Category: News from the web

I tried a little something new last year—and it worked.

The most amazing drummer on the internet My daughter introduced me to El Estepario Siberiano’s YouTube channel a few months back, and I have been obsessed ever since. The Spanish drummer (real name: Jorge Garrido) posts videos of himself playing supercharged cover versions of popular tracks, hitting his drums with such jaw-dropping speed and technique…

The Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero has been preparing for a surgery that might never happen. His idea? Swap a sick person’s head—or perhaps just the brain—onto a younger, healthier body. Canavero caused a stir in 2017 when he announced that a team he advised in China had exchanged heads between two corpses. But he never…

Do you need to be using AI in 2026?

TikTok’s looking to make sports a bigger focus in 2026.

Another new year. I’m kicking off 2026 at full throttle, and over the next 12 months there will once again be fresh news about Philips Hue (almost) every day. In this article, I want to take a look back as well as a look ahead. What will happen on the Hueblog in 2026? The most…

Der Beitrag Hueblog wishes you a happy new year erschien zuerst auf Hueblog.com.

On New Year’s Eve, VRChat set a new record for concurrent users online.

Just because everybody says it, doesn’t always mean it’s true.

Have you ever felt “velvetmist”?  It’s a “complex and subtle emotion that elicits feelings of comfort, serenity, and a gentle sense of floating.” It’s peaceful, but more ephemeral and intangible than contentment. It might be evoked by the sight of a sunset or a moody, low-key album.   If you haven’t ever felt this sensation—or…

On Monday, SpaceX’s Dragon fired its thrusters, located in the spacecraft’s trunk, for just over 19 minutes, boosting the International Space Station’s orbit.  

Paradoxically, weak rewards build strong motivation.

If you have one of these classic metal clamps, you should know they’re way more useful than you think.

We’re in the midst of a global mental-­health crisis. More than a billion people worldwide suffer from a mental-health condition, according to the World Health Organization. The prevalence of anxiety and depression is growing in many demographics, particularly young people, and suicide is claiming hundreds of thousands of lives globally each year. Given the clear…

The scam uses a simple device link to hijack accounts.

Pollution from textile production—dyes, chemicals, and heavy metals like lead and cadmium—is common in the waters of the Buriganga River as it runs through Dhaka, Bangladesh. It’s among many harms posed by a garment sector that was once synonymous with tragedy: In 2013, the eight-story Rana Plaza factory building collapsed, killing 1,134 people and injuring…