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Wednesday January 15, 2025. 08:22 PM
China's plan to build a massive solar power station in space could generate more energy in one year than all of Earth's remaining oil reserves. The proposed 0.6-mile-wide solar array, which will orbit 22,370 miles above Earth, would overcome traditional solar power...
Nature's carbon-capturing machines are working overtime. Plants worldwide are absorbing about 31% more carbon dioxide than scientists previously estimated, according to research published in Nature. This discovery changes our understanding of Earth's carbon cycle and could...
This video covers many interactions between our favorite blissfully clueless yet incisively witty provocateur and an articulate, endlessly patient cosmic explainer. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Previously:• Philomena Cunk ponders the...
In August 2024, a little-known company called Tortoise Media released a podcast series alleging that acclaimed fantasy author Neil Gaiman had a history of sexual assault. The podcast was largely reported by Rachel Johnson, sister of former British Prime Minister Boris...
Meet Mallow, a beautiful raccoon who lives at For Fox Sake Rescue in Chattanooga, Tennessee—a wildlife rehab facility that rescues and rehabilitates orphaned and injured animals such as skunks, foxes, raccoons, and bobcats. This video of Mallow absolutely obliterating a...
Reckless tinkling-while-flying has become a thing, with countless stories over the last few years of passengers urinating where they shouldn't on a plane. And, in keeping with the trend, an American gentleman flying from Amsterdam to New Jersey on Monday was arrested and...
Purchase an annual membership (base rate) to Tom the Dancing Bug's Inner Hive, and that amount will be donated to the California Community Foundation's Wildfire Recovery fund to help victims and communities recover froM the devastating Los Angeles fires. Members of the Inner ...
Mere days after a DJI drone struck a fightfighting aircraft in the skies over Los Angeles, removing the aircraft from service, DJI announced it is removing the feature intended to prevent such incidents. In a blog post, DJI explains the update means pilots will see DJI...
This sign behind a bunch of white dude senators complaining about DEI raises the question: did they hire the best person to make their sign or just another dumbass who looks like them? LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! — Read the rest The post...
Tesla's sensor-only approach fails in edge cases and is highly unreliable. Here, it sees something distinctly different from a train. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! lol, a clip of a Tesla's vision system trying to understand a train ...
TL;DR: Streamline note-taking with the Focais Meet One — a voice-activated recorder on sale for $99.99 (reg. $149). Let's face it — nobody wants to replay hours of meeting recordings or sift through pages of lecture notes. Enter the Focais Meet One, a voice-activated...
Elwood Edwards achieved fame as the voice that welcomed you to your AOL account, warmly informing you that 'You've got mail!' after all the old-timey modem screeching was done with. Elwood died in November. John Graham-Cumming writes about his encounter with Elwood's...
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Representative Nancy Mace threw a tantrum today on the House Floor after colleague Jasmine Crockett called her a 'child.' And then, acting like a child, the triggered lawmaker challenged Crockett to a fight. Mace's juvenile outburst came while Crockett was addressing Mace's...
Frequent litigant essential to the financial health of the legal services industry, Elon 'Pedo Guy' Musk, is being sued by the SEC for failing to disclose his active stake in Twitter and using that secrecy to acquire additional shares at an artificially low price. — Read the...
Futurism is declaring this onset of 'Slopaggeddon,' search rapidly becoming dominated by AI slop that doesn't answer our questions. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! AI slop and SEO have come together to ruin the credibility of Google Search. —...
Tuesday January 14, 2025. 11:18 PM
When Mike Goldman offered $5,000 to anyone who could compress a randomly-generated file of their chosen size in early 2001, he thought his money was perfectly safe. After all, it's mathematically impossible to compress truly random data. But Patrick Craig spotted a loophole...
This lovely creature is Bathynomus vaderi, an isopod newly named after Darth Vader for obvious reasons. A crustacean in the order Isopoda, which also includes wood lice, Bathynomus vaderi can reach almost a foot in length and weigh more than two pounds. — Read the rest The p...
Rescue workers in Peru are desperately searching for what may be as many as seventeen miners trapped in a collapse caused by an assault led by rival miners. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! In what sounds like claimjumping with intent to kill,...
A talented corgi named Dash used to spend his days hurling toys at his humans. Until he took up the piano and became a busker in New York City. Playing tunes on a pet-size piano, the pup now keeps busy drawing a large crowd at Central Park and other outdoor spaces as he...
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