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Monday May 21, 2018. 09:00 PM
Enlarge / Femur, tibia, and fibula, and two small stones. (credit: PNAS) Roman military accounts from the early centuries CE describe the tribes of north-central Europe as fierce fighters who took the field with large forces and treated vanquished foes with ritual...
With Solo in theaters now, we decided to focus on one of the freebooting smuggler’s less famous qualities: his deep friendship with his Wookie co-pilot Chewbacca. The duo formed what was arguably one […] The post The Best Buddies In Science Fiction appeared first on Geek.com.
For Apple fans, buying an elegant laptop is a very simple affair. After all, the company's entire line of MacBooks are well-designed and gorgeous. For Windows users, unfortunately, this is a much more difficult task. Many notebooks running Microsoft's operating system are...
The vast majority of emails flooding inboxes across Europe from companies asking for consent to keep recipients on their mailing list are unnecessary and some may be illegal, privacy experts have said, as new rules over data privacy come into force at the end of this week....
Supreme Court Justice Neal Gorsuch used his stolen Supreme Court seat to carry the day for corporations against workers in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis, ruling that employers could force potential employees to sign away their legal right to participate in class action suits...
My favorite culture critic, the inimitable Mark Dery, visited the 'David Bowie is' exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. Author of the excellent 'All the Young Dudes: Why Glam Rock Matters,' Dery sees the exhibit as 'a burial chamber for a rock god, replete with everything...
Enlarge / Apparently, enough people are buying Fortnite's wholly optional outfits and dance moves to fuel $100 million of prizes for the game's first year of esports tourneys. (credit: Epic Games) How serious is Fortnite as a video gaming phenomenon? Today's announcement of ...
For one photographer, Mary Shelley's sci-fi novel is more relevant than ever.
VanTassel2 posted a fantastically weird series of ridiculous horror and science fiction B-movies with all appearances of humans edited out. Above, is the MST3K favorite 'Attack of the Eye Creatures' (1965), without people. Below, 'Curse of Bigfoot' (1976) aka 'Teenagers...
I've owned these safety glasses for a long time. They're like regular safety glasses, but they have magnifiers at the bottom. I've found them to be useful when I use a rotary tool, bandsaw, or drill press. I can look down and see the details, and when I back up to see the...
Next year, high schools in Lockport New York will use the 'Aegis' CCTV and facial recognition system to track and record the interactions of students suspected of code of conduct violations, keeping a ledger of who speaks to whom, where, and for how long. (more…)
The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that companies can use arbitration clauses in employment contracts to prohibit workers from banding together to take legal action over workplace issues. From a report: The vote was 5 to 4, with the court's more conservative justices in the...
The Nintendo Switch is a great system. Unfortunately, it isn’t powerful enough to run many games found on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Until now, that is. Capcom announced that Resident Evil […] The post Resident Evil 7 Coming to Switch Thanks to the Power of the Cloud...
The word “steampunk” is overused. Just because something has brass fittings and glass tubes doesn’t mean it’s steampunk. Without an actual mechanical aspect that indicates the use of steam power there’s no “steam” […] The post GEEK PICK OF THE DAY: ThinkGeek Tesla Watch...
It's surprisingly hard to keep up with all the versions of the Model 3 when you consider you can't buy any of them right now. The post Tesla Plans ‘Performance’ Model 3 Starting at $78,000 appeared first on ExtremeTech.
Fondation Émergence created a great PSA they call the Pride Shield, where 193 pride flags (one for each country) show that together we can end the worldwide epidemic of violence against sex and gender minorities. (more…)
Parrot 4.0 has been released. Parrot is a security-oriented distribution aimed at penetration tests and digital forensics analysis, with additional tools to preserve privacy. 'On Parrot 4.0 we decided to provide netinstall images too as we would like people to use Parrot not ...
High school students in Pennsylvania's Northern Lebanon School District report that they are not allowed to walk through their schools' hallways unless they smile; if they refuse they are sent for mandatory counselling. (more…)
Here's a photo of a gentleman, possibly inebriated, who appears to be urinating while seated in a Frontier jet. The Denver CBS news affiliate reports the man was taken away in handcuffs when the plane landed in South Carolina. From CBS: The woman said the male passenger...
Sweden is sending out 4.8 million booklets to households across the country called, 'If Crisis or War Comes' (Om Krisen Eller Kriget Kommer). The booklet is 20 pages long and explains what to do if there is a terrorist attack, if all the shops run out of goods, if tap water...
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