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Some guy rented an Airbnb house in Los Angeles and discovered something disturbing — sounds of another person playing a video game coming from a room with no apparent door. In a video he took, you can see him standing in the backyard, his camera pointed at a room with...
Someone dropped off a very cute little kitten at the Bergheim Animal Shelter in Germany but staff quickly noticed something unusual about the animal. Unlike most kittens, it was incredibly aggressive. In fact, that's why the cat was dropped off in the first place. — Read the...
Three sisters in Ohio inherited a rare dime from their brother after he died — and it just sold for $506,250. Although the sisters knew that the 1975 dime was special — their brother had locked it up in a bank vault for 40 years — they had no idea that the coin, which...
Dear Boing Boing reader, For decades, Boing Boing has been the Internet's go-to source for uncovering the wondrous, odd, and cultural cutting edge. Our team of veteran journalists scours the Web every day to bring you the most captivating content, always with our signature...
Zookeepers at England's Bristol Zoo noticed this trailcam image of a 'mysterious winged and horned creature' wandering its woodland property. 'Our UK Conservation team made the discovery when looking through night-vision images from camera traps set up in the award-winning...
Much like Nazi Germany worked to raise awareness of anti-semitism, Marjorie Taylor Greene praised the 'comedy' of Tony Hinchcliffe. The new Republican handwave, recently revealed when JD Vance justified knowingly lying about pets being eaten in Springfield, is to say you...
The Phoenix fabrication facility of the world’s largest semiconductor chip maker is yielding more usable chips than similar plants in Taiwan, according to the Taipei Times. Rick Cassidy, president of TSMC’s US division, said during a webinar last week that the share of...
Many people who are blind have learned how to 'see' and navigate the world using echolocation like bats, shrews, and whales. The skill involves making loud clicking noises with the tongue and then listening for the echo to judge not only distance but sometimes even determine ...
Apple’s week of Mac began today with a newly announced iMac, now beefed up with an M4 chip and more internal memory. Apple says the iMac is up to 4.5 times faster than an equivalent all-in-one Intel Core 7 Windows PC — and promises the machine will deliver up to six...
Having somehow still managed to shock us with their open racism, bigotry, and sexism, Trump used his rally to tell us he and MAGA Mike are planning something really special. The Trump campaign hasn't seemed concerned with courting voters in a long time—their Presidential...
Neither Donald Trump nor any of the other speakers at his hate rally batted an eye last night when Tony Hinchcliffe stood on stage to call Puerto Rico a 'floating island of garbage.' (And that was only one of many ugly, racist remarks made throughout the evening.) — Read the...
Apple has introduced an updated iMac, now powered by its M4 chip, promising faster performance in a familiar, thin design. This new iMac is up to 1.7 times quicker for everyday tasks and offers a 2.1 times improvement in handling demanding applications, like gaming and photo ...
OpenAI plans to release its next major flagship model, Orion, by December, according to The Verge — and Microsoft, which has invested heavily in Open AI, is said to be ready to launch Orion on Azure as early as November. Orion is intended to be the successor to GPT-4 and...
Sparrow Li presented virtually at RustConf 2024 about the current state of and future plans for the Rust compiler's performance. The compiler is relatively slow to compile large programs, although it has been getting better over time. The next big performance improvement to...
Microsoft has moved to simplify how Office app files are opened on mobile devices after users cited uncertainty around the process. Opening a Word, Excel, or PowerPoint file on a mobile device typically means the Microsoft 365 mobile app will start up rather than the...
AI phones, or smartphones with built-in AI capabilities, represent the next big leap forward in cellular device technology. The best AI phones offer AI-enhanced photography, generative AI photo editing, text summarization, writing assistants, instant translation, and other...
Artificial intelligence is a highly competitive field, and breaking into it requires a strategic approach. Beginners can seek out and earn certifications to learn the relevant skills needed to excel in the industry and demonstrate their understanding of core AI areas....
Rong Xu and Han Shen described the kernel-optimization techniques that Google uses in the toolchains track at the 2024 Linux Plumbers Conference. They talked about automatic feedback-directed optimization (AutoFDO), which can be used with the Propeller optimizer to produce...
The Trinity Desktop Environment, a fork of the last release in the KDE 3.x series, has just released their latest version, R14.1.3. Despite its rather small version number change, it contains some very welcome new features. TDE started the process of integrating the XDG...
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