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The lava flow on Jan. 14, 2024, with Grindavík in the foreground. Credit: Iceland Department of Civil Protection Fountains of lava erupted from the Sundhnúkur volcanic system in southwest Iceland on Jan. 14, 2024. As the world watched on webcams and social media, lava flows cut off roads and bubbled from a new fissure that invaded the outskirts of the coastal town of Grindavík, burning down at least three houses in their path.…

As you have doubtless noticed, we are in the middle of a feeding frenzy about something called generative AI. Legions of hitherto normal people – and economists – are surfing a wave of irrational exuberance about its transformative potential. It’s the newest new thing.For anyone suffering from the fever, two antidotes are recommended. The first is the hype cycle monitor produced by consultants Gartner, which shows the technology currently perched on the “peak of inflated expectations”, before a steep decline into the…

Owning a home comes with a lot of responsibilities. It's not just unclogging the drain and mowing the lawn; there are plenty of unforeseen situations, just waiting to happen. As shown by the subreddit 'Well, That Sucks,' the ceiling might decide to collapse, or a pack of uninvited sea lions might crash at your property for a surprise visit. Hopefully, the sense of pride that you get from investing in your own place is strong within these folks!#1 Dropped My Ravioli Taking It Out The Microwave At Work Image credits:…

You know the Netflix formula: take a reliable box office trope – the big-budget action movie, the international spy thriller, the hitman and car chase bonanza – repackage it for the laptop screen with evermore disposable wrapping, attach a big name star with a hefty paycheck, release, move on. Such results – Sweet Girl, the Adam Project, the Gray Man, just to name a few – are often widely viewed yet under-discussed, throwaway blockbusters in the house style (overlit, frenetic) without much staying power or distinguishable…

Quordle 716 answer for January 10: Unlike Wordle which requires players to only guess one word, Quordle is a lot trickier they must guess 4 words. Moreover, the words need to be found simultaneously, making the guessing game a bit more difficult. The game largely depends upon the strength of your vocabulary and clever use of vowels. So, if you're a regular Quordle player, then the answers may come easily to you, but there are some days on which even seasoned Quordle players are left scratching their heads.So, if today is…

Disney Plus’ Hawkeye miniseries purposefully kept its violence bloodless in order to secure the same family-friendly TV-14 rating that’s shaped all of Marvel Studios’ internally produced streaming projects. But with characters like Alaqua Cox’s Maya Lopez, and her squad of tracksuit-wearing mercenaries, Hawkeye also foregrounded a kind of brutality that felt distinctly out of place in the MCU proper, and more like something one might have expected from one of Netflix’s old Marvel shows like Daredevil or Jessica…

Luke Larsen / Digital Trends Finally, there are some creator laptops that can actually match the MacBook Pro. There are tons of powerful options for gaming laptops out there that sport the most powerful GPUs and the most high-end displays. But none are true MacBook Pro competitors for content creators and creative professionals. MSI brought a couple of laptops to CES 2024 that might do the trick, though. The Creator 16 AI Studio and Stealth 18 AI Studio both tick nearly every box, including using the fastest…

Michael Roman, a former Trump campaign staffer and a co-defendant in the Georgia election interference case involving the former president, has accused Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) and a prosecutor in the case of engaging in an “improper” romantic relationship. Roman — who is seeking to disqualify Willis and the DA’s office from further prosecuting the case, and for the charges against him to be dismissed — claimed Willis and special prosecutor Nathan Wade of potentially committing “an act to…

The world’s largest quantum computer system is quietly humming away, doing god knows what, in the middle of a low-slung conference room, just off the lobby of a building in Westchester County, New York.This is the Thomas J. Watson Research Lab, which gave birth to the modern laser, DRAM, Mandelbrot set, Deep Blue chess-famous computer, Jeopardy-winning Watson computer, and a host of things that helped the astronauts land on the moon. Perched atop a hill in Yorktown Heights, about an hour’s drive from Manhattan, and…

Barbie might be bustIt went into the race with the most nominations (nine) but came home with a couple of consolation prizes: for Billie Eilish’s song, and the new award for making lots of money.How come? Well, it’s an unusually strong year, especially in the categories Barbie had the best shot in: Margot Robbie was never realistically going to beat Emma Stone (for Poor Things), who herself looks now likely to be knocked out by Killers of the Flower Moon’s Lily Gladstone for the best female actor prize when it’s not split…