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Robert Plant Saving Grace review – The self-effacing megastar still looks amazing | Robert Plant

Robert Plant Saving Grace review – The self-effacing megastar still looks amazing | Robert Plant

🚀 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Robert Plant,Music,Culture,Pop and rock,Folk music,Led Zeppelin,Southbank Centre ✅ Key idea: forBetween songs, Robert Plant describes his latest project, Saving Grace, as hailing "from the West Side of common sense." It's a self-effacing observation but he has a point. Most rock stars of his caliber and stature (78 next year, somewhere between 200 million and 300 million albums sold with Led Zeppelin) would be there to assert their status by touring hits. But as anyone who followed Plant's post-Zeppelin career will tell you, the live option didn't seem…
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Gear News of the Week: Android gets emergency live video, Pixel Watch 4 supports gestures

Gear News of the Week: Android gets emergency live video, Pixel Watch 4 supports gestures

🚀 Explore this must-read post from WIRED 📖 📂 Category: Gear,Gear / Gear News and Events,Gear / Products / Watches,Gear / Products / Health and Fitness,Gear / Products / Speakers,Gear / Products / Lifestyle,Gear Roundup 📌 Main takeaway: Forget just calling 911; If you have an Android phone, you can now share live video directly with the sender. It's a new feature Google announced this week called Android Emergency Live Video, and it's rolling out to people in the US, along with select regions in Germany and Mexico, for phones running Android 8 and later with Google Play Services.This capability…
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Closures as Win32 window procedures

✨ Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Key idea: December 12, 2025 nullprogram.com/blog/2025/12/12/ Back in 2017 I wrote about a technique for creating closures in C using JIT-compiled wrapper. It’s neat, though rarely necessary in real programs, so I don’t think about it often. I applied it to qsort, which sadly accepts no context pointer. More practical would be working around insufficient custom allocator interfaces, to create allocation functions at run-time bound to a particular allocation region. I’ve learned a lot since I last wrote about this subject, and a recent article had me thinking…
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“If we build it, they will come”: Skovd, the small town that helped Sweden’s video game boom | games

“If we build it, they will come”: Skovd, the small town that helped Sweden’s video game boom | games

✨ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Games,Culture,Sweden 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn: HeyOn March 26, 2014, a trailer for the video game appeared on YouTube. The first thing the viewer sees is a close-up of a goat lying on the ground with its tongue out and its eyes open. Behind him is a man engulfed in fire, running backwards in slow motion towards a house. These images are interspersed with footage showing goats being repeatedly run over by a car. In the main shot, the goat now appears backwards as well, and flies…
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Velotric Discover 2 electric bike review: Versatile and powerful

Velotric Discover 2 electric bike review: Versatile and powerful

🚀 Check out this must-read post from WIRED 📖 📂 Category: Gear,Gear / Products / Outdoor,Gear / Products / Health and Fitness,Crack That Whip ✅ Here’s what you’ll learn: On the screen, passengers can access the trip distance and time; Average and maximum speeds; calories used; Save carbon dioxide (what else?); Engine and controller temperatures. And the total odometer. Through control buttons on the left handlebar, riders can switch between five levels of assistance and walk mode, which travels at 2.9 mph when the rider needs to maneuver around a crowded space. Below the buttons is a USB-C port to…
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Flat-pack washing machine spins a fairer future

Flat-pack washing machine spins a fairer future

💥 Read this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn: A former Dyson engineer is rolling out a revolution for household chores in deprived communities after inventing an off-grid, flat-packable washing machine Some five billion people in remote and developing regions still wash their clothes by hand. It’s a task that unfairly burdens women and young girls, who can spend up to 20 hours a week on the chore. Enter Navjot Sawhney, who founded the UK-based social enterprise The Washing Machine Project (TWMP) to tackle this, and has now shipped almost 500 of his…
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Playboy of the Western World review – Nicola Coughlan brings comedy and tragedy to this pub drama | National Theater

Playboy of the Western World review – Nicola Coughlan brings comedy and tragedy to this pub drama | National Theater

🚀 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: National Theatre,Stage,Culture,Theatre,Nicola Coughlan,Siobhán McSweeney ✅ Key idea: eWomen love a bad boy, or so the cliche goes. This is where the matter is put to the test when Christy Mahon enters a pub to confess that he killed his father with an agricultural implement. This is not quite the truth, but, to his own surprise, he has turned into a local celebrity. Women flock to see him and men hail him as a hero.John Millington Synge's comically unromantic depiction of a farming community in the west of…
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AI toys for kids talk about sex, drugs and Chinese propaganda

AI toys for kids talk about sex, drugs and Chinese propaganda

💥 Check out this awesome post from WIRED 📖 📂 Category: Security,Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks,Security / National Security,Security / Privacy,Security / Security News,Security Roundup 📌 Main takeaway: Two people allegedly Those linked to the notorious Chinese espionage hacking group Salt Typhoon appear to have previously received training through Cisco's long-standing prominent networking academy. On the other hand, warnings have increasingly begun to mount from US lawmakers in Congress about the failure of guarantees related to the expanded US powers to eavesdrop on phone calls, which allows US intelligence agencies to access more data on Americans without imposing sufficient restrictions.If…
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Recovering Anthony Bourdain’s (really) lost Li.st’s

Recovering Anthony Bourdain’s (really) lost Li.st’s

🔥 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Key idea: Loved reading through GReg TeChnoLogY Anthony Bourdain’s Lost Li.st’s and seeing the list of lost Anthony Bourdain li.st’s made me think on whether at least some of them we can recover. Having worked in security and crawling space for majority of my career—I don’t have the access nor permission to use the proprietary storages—I thought we might be able to find something from publicly available crawl archives. If Internet Archive had the partial list that Greg published, what about the Common Crawl? Reading through their documentation,…
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Review by Pavel Kolesnikov – Gifted Sound Sculptor | classical music

Review by Pavel Kolesnikov – Gifted Sound Sculptor | classical music

🚀 Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Classical music,Culture,Music,Wigmore Hall 📌 Key idea: SPavel Kolesnikov, born in Iberia, rose to prominence after winning the Honens Piano Competition in 2012 in his early 20s. More than a decade later, he has created a mixture of standard concerto performances with small-scale, distinct projects: choreographic collaborations, chamber music partnerships, and imaginatively off-kilter concert programming.In his most recent appearance at Wigmore Hall, where he closed out 18th-century French keyboard music with Chopin, Kolesnikov took to the stage largely hidden behind his hair. He sat up suddenly but was…
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