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Monday May 5, 2025. 08:54 PM
A 'friendly' offer of a 'free' bracelet in Rome can quickly turn into an aggressive demand for money, as documented in travel YouTuber Karl Rock's recent exposé of a widespread tourist scam operating across Italy. The scam follows a predictable pattern: operators approach...
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BrianFagioli writes: Microsoft has officially begun rejecting high-volume emails that don't meet its new authentication rules. Here's the deal. If you send more than 5,000 messages per day to Outlook.com addresses (including hotmail.com and live.com) and you're not properly...
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I started with the first edition Amazon Kindle and, six or seven years later, upgraded to the Kindle Voyage. Over a decade later, I decided to try the latest model, the Paperwhite Signature Edition. I like it. As I source most of my books from my public libraries, via the...
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I’ve got some bad news for you, email administrators -- your Monday may be getting a lot worse. You see, starting today, Microsoft has officially begun rejecting high-volume emails that don’t meet its new authentication rules. Here’s the deal. If you send more than...
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The wellness industrial complex has discovered yet another revolutionary health intervention: Touching your face gently while charging obscene amounts of money for it. As reported in Yahoo, celebrities like Kim Kardashian and Dua Lipa are flocking to 'lymphatic drainage...
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In a chilling announcement, FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr said the agency is considering revoking CBS's broadcast license. Trump's appointed stooges are willing to do his dirty work. In a clear violation of the First Amendment, the FCC is moving towards an act of...
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An industrial plan China rolled out a decade ago that was criticized by the U.S. as protectionist has been highly successful in narrowing China's technological gap with the West, a new study finds. From a report: The study, commissioned by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, is...
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What if you could preserve your loved ones forever, suspended in a crystal-clear glass cube? That's what Russian inventor Joseph Karwowski proposed in 1903, patenting a method to encase corpses in transparent glass blocks for eternal display. The process, as reported in...
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To commemorate World Press Freedom Day on May 3, the band R.E.M. released a remix of its 1983 alt-rock classic 'Radio Free Europe,' with proceeds going to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Last week, a federal appeals court ruled that the Trump administration could, for...
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Even Fox News was suspicious with the Trump Administration's new scheme to pay immigrants $1,000 to self-deport, with host Bill Hemmer asking a DHS official today 'why should they trust' this plan. 'So, if you're an illegal alien…you can get a flight, paid for by DHS, and we...
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The United States' semiquincentennial is up next year, and convicted felon #47, Donald Trump, wants to make it a celebration of him. As the Trump Administration has been whitewashing government websites, museums, and monuments of history that MAGAs do not like, Donald Trump ...
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Not to say I called it or anything, but I did kind of call it a little. Emboldened by the Switch 2 and its frankly ridiculous price points for its games – and doubtlessly also by Sony following suit – Xbox has also announced a range of mid-generation price hikes for no...
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Remember that delicious feeling of letting your mind float away like a lazy cloud on a summer afternoon? No? That's because your phone has murdered your capacity for wanderlust and buried it in a shallow grave marked 'increased engagement metrics.' Christine Rosen's essay in ...
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Apple on Monday lodged an appeal to challenge a U.S. judge's ruling that ordered the tech company to immediately open its lucrative App Store to more competition. From a report: Apple in a court notice it will ask the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to...
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Still nursing a £50 million grudge from its failed UK deportation deal, Rwanda is batting its eyes at Uncle Sam. As reported in Al Jazeera, Rwanda's Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe confirmed they're in 'early stage' talks with the U.S. about taking in deported...
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JetBrains has open-sourced its Mellum large language model (LLM), which was purpose-built for code completion, with the aim to grow Mellum into a family of models specialized for different coding tasks. The Mellum base model was open-sourced and made available on Hugging...
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The United Arab Emirates will introduce AI to the public school curriculum this year, as the Gulf country vies to become a regional powerhouse for AI development. From a report: The subject will be rolled out in the 2025-2026 academic year for kindergarten pupils through to...
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Next week, acclaimed cartoonist Peter Kuper's new book Insectopolis: A Natural History will be released. It's a magnificent achievement in cartooning, presenting the story of insects, of their relationship to humans, and of the humans who have studied them, all told with...
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When it comes to AI image generation, the debate often centers around Midjourney vs Stable Diffusion, two leading tools praised for their sophisticated capabilities and innovative approaches. Their popularity stems from their powerful artistic features addressing diverse...
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So Rockstar lied about that whole 'holding fast to 2025' thing. This is my shocked face. An official release date for the most hyped entertainment product in human history since the wheel after endless speculation should be a cause for celebration… if that release date weren'...
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