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Thursday March 27, 2025. 12:59 AM
Hey suckers who thought switching to diet soda would help curb those cravings — science has some deliciously ironic news for you! Turns out your brain isn't falling for that zero-calorie sleight of hand. In fact, it's getting even hangrier about it. — Read the rest The...
A Sydney man's quest to collect every element on the periodic table went wrong when he ordered plutonium samples online, triggering a major hazmat incident and potential jail time. Emmanuel Lidden, 24, now faces up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to breaching...
Without Elon Musk at his side, Donald Trump fell flat on his face at a press briefing today. In fact, the befuddled president proved to be the most clueless commander-in-chief in U.S. history, knowing absolutely nothing about his administration's recent national security...
TL;DR: Outfit any computer with two Microsoft must-haves with the Ultimate Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows Lifetime License and Windows 11 Pro Bundle, now only $54.97 (reg. $438). What if we told you it only takes $55 to make an old computer feel new again? —...
TL;DR: Code like Steve Jobs with assistance from Microsoft Visual Studio Professional, the first 64-bit IDE that's now discounted to only $27.97 (reg. $499) through March 30. Here's a scenario every coder understands: Imagine spending literal hours debugging your software,...
Wednesday March 26, 2025. 11:04 PM
Six Centuries of Type & Printing is a handsome volume from Glenn Fleishman (previously) about the history of the technology culminating in what you most likely looking at right now: letters on a screen. They used to take bits of metal dipped in sticky colored liquid, then...
Microsoft has unveiled Hyperlight Wasm, a virtual machine “micro-guest” that can run WebAssembly component workloads written in a multitude of languages including C and Python. Introduced March 26, Hyperlight Wasm serves as a Rust library crate. Wasm modules and...
An overwhelmed black Lab who had just given birth to 14 puppies was in an emotional quandary. 'She wanted to be with me in bed like we sleep every night,' her owner explained. On the other hand (or paw, as it were), 'she also knew her babies needed her.' — Read the rest ...
University of Maryland has announced its 2025 commencement speaker: an 'environmental advocate, best-selling author, Peabody Award winner' and a 'champion of creativity, kindness and believing in the impossible.' He is also green. 'Nothing could make these feet happier than...
Dr. Vijay Agarwal is a neurosurgeon at the Montefiore Einstein Medical Center. Some years ago he received a curious call from a TV producer wanting his take on the concept for a new show. 'It was just a thought at that stage—you know, 'We wanna develop a procedure that...
It’s time to celebrate, fellow Linux fans. Zorin OS 17.3 is officially available, and it couldn’t have come at a better time. With Microsoft ending support for Windows 10 in October, millions of perfectly good PCs are about to be left in the dust. If your computer...
How do you create a brain drain and lose your status as eminent destination for scientists and researchers? The United States seems to be sending out questionnaires to researchers at universities and research institutes outside of the United States, asking them about their...
Having meddled in geopolitics, it seems that Elon Musk is finding out. January and February's European vehicle registration numbers are in, and Tesla has dropped 49% year over year. Fewer new vehicles mean fewer clean energy credits to sell to other automakers. — Read the re...
KDE’s login manager, SDDM, has its share of problems, and as such, a number of KDE developers are working on replacement to fix many of these long-standing issues. So, what exactly is wrong with SDDM as it exists today? With SDDM, power management is reinvented from scratch...
If you’re comfortable using the command line on Unix or Linux but haven’t fully explored Bash, this book is for you. It’s designed for programmers familiar with languages like Python, JavaScript, or PHP who want to make the most of shell scripting. This isn’t just...
Sharks were long thought to be silent predators of the deep. Nope! Scientists have recorded the first known recording of the sounds sharks make. Unfortunately, it doesn't sound like the theme from Jaws but rather a series a of clicks. Listen below! — Read the rest The post S...
[UPDATE: 3-26-25, 4:18 pm PST] After The Guardian and AP News reported that the four missing U.S. Army soldiers were found dead in Lithuania, as per a statement by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, a NATO spokesperson later said that the deaths were not yet confirmed, and...
A city councilor in Cambridge, Massachussets, is accused of paying for sex at 'high-end brothels' operated out of 'luxury apartments' and faces calls for his resignation. Paul Toner is described as a 'most frequent customer' of the service, has apologized in vague terms ('I...
In the new age of AI, companies are looking for ways to integrate the groundbreaking technology cross-functionally to enhance efficiency, innovation and inform decision-making. Like any business department, IT teams are eager to learn how AI and automation can help alleviate ...
The source code for AlexNet, a key network in the development of the artificial neural nets that enabled modern AI, is now open source. Researchers can explore it at the Computer History Museum’s GitHub page. The source code for AlexNet is publicly available now in part...
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