John Boepple settled in Muscatine, Iowa, where he produced pearl buttons made from freshwater mussel shells. His innovations brought economic prosperity to the town—and disaster to the local mussel ...

Umama Ali spent more time as a kid arguing with his brother over who caused the most chaos in GTA Vice City than doing homework, and he’s been unapologetically hooked on games ever since. That ...

Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5, the first publicly available version of its closely watched Mythos model. What can Fable actually do? All kinds of things, it turns out. Ethan Mollick, a notable ...

Minecraft's Java Edition has long been the go-to for PC players, owing to how moddable it is in comparison to its Bedrock counterpart. However, getting a clean multiplayer experience has long ...

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You can get navigation buttons back on an iPhone using accessibility features. Enable AssistiveTouch to add a floating virtual button for Home and App Switcher, use Back Tap to trigger actions like ...

Three-button suits rarely look good—at least, that’s what the traditionalists will tell you. There's a reason classic menswear has long favored their two-button counterparts: Western ideals of ...

You can use Google’s generative AI tool to create slides, generate or edit images, refine text, and even create whole presentations. Here’s how. Gemini, Google’s generative AI assistant, has various ...

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Two things I use all the time in one elegant shortcut. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac I finally figured out the perfect set of controls to assign to the iPhone’s Action button. I created a ...

A generation of people online just realized it's possible to have a thought and keep it to themselves. Enter "365 buttons," the cryptic New Year's resolution that's now become a meme about time, ...

Learn how to use advanced techniques like short-circuiting, parallel execution, virtual threads, and stream gatherers to maximize Java stream performance. My recent Java Stream API tutorial introduced ...