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Friday July 11, 2025. 06:31 PM
Political attacks on public libraries are often in the news, usually framed by the MAGA politics, homophobia or racism of those complaining. But what's not so often reported is the role of private equity companies, such as Library Systems & Services, in pushing this...
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Atlas Obscura's list of 20 hidden wonders in America's national parks reveals lesser-known attractions where history and nature meet. From tragic historical sites to unique viewing points, these locations offer unexpected experiences within familiar parks. In Glacier...
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There is no evidence the footage was deceptively manipulated, but ambiguities around how the video was processed may further fuel conspiracy theories about Epstein’s death.
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Treat yourself to good taste this summer with Amazon Prime Day deals on WIRED's favorite espresso machine, air fryer, low-cost grinder, and more.
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An anonymous reader shares a report: JPMorgan Chase boss Jamie Dimon did not pull his punches when he spoke at Ireland's Department of Foreign Affairs. 'You're losing,' he said of European competitiveness with the U.S. and Asia, in comments reported by the Financial Times....
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Logos of the Early Computer Software Scene is a zine featuring, you guessed it, logos from the early computer software scene. You have Planet Luke to thank for collecting these (and other) examples of the time before sensible design ruined the genre. — Read the rest The...
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Everytime anyone says there’s no innovation left at Apple, I think of the big innovation that made so much of the technology we take for granted possible back in 1895, when Guglielmo Marconi successfully transmitted a radio signal over two miles.  After all, if...
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A fascinatingly creepy coin-operated machine offers entertainment in Guy's Hospital waiting room. If you're watching time crawl while waiting to be seen for a twisted ankle, infected nostril, or other minor ailment, this unique distraction can help pass the time. The game...
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'THIS WEBSITE HAS BEEN SEIZED' declares the new banner at Nsw2u, a pirate site specializing in Nintendo Switch games. The FBI took control of the domain yesterday and with it goes one of the 'net's most popular repositories of bootleg ROMS. — Read the rest The post Nintendo...
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One in five users hit by service failures in the last year, research finds A survey of PostgreSQL users has found that the levels of uptime experienced using cloud providers falls well short of their expectations in terms of reliability.…
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If you need to mainline some caffeine, these are the best brewers and concentrates to get that java into your system.
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An anonymous reader shares a report: HMD Global, the company best known for licensing the Nokia brand for new phones and tablets over the last decade, has announced that it will 'scale back' its US operations, and appears to have stopped selling both HMD and Nokia devices...
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Anker’s best power bank is on sale for Prime Day, and this portable charger can juice up all of your gadgets.
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The University of Washington's Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering is overhauling its approach to computer science education as AI reshapes the tech industry. Director Magdalena Balazinska has declared that 'coding, or the translation of a precise design...
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Beehive Books is transforming Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic retellings of Greek mythology through fifteen original paintings by acclaimed Spanish artist Das Pastoras. The oversized art book, A Wonder Book, brings new visual power to iconic figures like Perseus, Hercules, and ...
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By Mattgrosso at English Wikipedia - Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by Kr-val., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3922715 The post New Zealand hill's 85-Letter name tells ancient love story through its landscape appeared first on Boing...
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WIndows 11 might have a bigger market share, but Windows 10 is still alive. Kind of Even as its market share is finally eclipsed by Windows 11, Windows 10 is still alive and in need of fixes. Alongside the replacement of the Blue Screen of Death in Windows 11, Microsoft has...
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Fertility rates have fallen to historically low levels [PDF] in virtually all high-income countries due to a fundamental reordering of adult priorities rather than economic factors, according to a new National Bureau of Economic Research study. Economists Melissa Schettini...
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The kernel's perf events subsystem can produce high-quality profiles, with full function-call chains, of resource usage within the kernel itself. Developers, however, often would like to see profiles of the whole system in one integrated report with, for example, call-stack...
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For over fifteen centuries, European and Middle Eastern writers were entranced by tales of the Blemmyes — a mythical tribe of headless beings whose faces emerged from their chests. First described by Herodotus in the 4th century BCE as people 'that have their eyes in their ...
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