• GQ

    Why Venting When You’re Mad Just Makes It Worse

    When you’re mad as hell, it’s human nature to want to tell someone about it. Many work friendships have started over mutual venting about the boss. But while your gut reaction may be to send a “this guy” Slack to your commiserating buddy every time something (or more likely, someone) pisses you off at work, it’s probably not going to make you feel any less peeved. According to new research that took into account 154 different studies on anger, venting isn’t an effective way to get rid of anger....

  • Kaplan Pirates on the bubble to make the baseball playoffs

    Jude Bertrand had a triple for Kaplan. KAPLAN—The Kaplan Pirates lost two games this past weekend and now find themselves on the bubble of making the Non-Select Division II baseball playoffs. The LHSAA will announce the pairings on Wednesday, and the Pirates hope to be ranked No. 24 in the power rankings. The top 24 make the playoffs. If the Pirates land at No. 24, they will play the No. 9 team, which is, as of Monday, Assumption (18-10). Kaplan would be on the road in the first round....

  • Premarital sex could make your life worse than your parents’!

    My darling, precious, glorious, dignified, world-famous, and heavenly celebrated Nigerian sisters, There’s this 19-year-old girl who got into the family way when she was 17. Whenever I see her, I feel so sad because of what may likely befall her and how her life is likely to have reversed, the pain she would have to Read More

  • The fungi in our guts can make cases of Covid worse

    The immune system can get kicked into overdrive when the fungi run riot.

    • KHON2

    This big baseball star could be making a move to Big Island

    According to a brochure published by The Vista at Mauna Kea, a big name in the baseball world is making a big move to the Big Island.

  • The Download: the problem with police bodycams, and how to make useful robots

    This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology AI was supposed to make police bodycams better. What happened? When police departments first started buying and deploying bodycams in the wake of the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, a…

  • CrunchLabs launches Hack Pack subscription to make robotics accessible to all

    CrunchLabs is announcing its newest educational experience called Hack Pack to make robotics accessible to all.

  • Robots can make jobs less meaningful for human colleagues

    Much has been (and will continue to be) written about automation’s impact on the jobs market. In the short-term, many employers have complained of an inability to fill roles and retain workers, further accelerating robotic adoption. The long-term impact these sorts of sweeping changes will have on the job market going forward remains to be […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

  • Make robots like Boston Dynamics’ new Atlas hairy

    On Wednesday, Boston Dynamics announced the new version of its Atlas robot with a characteristically unsettling video. In it, a humanoid android lifts itself up from the floor by bending its legs backward and then swivels its fathomless void of a head a full 180 degrees like it’s Linda Blair in The Exorcist. The footage is obviously creepy. [Media: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29ECwExc-_M] In a press release, the company said that it decided to make the new, fully electric Atlas robot move...

  • What is cloud seeding? Did cloud seeding make the Dubai flooding worse?

    The UAE has been using cloud seeding since the 1990s to increase rainfall. Some are wondering if it is behind the historic flooding that hit Dubai.

  • Five Vermilion Parish baseball teams expected to make the playoffs

    VC shortstop Ethan Landry goes up to catch the baseball on a play at second base against Hanson. (photo by Marcy Lege) Five high school baseball teams are expected to make the LHAAA high school baseball playoffs. The LHSAA will release the brackets on Tuesday, and five parish teams are in. In Division II Non-Select. Erath (21-6), North Vermilion (17-11), and Kaplan (13-13) will make the playoffs. In Division IV Non-Select, the Delcambre Panthers (9-15) will advance to the next round. In...

  • The Download: AI is making robots more helpful, and the problem with cleaning up pollution

    This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Is robotics about to have its own ChatGPT moment? Henry and Jane Evans are used to awkward houseguests. For more than a decade, the couple, who live in Los Altos Hills, California, have…