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The best Marriott all-inclusive resorts for a perfect vacation
2KThe Points Guy / 9h
Keen to take the significant planning and financial guesswork out of your next vacation and just disconnect and unwind? All-inclusive resorts may have just what you are looking for. One of the main benefits of staying at an all-inclusive resort is that everything is included in the price, from meals and drinks to activities and entertainment. Instead of worrying about keeping track of your wallet



The Best Drones of 2024
32How-To Geek / 16h
Drones are both easy and fun to fly. They offer a new way to make content and explore the world. The only real problem is finding the right one to buy. Thankfully, we're here to help!


Solar-Powered Farming Is Quickly Depleting the World's Groundwater Supply
200+Wired / 17h
Farmers in hot, arid regions are turning to low-cost solar pumps to irrigate their fields, eliminating the need for expensive fossil fuels and boosting crop production. But by allowing them to pump throughout the day, the new technology is drying up aquifers around the globe.


Mar10 Day deals include a $25 gift card when you buy a Nintendo Switch


Engadget / 2min
Mario Day, otherwise called MAR10 Day or just March 10, is upon us. This is the date to celebrate Nintendo’s iconic plumber. It’s not his birthday or anything, but rather a random day on the calendar that sort of looks like his name when spelled in a certain way. You know, like how Star Wars Day falls on May 4. Still, Nintendo has been putting its corporate might behind the celebration since 2015


Elon Musk Has a Giant Charity. Its Money Stays Close to Home.
NYT > Technology / 2min
After making billions in tax-deductible donations to his philanthropy, the owner of Tesla and SpaceX gave away far less than required in some years — and what he did give often supported his own interests.


Firm headed by legendary chip architect behind AMD Zen finally releases first hardware — days after being selected to build the future of AI in Japan, Tenstorrent unveils Grayskull, its RISC-V answer to GPUs
TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 14min
Tenstorrent, the firm led by legendary chip architect Jim Keller, the mastermind behind AMD's Zen architecture and Tesla's original self-driving chip, has launched its first hardware. Grayskull is a RISC-V alternative to GPUs that is designed to be easier to program and scale, and reportedly excels at handling run-time sparsity and conditional computation. Off the back of this, Tenstorrent has al


Argonne National Lab Breakthrough Cathode Innovation for Sodium-Ion Batteries
Next Big Future / 56min
Argonne National labs has a new cathode material for sodium-ion batteries. Johnson’s team invented a layered oxide cathode tailored for sodium-ion batteries. This variation on the NMC cathode is a sodium nickel-manganese-iron (NMF) oxide with a layered structure for efficient insertion and extraction of sodium. The absence of cobalt in the cathode formula mitigates cost, ... Read more


Save 10% on AI-powered web hosting with this exclusive discount code
Mashable / 1h
TL;DR: Save 10% on Hostinger web hosting with the exclusive discount code MASH10 . What do you want from your web hosting solution? Unlimited bandwidth? Daily backups? AI tools? All of those things are nice, but what most people really want is security and speed. And that's exactly what Hostinger delivers. It also provides all the other things as well, so with Hostinger you get the necessary basi


Save 92% on this candlestick trading and analysis bundle
Mashable / 1h
TL;DR : The 2024 Ultimate Candlestick Trading and Analysis Bundle is on sale for £23.38, saving you 92% on list price. If you’re looking for a new way to invest in yourself in 2024, open yourself up to literal investing. It may seem intimidating, but taking a few courses may set you on the right path before you start putting your money into innovative ideas. Fortunately, you can now learn a valua


'Azrael' review: Samara Weaving, a silent gimmick, and lots of gore
Mashable / 1h
What has A Quiet Place wrought? The alien-invasion horror hit that used silence to amp up tension in its rural setting was brilliantly executed. Because the movie's ravenous extraterrestrial creatures chase sound, the characters don't speak aloud, and even their audience feels the pressure not to scream. A Quiet Place 's success with critics and audiences not only spurred a sequel ( A Quiet Place


'7 Keys' review: This sexy thriller is a mean piece of work
Mashable / 2h
It's easy to feel invisible in a big city, what with so many people, so many apartments, and endless dramas unfurling before unblinking eyes. Sometimes, there's a comfort in such anonymity, even a certain level of safety. But sometimes you want to be seen, no matter the cost. The London-set thriller 7 Keys is a twisted tale of love, hope, and taking chances, centering on someone who is done being


Wordle today: Here's the answer and hints for March 10
Mashable / 3h
Oh hey there! If you're here, it must be time for Wordle . As always, we're serving up our daily hints and tips to help you figure out today's answer. If you just want to be told today's word, you can jump to the bottom of this article for March 10's Wordle solution revealed. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you. Where did Wordle c


NYT Connections today: See hints and answers for March 10
Mashable / 4h
Connections is the latest New York Times word game that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle , Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle. If you just want to be told today's puzzle, you can jump to the e


Apple 'like Godfather' with new App Store rules
38BBC News / 6h
As Apple begins to allow other app stores on iPhones one entrepreneur criticises its behaviour.


Quordle today – hints and answers for Sunday, March 10 (game #776)
TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 6h
It's time for your daily dose of Quordle hints, plus the answers for both the main game and the Daily Sequence spin off. Quordle is the only one of the many Wordle clones that I'm still playing now, around two years after the daily-word-game craze hit the internet, and with good reason: it's fun, but also difficult. What's more, its makers (now the online dictionary Merriam-Webster) are also keep


What’s going on with the new bill that could ban TikTok?
TechCrunch / 7h
TikTok faces an uncertain fate in the U.S. once again. After a surprise flurry of activity in the House this week, TikTok is the target of a new government push to separate the company from its Chinese ownership or force it out of the country. TikTok is based in Los Angeles and Singapore, but is […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.


We got a sneak peek at Hawaiian Airlines’ stunning new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner
The Points Guy / 7h
Travelers headed to Hawaii are about to enjoy an upgraded experience thanks to the stunning new cabins that Hawaiian Airlines has unveiled aboard its Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners, which it just started taking delivery of in February. The Honolulu-based carrier will put these new planes into service in April. But we got a sneak peek at Hawaiian Airlines’ first Dreamliner Saturday during a stop at Los


secondlifep : divinecouture : @carnalreincarnated 😅😮
Music, Arts & Literature / 8h



Watch Out: American Airlines Misleads You When Trying To Change Your Ticket
View from the Wing / 9h
I'm looking at changing an American Airlines business class ticket. This is not a cheap ticket. It's well over $3,000 one way. American's website says it's possible to do what I want. Continue reading ...


Google Wallet can now automatically add your movie tickets and boarding passes
40Engadget / 9h
An update to Google Wallet has further simplified the process of getting all your passes in one place. Per this week’s release notes for Wallet , spotted by Android reporter ​​ Mishaal Rahman , Google says movie tickets and boarding passes will now be surfaced automatically after purchase, as long as the confirmation email has made it to the user’s Gmail inbox. It might not work for every theater


Women in AI: Claire Leibowicz, AI and media integrity expert at PAI
34TechCrunch / 9h
To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution. We’ll publish several pieces throughout the year as the AI boom continues, highlighting key work that often goes unrecognized. Read more profiles here. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. Al


Weekly Review: March 09, 2024
One Mile at a Time / 9h
I hope everyone is having a nice weekend so far! I’m in Europe for a few days, and was able to experience a new product on the flight over here, so I’ll be sharing my initial thoughts on that shortly. After that, I have no travel planned for the next several weeks, so hopefully I can get fully caught up on all my trip reports. On the points & travel front, this week United announced it would laun


Imaginary’s DeWanda Wise and Pyper Braun play Slash or Pass
Mashable / 9h
Mashable film editor Kristy Puchko sits down with DeWanda Wise and Pyper Braun for a game of Slash or Pass.


Apple terminates Epic’s account, Meta platforms get knocked offline and former Twitter execs sue Elon Musk
38TechCrunch / 9h
Hey, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s newsletter covering all of — or at least the bulk of! — noteworthy happenings around the tech-o-sphere. This week, Roku played hardball with its customers, requiring them to consent to new dispute resolution terms. This means users can’t use their Roku devices until agreeing to the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal u


1920 c. Postcard of a woman and a pretty cat. From vintag.es.com.
Music, Arts & Literature / 9h
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These scientists built their own Stone Age tools to figure out how they were used
Ars Technica - All content / 10h
Enlarge / Testing replica Stone Age tools with a bit of wood-scraping. (credit: A. Iwase et al., 2024/Tokyo Metropolitan University) When Japanese scientists wanted to learn more about how ground stone tools dating back to the Early Upper Paleolithic might have been used, they decided to build their own replicas of adzes, axes, and chisels and used those tools to perform tasks that might have bee


A Mario Kart Lego set is in the works and it can't come soon enough
39Engadget / 10h
Lego and Nintendo are releasing a Mario Kart-themed set, but you’ll have to wait quite a while until you can actually get it. The companies announced the upcoming addition to their collaborative line in a brief teaser today ahead of Mario Day (March 10), which said only “Mario Kart — Ready, set, build! Racing in 2025.” That’s a long way off for anyone whose immediate reaction was, “I need this no


Big Discount: $500 Southwest Gift Cards For $430 On Costco’s Website
View from the Wing / 10h
Costco frequently sells travel-related gift cards at a discount. They have $500 Southwest Airlines gift cards for $450 online. But through Sunday, March 10th they’re taking an additional $20 off ‘while supplies last.’ That gets you $500 worth of Southwest Airlines travel for $430. Funds on the card do not expire. Continue reading ...


Our Flag Means Death is Well and Truly Dead
64Gizmodo / 10h
This past January, HBO canceled Our Flag Means Death after the show’s second season premiered (and wrapped) in October. As with most cancled shows, a fan campaign emerged to try and get HBO to renew the show, while creator David Jenkins said he’d try his best to shop the show around somewhere else that’d be open to a… Read more...


metmuseum:Lion. early 17th century. Credit line: Gift of Mrs....
Music, Arts & Literature / 10h
metmuseum : Lion. early 17th century. Credit line: Gift of Mrs. Russell S. Carter, 1945 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/199513


John Cena has found his post-WWE niche as a raunchy comedy king
41Mashable / 11h
If there's one good thing you can say about Amazon Prime's Ricky Stanicky (which isn't a lot), it's that John Cena is the best part of the film. In it, Cena stars as Rod, a washed-up actor who performs X-rated song parodies and is then hired to play the role of Ricky Stanicky, an imaginary best friend that Zac Efron ( The Iron Claw ) and his two friends created to take the blame for their bad beh


Woman Discovers Trick to Get $27,000 in Free Gas
Futurism / 11h
Gas Her Up A Nebraskan scammer found a gas pump software glitch that allowed her to get tens of thousands of dollars worth of free gas — until the owners caught onto her, that is. As Lincoln's 1011 Now local broadcaster reports , a 45-year-old woman has been charged with one count of theft after discovering a vulnerability in the gas machines at a shop called "Pump and Pantry." Upon further inves


allcatsconstitutethesamefamily: Source details and larger...
Music, Arts & Literature / 11h
allcatsconstitutethesamefamily : Source details and larger version . They’ve had many lives and many ages: cats I’ve met in my time travels .


It Turns Out Airport Noise Complaints Are Total Malarkey
View from the Wing / 11h
Most people living near airports moved in after the airport was built. They, like, knew the airport was there when they bought or rented the place! And today's planes are far quieter than they were decades ago. Airport noise is less of a thing than it used to be. So I don't have a lot of sympathy when people complain and try to restrict flights in and out of airports, complaining about the noise.


witchesversuspatriarchy :
Music, Arts & Literature / 11h



The Most Rewarding Card For Unbonused Spend Now Has An Up Front Bonus
22View from the Wing / 12h
The Blue Business® Plus Credit Card from American Express now has an initial bonus offer. Most of the time it hasn’t. Frankly, the card is too good, and extra points should get you to pay attention. Continue reading ...


How (and why) to calculate award redemption values
42The Points Guy / 12h
Editor’s note: This is a recurring post, regularly updated with new information. Consider two scenarios for booking an award flight to Europe : In the first, you redeem 60,000 miles for a round-trip economy award. In the second, you pay 20,000 points for a one-way economy award. Which provides the better value? You may be inclined to say the second scenario, but it’s a trick question. Both scenar


NYT's The Mini crossword answers for March 9
Mashable / 12h
The Mini is a bite-sized version of The New York Times ' revered daily crossword. While the crossword is a lengthier experience that requires both knowledge and patience to complete, The Mini is an entirely different vibe. With only a handful of clues to answer, the daily puzzle doubles as a speed-running test for many who play it. So, when a tricky clue disrupts a player's flow, it can be frustr


AI Marilyn Monroe adds to the list of dead celebrities digitally resurrected without consent
61Engadget / 12h
There’s been a lot of discussion in recent years about the practice of capitalizing on celebrities’ digital likenesses without their consent, whether after they die or while they’re still alive. Zelda Williams, for one — the Lisa Frankenstein director and daughter of Robin Williams — slammed the “disturbing” trend of people trying to recreate the voices and faces of the deceased last year, as str


barbucomedie:The Piraeus Lion from Piraeus Harbour, Athens dated...
Music, Arts & Literature / 12h
barbucomedie : The Piraeus Lion from Piraeus Harbour, Athens dated to the 4th Century BCE on display in front of the Arsenale in Venice The lion once stood in the Piraeus harbour in Athens and thought to be built in 360 BCE. It was taken as plunder during the Great Turkish War between the Republic of Venice and Ottoman Empire in 1687 by Captain-General Fransesco Morosini who became Doge of Venice


Jason Palmer credits AI for his surprise win over Joe Biden in American Samoa
Mashable / 12h
Super Tuesday went about as expected this year as President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump unsurprisingly grabbed huge leads for their respective primaries. However, things did not go as planned for Biden in American Samoa, where the incumbent lost to Jason Palmer, a businessman from Maryland who says artificial intelligence was crucial to his win. Having tried Palmer's AI campaign t


Lego's Super Mario and Mario Kart Sets Will Have You Dashing to Stores
Gizmodo / 12h
If you’ve been thinking to yourself, “I need some new Legos to put on my shelf,” the company’s got you covered. Along with its newly revealed set for Batman: The Animated Series , a new array of sets for its Super Mario line