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Saturday July 26, 2025. 05:00 PM
TL;DR: Mondly is offering lifetime access to 41 languages for a one-time payment of $89.99 (reg. $299.99). No subscriptions, no upsells—just a wildly flexible app with bite-sized lessons, speech recognition, and even VR/AR features.  Look, we all had dreams of being...
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A man from Glendale, California, was arrested Tuesday after menacing a woman at the Burbank Nordstrom's Rack. Police say Calese Carron Crowder, 38, is seen on security camera footage following the shopper before 'crouching behind her and appearing to sniff her buttocks.' —...
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Death Stranding's 'photo mode,' which lets players mug and gurn for the camera with actor Norman Reedus's 56-year-old face, is one method youngsters are using to defeat Britain's new online age verification system, part of its sprawling Online Safety Act. — Read the rest ...
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Game distribution platforms Steam and Itch.io recently removed adult-themed titles to comply with demands from payment processing companies. These financial institutions—Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, Paypal, and others—are themselves under pressure from reactionary...
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AI may be steam rolling its way into the workforce, but it’s not for everyone. A new survey finds that 22% of professionals feel compelled to adopt AI in work situations where they lack confidence — so much so that 16% have admitted to pretending to use the technology....
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A dating safety app designed to protect women has exposed the very users it promised to shield. Tea, which recently topped Apple's App Store charts, suffered a data breach that leaked 13,000 verification photos and government IDs of its female users, as reported by NBC News. ...
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A wedding prank backfired when a bride arranged to have her blindfolded groom unknowingly remove a garter from a male groomsman's leg instead of hers, leaving their marriage in crisis from day one. As reported in a Reddit post on r/AITAH, what was intended as a lighthearted...
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Walking 7,000 steps daily — not the often-cited 10,000 — can significantly reduce risks of heart disease, cancer, and dementia, new research reveals. An analysis of 57 studies found that people who walk 7,000 steps per day reduce their risk of death from any cause by 47% ...
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Becoming friendlier to desktop users is one of the goals of the FreeBSD project at the moment, as we recently saw with the new ability to install a full KDE Plasma desktop environment during FreeBSD’s initial installation. This is just one small piece of a larger effort,...
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Developer Terence Eden created an eerie digital version of Cold War-era numbers stations using nothing but built-in browser features and 1KB of JavaScript code. His creation speaks random numbers and words in various languages with unsettling pitch and speed variations. The...
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'Bad art succeeds where good art fails,' might be the lesson from Sarah Jones's fascinating exploration of Thomas Kinkade's cultural impact in Dissent Magazine. In early July, the Department of Homeland Security indulged in a little art appreciation on X, where it posted a...
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Friday July 25, 2025. 11:50 PM
Walmart is revamping how artificial intelligence supports its business by replacing dozens of standalone AI tools with four integrated “super agents” aimed at enhancing the experience for customers, employees, engineers, and suppliers. After deploying numerous AI agents...
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Google has introduced Web Guide, a new experiment in Search Labs that promises “more powerful search capabilities” by helping users find information that is more relevant and easier to explore. According to Google, the feature is designed to surface information more...
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TL;DR: Unlock cheats for thousands of games with a Cheat Happens lifetime subscription, now $35 with code CODES30. Not every gamer wants to grind through hours of frustration just to unlock one new feature. If you'd rather take control and have a little fun bending the rules,...
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Patients receiving treatment at Cedars-Sinai for chronic pain, anxiety, and depression are now engaging with a new kind of support — an AI therapist delivered through virtual reality that guides them in conversation, stress management, and breathing exercises. Meet Xaia,...
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This article will explain in details about the fundamental issues that held back accessibility in GNOME Calendar since the very beginning of its existence, the progress we have made with accessibility as well as our thought process in achieving it, and the now and future of...
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JetBrains, creator of the popular Kotlin programming language, is developing a new programming language intended to make AI and code much more controllable and transparent. In a July 23 interview with InfoWorld, JetBrains CEO Kirill Skrygan elaborated on company plans for an ...
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You’ve seen them everywhere, especially on older computer equipment: the classic 9-pin serial connector. You probably know it as a DB9. It’s an iconic connector for makers, engineers, and anyone who’s ever used an RS232 serial device. Here’s a little secret, though:...
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As a fella with mental health issues of his own, I'm not about to make fun of anyone brave enough to work through their problems. But holy crap, it's come to this: there's a support group for individuals suffering from AI Psychosis. — Read the rest The post Digital...
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Last year, we told you about a pizza joint that accidentally contaminated THC with pizzas, giving recreational drug users unwanted carbs. Having had some time to chew it over, the Centers for Disease Control has released a report on how the accidental dosing went down. —...
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