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After quietly existing for years, Android Instant Apps are officially heading to the Google graveyard. The feature will be shut down in December 2025, and if you're wondering what Instant Apps even are… well, you're not alone. Launched in 2017, Instant Apps were supposed...
Bolivia's Death Road claims the lives of nearly 100 people each year. This narrow mountain road in Bolivia has some sections that are barely 3 meters wide. It has earned the ominous title 'Death Road' for good reason. The 64-kilometer Yungas Road, which connects La Paz to...
The POSIX realtime model, which is implemented in the Linux kernel, can ensure that a realtime process obtains the CPU time it needs to get its job done. It can be less effective, though, when there are multiple realtime processes competing for the available CPU resources....
Deep in Palau's Rock Islands is a remarkable marine lake where millions of golden jellyfish swim daily. The golden jellyfish have evolved to be distinctly different from their ocean-dwelling relatives. Their stings are extremely mild and generally harmless to humans. Each...
The gaming community's dedication to running games with platforms they have no business being on needs to be studied. Take, for instance, literally everything they've done with DOOM or running Minecraft's voxel model inside Mario 64. The next step in this pointless but no...
It's not often that we plop a music video on the site these days, but this recent story in Vulture about how the video for Jack White's Archbishop Harold Holmes is too good not to share with you. The short version: John C. — Read the rest The post John C. Reilly finally...
TL;DR: Tackle whatever the day brings you with this onn. 10.1″ Android Tablet, now only $49.99 (reg. $99). When you want the freedom to move without losing touch, a tablet is the perfect middle ground — offering all the power without the bulk. — Read the rest The post Th...
Sure, we may be experiencing a terrifying backslide into fascism, but at least we have satirical comedy duo The Good Liars there to make us laugh along the way. Wherever the MAGA cult can be found, the Good Liars are there to make them trip over their own words and expose...
In the age before warning labels and liability waivers, scientific experimentation often looked like something between a séance and a rave. Case in point: this glorious 1807 illustration from a University of Pennsylvania dissertation titled 'The Effects of Breathing Nitrous ...
Tucker Carlson clobbered Ted Cruz while the two argued about the Israel-Iran conflict, reducing Cruz to a squirming mess in a clip that's now gone viral. (See video below, posted by Acyn.) Catering to the 'America First,' pro-Putin, anti-war faction of MAGA, Carlson...
The Lustre filesystem has a long history, some of which intersects with Linux. It was added to the staging tree in 2013, but was bounced out of staging in 2018, due to a lack of progress and a development model that was incompatible with the kernel's. Lustre may be working...
10-year-old Angelos Mako loved Dungeon Rampage, a simple Facebook game that had the player hack and slash their way through procedurally-generated dungeons. Fun as it was, it distracted him from troubles at home and offered an escape—until it was unceremoniously shut down. ...
The KDE Project has announced the Plasma 6.4 release. New features include more flexible tiling features, improvements to the Spectacle screen capture utility, a number of accessibility enhancements, and much more. See the changelog for a complete list of new features,...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (gst-plugins-bad1.0, konsole, and libblockdev), Oracle (buildah, containernetworking-plugins, gimp, git-lfs, gvisor-tap-vsock, kernel, libvpx, podman, and skopeo), Red Hat (apache-commons-beanutils and thunderbird), Slackware...
Mike Lindell, already a stark example of wealthy men who gave everything to Trump and lost it all, was found guilty of defaming a voting machine company employee and is on the hook for millions of dollars in compensation. Jurors had no problem reaching the verdict, though...
With The Sims dead in the water for the time being (except for an endless stream of Sims 4 DLC), the sharks are seemingly beginning to circle. The venerable series' hold over the life-sim genre for which it's named is beginning to loosen — Nintendo has brought the obscure...
Scottish island Lewis—lovely in summer, bleak in winter—is now home to a mysterious low noise. The Hebridean Hum is yet to earn its own wikipedia entry alongside those in Taos, New Mexico and Auckland, but hypotheses for such phenomena include high-pressure pipelines,...
The ongoing protests in Los Angeles have pushed a national issue further into the spotlight: recent actions by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE), including the detention of immigrants and, in some cases, the revocation of visas. Naturally, immigration...
Chinese AI startup MiniMax has thrown down the gauntlet to established AI giants, releasing what it boldly claims is the world’s first open-source, large-scale hybrid-attention reasoning model that could fundamentally change the economics of advanced AI development....
There’s no denying it: When it comes to Windows and AI chatbots, ChatGPT leads the pack. Microsoft invested more than $13 billion in OpenAI, after all. And while the company has pinned Copilot to the taskbar on Windows PCs and placed a Copilot key on new laptops, its...
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