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Stanford University houses what may be the world's largest online collection of tobacco advertisements — over 62,000 scans spanning three centuries that tell a fascinating story of how the industry shaped public perception of smoking. The Stanford Research into the Impact...
The Information Technology Industry Council (ITIC), a major tech group representing companies like Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta, is opposing a new U.S. AI chip export regulation that could have far-reaching consequences. The Export Control Framework for Artificial...
You can't blame Michelle Obama for bowing out of former President Jimmy Carter's funeral today. She had a 'scheduling conflict,' after all. Or perhaps a seating conflict, as it were, as she was scheduled to sit right next to Donald Trump at D.C.'s — Read the rest The post T...
Version 1.84.0 of the Rust language has been released. Changes include improved version selection for dependencies in Cargo, the beginning of the migration to a new trait solver, and some updated pointer-provenance APIs. Most of the time, programmers do not need to worry...
Residents of Jefferson County, Missouri were flabbergasted by the sight of a monkey in a pink tutu frolicking on the side of a busy road. Curiously, the monkey was wearing a pink tutu. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! — Read the rest ...
SOUNDPEATS has introduced its latest audio product, the PearlClip Pro wireless earbuds. Designed to blend comfort, performance, and affordability, these earbuds aim to enhance daily activities like travel and workouts while delivering exceptional sound quality. With advanced ...
Federal prosecutors have indicted three executives of PageTurner Press and Media in what authorities describe as a sophisticated fraud scheme that fleeced authors out of millions between 2017 and 2024. According to the federal indictment filed December 20 in the Southern...
Ableton's Learning Synths website has a bunch of in-browser widgets that explain sound synthesis and make fun noises. WeeeewiwiwiWIWIWIWIWIEEERRRRRR, etc. On this website, you'll learn the basics of using synthesizers (or synths). No prior experience or equipment is...
The British Museum has cracked a 4,000-year-old murder plot: Babylonian kings routinely sacrificed royal stand-ins to avoid eclipse prophecies. From the museum's collection of 130,000 Mesopotamian clay tablets, four texts tell the story. The tablets, written in Old...
Most people attending former president Jimmy Carter's funeral today put their differences aside when it came to the presence of Donald Trump. Even former President Barack Obama was caught on camera actually yukking it up with the bitter ol' president-elect. (See video below, ...
The Linux Foundation has announced the launch of 'Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers,' an initiative aimed at funding and supporting open development within the Chromium ecosystem. The purpose of this effort is to provide resources and foster collaboration among...
Apple has vehemently denied that it ever abused recordings of Siri requests by using those records for marketing, ad sales, or any of the other creepy nonsense we’re being forced to tolerate with other connected devices. The company’s denial follows a recent $95...
Chipmaker NVIDIA is launching a new mini PC called “Project Digits” that will provide a petaFLOP of power for local AI processing and data science. NVIDIA’s CEO Jensen Huang announced Project Digits at the CES 2025 tech expo taking place in Las Vegas this week. ...
Google DeepMind is making a decisive move toward the future of AI by assembling a dedicated team of researchers to develop world models, an approach that could bring AI closer to resembling human cognition. Unlike today’s AI simulations, which rely heavily on vast datasets ...
Trump, blathering, wants Canada to become the 51st state. As many point out, this makes no sense constitutionally for his party, as the State of Canada would have some 50 U.S. Representatives and 60 electoral college votes. The House and presidency would turn a maple shade...
TL;DR: Protect your files with a 10TB lifetime cloud storage plan, just $279.99 with code HOLIDAY20. Privacy is a big deal. Whether it's photos from your family vacation or important work documents, your files deserve better than being part of someone's data collection...
What I love most about Lawrence Woodman's retrospective of Commodore VIC-20 word processors is how inappropriate its wide-pixel, low-res display is for that task. And yet he perservered! Commodore's VICWRITER has an interesting approach to dealing with the 22 character...
After creating the intended fear and chaos, it seems Elon Musk's bold promise to cut $2 trillion from the US Federal budget was vapor. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! The Trump/Musk brainchild 'Department of Government Efficiency' was a ruse,...
The Software Freedom Conservancy is reporting that AVM has released the full source and installation scripts for its routers in response to a lawsuit, filed by Sebastian Steck, based on Lesser GNU Public License rights. Historically, lawsuits have focused on the copyrights ...
George Santos, the criminally convicted congressman who got into the U.S. House of Representatives after the criminally useless New York Democrats failed to put up a fight in the Long Island race he ran in, will not be sentenced until April. — Read the rest The post George...
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