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The 7 Best Chrome Extensions for Quickly Capturing Information

The 7 Best Chrome Extensions for Quickly Capturing Information

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Ever come across something online and wished you could save it effortlessly for later? From insightful articles to helpful videos or that sudden idea for a to-do list, capturing information online can quickly get overwhelming if you don’t have the right tools. This is where the following Chrome extensions come in handy—they’re the sidekicks that make capturing, organizing, and revisiting all that information a breeze. Saner.AI is a smart, all-in-one tool for capturing, organizing, and even analyzing the information you come across online. Its intuitive side panel keeps your notes easily accessible as you browse, allowing you to quickly jot down thoughts or save key details without interrupting your flow. With just two clicks you can save anything that catches your attention. Saner.AI goes further with its Auto-tagging feature, which organizes your notes by relevant labels automatically. This means no more digging through a cluttered list of notes to find what you need—it’s all neatly categorized for you. Pocket is perfect for saving anything you come across online—articles, videos, or even that recipe you’ve been …

Fallout: The nuclear-powered gaming brand capturing new audiences | Science & Tech News

Fallout: The nuclear-powered gaming brand capturing new audiences | Science & Tech News

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A new update has been released for the nine-year-old video game Fallout 4, the first of its kind for the hit title since 2017. It follows the roaring success of the Fallout TV show, which this month became the most-watched programme on Amazon Prime Video, overtaking both The Grand Tour and Clarkson’s Farm. Game publisher Bethesda issued free next-generation iterations for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series consoles, to boost graphics, frame rates and fix bugs. PlayStation players are the biggest winners from the update, as the Xbox Series X already upscales graphics and framerates of older titles, while PC gaming giant AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution product achieves the same effect. The release of the TV show has propelled Fallout game titles back into the Top Sellers category on the PC game platform Steam, with two Fallout games in the top 10 most-sold, with Fallout New Vegas even beating Call of Duty Warzone (which is free), at time of writing. HBO’s smash hit, The Last Of Us, based on Sony Interactive Entertainment’s platinum intellectual property …

‘Fly’ Directors on Capturing BASE Jumping Onscreen

‘Fly’ Directors on Capturing BASE Jumping Onscreen

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In making Fly, their feature documentary about BASE jumping, directors Shaul Schwarz and Christina Clusiau spent seven years trying to capture the feeling of whole-heartedly wanting to throw yourself off a cliff. The doc, which premiered this week at the SXSW Film and TV Festival, takes a look at the sport, which has been maligned for the obvious dangers it imposes on its participants, through the lens of three romantic couples, whose love of BASE jumping butts up against the realities of being in love with a partner. The BASE jumping, as seen in Fly, is either jumpers deploying parachutes after leaping from high surfaces (bridges, buildings and cliffs) or using wingsuits (web-sleeved jumpsuits also called squirrel suits), that allow the user to glide down a mountain, sometimes reaching speeds of 200 mph. “Sometimes we would hike hours just to have what’s called the “fly by shot.” You’re spending days planning and two hours walking and then [get] a three second shot,” says Schwarz. After their SXSW debut, the directors talked to The Hollywood Reporter …

Capturing Yosemite’s gorgeous — and elusive — natural ‘firefall’

Capturing Yosemite’s gorgeous — and elusive — natural ‘firefall’

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Capturing Yosemite’s firefall — by photo or on canvas — requires patience and dedication. John DeGrazio hide caption toggle caption John DeGrazio Capturing Yosemite’s firefall — by photo or on canvas — requires patience and dedication. John DeGrazio California’s Yosemite National Park is full of natural wonders. But at a certain time each year, photographers and visitors from all over gather hoping to see something extra special. Horsetail Fall is a seasonal waterfall that spills off the eastern face of the iconic El Capitan rock formation. For a couple weeks in winter, just before sunset, the light hits in such a way that the water glows gold and yellow, like lava. They call it the “firefall.” It only lasts a few minutes and conditions have to be perfect, so it’s elusive to catch. Even a single stray cloud can block the light and ruin the moment. “Everything has to fall into line just perfectly in order for it to happen,” says Evan Russel, a photographer and the curator at the Ansel Adams Gallery in Yosemite. …

US Cities Could Be Capturing Billions of Gallons of Rain a Day

US Cities Could Be Capturing Billions of Gallons of Rain a Day

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Your city is a scab on the landscape: sidewalks, roads, parking lots, rooftops—the built environment repels water into sewers and then into the environment. Urban planners have been doing it for centuries, treating stormwater as a nuisance to be diverted away as quickly as possible to avoid flooding. Not only is that a waste of free water, it’s an increasingly precarious strategy, as climate change worsens droughts but also supercharges storms, dumping ever more rainfall on impervious cities. Urban areas in the United States generate an estimated 59.5 million acre-feet of stormwater runoff per year on average—equal to 53 billion gallons each day—according to a new report from the Pacific Institute, a nonprofit research group specializing in water. Over the course of the year, that equates to 93 percent of total municipal and industrial water use. American urban areas couldn’t feasibly capture all of that bountiful runoff, but a combination of smarter stormwater infrastructure and “sponge city” techniques like green spaces would make urban areas far more sustainable on a warming planet. “There really is …

When the Berlin Philharmonic Performed John Cage’s Iconic Piece 4’33”, Capturing the Solitude of the Pandemic (2020)

When the Berlin Philharmonic Performed John Cage’s Iconic Piece 4’33”, Capturing the Solitude of the Pandemic (2020)

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In late Octo­ber 2020, amidst anoth­er surge of the COVID-19 virus, the Ger­man gov­ern­ment asked the Berlin Phil­har­mon­ic to close down for a month. On the eve of their clo­sure, the Phil­har­mon­ic per­formed John Cage’s mod­ernist com­po­si­tion, 4′33″, which asks per­form­ers not to play their instru­ments through­out the entire dura­tion of the piece, allow­ing the audi­ence to expe­ri­ence the some­times awk­ward, some­times unex­pect­ed sounds of silence. In this par­tic­u­lar moment, the Berlin Phil­har­mon­ic offered a poignant com­men­tary on the silence and iso­la­tion expe­ri­enced dur­ing the pan­dem­ic. The web­site, Clas­si­cal Voice North Amer­i­ca, breaks down the per­for­mance as fol­lows: The con­duc­tor Kir­ill Petrenko “defined each of the three move­ments in 4’33” with a par­tic­u­lar affect. In the first move­ment, he seemed to be con­duct­ing a con­ven­tion­al piece that wasn’t there. In the sec­ond move­ment, his hands were posi­tioned near his face, as if ask­ing for qui­et or like a priest pro­nounc­ing a bene­dic­tion. In the third move­ment, his hands stretched toward the orches­tra, fin­gers splayed in one hand, with a search­ing facial expres­sion. He was near …

The big picture: Sage Sohier capturing playfulness in 1980s America | Photography

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As a young photographer in the early 1980s, what she calls the “pre-digital, largely un-air-conditioned era, when people fled the heat of their houses to hang out in their yards and on the street”, Sage Sohier would drive around near where she lived in New England, or on trips to southern states, in search of what she thought of as Americans “in their environment”. During lockdown, she went back through those negatives and contact sheets and discovered many images that she had never printed. The best of these are collected in a new book, Passing Time. In her introduction to that book, Sohier remarks on the “kind of relaxed sensuality” revealed in those pictures: “Time moved more slowly, restlessness led to spontaneous play. Young people back then were fit and lean from running around outside with their friends and neighbours.” This picture, taken on the street in small town Florida in 1981, is the opening image in Passing Time, and establishes not only that playful mood, but also a quickened intensity of looking that many …

Ukrainian photographer Serhii Miroshynk on capturing life under a macro lens

Ukrainian photographer Serhii Miroshynk on capturing life under a macro lens

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Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Inspiration is all around, or so the adage goes. It’s certainly true of nature photography. The ordinary bluebottle or whiskered dandelion can take on otherworldly qualities when captured by the right person. Serhii Miroshnyk is one of those people. This month, the Ukrainian photographer won Wiki Loves Earth, an international photography contest now in its 10th year, which received over 60,000 entries from 50 countries. His winning entry, of a common tiger beetle resting on top of an acorn, was captured using a macro lens. Macro photography is a wizardry of sorts, capable of making the tiny titanic: a dew drop clinging to a leaf, a caterpillar curled up in the bark, or in Miroshnyk’s case, the glinting exoskeleton of a beetle magnified. Miroshnyk first picked up a film camera when he was at school. Growing up in Kyiv, he was surrounded by creatives. “At that time, my friends were people who drew, …

Russia-Ukraine war live: Russian forces intent on capturing Avdiivka coking plant, says mayor | Ukraine

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Russia intent on capturing Avdiivka coking plant, say Ukraine officials Russian forces are now focused on capturing Avdiivka’s coking plant, according to the town’s mayor. Mayor Vitaliy Barabash, speaking on national television, said audio transmission intercepts had revealed that Moscow was now seeking to secure it. “They have a new aim and that’s the coking plant. They have to take it. Period,” Barabash said. “We understand that a [new] third wave of attacks is bound to start any day once the ground dries out and they can move forward. They are engaged in a build-up. We see and hear that.” Ukraine’s General Staff, in a Friday evening report, said its forces had repelled 17 attacks on and around Avdiivka. Ukrainian military officials said a heavy overnight set of drone strikes on widely separated regions showed new attacks on infrastructure were to be expected as winter approaches. The General Staff report also said that Ukrainian forces had repelled seven attacks near Kupiansk, a town in the north-east first seized by Russia, but recaptured by Ukrainian forces …