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Wednesday November 6, 2024. 10:41 PM
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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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Nintendo's Wii, while not as wee as its modern handhelds, was a compact console and its minimal design—slimmer than a 2006 Mac Mini and nicer to look at!—helped revive the company's fortunes after the slow-selling Gamecube. Now, nearly twenty years later, one Wii got...
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The nonprofit arm of Mozilla, maker of the web browser Firefox, has laid off 30% of its staff and wound up its advocacy division. The news was broken by Zack Whittaker at TechCrunch, who reports that the foundation had close to 120 people working for it at the time of the...
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Which?, the magazine of the UK Consumers' Association, reports that its test of air fryers revealed that the gadgets were sharing user data with third parties for marketing purposes. The apps for the new 'smart' models in its roundup all wanted permission to record audio...
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Switch games will be compatible with the forthcoming follow-up to Nintendo's popular but long-in-tooth portable console. But company president Shuntaro Furukawa offered few further details about the new system in his statement, beyond reiterating that the Switch 2 will be...
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