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Friday November 1, 2024. 05:43 PM
Deere caught in headlights — the US Federal Trade Commission is finally investigating farm equipment giant John Deere over its questionable repair policies. The company has made a habit of making it extremely difficult to outright impossible for its customers to repair the ...
The lack of a professional image-editing app is an obvious hole in Apple's own app lineup, and its acquisition of Pixelmator fills it. The deal gets it Pixelmator Pro, Pixelmator for iOS, and Photomator. We've been inspired by Apple since day one, crafting our products with ...
Donald Trump threatened Liz Cheney with a firing squad. CNN brought on Rep. Tim Burchett to pretend he can't hear. Tennesee Congressperson Tim Burchett isn't familiar enough with a firing squad to tell you how many rifles are in a traditional firing squad (six to twelve, so ...
London police have nabbed a 63-year-old man who allegedly stole nearly $400,000 worth of artisanal cheddar cheese from the beloved Neal's Yard Dairy cheese shop. That's nacho average robbery! 'The theft involved a fraudulent buyer posing as a legitimate wholesale distributor ...
During the height of COVID pandemic lockdown, researcher Daniela Roessler took on a peculiar new hobby: observing the sleeping patterns of spiders to try and figure out if they dream. The twitches came in very regular intervals of about 20 to 30 minutes. — Read the rest ...
MIT researchers say it can reduce belief in conspiracy theories by 20% Researchers Thomas Costello (MIT, American University), Gordon Pennycook (Cornell University), and David Rand (MIT) recently published an article in Science, entitled, 'Durably reducing conspiracy...
This video of a mama Gonatus onyx (black-eyed) squid swimming while carrying her enormous egg mass is mesmerizing. Live Science explains that the black-eyed squid is one of the few squids that are known to brood their eggs, and this one is doing it with amazing grace and...
What is this contraption? It's been sitting for decades in the Maryland storage space of the Dorchester County Historical Society but nobody knows what it does or where the hell it came from. Can you help? Executive director Zoe Phillips says it appears to be more than...
If there was still any question on whether or not Donald Trump is running for U.S. dictator, he answered it loud and clear last night when he told Tucker Carlson that he'd like to see Liz Cheney 'with guns trained on her face.' — Read the rest The post Dictator Trump...
This trailer suggests the Star Wars universe has found its Goonies. Never say die. Starting like a late 80s or early 90s teen drama, this trailer launches kids into danger. Having found a pretty cool-looking quad-engined Starcraft, a couple of kids and a droid get lost and...
TL;DR: Get Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows for just $69.97 (reg. $219) through November 3. Are you tired of shelling out cash month after month for your productivity tools? You're not alone. We all want top-tier tools, but why rent when you can own? — Read...
Russ Crandall's retrogaming YouTube channel stands on the precipice of doom because of the platform's three-strikes rule. Nintendo has issued two DMCA takedowns, against videos showing Nintendo games running on other companies' hardware, and Crandall knows the game is up. —...
'Jaywalking' is the ultra-American crime of crossing a road on foot. In principle a safety measure, it was fact a gift to the car industry and in practice functions as a device for criminalizing normal behavior: in busy cities 'jaywalking' is hard to avoid if you want to get ...
Matt Bahner's 34x34x34 cube is an incredible piece of machinery. 16.5 inches on a side and comprising 6,939 unique parts, it took him more than 1000 hours spread over a year to construct. It weighs 98 pounds. 'It's my homage to the intersection of art and logic. — Read the re...
Winlator is an Android app that runs Windows apps. Now, I don't have an Android device so can't report in myself on its effectiveness and ease of use, but the tip sheets suggest broad compatibility and the screenshots suggest a lot of fun is being had out there. — Read the re...
Plaid-Patterns.com offers a vast selection of handsome plaid patterns. One may organize the plaids by the number of likes or views they have received, or by their age. One may see a rendering of the plaid you are interested in on a shirt. — Read the rest The post Online...
When you think of Japan's iconic Mount Fuji, you probably think of it with its winter snowcap. It's not there in summer—and for the first time in 130 years of recorded history, it remains bare into November. The peaks of Japan's highest mountain are usually dusted in...
TL;DR: Mini size, mega features. Check out now and get the NanoPhone for just $99.97 (reg. $199). Meet NanoPhone, the credit card-sized smartphone that would've really pissed Derek Zoolander off but is about to change how you think about staying connected. — Read the rest ...
Thursday October 31, 2024. 11:00 PM
Donald Trump is seeing things again, and in this new batch of hallucinations comes his worst fear: Kamala Harris, who happened to 'turn Black' in July, is now 'a cracker.' 'She's exhausted,' the delusional ex-president said in Albuquerque, New Mexico today. — Read the rest ...
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,...
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