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Thursday January 30, 2025. 12:48 PM
After six years of legal wrangling, someone finally managed to make Ticketmaster accountable for their infamous price-gouging practices. A Canadian lawyer just won a $6 million settlement over the company's notorious 'drip pricing' strategy, reports CTV News. Sure, everyone...
In 2018, Donald Trump was king of the skies, and he made sure to boast about it. 'Since taking office, I have been very strict on Commercial Aviation,' he crowed on social media. 'Good news — it was just reported that there were Zero deaths in 2017, the best and safest...
EarthCam footage from the Kennedy Center captured the moment an American Airlines flight collided with a Black Hawk military helicopter Wednesday over the Potomoc River. Posted by WFAA, video below shows the impact of the deadly crash, which looks like a ball of fire...
In 1907, when most films were still showing trains pulling into stations, British director Cecil M. Hepworth decided what cinema really needed was a pair of cannibalistic dolls devouring a Victorian brat. 'The Doll's Revenge' begins innocently enough — a father brings home ...
An American Airlines passenger plane carrying 64 people from Wichita, Kansas collided midair with a three-passenger U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River near Washington D.C. last night. Dozens of bodies have been recovered, with no survivors so far, as...
TL;DR: Don't give up on your PC yet. Upgrade to Windows 11 Pro for just $19.97 (reg. $199) through February 2. Have you thrown some side-eye at your computer recently? Maybe it's slow, clunky, or just not keeping up with your daily grind. — Read the rest The post Tired of yo...
Presidents usually get a honeymoon period in office from the public, even after close-fought elections. It took Joe Biden and Barack Obama a good six months to dip under 50% approval ratings, for example. Trump, though, is already slumping after a barrage of unpopular moves...
Bob Menendez, formerly a Democratic U.S. Senator, was sentenced to 11 years imprisonment Wendesday following his conviction on corruption charges. U.S. Attorney Danielle R. Sassoon said: 'The sentences imposed today result from an egregious abuse of power at the highest...
Wednesday January 29, 2025. 11:42 PM
The UK's Welsh Ambulance Service have shared their most 'inappropriate' calls in the last year. According to the National Health Services trust, 'of the 426,116 calls to the ambulance service last year, 63,836 (15%) were not a life or death emergency – an average of 175...
TL;DR: This bundle comes with beginner courses for multiple coding languages and lifetime access to Microsoft Visual Studio Pro for $55.97. Do you know how to code? It's kind of hard learning on your own. And a lot of the free development environments are pretty barebones....
After traveling two billion miles over more than two years, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at asteroid Bennu, collected a small sample of rock, and brought it back to Earth in 2023. Today, NASA announced that the pinch of dust contains the chemical building blocks of...
My first full-time job as a news reporter, nearly 25 years ago, called for me to get a voice recorder. I bought the Panasonic RR at a pawn shop in Hobbs, New Mexico. It looked cool—thin, compact, sleek yet sturdy—and had a clever 'dial' control. — Read the rest The post...
Trump has made lying statements about condoms, sent Elon on a space rescue mission to right Biden's wrongs, and solved all of California's problems in the blink of an eye. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! — Read the rest The post Condoms blow...
A mermaid happily entertaining visitors at a theme park aquarium was brutally attacked by a large fish. The animal bit her face before swallowing her goggles and noseclip. Why would a mermaid need a noseclip? Because she isn't a real mermaid. — Read the rest The post...
In Japan's Yashio City, a swimming pool-sized sinkhole suddenly opened at an intersection, devouring a big rig. The 74-year-old driver's condition is unknown. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! According to local officials, the collapse...
Martha Stewart is a tease as she gets 'in the nude,' and wow, she wears it well. While slurping up a strawberry, dripping honey, sniffing her lipstick, and sampling other luscious delectables, Martha Stewart gets down and flirty for a new MAC makeup ad. — Read the rest The p...
TL;DR: Ditch the cloud storage fees and go old school with this speedy 1TB USB-A and USB-C flash drive, now $69.97 (reg. $109.99) through February 2! Let's be honest: when was the last time your phone didn't eat first? You probably have an ungodly amount of perfectly...
James Bruton is a YouTuber and Maker extraordinaire. He has made an open-source robot dog, a rideable AT-AT, and a life-sized GNK (Gonk) droid. For his latest project, Bruton has created a self-balancing, omnidirectional bicycle using 3D-printed and machined parts, bungee...
At what point does comedy become horror? If Roseanne Barr had not already crossed that threshold, she surely has now. The comedian-turned-bootlicker has pulled a Ben Shapiro, teaming up with noted conservative rapper Tom MacDonald to release a rap song that can be best...
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