The Futurist is your daily tech, cosmic, and science (both weird or otherwise) newsletter with articles and content curated just for you. What do you really know of Dia de los Muertos? (Scroll to the bottom to check it out!) | | “It’s the default browser in Windows these days, so it’s the primary way you’d download a different browser onto a new PC. You’d open Microsoft Edge, type the name of your new browser into Microsoft Bing search, and nab Chrome or Firefox or Opera (etc.) that way. But Microsoft has repeatedly taken advantage of that to redirect you to Edge instead — and some of its Windows Updates have even launched the browser and pinned it to the desktop and taskbar without permission. Windows still doesn’t wholly respect your default browser choices, either.” | There’s nothing worse than trying to match your bedding or pillows to a paint color and getting it a few shades off. Okay, actually there are things worse than that. But imagine how much easier your next DIY project would be if you had a color sensor that matched colors in the real world to HEX codes. The Nix Mini 2 does exactly that, blocking out ambient light so you get an exact match from real-world objects to over 100,000 brand-name paint colors. It’s the little gadget you never knew you needed for the next time you see something and think: “Yeah, I need to paint my whole house this color now.” [Ad] | “Pinterest’s monthly active users grew by more than 7% for every quarter in 2023, and Gen Z’s incessant mood and vision boarding may be responsible. Management sees a ‘strong product market fit with our recent cohorts, who save 2x more content in their first year on Pinterest, relative to older cohorts.’ At Pinterest’s investor day in September, the company revealed that Gen Z made up 42% of its users, calling the demographic an ‘emerging powerhouse.’” | “If you want to inject some new energy into your generative AI images, turning text prompts into zany art, a new option arrived last month, as OpenAI released its Dall-E 3 technology to paying customers. The new artificial intelligence model is designed to better understand what your text prompts mean, produce detailed images and sidestep the legally fraught area of aping living artists' styles.” | It’s easier than you might think to find out. Sign up for a free account with NinjaTrader to unlock unlimited risk-free simulated trading and see how you could do in the world’s most popular futures markets. You’ll be joining over 800K+ futures traders who benefit from NinjaTrader’s intuitive interface, advanced charting tools, real-time market analysis, and more. Say hello to futures! [Ad] | “‘I always build things,’ says Dan Hryhorcoff. Case in point: Hryhorcoff has constructed an absolutely delightful giant bumper car, a project that he says began during the pandemic. The rest of us may have baked bread as COVID came down the pike, but Hryhorcoff, who lives in northeastern Pennsylvania and has also built a submarine, constructed an enormous blue bumper car. It gets its propulsion from a repurposed Chevrolet engine and is street-legal.” | Interested in having one of your social posts featured in The Futurist? | | The final of the three autumnal celebrations for spirits and the dead | Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos), from the History.com website: “The Day of the Dead (el Día de los Muertos), is a Mexican holiday where families welcome back the souls of their deceased relatives for a brief reunion that includes food, drink and celebration. A blend of Mesoamerican ritual, European religion and Spanish culture, the holiday is celebrated each year from October 31-November 2. While October 31 is Halloween, November 1-2 is All Souls Day or the Day of the Dead. According to tradition, the gates of heaven are opened at midnight on October 31 and the spirits of children can rejoin their families for 24 hours. The spirits of adults can do the same on November 2.” | The Sugar Skull Tradition, from mexicansugarskull.com: “Sugar skulls represented a departed soul, had the name written on the forehead and was placed on the home ofrenda or gravestone to honor the return of a particular spirit. Sugar skull art reflects the folk art style of big happy smiles, colorful icing and sparkly tin and glittery adornments.” | All Souls’ Day: Traditions, legends, and beliefs, from the Farmer's Almanac: “Do you believe in ghosts? Did you know there’s an actual holiday a few days after Halloween that’s dedicated to honoring the faithfully departed? While such a day might sound spooky, this day — All Souls’ Day, November 2nd — has little to do with scary things and nightmares. It’s a Catholic holiday when the living remember our beloved deceased family and friends. In the Mexican culture, All Souls’ Day is known as Día de los Muertos or the Day of the Dead. (All Souls’ is not to be confused with All Saints’ Day — the Holy Day on November 1st when the Catholic Church honors its saints and martyrs).” |  | | | | | | |
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