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Wednesday January 8, 2025. 10:56 PM
Astronaut and astrophotographer Don Pettit gifted the world with the breathtaking video below of the Aurorea Borealis as seen from the International Space Station, approximately 250 miles above Earth. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! —...
The future of work could look very different soon, according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who predicts that “virtual employees” powered by artificial intelligence are almost ready to join the workforce. In a blog published Monday, January 6, Altman wrote that these AI...
In Napa Valley, California, a one-ounce South African Krugerrand gold coin valued at thousands of dollars was discovered in a Salvation Army donation bucket. Meanwhile, in Washington County, Pennsylvania, someone dropped an Elizabeth II gold coin valued at $2,700 into the...
Smug fraudster and MoviePass mastermind Ted Farnsworth finally faces justice after years of exploiting investors' dreams – but his potential 25-year sentence feels light for someone who made a career of destroying trust and retirement accounts. The 62-year-old serial...
At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, health tech brand Withings introduced Omnia, a groundbreaking conceptual device that merges a smart mirror with a scale—all powered by artificial intelligence. Designed to analyze, interpret, and provide...
Is Collins' Pocket Interpreters: France (1937 edition) the most pessimistic phrasebook ever published? What was meant as a practical tool for British tourists instead became an accidental masterpiece of travel anxiety literature, suggesting that a trip to France was less...
Columbian police arrested Kevin Orlando Arias Forero for allegedly murdering two people in April 2024. Forero had been on the wanted list for months. Why did it take authorities so long to nab him? According to Forero, he had the assistance of a 'diabolical goblin' in...
Dramatic video circulating online shows two men and a dog staring out of wall-to-ceiling windows in their Los Angeles home as raging fire surrounds them. (See video below, posted by Mike Sington.) With not enough context or news sources (besides TMZ), it's not clear why the...
Apple is currently facing criticism after its AI-based news summarizing tool misrepresented information reported by reliable news sources including BBC News and The New York Times and sent inaccurate warnings to iPhone users. Media groups have requested that the tool,...
The Sequoia OpenPGP library has been in development for some time. LWN covered the library in 2020. Now the project's command-line interface has been released. The sq tool offers a promising alternative to the venerable GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) tool — albeit one with a...
Cybersecurity company Eset is now urging Windows 10 users to upgrade to Windows 11 or another operating system well in advance of Oct. 14, 2025, when support for Windows 10 ends. into”It’s about five to twelve minutes to avoid a security fiasco in 2025,” Eset...
Generative AI (GenAI) tools produce original text and image content from user prompts by learning from the massive datasets on which their AI models and neural networks are trained. With a number of generative AI apps available to consumers today, you have more options than...
When John Mills got caught in the path of California's Wallbridge Fire in 2020, the off-the-grid tech entrepreneur realized the chaos of trying to gather critical wildfire information could be deadly. His solution? Watch Duty — a free app to stay ahead of advancing flames. ...
Computers get clogged with digital “stuff” over time, and while we all like to think we’re good at managing all that D-detritus, there’s somehow never quite enough time to clean things up. If you’re new to the Mac, or even if you’ve used an Apple computer for...
The Tor Project has published a review of major milestones from 2024, including merging with the Tails project, work to enable human-friendly.onion addresses, and the launch of WebTunnel: By mimicking common internet protocols, WebTunnel improves the resilience of the Tor...
Satechi has introduced the SM3 Slim Mechanical Backlit Bluetooth Keyboard, offering users a full-size typing solution that supports both Mac and Windows systems. The keyboard features a sleek aluminum enclosure, a 108-key layout with a numeric keypad, and low-profile brown...
Scientists have discovered a crucial mechanism behind one of sleep's most vital functions — cleaning toxins from the brain. The process relies on a rhythmic cycle of vessel squeezing and relaxing, driven by pulses of norepinephrine during deep sleep. Researchers at the...
Despite growing concerns about avian influenza, Bird Flu Risk, a new data-driven risk assessment suggests the chances of bird flu becoming as devastating as COVID-19 are remarkably low – just 5 out of 100, according to a tracking dashboard launched by forecaster Nathan...
Every so often, we get hints about Windows 12 -- usually in the form of accidental slips from Microsoft partners, like Intel. So far, though, that future OS has yet to be confirmed. Instead, what we get are continuous updates for Windows 11, typically with new AI features...
A 75-year-old woman was reportedly partially eaten by her neighbor's pigs in Pataskala, Ohio. Police were initially called to perform a welfare check on 75-year-old Rebecca Westergaard in Pataskala because she had not arrived as planned at her niece's home in Norton, just...
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