A magnetic set for planning and furnishing homes and interiors at 1:50 scale. The pieces hold to the board as you work, so you can visualise layouts, experiment with spatial flow, and rearrange your floor plans without anything shifting. This is the new second edition — now magnetic — crafted from natural wood.
After all, nearly 60% of Poles are now against Ukraine joining the EU, with this reversal being attributable to their awareness that Ukrainians are civilizationally incompatible with themselves and the West as a whole due to them glorifying anti-Polish genocidaires.
Somewhat ironically, once a user answers such a question, the company said the dashboard would then give them 'the chance to talk it through with Claude.'
Every year I take a look at the annual energy data published toward the end of June by the Energy Institute in order to ask the big question: Has the energy transition that everyone keeps talking about actually started yet? So far, the answer has always been no.
Imagine spending billions on iconic studios and production talent if your only plan to deliver success and stability was to cross your fingers, wish upon a star, and start 'hoping for a better outcome.'
If you dislike contemporary art, all of the things you hate about it can be traced back to Duchamp. Art that requires no skill or that was made, conversely, with great skill by people other than the "artist" claiming credit for it.
Reading has never been natural. Humans have no innate cognitive machinery designed to string letters into words and connect them to their real-world analogues. To read, people had to repurpose regions of their brain used for speech and object recognition.
Agriculture is the only major sector that at present is significantly energised directly by zero cost and zero carbon sunlight. Yet just at the time when we need renewable electricity to do the heavy lifting of the global economy, advocates of bacterial food for mass nutrition are effectively implying we should use all current renewable electricity, and more, for food production that can otherwise be energised directly by sunlight.
We're not landing in some novel future, we're falling back into the oldest setting there is, the world made of mouths, and the rules of truth are reverting with it.
Body-worn camera footage from the police encounter with the rider, released by police and seen by Cycling Electric, shows an officer cranking the e-bike's pedal with one hand, while the rear wheel is off the ground, thus removing any friction with a surface – and the speedometer registering what looks like 60km/h. The rider can be heard saying the motor wasn't switched on at the time.
"The main conversations were around governance models," he continues. "We were expecting Godot to come in and have this playbook of how to govern an open source project at scale like that, but in reality, what it came down to was making the right architectural choices and having the architecture help protect and define the surface area for contribution. If you roll that down, that's a plug-in model for the engine, which is something Unreal and Unity have, and it's something we are currently implementing for Carbon at the moment.
The 2026 Hyperstition Unslop AI fiction writing contest is over, and we are pleased to award the $10,000 Grand Prize to A. Best for his finalist submission, “The June”. A surprising number of stories can be read as AI allegories
Small Press Publishing in the Age of AI. Bona Books' research reveals the hidden risks of Generative AI in the slush pile. This report exposes how AI fraudsters infiltrate small presses and provides a toolkit for detection, from prose analysis to editorial red flags.
Revisiting the editorial process was revealing, too. After we accept stories, we tend to send our authors an editorial letter with 'big picture' feedback, alongside comments and line edits in the manuscript itself. Authors engage with this discussion actively; they accept some suggestions, reject others, explain their reasons. Authors make revisions in a way that shows sensitivity and craft. Looking over the document's version history, we were struck by how little that had happened.
At BBC RD, we are working on Beepy VP, a prototype low-cost virtual production system which can achieve in-camera virtual production using only a large monitor or screen together with a consumer-grade computer. It uses a marker-based tracking system derived from robotics and AI-created virtual backgrounds trained from photographs of real locations.
No matter where a Muslim is and no matter how technology evolves, his or her religious rites remain an obligation which must be performed. The sophistication of ISS and its conditions which are different from those on Earth are not obstacles which prevent astronauts from performing their religious rites, particularly because Islam grants concessions (rukhsah) for difficult circumstances.
It is possible to create the conditions where each can be developed well, through discernment and attentiveness… but those conditions are scarce in an industry that associates 'high agency' with 'zero introspection.'
ntsc-rs is a free, open-source video effect which accurately emulates analog TV and VHS artifacts. Other popular effects eyeball the look of VHS tapes using simple color lookup tables and overlays. ntsc-rs uses algorithms that model how NTSC transmission and VHS encoding actually work, based on algorithms developed in composite-video-simulator, zhuker/ntsc, and ntscQT.
As a Renaissance historian, I feel it's my job to shoulder the other half of the load by talking about what the Renaissance was like, confirming that our Medievalists are right, it wasn't a better time to live than the Middle Ages, and to talk about where the error comes from, why we think of the Renaissance as a golden age, and where we got the myth of the bad Middle Ages.
The reader's mind takes to this kind of writing not like a duck to water but like water to a duck's back. That the thought process in these prototypical passages is complicated and convoluted is problem enough; but that the expression, with all its bloodless abstraction and technical jargon, is contorted and impacted on top of that makes it impossible to grab hold of what one reads. So one reads it over and over again, hoping that repetition will make this paragraph or sentence clearer.