Your Ultimate Guide to Stringing Up (and Storing) Outdoor Holiday Lights

Learn to hang, style, and safely store Christmas lights with tips, LED advice, color coordination, and step-by-step guidance for a dazzling display.
MUO on MSN

I tested 5 open-source Figma replacements — one absolutely crushed the rest

I ended up testing five Figma replacements—Lunacy, Excalidraw, Plasmic, Inkscape, and Penpot over the course of three weeks. Each tool was tested through real-world design work, including wireframes, ...
IEEE

An Enhanced Grid-Tied Off-Board Electric Vehicle Charger With Improved Power Quality Using Unified Control Approach

Abstract: This article introduces a multifunctional electric vehicle charger (EVC) equipped with innovative control methodologies. In the proposed configuration, the grid-side converter (GSC) is ...
IEEE

UE-Extractor: A Grid-to-Point Ground Extraction Framework for Unstructured Environments Using Adaptive Grid Projection

Abstract: Ground point cloud extraction is crucial for route planning of autonomous vehicles in unstructured environments. However, mainstream point cloud extraction methods are susceptible to ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Why So Much Is Riding on the Data Center Boom

Silicon Valley entrepreneurs prefer to talk of possibilities rather than obstacles, and of vast revenue opportunities to be seized through sheer force of will. That defiant optimism now faces the ...
Pew Research Center

Americans’ Social Media Use 2025

To better understand which social media platforms Americans use, Pew Research Center surveyed 5,022 U.S. adults from Feb. 5 to June 18, 2025. SSRS conducted this National Public Opinion Reference ...
Reuters

Biggest US power grid operator moving forward with plan to manage data centers

Nov 19 (Reuters) - Operators of the U.S. electric grid covering the world's largest data center market on Wednesday said they planned to move forward with a plan to manage the connection of the giant ...