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This cool and spooky video shows what it looks like when a camera is dropped down 93 meters under the ice in Antarctica. PhD student Austin Carter conducted this experiment to collect ice that is estimated to be over 2 million years old. — Read the rest The post Eerie footag...
'The Games and Pleasures of Childhood' is a set of 50 engravings published in 1657 by French engraver Claudine Bouzonnet-Stella (1636-1697). Some of the games depicted in the series are familiar. One drawing shows kids playing paddle ball; another shows four kids blowing...
Angular v20 is now available. The new version of Google’s web framework stabilizes APIs and features such as incremental hydration, promotes Zoneless (which removes ZoneJS as a dependency) to developer preview, improves debugging, and improves support for AI-powered...
The New York Times paints the picture of Elon Musk that Musk himself has shown the world: abusing drugs, questionable parenting, and abhorrent ethics. We've seen enough videos of a freaking out, twitching, oddly talking Elon 'Pedo Guy' Musk. Social media is replete with...
The post-Phantom Menace attempts to turn Darth Maul into a Machiavellian schemer — instead of some demon-looking guy who shows up, snarls at Obi-Wan and gets sliced in half — are, I believe, as well-intentioned as they are unbelievable. Given that every ice cream maker...
A YouTuber named Steve bares his soul, recounting the sad tale of how he fell for a romance scam in the Philippines. As Steve walks through a jungle, he films himself explaining how a woman he fell in love with was a con artist who took advantage of his 'euphoria' to...
Every game under the sun seems to be hopping on the roguelike trend lately — God of War is doing it, Elden Ring is doing it, and now it's come for… Peggle? Streamer DougDoug, known for both his coding expertise and his frankly inadvisable levels of audience participation,...
What’s a company to do when it faces a multitude of existential crises and seems unable to regain control of the media message? It throws a few dead cats on the table to distract everybody. This aeons-old approach to public relations has recently been rechristened as...
France, maintaining character, has yet to ban outdoor smoking. But it's coming soon, officials there say, with one key exemption: café terrraces. 'Tobacco must disappear where there are children,' Catherine Vautrin said in an interview published by the regional...
The University of California, San Diego, has the largest outdoor shake table, or earthquake simulator, in the world — the only one capable of testing a 10-story building. The shake table can support 2000 metric tons, or 4.5 million pounds, or about the weight of 1300 cars. ...
Yesterday, a new work by Banksy—a lighthouse formed by the shadow of a street bollard and the phrase 'I want to be what you saw in me'—was posted to the British artist/collective/persona's Instagram page. The hunt was on to find it; withing a day, it was tracked down to...
TL;DR: This Asus Chromebook CM30 is on sale for just $179.99 — that's 45% off the $329.99 regular price. The promise of Chromebooks. Feature-packed, durable, and go-anywhere There's a lot of good reasons to make this Chromebook part of your arsenal. — Read the rest The po...
The New York Times has signed a multiyear licensing deal with Amazon to provide its editorial content for use in the tech firm’s AI platforms. This is the major news outlet’s first licensing agreement focused on generative AI. The Times Chief Executive Meredith Kopit...
An intellectual property battle between two Clean Girl influencers is over, per a filing by one of the parties. Both women reviewed identical junk from Amazon in their identical off-white minimalist homes: an advertant image of gentility sold to a declining middle class...
Strip Mall is a short story by Leigh Alexander (previously) about a small town's run-down shopping drag, told entirely through Yelp reviews. There's the praise and the angry rambling you'd expect to read about venues in a deteriorating mall—and then there's something else. ...
Two hikers reported that a third member of their party died on Cascade Mountain in the Adirondacks, but it turned out they were just high. The two hikers, that is, not the guy who wasn't dead. The BBC reports on what it calls a 'backcountry saga.' — Read the rest The post...
New research reveals a surge in interest in data sovereignty among UK IT leaders since the implementation of the United States government's historic raft of tariffs in April. The study from Civo, of over 1,000 UK-based IT leaders, shows more than 60 percent now feel that the ...
Six-hundred-forty-nine in a series. Welcome to this week's overview of the best apps, games and extensions released for Windows 10 and 11 on the Microsoft Store and elsewhere in the past seven days. Microsoft released Windows Backup for Organizations to ease the transition...
Mozilla has decided to throw in the towel on Pocket, a social-bookmarking service that it acquired in 2017. This has left many users scrambling for a replacement for Pocket before its shutdown in July. One possible option is wallabag, a self-hostable, MIT-licensed project...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 8.0,.NET 9.0, firefox, ghostscript, gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, libsoup3, mingw-freetype, perl, ruby, sqlite, thunderbird, unbound, valkey, and xz), Debian (chromium, firefox-esr, libavif, linux-6.1, modsecurity-apache,...
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