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Thursday November 7, 2024. 01:10 AM
Japanese scientists blended traditional woodworking techniques with state-of-the-art electronics to fashion the world's first wooden satellite. On Monday, a SpaceX rocket carried the 'CubeSat'—just four inches by four inches on each side—to the International Space...
Wednesday November 6, 2024. 11:44 PM
Kamala Harris acted far more presidential than Donald Trump ever did when she gave her concession speech at Howard University today. 'I know folks are feeling and experiencing a range of emotions right now. I get it. But we must accept the results of this election,' the...
TL;DR: Give your PC new life by making Windows 11 Pro its operating system for only $19.97 (reg. $199) for four more days If you're not operating on an up-to-date operating system, then you're messing up (sorry for the tough love, but it's true!). — Read the rest The post Yo...
Japan's beloved convenience store onigiri (rice balls) just got even better, thanks to a clever hack shared by Zen-Noh, the Japan Agricultural Cooperatives Group. While these triangular treats are already celebrated for being tasty, affordable, and portable, their unique...
Why are Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk so happy today? Because with Trump in office, they can realize their dream of becoming trillionaires. Here's what they xitted and threaded today: Musk: $285 billion: 'It is morning in America again.' — Read the rest The p...
A cat named Chewie catches mice nearly every day, says his owner — usually to the little critter's detriment, of course. So it was quite surprising when Chewie not only brought home a live mouse, but then invited him to dinner. — Read the rest The post Cat catches mouse...
The fans went wild when the long-running video game Fortnite brought back its original maps and weapons. November 5th, 2023, was one of the biggest days in online video game history last year. Over forty four million players jumped in to see the OG Fortnite Island. — Read...
No face coverings please, we're Swiss. Back in 2021, 51.2% of Swiss voters backed a so called 'anti-burka' law, which forbids people from covering their faces in public. The law will go into effect on January 1, 2025. Violators will have to pay a fine of up to CHF1,000...
Last night at an election party, I enjoyed a bit of gallows humor in my friend's bathroom when I reached for the toilet paper and noticed the convicted conman staring back at me. Donald Trump toilet paper was the only comic relief to an otherwise crappy night. — Read the...
On July 2, 1937, Amelia Earhart and her navigator disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean during their trip around the world. Her plane has never been found despite countless efforts to solve the mystery of its vanishing. Earlier this year, ocean exploration...
A raccoon came in for an unexpected landing inside New Yorker's La Guardia Airport yesterday. It broke through the suspended ceiling and hung from a cable. The incident occurred near the Spririt Airline counter which makes complete sense. Watch the video below originally...
Some of Trump's supporters dismissed his threats of prosecution, imprisonment, deportation, and even execution of people he doesn't like as just talk. But many of his close advisers believe the soon-to-be President means business this time around, and expect him to follow...
Faced with the return of a President of the United States who is now unchained by the law and unhinged by mental decline, California's Attorney General is once again prepared to resist. Faced with four more years of a Trump administration and a more aggressive attack on the ...
Elon Musk's love for dungeon crawler loot-em-up Diablo 4 has long been known – just look at him begging the game for Twitter engagement – but it evidently verges into the realm of being unhealthy. Any Elon Musk fan will tell you at length how many responsibilities he has,...
Although the mystery of the forum poster known as Q has been all but solved – it's the guys who run 8chan, of course it's always been the guys who run 8chan – the movement they've inspired has kept gathering momentum, forming into its own snowball of idiocy with no input...
JOIN THE INNER HIVE while it's still possible to do so. You'll get each week's Tom the Dancing Bug comic at least a day before publication! Plus other exclusive content. Please do join the team that makes it possible for Tom the Dancing Bug to exist, and find out how...
Empire of the Ants is a strategy game coming to consoles and computers tomorrow. You command an army of ants—an intriguing but rarely-tackled take on the genre that updates an earlier title released 24 years ago on Windows and has contemporary comeptition in the form of...
If you would like to make a website look and feel exactly like Microsoft Windows 98—and whyever not?—you could do far worse than to use Jordan Scales' 98.css. It's not just a cascading style sheet to plop in but an extensive and well-measured library. — Read the rest ...
Back to the Future, Robert Zemeckis' 1985 time-travel fantasy starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd, offers two title drops: lines of dialog that contain the name of the movie. Dominikus Baur and Alice Thudt created a website that collects all such examples of...
Junocam is attached to NASA's Juno probe in orbit around Jupiter, and has vastly outperformed its specification, sending home unexpectedly clear images of its moons as well as the swirling gas giant itself. The latest images, presented with enhanced color, show an incredible ...
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