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TL;DR: This grade-A refurbished 2024 Lenovo IdeaPad 5 2-in-1 touchscreen laptop is just $649.99 (reg. $849). If you want to get the best of both worlds—power and flexibility—out of your laptop, consider this your lucky day. Available at a fraction of the regular price,...
NEOM, the striplike desert city in northwest Saudi Arabia, is just one part of the kingdom's massive plan to build out a more tourist- and business-friendly region near Egypt and Israel. Locals have been violently evicted from traditional lands, and workers are faring even...
Republican candidate for the Vice Presidency JD Vance, well known for saying stupid things, verbally stepped off a few new cliffs. Holy smokes. Vance claims women celebrate abortions. Even JOE ROGAN tried to back him down. This is callous beyond callous. — Read the rest The...
I was a huge fan of Patrick Radden-Keefe's Northern Irish history slash true crime book Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland. It's one of those non-fiction books I recommend to everyone I meet who shows even a passing curiosity in the history of ...
The 'infinite monkey theorem' suggests that if you gave a monkey an infinite amount of time to randomly hit keys on a typewriter, it would eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare—Hamlet included—purely by chance. Unfortunately, it won't happen before the end ...
In a Halloween update, ChatGPT has rolled out an improved search feature designed to deliver faster, more relevant information directly within its chat interface. This feature gives users the option to access timely information from the web -- such as sports scores, stock...
Walking against a red light or at the middle of a block is not an advisable thing to do. But in 120 days, it will no longer be a crime to jaywalk in New York City. From The New York Times: '[A]fter decades of mostly turning the other way, city officials finally...
Meet Zachary Peterson, who plays violin and, according to his social media, makes 'strange fiddles,' including acoustic and electric violins made out of Legos. Here's a video of Zachary demonstrating how he made a Lego electric violin, and here he is playing 'Barbie Girl' by...
When it rains, it pours. But when your name is Rudy Giuliani it's a category 5 shitstorm. Rudy is in more trouble than his mobster father ever was. Yesterday was one of the worst days he's had in a string of nightmarish ones: First, the disbarred Trump toady had to turn over ...
The online musical equipment marketplace Reverb just listed a pretty remarkable find: the original EMI TG12345 recording console that was used by the Beatles at Abbey Road studios to record the album Abbey Road. The one-of-a-kind console was actually built specifically for...
If there's something weird, who you gonna call? Maybe try UK nonprofit Electrical Safety First. On Halloween, the electricity industry charity warns that some of the weird phenomena often attributed to poltergeist activity could actually be 'something far more frightening.'...
As Donald Trump dressed up as a garbage truck driver yesterday, pretending to relate to the working class, he lost $1.3 billion of his net worth in a single day. Which is what happens when your social media stock drops like a lead bin of trash. — Read the rest The post...
While nothing can top the winning entry from 2022, Ulster County, New York, once again has an 'I voted' sticker that is the envy of other counties in the state. This year's winner, chosen by popular vote, is Tess Gallo, a thirteen-year-old middle school student who created a ...
Dia de los Muertos is just a few days away, and for those who celebrate, many local traditions involve a special altar, where one can place food, drinks, and other gifts to be enjoyed by their deceased relatives during the brief time when they crossover to the world of the...
Microsoft’s second quarter results beat analysts’ expectations. as revenue increased by 16% to $ 65.6 billion — higher than the $64.5 billion analysts had expected. Net income rose 11% to $ 24.67 billion. Following major investments in AI, revenue from the Azure cloud...
Software vendors’ pitches are evolving, with agentic AI beginning to supplant generative AI in their marketing messages. Rather than just generating code or content for human review agentic AI will, they say, follow instructions, make decisions, and take actions much as...
OpenStreetMap tends to dominate the space for open mapping data, but it is not the only project working in this area. At the 2024 Open Source Summit Japan, Marc Prioleau presented the Overture Maps Foundation, which is building and distributing a set of worldwide maps under...
'You can tell a lot about the state of a campaign from optics' said Hannity, after Trump almost fell down trying to climb into a trash truck. Does anyone outside of the Trump campaign and conservative media circles believe any of the deflection going on around the Trump...
AI art allows non-traditional artists and art enthusiasts to take advantage of the digital space to turn their art ideas into life. With the rise of generative AI art tools that can create images and videos from simple prompts, more and more people want to learn how to make...
As the artificial intelligence company behind ChatGPT, OpenAI has a seemingly never-ending hunger for data on which to train its popular model, much of which it gets by scraping the web. Now the company has begun negotiating licensing deals with media producers to harvest...
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