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Saturday August 2, 2025. 11:25 PM
Every year, hundreds of rhinos in South Africa are killed for their horns. Fake horns, embedded cameras, and aggressive enforcement have all been used in an effort to combat poaching. Conservationists now have a new tool in the anti-poaching toolkit — radiation. — Read the...
In my quest to document every gimmick account on the Internet, I've rarely come across something as patently bizarre as JAV Titles. With Elon Musk's grand Twitter experiment collapsing into a neo-Nazi-filled hellhole, we've entered something of a Wild West of posting as...
TL;DR: Your DVD collection deserves a glow-up. DVDneXtCOPY DVD Ripper lets you rip, convert, and edit DVDs (even the stubborn protected ones) into over 1,000 digital formats—for just $29.99. Chances are, your DVD shelf is looking more like a dusty museum exhibit than a...
TL;DR: Get lifetime access to Cleaner Kit Premium for iOS and reclaim space with AI-powered photo cleanup, video compression, inbox decluttering, and more—all for $29.99. So, you've got a 256GB iPhone, and 252GB of it is memes, blurry selfies, and 37 nearly identical...
Private therapy sessions, drug confessions, and intimate relationship details from ChatGPT users appeared in Google search results due to a controversial sharing feature that OpenAI has now removed. Ars Technica reports that users who thought they were simply saving their...
Male leopard seals are very enthusiastic singers when it comes time to woo a mate, and a new study found that their songs are similar to those of human nursery rhymes. Spring is a busy time for male leopard seals. It's mating season, and they have a lot of singing to do. —...
A gang of monkeys in Bali has mastered the art of high-stakes negotiation, stealing phones and valuables from tourists and trading them back for food at a historic cliff-side temple. At Uluwatu Temple, around 600 long-tailed macaques have developed a sophisticated bartering...
Friday August 1, 2025. 11:00 PM
TL;DR: I got fed up with my Microsoft 365 subscription, so I decided to grab this Microsoft Office 2024 lifetime license while it was discounted to $130. Check out what I thought! I can't be the only one who's sick and tired of paying subscriptions for everything from Uber...
Tesla has been found partly liable in a deadly crash where Enhanced Autopilot was engaged. The payout is hefty. The payout includes $129 million in compensatory damages, and $200 million in punitive damages against Tesla. Attorneys for the plaintiffs had asked the jury to...
In the cataclysmic finale of Mahler's Symphony No. 6, there is no cymbal crash, no brass blast — only the dull, devastating thud of a 22-pound wooden hammer crashing onto a custom-built box. Houston Symphony principal percussion Brian Del Signore built this singular...
Unable to handle some barbs on social media, ol' Ketchup on the Walls has deployed two nuclear submarines in response. Earlier this week, the deputy chair of Russia's security council, Dmitry Medvedev, implied that Convicted Felon #47 was behaving like 'Sleepy Joe.' — Read...
Ordered to make parts available and to allow consumers to fix their own devices, Apple does not play nice. 404media points out that Apple is not making repairs readily available, but rather so cost-prohibitive that one may as well buy an entirely new device. — Read the rest ...
Sworders' upcoming 'Out of the Ordinary' auction gathers 479 lots of uncanny bric-a-brac, from Dark-Ages pentagram rings to voodoo altarpieces and a petrified child's chimney shoe. The catalogue reads like the inventory of a wizard's attic, but two curios stand out even...
This video offers a detailed, yet hilarious look at COSplaying Homeland Security Barbie and Puppy Slayer, Kristi Noem. From an abusive Dad who died earning a Darwin Award, to developing a hilariously terrible anti-drug campaign, it'd be easier to laugh at Kristi Noem if...
Looks like someone's been a chatty little inmate! Child trafficker and Jeffrey Epstein's favorite enabler Ghislaine Maxwell just scored herself a sweet upgrade to a minimum-security prison in Texas, right after having a cozy two-day chat with a Trump administration official. ...
In this hilarious video, a woman's cat only comes running over when she sings The Hampster Dance Song. The cat's actual name? Doesn't work. Only the chorus to The Hampster Dance will get the kitty's attention. This video is just another reason added to the long list of...
This peculiar palm tree in Peru, shared by Atlas Obscura, grows like a serpent across the ground, and locals trim one of its 'heads' to ward off disaster. In Cachiche, near the city of Ica, the 'Palmera de Siete Cabezas' (Seven-headed Palm Tree) has become both a tourist...
The Warrens were never boring: the married team of a demonologist and psychic arguably did more to bring belief in the demonic back into the public eye than anyone else in the 20th century. They did it by making themselves accessible academically, to the media, and most...
The mom of the year award goes to this Opossum. At first glance it looks like she has unusal looking, lumpy fur. If you look closer you'll see 7 babies clinging onto her back. Not only is this cute opossum able to carry all her babies at once, but she's also an acrobat. —...
It's definitely hot in Phoenix right now, so I'm blasting the A/C and have all of my fans set to high, which is helping. I'm also taking inspiration from the adorable waterfowl who live in New York at the Cheese and Quackers Homestead, and indulging in as many cool and icy...
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