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Earlier this year I attended a talk by my favourite monk, Ajahn Brahm. He was speaking at Google Headquarters in Mountain View, California—a cool place for a forest monk to hang out. Brahm expressed the problem of separating mindfulness and compassion—they work far better together. Mindfulness on it’s own is simply a present moment non-judgmental awareness, as researchers say. But to develop the beautiful peace, gentleness, and stillness of meditation, a kindly awareness is required....

Tipster reveals key ROG Phone 6D series specs Tipster reveals key ROG Phone 6D series specs ASUS has already confirmed that the ROG Phone 6D series will feature MediaTek’s Dimensity 9000+ chipset. It is essentially an overclocked version of the Dimensity 9000. Rumors are that the upcoming ASUS gaming phones will further increase the clock speed of the Cortex-X2 CPU core on the chipset. The company is seemingly banking on its new and advanced cooling system to keep things under control....

Now we must give a huge thank you to the amazing Courtney from Paparelli designs for designing these adorable printables! Because here is what we have for you in these free printable download: This pack includes: Printable Box Flap Covers Birthday Box Gift Tags Birthday Card Happy Birthday Banner Long-Distance Presents Long-Distance Presents Let your sweetheart know they are your favorite notification! Surprise them with this adorable Long-Distance themed birthday package to show how much you love and appreciate them!...

HTC Vive Flow VR headset: design and specs HTC Vive Flow VR headset: design and specs One glance at the leaked images is enough to tell that the HTC Vive Flow is the real-world version of Project Proton, a compact, mixed-reality headset concept the company showed in February 2020. It features two big, buggy-eyes with a yellowish shade. There appear to be multiple cameras embedded in these eyes. HTC, which sees its future in VR, at that time suggested that it has two versions of the device in the plan — an all-in-one headset with all of the processing happening on board, and a phone-tethered version....

Material You, just like any other design aesthetic, has specific traits that define it. For example, many UI elements have rounded corners in Material You. This gives the software a much more rounded and bubbly look. Many options live within either pill-shaped or rounded rectangular buttons. We’ve actually been seeing a little bit of this in ChromeOS already. Several menus and other bits of the interface are rounded. So, there’s one major thing that Google can do to the software to make it look more like what you see on Android phones....