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Tuesday December 31, 2024. 12:20 AM
Traditional barcodes are set to be replaced by next-generation QR-style codes by 2027, offering enhanced functionality such as embedding sell-by dates, allergens, and recycling information. The Guardian reports: Tesco has started using them on some products, and other trials ...
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Monday December 30, 2024. 11:40 PM
In a press release today, Apple said their TV Plus subscription service will be free this weekend (January 3 through January 5). From the press release: Apple TV+ is ringing in the New Year by offering an all-access pass to customers all around the world. Enjoy Apple TV+ for ...
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Americans check their phones an average of 205 times a day, a 42.3% increase from last year. Millennials are leading the charts in frequency, attachment, and anxiety over phone use, while Gen Z spends the most time daily on their devices at over six hours. PCMag reports:...
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TL;DR: Get unlimited documentaries with a Curiosity Stream lifetime subscription, now $159.97 (reg. $399) with this end-of-year sale. Sure, once in a while, Netflix gets a good documentary. And Hulu is trying, but for a dedicated documentary lover, that's nothing. — Read the...
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We’ve talked about Chimera Linux before – it’s a unique Linux distribution that combines a BSD userland with the LLVM/Clang toolchain, and musl. Its init system is dinit, and it uses apk-tools from Alpine as its package manager. None of this has anything to do with being anti...
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Asma al-Assad, who spent years living in luxury while her husband Bashar turned Syria into a slaughterhouse, is now stuck in Moscow with an expired British passport and a leukemia diagnosis. Despite being born in Britain, she's discovering that standing by while your spouse...
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The former president, passed at 100 this week, was also an early email adopter obituary American flags throughout the United States are flying at half-mast to honor the life of Jimmy Carter, the 39th and longest-lived US president, who died Sunday, December 29, at the age of ...
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Chinese state-sponsored hackers broke into the U.S. Treasury Department earlier this month and stole documents from its workstations, according to a letter to lawmakers that was provided to Reuters on Monday. The hackers...
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Donald Trump's admirers are losing what remains of their minds because the President-elect said something that wasn't cruel or insulting. On Sunday, Trump posted an uncharacteristically presidential-sounding tribute to the late Jimmy Carter — one so well-written and...
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Crypto News: Power providers in the Siberian crypto mining hotspot of Irkutsk have discovered an illegal mining 'farm' operating on their own property. The Irkutsk Region Prosecutor-General's Office posted on VK, explaining that an...
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Kees Cook describes his work resulting in a kernel documentation commit whose ID shares the same first 12 characters as the initial commit in the kernel's repository. This is not yet in the upstream Linux tree, for fear of breaking countless other tools out in the wild....
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South Korean officials said Monday they will conduct safety inspections of all Boeing 737-800 aircraft operated by the country's airlines, as they struggle to determine what caused a plane crash that killed 179 people a day earlier. From a report: Sunday's crash, the...
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TL;DR: A mouse-mimicking toy that keeps your pal active while you're away – $19.97 (reg. $26) till January 12. Cats get bored just like us, which can lead to issues you're not even looking to spot. Overgrooming, excessive meowing, and even clinginess are signs your cat...
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Apple is starting the new year with what seems like a generous offer -- free access to its Apple TV+ streaming service from January 3 through January 5, 2025. With just an Apple ID, viewers can dive into the platform’s entire library on any device that supports the Apple...
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It was fun while it lasted, but it looks Trump-sidekick Elon Musk won't be basking under the orange glow of MAGA-lago for too much longer, if reports by insiders are accurate. '100 percent Trump is annoyed,' said a 2024 campaign worker on the Trump team, via Mediaite,...
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In 1994, an amendment to the American Indian Religious Freedom Act finally granted Native Americans freedom to use the peyote—a very slow-growing cactus containing the psychedelic compound mescaline—for traditional ceremonial purposes. In recent years though, the...
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This YouTuber's experiment recreating theater popcorn butter explains the science of butter flavor. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! This is a great video to learn a lot about where butter gets its flavor. To make great popcorn, use...
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During the Nazi occupation of Poland, some intellectuals were able to avoid being sent to Nazi concentration camps by volunteering for the potentially deadly job of allowing typhus-infected lice to feed on them. The Lviv Institute for Study of Typhus employed over 4,000...
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A man accidentally dropped his phone into a donation box at a Hindu temple in India — and now the gods won't give it back. The devotee, identified only as Dinesh, was at a South Indian temple with his family to offer prayers when he unintentionally handed out his phone...
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Cloudflare has introduced h3i, a new open-source tool intended to assist developers in debugging HTTP/3, the latest version of the protocol that manages communication between browsers and servers. HTTP/3 is known for being faster and more secure than earlier versions, but it ...
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