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Thursday July 17, 2025. 12:26 AM
We've all been told that if you set your mind to something you can do it, as long as you don't give up. The woman in this video seems to live by these words of wisdom. Watch as she walks the wrong way up the down escalator, causing a person-jam of busy, irritated travelers....
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The Microsoft cofounder breathed that sigh of relief in a Cipher News interview - just before it folded Despite Trump's budget bill slashing many mature clean-energy tax credits, Bill Gates is less worried, since new nuclear incentives, including those his TerraPower venture ...
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Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson, whose claim to fame is being Trump's eager doormat, has outdone himself in the art of being a quivering puddle of sick. As reported in Vanity Fair, the invertebrate Speaker demanded 'everything out there' regarding Jeffrey Epstein. —...
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Wednesday July 16, 2025. 11:50 PM
Steam has begun banning games that violate the payment rules of banks and card networks, targeting adult content in particular -- especially titles with extreme or controversial themes. Engadget reports: The new clause states that 'content that may violate the rules and...
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After getting blackout drunk at a London party, the author wakes up in a random building to discover he's lost his backpack containing his laptop, two passports, and various personal items. Instead of panicking, he treats the situation like 'a new level in a game called...
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Qdrant has launched Qdrant Cloud Inference, a managed service that allows developers to generate, store, and index text and image embeddings in the Qdrant Cloud. The service, which uses integrated models within a managed vector search engine, is designed to simplify building ...
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When a plasma donation center opens, local crime drops 12%, say researchers from the University of St. Gallen. Why? Plasma centers offer steady income—up to $400 a month for just four hours weekly. For those struggling, plasma donation becomes a legal way to earn money. —...
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OpenAI has added Google Cloud as a provider for ChatGPT and its API, expanding beyond Microsoft to address growing demand for computing power. CNBC reports: OpenAI has added Google to a list of suppliers, specifying that ChatGPT and its application programming interface will ...
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TL;DR: Normally $2,899, this MacBook Pro is now only $1,239.99. If your laptop sounds like it's about to take off every time you open Photoshop, it might be time for a serious glow-up. The MacBook Pro with an M1 Pro chip is an absolute beast, and this model brings the power...
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Android Authority: Italian YouTuber Once Were Nerd covers a variety of retro gaming topics, but his reviews of ANBERNIC devices appear to be the straw that broke the camel's back. According to the video [here], customs enforcement...
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'Deeply penetrated' Gaskar 'to the very tonsils of demilitarization' Ukrainian hackers claim to have taken out the IT infrastructure at Russia's Gaskar Integration plant, one of the largest suppliers of drones for its army, and also destroyed massive amounts of technical...
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Sony's RX1R III updates a decade-old flagship compact with a new processor, AI feature detection and a $5,099 price tag: '61-megapixel 35 mm full-frame Exmor R™ CMOS image sensor, the latest BIONZ XR™ image processing engine, and a ZEISS® Sonnar T* 35 mm F2 lens.' —...
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The abstract of a paper featured on NBER: Most U.S. innovation output originates from firms that operate R&D facilities across multiple local markets. We study how this geographic structure influences aggregate innovation and growth, and whether it is socially optimal....
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Students and faculty at Gobowen Primary School in Shropshire, England, sent a weather balloon, a camera, and a small, plastic passenger to the edge of space. While the experiment didn't work out quite as planned, it turned out to be quite an adventure for Dan the LEGO Man. —...
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Seeking to ease web and mobile app testing by leveraging AI, Perforce Software has unveiled Perfecto AI, an agentic AI testing tool that removes the need for test scripts, frameworks, or maintenance and streamlines testing workflows, according to the company. Announced July...
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Version 0.50.0 of Hyprland, a compositor for Wayland, has been released. Changes include a new render-scheduling option that 'can drastically improve FPS on underpowered devices, while coming at no performance or latency cost when the system is doing alright', an option to...
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VMware has notified partners that its current channel program will end, replacing it with an invitation-only system that significantly reduces the number of authorized partners. Partners not invited to the new VMware Cloud Service Provider program would have received...
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The US almost lost its measles elimination status once. Lessons from that episode suggest it will be more difficult to avoid doing so now.
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Just when you thought AI was running out of industries to disrupt, Anthropic just released Claude for Financial Services and suddenly, that $25K-a-year Bloomberg Terminal is looking a bit… vintage. Here’s what makes Claude for Financial Services different Claude can...
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Jordan Klepper runs down the near-endless connections between convicted felon Donald Trump and two of America's most famous sex trafficking pedophiles. Donald Trump is melting down over the continuous focus on his history with folks who are famous for sex trafficking of...
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