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Thursday March 27, 2025. 02:56 PM
Timothy B. Lee has been writing full-time about AI on his Substack, Understanding AI, since 2023. In his latest post, he analyzed Waymo's recent crash data and determined that Waymo robotaxis drive much better than human drivers. This may seem surprising if your perception...
Like a hidden blade right to the heart. You may have noticed the recent controversy around Assassin's Creed Shadows, the last hope of flagging game developer Ubisoft – and if you haven't, I'm jealous of you. While for the most part it looked like more Assassin's Creed –...
This strange little creature—which, to me, looks like an overgrown bumble bee with an unusually large snout—is a lowland streaked tenrec. They are native to Madagascar, covered in spines, and, according to Dr. Natalie Cooper, who has studied them, 'like a hedgehog...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene flew into a rage when a British reporter tried to ask about U.S. national security. 'What country are you from!?' she shouted. And when the reporter said she was from the U.K., Greene snapped, 'Why don't you go back to your country?' — Read the...
Congratulations to Mr. Pugsley Adams, a Maine Coon cat who recently earned a World Record for being the cat with the longest tail. Mr. Pugsley's tail reaches an astonishing 16.07 inches. Not only is his tail over a foot and a half long, but it's also incredibly fluffy. —...
Researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama have made a fantastic discovery. Inside a small nest camouflaged by seeds was a baby hummingbird that looked and acted like a caterpillar. The scientists were monitoring the single egg and were surprised...
The first item on the Mac page of the Apple store is currently a Lumon Terminal Pro. The terminal features the now iconic two-tone blue keyboard and trackball, and the screen features a welcome message to would-be macrodata refiners. Sadly, the pseudo-retro terminal is not...
Tufts University graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish national, was abducted by masked plainclothes federal agents near her off-campus apartment building in Somerville, Massachusetts. A Tufts University student and a Fulbright scholar, Runeysa Ozturk, was snatched...
The University of Nevada, Reno announced on March 10 that a beloved male mute swan named Zeus, who had been a fixture on campus for decades, was found dead near its home at Manzanita Lake. In that announcement, the University stated: It is with great sadness that...
'I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library,' wrote Jorge Luis Borges. I've visited NYC's Morgan Library & Museum, above, and it is most certainly paradisiacal. Smithsonian magazine has shared many others in this collection and I want to collect them all!...
Serbian activists toppled a dictator by turning him into a carnival game, proving that mockery can be a powerful weapon against authoritarianism. In Belgrade during the late 1990s, young protesters placed a barrel painted with President Slobodan Milosevic's face on a busy...
The Trump Administration's 'SignalGate' leak of war plans only gets worse and worse. German news site DER SPIEGEL reveals that private data, including mobile phone numbers and passwords, of U.S. security officials included in the Signal chat have been exposed online. — Read...
Hey suckers who thought switching to diet soda would help curb those cravings — science has some deliciously ironic news for you! Turns out your brain isn't falling for that zero-calorie sleight of hand. In fact, it's getting even hangrier about it. — Read the rest The...
A Sydney man's quest to collect every element on the periodic table went wrong when he ordered plutonium samples online, triggering a major hazmat incident and potential jail time. Emmanuel Lidden, 24, now faces up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to breaching...
Without Elon Musk at his side, Donald Trump fell flat on his face at a press briefing today. In fact, the befuddled president proved to be the most clueless commander-in-chief in U.S. history, knowing absolutely nothing about his administration's recent national security...
TL;DR: Outfit any computer with two Microsoft must-haves with the Ultimate Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows Lifetime License and Windows 11 Pro Bundle, now only $54.97 (reg. $438). What if we told you it only takes $55 to make an old computer feel new again? —...
TL;DR: Code like Steve Jobs with assistance from Microsoft Visual Studio Professional, the first 64-bit IDE that's now discounted to only $27.97 (reg. $499) through March 30. Here's a scenario every coder understands: Imagine spending literal hours debugging your software,...
Wednesday March 26, 2025. 11:04 PM
Six Centuries of Type & Printing is a handsome volume from Glenn Fleishman (previously) about the history of the technology culminating in what you most likely looking at right now: letters on a screen. They used to take bits of metal dipped in sticky colored liquid, then...
An overwhelmed black Lab who had just given birth to 14 puppies was in an emotional quandary. 'She wanted to be with me in bed like we sleep every night,' her owner explained. On the other hand (or paw, as it were), 'she also knew her babies needed her.' — Read the rest ...
University of Maryland has announced its 2025 commencement speaker: an 'environmental advocate, best-selling author, Peabody Award winner' and a 'champion of creativity, kindness and believing in the impossible.' He is also green. 'Nothing could make these feet happier than...
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