age 95...
Artificial intelligence has promised a lot, but something stood in the way of its successful use by billions of people: the frustrating struggle between humans and machines to understand each other in natural language. This is now changing with the advent of large language models based on transformer architectures, which is one of the most...
In the 5th century, in early medieval Ireland, Conall Gulban, the Irish king, gave his name to an area of land on the northwestern tip of the Irish coast. His kingdom was called Tir Chonall, “the land of Conall” – or, today, Donegal. Somewhere in the line of descendants of the king, known as Senel...
Let’s start with the obvious here: Between networks, streamers, and whatever else, there is absolutely too much TV to consume these days. It’s impossible to keep up with the zeitgeist and you shouldn’t even try. The flipside of that, though, is that come year’s end, you get to learn about all sorts of “new” shows...
The most important part of your research is to read the toy’s privacy policy. before you turn it on or customize it. (More on this in the next section.) Look for these words in small print Current U.S. child privacy laws do little to protect children in the 21st century, Cross says. As such, parents...
Technology plays an important role in community building, especially for historically marginalized groups. Women use apps to track all sorts of things, including their periods (almost a third all women in the US) the LGBTQ+ community uses apps to meet like-minded people; and activists campaigning through democratic means are using social media and messaging apps...
Some people would rather invest these resources in solving global problems than in launching astronauts to other worlds. People in the 1960s questioned the Apollo program for the same reasons – it was also a time of systemic inequality and fear of nuclear war. Today, in polls of American adults, NASA’s climate action and monitoring...
The creation of No Fail Mode did not detract from the central mechanics Tunic: study. Players are actively encouraged to seek out the unknown and regularly return to visited areas with new items. Finding alternative paths and finding every nook and cranny of the zone is what makes Tunic so tempting to play. Despite the...
Apple first released Swift Playgrounds as an iPad app in 2016, followed by a macOS version in 2020. This free application allows you to edit the code in one window and see how it will look in the finished application in another (in real time). There are built-in lessons and challenges to work with, and...
Moment offers several tripod mounts that are compatible with MagSafe compatible phones, but I like the multi-entry mount the best. It’s just a flat disc of metal with several holes drilled into it (which is why the mount is affectionately called a Swiss cheese plate), each hole corresponding to the size of a tripod...
