All posts tagged: Discovering

Londonmaxxing: Ultimate guide to discovering London’s hidden gems

Londonmaxxing: Ultimate guide to discovering London’s hidden gems

Published by Sam Flores

Saint Monday, 4 Warburton Road, E8 Microbrewery and metal bar, hidden under East End railway arches. Go for thrashing guitars, beers brewed freshly on site, skull’s head taps and, frankly, too many piercings. Besides its own-brewed beers, there are guest pours from across the world, plenty of cocktails and a spirits selection up there with the best of them. Decent smoking area, too. Renegade Urban Winery, Walthamstow and Bethnal Green Renegade winery, right, bills itself as breaking the rules, one bottle at a time. Perhaps. Or perhaps it’s just making very decent wine with quirky labelling. Founders buy grapes from across the UK and Europe, and turn them into interesting wines without any added yeast, and without filtering. They try to never repeat a wine: go to either site’s bar to sit in and sip your way through whatever they’re working on. A bottle to takeaway? Rude not to. The East London Liquor Lab, 382 Mentmore Terrace, E8 Big on spirits? Head to the East London Liquor Co’s white-walled lab, where for £75 drinkers can …

I stopped using Event Viewer to check failed logins after discovering this PowerShell trick

I stopped using Event Viewer to check failed logins after discovering this PowerShell trick

Published by skeptic

Your PC is where you keep everything from your personal documents and saved passwords to work files and even your financial accounts. So keeping it secure becomes necessary, especially if you use it in an office or any public setting. The good news is that Windows already helps you with this, not just by locking your PC with a PIN or password, but also by keeping a record of any failed sign-in attempts. Even better, finding this information is as easy as running a quick PowerShell command. Event Viewer can show failed sign-in attempts, but it’s too much work It has the data, just not the simplicity Event Viewer is a built-in Windows tool that logs everything that happens on your PC. From system warnings and app errors to security events like failed sign-in attempts, you can find it all here. The only thing is, the tool isn’t designed for quick answers, so you need to dig in to find what you’re looking for. To find details about failed sign-in attempts, open Event Viewer, and …

Discovering the tomato with a much longer shelf life

Discovering the tomato with a much longer shelf life

Published by Daniella Wilson

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Wouldn’t it be great to be able to keep a tomato fresh in its original state for months, rather than making your glut into passata to freeze, or chutney? But it is possible if you grow storage tomatoes, a type which can keep for months in a cool, dry situation, says Lucy Hutchings, co-founder with Kate Cotterill of Chelsea Gold Medal-winning heirloom seed company She Grows Veg. “Storage tomatoes are incredibly popular in Italy and southern Europe and they haven’t caught on here, but for our shorter summer season they are perfect,” says Hutchings, who with Cotterill, will once again be creating an exhibit, Fantasy Woodland Feast, at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show. What’s the difference? “Storage tomatoes are slightly genetically different from …

BBC sacked Scott Mills ‘after discovering alleged victim in police investigation was under 16’ | UK News

BBC sacked Scott Mills ‘after discovering alleged victim in police investigation was under 16’ | UK News

Published by Daniella Wilson

Scott Mills was sacked by the BBC after bosses discovered the alleged victim in the police investigation was under the age of 16, the broadcaster has reported. The 53-year-old DJ, who hosted the Radio 2 breakfast show, had his contract terminated last Friday over an allegation relating to his “personal conduct”. It emerged the Metropolitan Police had launched an investigation into Mills in December 2016 over “allegations of serious sexual offences against a teenage boy”, said to have taken place between 1997 and 2000. However, the Crown Prosecution Service ultimately decided “the evidential threshold had not been met to bring charges”, and the case was closed in May 2019, the police force added. The BBC confirmed on Wednesday that the organisation was aware of the investigation in 2017, but dismissed him after receiving “new information” in recent weeks. The broadcaster reported on Thursday that the corporation had sacked the presenter “after learning the alleged victim in the police investigation was under 16”. “It is not clear if BBC managers at the time of the investigation …

I stopped using three productivity apps after discovering this built-in Windows tool

I stopped using three productivity apps after discovering this built-in Windows tool

Published by skeptic

For everyday workflows, I use a focus timer, a quick world clock, and a countdown tool. I don’t even remember when I started this habit, but over the years, this productivity setup has helped me complete tasks efficiently. I never expected any built-in Windows tool would replace them, but that changed the day I opened the Windows Clock app. I’ve always considered the Windows Clock app boring, but it seems that while I kept it closed for years, Microsoft has been working hard to make it a real productivity tool. The focus timer I didn’t expect to replace Windows Clock’s Focus Sessions quietly handled it Microsoft finally found a way to make the Windows Clock’s Focus Sessions fit seamlessly into my workflow. This feature uses the Pomodoro Technique. Once I set my session length, typically between 10 and 240 minutes, it automatically creates break times when my sessions are long. The tool does not stick to a rigid 25-minute break pattern — rigid patterns train you to slow down to match the clock, not speed …

The biggest obstacle to discovering life beyond Earth

The biggest obstacle to discovering life beyond Earth

Published by Jenni Sidey

SARA SEAGER: We really want to find signs of life beyond Earth. A biosignature is a sign of life. For example, biosignature gases are gases in an exoplanet atmosphere that could be attributed to life. One example we have on our planet, Earth, is oxygen. But there are easily dozens, if not hundreds of potential gases that could be a sign of life. The Drake Equation is an equation that helps illustrate how likely it might be that there is an intelligent civilization out there sending us a radio message. I took Drake’s equation and I called it a revised Drake Equation. Sometimes it’s called the Seager Equation. And I basically copied him, but I turned from looking for radio signals with an intelligent message to looking for signs of life by way of biosignature gases in a planet atmosphere far away. There are actually a lot of ways to find planet atmospheres. A transiting planet is one that goes in front of the star, as seen from our viewpoint. It’s like shining a flashlight through …

NASA says moon mission could be delayed after discovering rocket fault | Science, Climate & Tech News

NASA says moon mission could be delayed after discovering rocket fault | Science, Climate & Tech News

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NASA may delay its mission to send astronauts to the moon for the first time in more than half a century after discovering a fault with its rocket. Artemis II has been due to blast off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center from as early as March. On Friday night, however, NASA discovered that the flow of helium – which is required for launch – to the rocket had been interrupted during a key part of the preparation process. A NASA spokesperson said: “This will almost assuredly ​impact the March launch window.” Before the setback, the agency had announced that it was targeting 6 March to launch four astronauts around the moon and back. The crew includes three ⁠US astronauts – Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and ​Christina Koch – and Canadian​Jeremy Hansen. They would become the first astronauts to fly to the moon since Apollo 17 in 1972 and make the farthest human flight into space ⁠ever. Read more:Everything to know about Artemis II There are no plans for the mission to land on its surface, …

The Gaia space telescope: Discovering the great wave

The Gaia space telescope: Discovering the great wave

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Johannes Sahlmann, Project Scientist at the European Space Agency (ESA), spoke with Editor Maddie Hall about the Gaia space telescope and its discovery of our Galaxy’s great wave. Gaia, a science mission conducted by the European Space Agency, aims to deepen our understanding of how our Galaxy, the Milky Way, functions and evolves. To achieve this, Gaia maps around 2 billion stars and other objects, which, while only representing about 1% of the Milky Way’s total stellar content, creates an extensive data collection that allows us to extrapolate information about the entire Galaxy. Even though we can’t send spacecraft beyond our Galaxy, Gaia’s exceptional ability to capture three-dimensional data is equipping scientists with the tools to craft detailed maps of our galaxy’s structure and dynamics. Through this research, Gaia has discovered a great wave, rippling across our Galaxy from its centre, and extending for tens of thousands of light-years from our Solar System. To discuss this discovery in more detail and understand the vital role of the Gaia space telescope in understanding our Galaxy, Editor …

Rock up to London: discovering stones and fossils from around the world on an urban geology tour | London holidays

Rock up to London: discovering stones and fossils from around the world on an urban geology tour | London holidays

Published by Sam Flores

In the heart of London’s Square Mile, between the windows of a tapas restaurant, a 150m-year-old ammonite stares mutely at passersby. The fossil is embedded in a limestone wall on Plantation Lane, sitting alongside the remnants of ancient nautiloids and squid-like belemnites. It’s a mineralised aquarium hiding in plain sight, a snapshot of deep time that few even glance at, a transtemporal space where patatas bravas meet prehistoric cephalopods. How often do you give thought to the stones that make up our towns and cities? To the building blocks, paving slabs and machine-cut masonry that backdrop our lives? If your name’s Dr Ruth Siddall, the answer to that question would be yesterday, today and every day for the foreseeable. Her passion is urban geology, and it turns out that the architecture of central London – in common with many places – is a largely unwitting showcase of Earth science through the ages. Ruth Siddall admires a wall made from 2bn-year-old dolerite from Zimbabwe in Euston, London. Photograph: Julie Hill “This is York stone,” she says, …

Discovering the Dimensions of a New Cold War

Discovering the Dimensions of a New Cold War

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In 2025, American and world leaders were preoccupied with wars in the Middle East. Most dramatically, first Israel and the United States bombed Iran’s nuclear facilities. Some commentators feared that President Trump’s decision to bomb Iran would drag the United States into the “forever wars” in the Middle East that presidential candidate Trump had pledged to avoid. The tragic war in Gaza had become a humanitarian disaster. After years of promising to reduce engagement with the region from Democratic and Republican presidents alike, it appeared that the US was being dragged back into Middle East once again. I hope that’s not the case. Instead, in 2026, President Trump, his administration, the US Congress, and the American people more generally must realize that the real challenges to the American national interests, the free world, and global order more generally come not from the Middle East but from the autocratic China and Russia. The three-decade honeymoon from great power politics after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War is over. For …