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Friday August 16, 2024. 02:00 AM
Texas attorney Brittany Lacayo has just earned the Guinness World Record for the 'world's widest tongue (female).' Demo video below. At 3.11 inches, it's almost the width of a credit card. (Don't confuse Lacayo with Jenny DuVander who several months ago was determined to...
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A Kind of Bloop: An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis' A Kind of Blue was released 15 years ago and remains one of the finest and most profoundly blasphemous chiptune tributes to popular music ever made. Andy Baio, who organized and crowdfunded the project, today announced an...
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GitHub has unveiled Copilot Autofix, an AI-powered software vulnerability remediation service as part of its GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) service. GitHub introduced Copilot Autofix in production on August 14. “Copilot Autofix analyzes vulnerabilities in code, explains...
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In broad daylight, in full view of a crowd of eager spectators, a man brazenly walked up to a freshly painted original Banksy and spray-painted a little tag over it. The Guardian has footage of the incident here. From the report: An image of a rhino appearing to mount a...
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Intel is partnering with Karma Automotive to develop an all-new computing platform for vehicles. The new software-defined vehicle architecture should first appear in a high-end electric coupe from Karma in 2026. But the...
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AltStore PAL, a third-party iOS app store available in the EU, has eliminated its annual 1.50-euro subscription fee after receiving a 'MegaGrant' from Epic Games. This grant was awarded for 'innovation in app distribution,' allowing AltStore to cover Apple's Core Technology...
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Once again, comedian Sarah Cooper perfectly mimics befuddled ex-president Donald Trump, this time reenacting the moment he thought that Kamala Harris somehow 'turned Black.' From spot-on lip-synching and Trumpian facial expressions to nailing his jerky body language and...
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The SAG-AFTRA actors' union has struck a deal with online talent marketplace Narrativ, allowing actors to sell advertisers the rights to replicate their voices using AI. 'Not all members will be interested in taking advantage of the opportunities that licensing their digital ...
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Thursday August 15, 2024. 11:52 PM
The strain of mpox behind the current global health emergency is believed to be up to 10 times deadlier than the one that swept the globe in 2022.
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After the FDA rejected its proposed MDMA treatment, Lykos Therapeutics is laying off 75 percent of its staff and its founder has left the company.
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Professional cycling has, in its recent history, been prone to a shocking variety of cheating methods and dirty tricks.Performance-enhancing drugs.Tacks strewn on race courses. Even stealthy motors hidden inside of wheel hubs....
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NYU doc died from allergic reaction after eating at Florida resort pub Walt Disney Parks and Resorts wants a wrongful death lawsuit filed against it and one of its tenants, an Irish pub, to be booted from court into arbitration.…
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Anthropic announced Wednesday that it is introducing prompt caching in the application programming interface (API) to its Claude family of generative AI models, which will allow developers to save frequently used prompts between API calls. Prompt caching allows customers to ...
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Climate activists have broken into four German airport sites, briefly bringing air traffic to a halt at two of those before police made arrests. From a report: Protesters from Letzte Generation -- Germany's equivalent to Just Stop Oil -- gained access on Thursday to...
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The CMP boasts to be the orchestration platform behind GreenLake since 2022 Hewlett Packard Enterprise has announced the acquisition of yet another partner, this time scooping up cloud management biz Morpheus Data for an unspecified sum.  …
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Similar to less popular handheld of the era, the Gameboy, the Psion used a proprietary cartridge format for distributing commercial software. Psion sold blank cartridges, flashing hardware and duplicators to software houses, as well as releasing a number of titles under...
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A screaming-mad passenger who missed her flight at Chicago O'Hare International Airport thought throwing things might help her situation. So the 31-year-old woman hopped behind the Frontier Airlines check-in counter, grabbed a computer, and hurled it at a worker. She also...
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Donald Trump's winning election strategy is straight out of the stable genius playbook: At his rallies, he holds up a regular sized Tic Tac box in one hand, and a Tic Tac Mini box in the other. He claims the normal Tic Tac box represents Trump era products, and the mini box...
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ISPs have asked the US Supreme Court to strike down a New York law that requires broadband providers to offer $15-per-month service to people with low incomes. From a report: On Monday, a Supreme Court petition challenging the state law was filed by six trade groups...
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Good news! The Telegraph reports that 'Traumatised Britons are turning to the occult.' It's not just the new Master's Degree program in Magic & Occult Science now being offered at the University of Exeter. According to the article, a 2021 census shows that more Britons...
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