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Saturday September 21, 2024. 07:34 PM
Meta (the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads) announced Monday that Russian state media outlets like RT are now 'banned from our apps globally for foreign interference activity,' reports CNN. CNN adds that Meta is alleging that the 'Kremlin-controlled...
'In the era of the open source rug pull, the role of open source foundations is more important than ever,' argues the co-founder of the developer-focused industry analyst firm RedMonk: The 'rug pull' here refers to companies that have used open source as a distribution...
Friday the Wall Street Journal reported Qualcomm recently 'made a takeover approach' to Intel, which has a market value of roughly $90 billion ('according to people familiar with the matter...') A deal is far from certain, the people cautioned. Even if Intel is receptive, a...
From Blue Apron to Dinnerly, I've spent years cooking with boxed ingredients shipped to my door.
TL;DR: Get a lifetime of documentaries with a lifetime subscription to Curiosity Stream, now $159.97 (reg. $399). Sure, once in a while, Netflix gets a good documentary. And Hulu is trying, but for a dedicated documentary lover, that's nothing. Most streaming services have h...
Instead of eliminating jobs, self-service kiosks at McDonald's and other fast-food chains 'have added extra work for kitchen staff,' reports CNN — and as a bonus, 'pushed customers to order more food than they do at the cash register...' Kiosks 'guarantee that the upsell...
'Mein Kampf is a good read,' wrote Mark Robinson, the Republican candidate for governor of North Carolina, under his porn account username. 'It's very informative and not at all what I thought it would be. It's a real eye opener.' — Read the rest The post MAGA man Mark...
Colin Moriarty writes that he spoke extensively with someone who worked on Concord, an online Sony PlayStation game that flopped so badly last month it was shut down and all copies refunded within days of launch. According to his source, the game cost $400m to develop and...
Just in case some aliens, say, come along in a billion years and feel like cloning us from extinction Whether or not some future entity will want to bring humanity back after its eventual extinction is now a theoretical if improbable option, thanks to boffins at the...
Large-language models (LLMs) and other forms of generative AI are revolutionizing the way we do business. The impact could be huge: McKinsey estimates that current gen AI technologies could eventually automate about 60-70 percent of employees’ time, facilitating...
Music has been a part of human spaceflight since Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford used smuggled instruments aboard Apollo 7 to play 'Jingle Bells.' Chris Hadfield is arguably more famous for his cover of 'Space Oddity' from the International Space Station than for being an...
It’s messages may be on the nose—it’s an animated kids’ movie!—but it also has more perspective than the franchise has exhibited in years.
In 2017, the makers of the game Cards Against Humanity launched a promotion in which 150,000 people paid $15 each to save America from 'Injustice, lies, racism, the whole enchilada.' The first thing they did was purchase land on the US/Mexico border and not build a wall on...
The world's biggest technology companies have embarked on a final push to persuade the European Union to take a light-touch approach to regulating AI as they seek to fend off the risk of billions of dollars in fines. From a report: EU lawmakers in May agreed the AI Act, the...
If an elder in your life needs help with their computer, phone, email inbox, or smart thermostat, they can bug you for help—or they can call on a dedicated IT professional trained to help seniors.
The world of AI voice assistants has been moving at a breakneck pace, and Google's latest addition, Gemini, is shaking things up even more. As tech giants scramble to outdo each other, creating voice assistants that feel more like personal companions than simple tools,...
Coffee expert James Hoffman tried a $335 cup of espresso and reviewed the experience on his YouTube channel. This ridiculously expensive shot of espresso can be found in London at a coffee shop called 'Shot'. The espresso comes in a golden cup with a golden spoon. — Read the...
The 'Rock in the House' is a unique and bizarre tourist attraction located in Fountain City, Wisconsin. In 1995, a 55-ton boulder came loose from a nearby bluff and rolled directly into a house, crashing through the back wall and landing in the living room. — Read the rest ...
Minesweeper is a classic puzzle game that has been included in Windows operating systems for decades. The objective is to clear a grid of hidden mines using numerical clues to determine how many mines are adjacent to each square, requiring strategy and logical thinking to...
US dairy farms are disappearing, down 95 percent in terms of numbers since the 1970s—milk price rules are one reason why.
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