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Saturday January 11, 2025. 03:34 PM
The BepiColombo satellite, in orbit around Mercury, photographed the rocky world's north pole for the first time up close. I hope you like craters and stark shadows. This is one of a series of images taken by the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission on 8 January 2025 as the...
In 2009, the striking art piece 'Rotating Kitchen' was shared here on BoingBoing. Someone downloaded the video, sped it up to last one minute long, and uploaded the video to YouTube. The Rotating Kitchen by Dutch artist Zeger Reyers is an installation featuring a human-scale ...
This incredible tool organizer, created by an unknown maker, is also wonderful as a piece of art on the wall. The organizer is made simply yet beautifully. It consists of a piece of wood with a silhouette of each tool in the maker's collection. — Read the rest The post...
This mesmerizing, other-worldly zoetrope by @Kate.likes.cats is not AI. This mind boggling visual effect comes from classic zoetrope technology. Standing still, this creation consists of a cylinder filled with various plastic toys. The toys are all fixed in place. When the...
Data-driven organizations are increasingly struggling with the limitations of passive metadata practices. These traditional approaches quickly become outdated, leading to inaccurate insights and poor decision-making. Passive metadata often remains siloed, making it...
Even though it’s only been two years since the public demo of ChatGPT launched, popularizing the technology for the masses, generative AI technology has already had a profound and transformative effect on the world. In the years since the platform’s launch, critics have...
As we head further into 2025, the global economic landscape remains a mix of challenges and potential shifts that will shape markets and industries worldwide. From high interest rates to the evolving impact of AI, there are several key factors that will define the year...
Many moons ago, around the time when Andreas formally resigned from being Serenity’s BDFL, I decided that I want to get involved in the project more seriously. Looking at it from a perspective of “what do I not like about this (codebase)”, the first thing that came to mind...
Don’t you just love it when companies get together under the thin guise of open source to promote their own interests? Today Google is pleased to announce our partnership with The Linux Foundation and the launch of the Supporters of Chromium-based Browsers. The goal of this...
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg said his decision to reduce his team’s weekly hours working on WordPress by 99%, from 4,000 hours to 45 hours, was designed to pressure WP Engine to drop its lawsuit against Mullenweg and Automattic “They don’t actually make WordPress....
A conscientious tattoo artist in Arizona talked a 9-year-old girl out of getting a Trump tattoo — and gave her a tattoo of an American flag instead. Right on the arm. Which did not go over too well on his Instagram page, where he boasted of his work. — Read the rest The po...
Lake County, Florida Sheriff's Deputy Tristan Macomber was allegedly enjoying a leisurely drive in his patrol car, watching some pornography on his mobile phone as he tooled along. Then bam! He plowed right into a car that was stopped for a school bus. — Read the rest The p...
'This is the only example I could find of an actual penis having potentially been used as a ritual object,' said University of Reading bioarchaeologist Ellen Green. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! No, that isn't a human penis. — Read...
Friday January 10, 2025. 11:10 PM
Version 2.48.0 of the Git source-code management system has been released. There is a long list of incremental improvements and bug fixes; see the announcement and the highlights blog from GitHub for details.
JavaScript runtime provider Deno Land’s efforts to get Oracle to yield the trademark for JavaScript have hit a snag, with Oracle refusing to voluntarily withdraw the trademark, Deno Land said. A Deno Land post on X on January 7 provided an update about Deno Land’s...
Elon Musk, along with tech bro Vivek Ramaswamy, is already dispatching DOGE agents across the U.S., before he even plants himself in the White House. The two billionaires have hired around 50 staffers and sent representatives for their nongovernmental 'Department of...
We have just now received word of the passing of Paolo Mantegazza, the driving force behind the Real Time Application Interface project and a key figure in the development of realtime Linux. Paolo used to describe himself as a simple practitioner of software development,...
Tech hiring rose in December, dropping the IT unemployment rate to 2% — its lowest since November 2023, according to an analysis of the latest jobs data published today by the US Bureau of Labor statistics (BLS). The overall national unemployment rate held steady at 4.1%,...
The Saskatchewn RCMP released the below video of 911 operators reviewing the dumbest calls they received in 2024. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! 'Whether you're frustrated with your washing machine, trying to unlock your phone or...
Netflix's global phenomenon Squid Game owes a debt to a Japanese movie made a quarter-century earlier, as revealed by Cezary Jan Strusiewicz for Tokyo Weekender. Squid Game's creator Hwang Dong-hyuk openly acknowledges drawing inspiration from Battle Royale, the cult 1999...
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