How to Make Linux Look Like Windows 10
Want to use a Linux desktop but don’t want to lose Windows 10’s familiar look and vibe? Most desktop environments come with unique layouts and themes...
Our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5
Gemini 1.5 delivers dramatically enhanced performance, with a breakthrough in long-context understanding across modalities. Source : Our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5
Oregon Bill to Curtail School Book Bans; Anonymous Ad Sows Disinformation
Another US state is taking up book bans during the new legislative year. Oregon joins states like Virginia, Washington, New Jersey, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, and Massachusetts, in attempting to define...
The Collaborative Alchemy of W.G. Sebald’s Photographs
Shadows of Reality, the extraordinary new catalogue of W.G. Sebald’s photographic materials—the first-ever volume of the writer’s images—is an improbable book. In 2004, while working as...
What are You Reading This Week — February 15, 2024
As we speed through February, how has your Read Harder challenge task management been going? Are you on track (done with four tasks), ahead, or behind?...
In a Bathhouse Meant for Cis Gay Men, Trans Is Transgressive
“The Club” by Jarek Steele The club is situated in a warehouse district near downtown St. Louis, a low building with turn-of-the-century brickwork that looks like...
7 Books About Ghostwriters
When I was ghostwriting full-time, I produced twenty books in fourteen years. Thanks to a suggestion from my literary agent, I realized a ghostwriter might make...
10 of the Best Historical Fiction Books About Books
If there’s one thing I love, it’s books. So books about books are therefore twice as good. (Trust me on this: I once received a math...
A Heart’s a Heavy Burden: 10 Books Like HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE
Falling in love with fictional characters is one of my favorite pastimes, and there are few characters over the years I’ve fallen harder for than Howl...
Alibaba faces reckoning with once-vaunted ‘new retail’ strategy
In 2017, “new retail” began appearing in Alibaba’s earnings reports. Coined by the Chinese e-commerce behemoth, the term refers to the seamless integration of online and...
