Downloader app suspended by DMCA notice that didn't list any copyrighted works.

Reports caused alarm, but experts say it looks like a post-COVID germ comeback.

Given GPU and patience, SVD can turn any image into a 2-second video clip.

Playing Warcraft in a browser, using a controller, somehow feels… okay?

Amazon Workspaces Thin Client is a Fire TV Cube with different software.

Cognitive scientist Tomer Ullman, head of Harvard’s Computation, Cognition, and Development lab, may have inadvertently blundered into an untapped vein of LEGO Icon inspiration when his interest in [...]

The iPod shuffle recently enjoyed a bit of a comeback on TikTok. Can the Mikiphone be far behind? The invention of siblings Miklós and Étienne Vadász, the world’s first pocket record player [...]

Here’s a holiday season deal worth mentioning. For Cyber Monday, The Great Courses (formerly The Teaching Company) is offering every course for $40-$60. The sale runs until midnight on Monday [...]

Observers have expressed a variety of reactions to the organizational drama unfolding even now at OpenAI, the non-profit behind the enormously popular ChatGPT. Some have already written speculative [...]

Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon turned 50 earlier this year, which perhaps makes it seem easy to dismiss as an artifact of a bygone era. It belongs to a period in popular music history [...]

Travel to Rome, Alaska, West Africa and beyond with this year’s best cookbooks, memoirs and historic deep dives

These highlights from the Smithsonian Photo Contest are sure to scare up some smiles

These highlights from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest are a home run

A courageous New Deal program brought authoritarianism into the spotlight. Then the drama moved onto the political stage

The famed sculptor brings his incendiary style—and fiery palette—to the canvas in a new studio in Venice

Bjoern Altmann's new book celebrates the overlooked beauty of manhole covers.

Rediscover Gerry Anderson's forgotten project in a brilliantly bizarre new photo book.

Embrace the future of graphic design by studying online with this well-loved education provider.

The director of Regular Practice on what the next wave of branding design will look like.

The best festive cards for Christmas 2023 by independent artists and designers.

The insects seem to sip from nowhere else on frogs’ bodies. Thinner skin or denser blood vessels near the nostrils might explain why.

Siberian reindeer herders and scientists are working together to figure out how to predict rain-on-snow events that turn tundra into deadly ice.

In 1991, physicists spotted a cosmic ray with so much energy it warranted an ‘OMG.’ Now that energetic particle has a new companion.

Male serotine bats have penises too large for penetration. To mate, the animals rub their genitals against each other, somewhat like birds’ cloacal kiss.

The automated device pairing brain activity and dosing kept two macaques sedated for 125 minutes, raising hopes of precision anesthesia for people.

M+B is pleased to present Listening Arm, featuring new works by Eliot Greenwald, marking the artist's third presentation with the gallery. The exhibition opens December 2 and will run [...]

On today's A Portfolio, we look at the works of Oakland-based Rupy C. Tut, who is currently showing with ICA SF and is represented by Jessica Silverman Gallery. Born in Chandigarh, India, Tut's [...]

“Once you find yourself in another civilization, you’re forced to examine your own.” —James Baldwin

Geoff McFetridge ebbs and flows. I have found his paintings over the years to be powerful metaphoric representations of human interactions, anonymous but a collective working together, and yet not [...]

(In)directions: Queerness in Chinese Contemporary Photography is a group exhibition at Eli Klein Gallery of 21 artists who see queerness as a possibility, embracing the imaginative even when the [...]

How the Israel lobby moved to quash rising dissent in Congress against Israel’s apartheid regime. The post A Big-Money Operation Purged Critics of Israel From the Democratic Party appeared first on [...]

Including the newly revealed $30 million, the NYPD paid out more than $80 million in misconduct cases so far in 2023. The post NYPD Paid Out $30 Million in Misconduct Cases Before Litigation in First [...]

More than two-thirds of the Palestinians proposed for release by Israel under the truce have not been convicted of any crimes. Most were arrested as children. The post Israel’s Insidious Narrative [...]

Documents reveal “sensitive weapons and equipment” were taken – and the Pentagon may be unaware of the scope of the thefts. The post Missiles and Drones Among Weapons Stolen From U.S. in Iraq [...]

By easing virtually all limits on Israel’s use of the stockpile, Biden could undercut U.S. military preparedness and congressional oversight. The post Joe Biden Moves to Lift Nearly Every [...]

The Loneliest Road in Every State in America (via tmn) / add the sound of drama to your day / an interesting musing on living with aphantasia / DAK and the Golden Age of Gadget Catalogs (via MeFi). [...]

Shock of the old: the amazing, infuriating history of the electric car. ‘By 1900, a third of all cars on the road in the US were electric’: see Electric Car Charging Stations in Chicago, [...]

Photographer Anna Huix’s project, Tales beneath the melting ice / art and film by Rafael Sommerhalder / AI meets Capability Brown / spooky forest / a map of the world of Aleister Crowley / the [...]

A disparate variety of interests, starting with Modern Art in Mid-Century Comics / vintage and quirky gear at Sound Gas, like the Suiko ST-60 Poetry Trainer, one of a small range of synths created to [...]

The mysterious space beneath Seoul / a fine address with potential, No. 1 the Thames, Isle of Grain / recommended treasure house museums / the alternative Metropolitan Line, a fantasy by artist Mark [...]

Workers at the recently reopened art museum announced the union effort at an all-staff meeting on November 16.

“He operated as a free agent in every respect," said gallerist Robert Mann.

It’s Cyber Monday! Not all sale items are actually good buys, but we’ve done the research and found real (if sometimes modest) deals on electronics, photography gear, and software. Our [...]

Protestors gathered outside the Whitney, New York Public Library, and American Museum of Natural Museum.

The museum includes a recreation of his childhood apartment in Akron.

Thirty Palestinian children and three women released from Israeli prisons; more Israeli hostages to be released as part of ceasefire extensionFull report: More Israeli hostages and Palestinians freed [...]

Recently launched Malligyong-1 also sent ‘detailed’ pictures of US nuclear aircraft carriers, says regime, although claims are not verifiedNorth Korea has claimed its recently launched satellite [...]

Climate scientists say fossil fuel use needs to fall rapidly – but oil-rich kingdom is working to drive up demandSaudi Arabia is driving a huge global investment plan to create demand for its oil [...]

Winds, snow and flooding hit Ukraine, Russia and Moldova; Nato convenes council of foreign ministers on Ukraine, with Blinken attendingUS, European and Ukrainian police have arrested a ringleader of [...]

Far-right leader says his Party for Freedom is ‘broad’ people’s party as he tries to form coalitionThe far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders admitted on Monday that he was not off to a [...]

Joy Buolamwini‘s AI research was attracting attention years before she received her Ph.D. from the MIT Media Lab in 2022. As a graduate student, she made waves with a 2016 TED talk about [...]

Many of us have gotten used to being able to dampen unwanted sound, thanks to the noise-cancellation technology found in, for example, Apple’s AirPods Pro earbuds. But this tech gets you only so [...]

IEEE depends on volunteer members for many things, including organizing conferences, coordinating regional and local activities, writing standards, and deciding on IEEE’s future. But because [...]

It’s a summer night. On the rooftop of a quiet building, a set of panels cools the rooms within and keeps the lights on, removing heat and generating electricity using the coldness of the sky. [...]

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few [...]