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Sunday January 12, 2025. 10:50 AM
VLC Media Player remains one of the most popular video players, having just hit a staggering 6 billion downloads. But VideoLAN, the company behind the software, is not one to rest on its laurels as an exciting demonstration at CES shows. One of the biggest features in the...
Saturday January 11, 2025. 11:00 PM
TL;DR: This MacBook Pro would usually cost $999, but now it's only $349.97. Shopping for a new computer is kind of like dating. You learn about a new computer, see if it'd fit into your life, sit down together at a nice restaurant, and maybe you work on a tasty little...
If you arrange musical notes to form a circle of fifths and then rotate various polygons around the circle, letting its points trigger the notes, what does it sound like? Sometimes harmonious, sometimes melodic, but always an intriguing illustration of how music and math are ...
Holding Rudy Giuliani in contempt of court, Judge Beryl Howell gave former New York Mayor and disgraced lawyer a dressing down: his 'outrageous and shameful' refusal to stop defaming two election workers will lead to further consequences, she said: 'This takes real chutzpah, ...
Listen to the current time in morse code with the Morse Code Clock! I was able to put up with it for about two minutes before I'd had enough. [via Internet is Beautiful] I built a Morse Code clock. — Read the rest The post See how long you can take the Morse Code Clock...
A sheriff's deputy in Lake County, Florida, resigned this week after crashing his patrol car. He was watching porn at the wheel and faced termination after admitting lying to investigators. Here's the bodycam footage—nothing saucy is seen in it. A good example of why...
Linux Mint fans, rejoice! The BETA phase for Linux Mint 22.1 has officially concluded. According to the development team, a total of 115 bug reports were submitted during the testing period, leading to the resolution of many issues. This collaborative effort highlights the...
The last minutes of the Jeju Air jet that crash-landed in December, killing all but two aboard, remain a mystery: the black box did not record the flight's final moments after a reported bird strike. Both the flight data and cabin audio recorders lack the last four minutes....
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...
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