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Wednesday March 5, 2025. 09:46 PM
One of the most effective urban legends of the 1980s, the 'Blue Star Tattoo Legend,' led to millions of school children across the world on the look-out for strangers handing out lick-and-stick fake tattoos of Mickey Mouse. The stickers were said to be laced with LSD. — Read...
US Fish and Wildlife Service researchers found this absolutely massive pet store goldfish swimming in Pennsylvania's Presque Isle State Park on Lake Erie. 'Call me Megalodon,' reads a USFW caption for the above photo. Pet goldfish should remain pets, urge USFW authorities....
On Sunday, a spacecraft named Blue Ghost beautifully stuck a lunar landing. It was the second private spacecraft to soft-land on the lunar surface. From Firefly Aerospace: Blue Ghost Mission 1 delivered 10 science and technology instruments to the lunar surface as part of...
Desktop family gets chip boost as MacBook Air bags an M4 upgrade, more memory, price cut Apple's newly refreshed Mac Studio has arrived bristling with up to 32 CPU and 80 GPU cores, and as much as 512GB of unified memory on board.…
Geoffrey.landis writes: Over the last three months of 2024, more than 800 cases of GPS interference were recorded in Lithuanian airspace. Estonia and Finland have also raised concerns, accusing Russia of deploying technology to jam satellite navigation signals near Nato's...
If your laptop is running low on storage space, don’t fret just yet. There are ways to expand your storage, and I’m not even talking about installing a new SSD inside the machine. (That’s an option, but it can be a lot of work… or near impossible on some machines.)...
With the recent Firefox 136 update, Mozilla’s web browser got several improvements and new features, including vertical tabs that sit in a new sidebar and provide a better overview when you have tons of open tabs. The update brings improved security via fixed...
On this special episode of Uncanny Valley, we talk about Elon Musk’s move to put spending limits on US government employee credit cards, plus how DOGE is embracing AI.
Half of the world's climate-heating carbon emissions come from the fossil fuels produced by just 36 companies, analysis has revealed. From a report: The researchers said the 2023 data strengthened the case for holding fossil fuel companies to account for their contribution...
In his address to Congress last night, President Donald J. Trump called the CHIPS Act “horrible,” and said whatever money hasn’t been spent should now be used to reduce the national debt. The CHIPS Act, enacted into law in 2022 under then-President Joseph R. Biden...
Look past the glitzy phone launches, and you'll find some truly bizarre, sometimes ingenious devices and concepts lurking in the halls of Mobile World Congress.
Version 2.0.0 of FerretDB has been released. FerretDB is an open-source alternative to MongoDB, which switched to a non-open license in 2018, built on top of PostgreSQL. This release utilizes the DocumentDB PostgreSQL extension for better performance, adds vector search, and ...
YouTube is finally rolling out Premium Lite in the USA (coming soon to Thailand, Germany, and Australia). For the princely sum of $7.99 per month, Google is promising subscribers a mostly ad-free experience. Although Premium Lite offers an official way to remove ads, it...
Microsoft warned that an advanced Chinese hacking group is waging a campaign of supply-chain attacks. From a report: The company's threat intelligence division said in a blog post Wednesday that the group, known as Silk Typhoon, was targeting remote management tools and...
TV antennas are having something of a renaissance in the U.S. Buoyed by the ever-increasing costs of cable and streaming subscriptions, and additional channels enabled by the advent of digital TV, roughly one in five U.S. homes now rely on an antenna for their television....
Anima Interactive’s forthcoming game Take Us North aims to capture the lived experiences of those trying to cross the US-Mexico border.
I've been rediscovering Limmy's Show lately, and among his finest work is this sketch about the hovering salespeople in high-street electronic stores and how they transmit market segmentation to the customer. The key difference between Scotland and America is that in America ...
The initiative helped pressure the Chinese government to clean up the air in Beijing and was later expanded to dozens of cities around the world. Now, it’s been abruptly halted.
Functional programming languages have a long association with graphs. In the 1990s, it was even thought that parallel graph-reduction architectures could make functional programming languages much faster than their imperative counterparts. Alas, that prediction mostly failed ...
The lack of a unified Democratic front and scattershot attempts at protest at Convicted Felon's speech before the joint Houses of Congress were remniscent of the dance protest at the Kennedy Center, still Republicans are pissed off. Democrats didn't clap!! — Read the rest ...
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