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Saturday January 11, 2025. 05:30 PM
The 1,100-pound mystery object landed in Kenya at the end of December. Experts are still baffled.
A sheriff's deputy in Lake County, Florida, resigned this week after crashing his patrol car. He was watching porn at the wheel and faced termination after admitting lying to investigators. Here's the bodycam footage—nothing saucy is seen in it. A good example of why...
Linux Mint fans, rejoice! The BETA phase for Linux Mint 22.1 has officially concluded. According to the development team, a total of 115 bug reports were submitted during the testing period, leading to the resolution of many issues. This collaborative effort highlights the...
'What if they ban TikTok and people keep using it anyway?' asks the New York Times, saying a pending ban in America 'is vague on how it would be enforced' Some experts say that even if TikTok is actually banned this month or soon, there may be so many legal and technical...
Meanwhile, tech titans are falling over themselves to help Trump Opinion We all know the US's incoming president, Donald Trump, has gone off-script in a way that is almost comical. Gulf of America? Make Greenland great again? Taking over the Panama Canal?…
The last minutes of the Jeju Air jet that crash-landed in December, killing all but two aboard, remain a mystery: the black box did not record the flight's final moments after a reported bird strike. Both the flight data and cabin audio recorders lack the last four minutes....
The BepiColombo satellite, in orbit around Mercury, photographed the rocky world's north pole for the first time up close. I hope you like craters and stark shadows. This is one of a series of images taken by the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission on 8 January 2025 as the...
In 2009, the striking art piece 'Rotating Kitchen' was shared here on BoingBoing. Someone downloaded the video, sped it up to last one minute long, and uploaded the video to YouTube. The Rotating Kitchen by Dutch artist Zeger Reyers is an installation featuring a human-scale ...
This incredible tool organizer, created by an unknown maker, is also wonderful as a piece of art on the wall. The organizer is made simply yet beautifully. It consists of a piece of wood with a silhouette of each tool in the maker's collection. — Read the rest The post...
This mesmerizing, other-worldly zoetrope by @Kate.likes.cats is not AI. This mind boggling visual effect comes from classic zoetrope technology. Standing still, this creation consists of a cylinder filled with various plastic toys. The toys are all fixed in place. When the...
Shure’s new USB gaming mic looks familiar, but it might be too streamlined.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: On Saturday, Triplegangers CEO Oleksandr Tomchuk was alerted that his company's e-commerce site was down. It looked to be some kind of distributed denial-of-service attack. He soon discovered the culprit was a bot from...
In early January, soil moisture in much of Southern California was in the bottom 2 percent of historical records.
Data-driven organizations are increasingly struggling with the limitations of passive metadata practices. These traditional approaches quickly become outdated, leading to inaccurate insights and poor decision-making. Passive metadata often remains siloed, making it...
The arrival of La Niña is starving California of rain, and more high Santa Ana winds could be on the way.
Even though it’s only been two years since the public demo of ChatGPT launched, popularizing the technology for the masses, generative AI technology has already had a profound and transformative effect on the world. In the years since the platform’s launch, critics have...
As we head further into 2025, the global economic landscape remains a mix of challenges and potential shifts that will shape markets and industries worldwide. From high interest rates to the evolving impact of AI, there are several key factors that will define the year...
Many moons ago, around the time when Andreas formally resigned from being Serenity’s BDFL, I decided that I want to get involved in the project more seriously. Looking at it from a perspective of “what do I not like about this (codebase)”, the first thing that came to mind...
Don’t you just love it when companies get together under the thin guise of open source to promote their own interests? Today Google is pleased to announce our partnership with The Linux Foundation and the launch of the Supporters of Chromium-based Browsers. The goal of this...
Wikipedia's massive dataset helped researchers identify three styles of curiosity -- 'busybody,' 'hunter,' and 'dancer' -- based on how users navigate its pages (see: wiki rabbit hole). These curiosity styles reflect broader social trends and highlight curiosity's role in...
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