An anonymous reader quotes a report from BuzzFeed News: Cards Against Humanity, the card game company, purchased ClickHole.com from its owners at G/O Media on Monday for an undisclosed amount in an all-cash deal, BuzzFeed News has learned. ClickHole’s employees will become the majority owners of the site. Although terms were not disclosed, the Wall Street Journal reported in November that…
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Groundhog Day is an astronomy holiday
Groundhog Day is tied to the movement of Earth around the sun. Falling approximately midway between a solstice and an equinox, it’s the year’s 1st cross-quarter day. Source: https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/everything-you-need-to-know-about-groundhog-day…
Google To Translate and Transcribe Conversations In Real Time
At a press event in San Francisco today, Google announced a feature that’ll let people use their phones to both transcribe and translate a conversation in real time into a language that isn’t being spoken. The tool will be available for the Google Translate app in the coming months, said Bryan Lin, an engineer on the Translate team. CNET reports: Right…
Day of remembrance: Space Shuttle Challenger disaster
After 24 successful missions, shuttle launches seemed routine. That’s why those watching the launch of the space shuttle Challenger on January 28, 1986, started out excited, but soon were in a state of disbelief. Then NASA confirmed the worst. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/this-date-in-science-space-shuttle-challenger-disaster…
Billie Eilish Won Multiple Grammys Using Budget Studio Gear, Logic Pro X
Longtime Slashdot reader SpaceGhost writes: Per Engadget, Ms. Eilish and her older brother (Finneas O’Connell) produced her massively popular album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? with minimal studio gear out of a bedroom studio in their parents’ house. They used equipment that many aspiring artists could afford (about $1,000 worth of Yamaha monitors for instance, and at…
Introducing JetBrains Mono, ‘A Typeface for Developers’
Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland writes: JetBrains (which makes IDEs and other tools for developers and project managers) just open sourced a new “typeface for developers.” JetBrains Mono offers taller lowercase letters while keeping all letters “simple and free from unnecessary details… The easier the forms, the faster the eye perceives them and the less effort the brain needs to process them.”…
H2Go Power Seeks To Power Drones With Hydrogen
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: When you think about hydrogen and flight, the image that comes to mind for most is the Hindenburg airship in flames. But in a lab deep in the basement of Imperial College in London, a young team has built what it believes is the future of air travel. H2Go Power is seeking…
EarthSky’s 2020 meteor shower guide
All you need to know about major meteor showers in 2020. Source: https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/earthskys-meteor-shower-guide…
10 Things We Learned About Humans in 2019
This past year, new discoveries have revealed an invisible network of immune cells, a “Jell-O” violin in our ears and how the oldest people in this world survived to such extreme ages. Source: https://www.livescience.com/10-things-we-learned-about-humans-2019.html
If You Bought a Real Christmas Tree, You Paid 15 Cents To the Christmas Tree Promotion Board
An anonymous reader shares a report: Christmas season is in full swing, and if the newly-formed Christmas Tree Promotion Board is doing its job right, you’ll want to buy a real tree. You’ll crave the sweet aroma of sap and the soft lustre of real pine needles. You’ll accept nothing less. The board is a government-backed marketing program that’s devoted to…