A new fresco depicting an Italian flatbread has been discovered at Pompeii. Culinary archaeologist Farrell Monaco offers a recipe to make it and explains why it’s not a pizza. O On 27 June, the Archaeological Park of Pompeii announced that a new fresco depicting a focaccia (an Italian flatbread) had been discovered . In recent … Read more
Predating Hinduisim, theyyam is an ancient and mysterious folk ritual, and one of South India’s most mesmerising experiences. I I could hear the staccato drumming rising to a crescendo through the trees, suppressing the chirping of the dawn chorus of birds at 04:30. Descending the steps to the temple, I walked barefoot towards a small … Read more
AI incidents per year since 2010. 2023 is projected to significantly outpace 2022. Surfshark The first “AI incident” almost caused global nuclear war. More recent AI-enabled malfunctions, errors, fraud, and scams include deepfakes used to influence politics, bad health information from chatbots, and self-driving vehicles that are endangering pedestrians. Companies involved in a significant percentage … Read more
The 2024 Nissan Leaf will be slightly more expensive despite not updating its two biggest problems: a dismal, 149-mile range; and outdated CHAdeMO charging port. The Leaf is the only mainstream EV on the market today with a CHAdeMO port—legacy hardware that was once standard on Japanese-made EVs like those from Nissan and Mitsubishi. Most … Read more
Sony has just revealed lots of highly confidential information about its PlayStation business by mistake. As part of the FTC v. Microsoft hearing, Sony supplied a document from PlayStation chief Jim Ryan that includes redacted details on the margins Sony shares with publishers, its Call of Duty revenues, and even the cost of developing some … Read more
Zen Monks Meditate in Japanese Monastery (Photo by robert wallis/Corbis via Getty Images) Corbis via Getty Images Depression is more than just feeling sad. It disrupts some of your cognitive processes. One such cognitive process is the retrieval of auto-biographical memories or memories from your personal life experiences. This form of memory is crucial to … Read more
Nintendo Switch Online subscribers have another fresh chance to buy one of the biggest nostalgia trips of a controller. The reissued Nintendo 64 controller for the Switch is back on sale on Nintendo’s site for $49.99. These drops don’t come very frequently and, on recent occasions, have still been selling out within hours of becoming … Read more
Skills Data Guild At one of the biggest annual gatherings of edtech entrepreneurs and investors this spring, I found myself in yet another brainstorming session about skills data where the outsized — and almost feverish — focus was on perfecting the data, rather than what to do with it. We are already awash in skills … Read more
In the ongoing war for talent, employee experience has become top of mind for a lot of companies. And while businesses have traditionally focused their employee experience efforts on their full-time populations, they have often neglected their contingent worker counterparts. getty But organizations that aren’t prioritizing the worker experience for all talent could suffer detrimental … Read more
Apu Pavithran is the founder and CEO of Hexnode , an award-winning unified endpoint management platform. getty In an era far, far away, when digital transformation was taking baby steps into the mainstream market, the notion of collaborating between multiple platforms was an idea unheard of. Back then, Microsoft dominated the workplace, with over 95% … Read more