One Year Later

I wake up every day. I write my blogs. I do my job. This is it, the one-year mark. Today, I am one year free from alcohol and one year free from bulimia. This has been the most challenging, heartbreaking, devastating, and fulfilling year I’ll ever experience. Overwhelming, uncontrollable embarrassment has run my life for the last year. But I have a platform. I want to speak on this because I might not get this chance again....

December 6, 2023 · 8 min · 1633 words · Jeffrey Delgado

Ranking The Booby Traps In Home Alone From Worst To Best

The best Christmas movie out there isHome Alone. It puts you in the Christmas spirit the way a good Christmas movie should. Defend yourself and your family by purchasing a piece. Wouldn’t be surprised if Kevin grows up to be into some weird voyeur stuff. Ornaments Under The Window:Reeeeally banking on a bandit coming through the window shoeless. Micromachines:This is absolutely a step up from ornaments under a window, but not by much....

December 6, 2023 · 2 min · 283 words · Sarah Butler MD

Taylor Swift Is Time Magazine's Person Of The Year, And She Reminds Us That "Trash Always Takes Itself Out"

She is seemingly unguarded in conversation, reflective about both where shes been and where she finds herself now. It feels like the breakthrough moment of my career, happening at 33, she says. This is her storyeven if shes now so high that its hard to believe she was ever low. But this year, something shifted. To discuss her movements felt like discussing politics or the weathera language spoken so widely it needed no context....

December 6, 2023 · 4 min · 748 words · David Jacobs

‘Quantum-first’ microscope could solve chip inspection roadblock

Oh, the wonderful and mind-twisting world of quantum mechanics. And plenty of that development is happening in the Netherlands. 40% off TNW Conference! QuantaMap was founded in November 2022 by Jobst, Kaveh Lahabi, Milan Allan, and Jimi de Haan. Story byLinnea Ahlgren Linnea is the senior editor at TNW, having joined in April 2023. Dabbles in gaming and fitness wearables. But first, coffee. Also tagged with

December 6, 2023 · 1 min · 66 words · Kevin Young

Climate tech gets 70% of ‘built world’ VC investment, report finds

We have all seen the gloomy headlines over the past week. VC funding forEuropeantech startups will have dropped by a whopping $45bn in 2023. However, some sectors, such as build world climate tech are faring… less horribly than others. This includes architecture and parks, and covers everything from road infrastructure to building construction and operations. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Meanwhile, not all themes throughout the sector fared equally well....

December 5, 2023 · 1 min · 114 words · Gina Collins

GTA VI trailer leak linked to Rockstar dev’s son

Especially not when it can be traced back to a senior Rockstardevelopers son. However, Rockstar released the trailer to the public some hours earlier than intended. Incriminating evidence? 40% off TNW Conference! Reportedly, it involves the TikTok user posing with the Rockstar employee and calling them dad. But as the TikTok (it is a noun, right?) has been deleted, this shall have to remain second-hand speculation on our part. The evidence to suggest the video has come from someone related to the employee in question is fairly convincing....

December 5, 2023 · 1 min · 146 words · Kenneth Moore

How to Talk to Your Older Patriots Fan About the End of the Dynasty

Sooner or later we all find ourselves at the bottom of the standings late into a season. That is certainly the case in New England. Perhaps you’ve noticed your Patriots fan of a certain age acting differently lately. Maybe they’re having difficulty adjusting to life at 2-11. These behaviors are perfectly natural in a situation such as the one they’re going through. So presented here are some guidelines you may find helpful....

December 5, 2023 · 3 min · 564 words · Jennifer Allen

If The In Season Tournament Is An Early Season Test Of A Playoff Environment, It's Fair To Say The Celtics Failed It

In terms of the record they are, but come on, you watched that shit last night. That was not your normal regular season game. It just wasn’t. That’s lame as hell. The Pacers outplayed them and earned their right to advance. But I also think it’s important to keep perspective. It’s all one in the same for me. When it came time to win the game, the Celtics best players were outplayed....

December 5, 2023 · 5 min · 978 words · David Harris

Mistral AI nears $2B valuation — less than 12 months after founding

Targeting dev space with smaller size LLMs 40% off TNW Conference! But you could actually have something which is a hundred times smaller, Mensch stated. Mistral AI and the reported investors have all declined to comment on the potential proceedings. Story byLinnea Ahlgren Linnea is the senior editor at TNW, having joined in April 2023. Dabbles in gaming and fitness wearables. But first, coffee. Also tagged with

December 5, 2023 · 1 min · 67 words · Timothy Sanchez

New AI tool aims to democratise high-res image generation

The only trade-off according to the team is a little more patience. We tried it at TNW and its about six minutes. 40% off TNW Conference! This improves the SDXLs detail and resolution by working across images in patches. Thats why we made DemoFusion publicly available. We believe it can enrich our lives, and everyone should be able to use it. The new technique isavailableonline in the paper DemoFusion: Democratising High-Resolution Image Generation with No $$$....

December 5, 2023 · 1 min · 103 words · Michelle Robinson

Rappers, Comedians, Dwarfs, Philly Locals, & Ring Girls... Here's Every Fight Coming This Friday Night At Gillie & Wallo's Knockout Party

20+ fights with all new amateurs coming this Friday night onGillieWalloKO.com Gillie, Wallo, & Large on commentary with Darius Kinney & Rone on sideline reporting… plus plenty of surprise guests sitting ringside. Check out our ring girls + fighters below and watch all the chaos unfold this Friday December 8th at 8 pm ET

December 5, 2023 · 1 min · 54 words · Bonnie Jones

Bluebird-inspired material could boost battery life

The eastern bluebird isnt simply beautiful to look at. Its feathers also feature a unique structure that could revolutionise sustainable applications such as batteries and water filtration. Specifically, the brilliant blue of the birds wings isnt the result of colour pigmentation. This web link structure inspired researchers at ETH Zurich to replicate this material in the lab. The researchers experimented with a transparent silicone rubber that can be both stretched and deformed....

December 4, 2023 · 1 min · 210 words · William Watson

Klarna freezes hiring, citing AI ‘productivity gains’

There will be a shrinking of the company, Siemiatkowski told theTelegraph. Were not currently hiring at all, apart from engineers. Klarna is not planning layoffs. But as people depart voluntarily, the CEOsaidhe expects the size of the company to shrink over time. AI is a threat to a lot of jobs across the economy, he added. Comments like these from the Klarna boss will no doubt exacerbate these anxieties. Klarna isnt the first to make such moves either, and surely not the last....

December 4, 2023 · 1 min · 116 words · Angela Merritt