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Monday August 11, 2025. 07:13 PM
Penn State researchers have shown that phone conversations can be intercepted from up to 10 feet away by detecting tiny vibrations in smartphones using radar technology. The team used a millimeter-wave radar sensor—the same type found in self-driving cars and motion...
Donald Trump has made it 'official' — he's going to 'take our capital back' by replacing the D.C. police with the National Guard. 'This is Liberation Day in D.C. and we're going to take our capital back. We're taking it back…I'm officially invoking section 740 of the Distri...
A Batavia, Illinois company called Savor has figured out how to turn carbon dioxide drawn from the atmosphere and hydrogen from water into fat that is molecularly identical to the butterfat in sticks from the dairy aisle. The product browns, melts, and tastes like the real...
Time is running out if you want to join this year's 4th of July larp, what the event describes as a 'trailer park larp about the broken American dream.' The 4th of July larp website provides this overview of the project: 4th of July is a social drama focusing on the...
Jim Kitchen's seen a lot of our planet. He was the first fella to travel to every one of the 193 nations recognized by the United Nations, been propelled into low orbit, and sunk down to the Mariana Trench in 2022. — Read the rest The post Man who canceled OceanGate Titan...
You'll be playing Sims 4 for the next 20 years and you'll like it. Since that game's release in 2014, it's gotten a steady stream of updates and expansions, attracting a steady playerbase and keeping them from straying with the constant promise of something new on the...
Crystal Palace's concrete dinosaurs, which include beasts weighing up to 10,000 pounds, offer a fascinating glimpse into the birth of paleontology. The sculptures are completely inaccurate but wonderful nonetheless. They were created by natural history artist Benjamin...
We had high hopes for the Tesla Diner. Elon Musk has suffered these past few years. He needs a win. One that might compel his kid to speak to him again. A success that could make Grimes overlook what went wrong between them. — Read the rest The post Musk's Tesla diner faces...
An American Airlines regional jet and an Army Blackhawk helicopter collided in January in the crowded airspace of Washington National Airport, killing all passengers and crew aboard both aircraft. The NTSB recently held three days of hearings to gather testimony for its...
Hey! Remember last month when the Department of Homeland Security thought it'd be awesome to use South Park to advertise their push to hire more ICE agents? Man, what a burn after Trump and his tiny peen were featured in the cartoon series' season opener. — Read the rest ...
Given how shitty AI is making the Internet nowadays, it's almost refreshing to see an actual human making it worse. It's like having a favorite Bond villain — you don't like their evil plans, but you can at least appreciate the vast intricacy of them. — Read the rest The p...
James Ensor (1860–1949) spent nearly his entire life in Ostend, Belgium, living above the family shop that sold carnival masks. In the 1880s he turned his back on the realist style that had first brought him recognition and began conjuring a far stranger world: grotesque...
The platypus is an iconic, unique, and threatened species. They have rubbery duck bills, webbed feet, venomous spurs on their hind legs, tails like beavers, and lay eggs, despite being mammals. Human activity is destroying their habitat, but they are nocturnal and...
I have a deep affection for mechanical Hamilton Field Watches. During my first career, I wore one to work every day. Like any good field watch, it was small, stayed out of my way until I needed to know the time, was super easy to read, day or night, and never got caught on...
I recently discovered a social media site that sits at the perfect intersection of all of my current core needs and desires: laughing through my pain, learning things despite my strong urges to just sit and eat cookies all day, and expressing my existential angst in this...
I know, I know, webcomic recommendations are a dime a dozen, especially around here. I promise Dolmistaska is really good, though. It's hard to describe the premise of something so off-the-wall in a way that makes sense, but I'll try anyway for your sake: Dolmistaska follows ...
In this captivating time-lapse, grapes turn into raisins. The grapes are dipped into saltwater and then hung up to dry. The process takes 40 days, and we get to see them transform. The raisins in this time lapse look a bit different than the store-bought ones. — Read the...
Elwood Edwards, the voice actor famous as the voice of AOL ('You've got Mail!'), passed away last year at 74. And now AOL's dial-up internet service will join him in death. An announcement posted to its website set the last day as September 29. — Read the rest The post AOL...
The U.K. is implementing its so-called Online Safety Act, a legal smorgasbord of controls, restrictions, regulations and censorious follies of the kind likely to make quick fools of the censors. The Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia, challenged relevant parts of ...
Best Buy has its Apple islands, and soon it will have Ikea forts in its big-box stores. The miniature Ikeas will pitch the Swedish giant's home appliances and kitchen design services. The new in-store collaboration will launch in 10 stores throughout Florida and Texas,...
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