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Tuesday January 21, 2025. 02:40 PM
Amid the torrent of products announced earlier in January at the Consumer Electronics Show, like giant televisions and absurdly expensive GPUs, it's easy to miss less fun but potentially life-changing products. Soliddd Corp., a company with a less-than-serious-sounding name, ...
Today of all days, we could use a little levity. Luckily, wholesome Youtube prankster (a dying breed) Vlog Creations is here to help out. You may remember them from their last stunt, where they took a food truck to a drive-thru to hand out free food, but now they're flipping ...
There are currently 195 recognized countries in the world – but as with anything tied to the inherent unpredictability of international politics, that number has naturally fluctuated over the years. Although the Confederate States of America will likely be the example many...
With the advent of the ninth console generation (which we are now five years into – take a second to sit down), the standard price of big-budget games has gone up from $60 to $70 – but with the biggest-budget game in recent memory now looming on the horizon, that could change...
Fukusaki (福崎町) is a town located in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Kunio Yanagita, a scholar and folklorist who has been called the father of Japanese folklore studies, was born in this town of 20,000 people. The town has striking statues of Yokai ( supernatural entities and ...
This dad cleared his driveway that was covered with snow in just a few seconds with this clever trick. Before it snowed, he layed a long piece of plastic down on his driveway. In the video, we see him pull back the snow-covered plastic to reveal a pristine droveway. — Read...
Monday January 20, 2025. 10:05 PM
Elon Musk's contribution to convicted felon Donald Trump's second inauguration was to perform the traditional Nazi salute. After Donald Trump credited him with voting machine manipulation, Elon Musk must feel pumped up. Here he offers an emotional salute that seriously...
In 1966, Joseph Weizenbaum published a journal article detailing ELIZA, 'a program … which makes certain types of natural language conversation between man and computer possible.' He had created the first chatbot and named it after Eliza Doolittle, the Cockney character from...
The Lookout, a fantastic wildfire resource on YouTube, shares this fire map of Malibu by the decade. Some places burn at least once per decade. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! The sense of rebuilding in some parts of California is coming...
Proving anything can happen on the Fortnite island, Godzilla is stomping around and letting loose his trademark screech. The designers at Epic put the effort in with Godzilla. The sound and feel are excellent. You may have to play many games to see Godzilla spawn, but...
If you need some good news today for… reasons, Information is Beautiful has you covered. The primary Information is Beautiful site is packed with infographics that concisely illustrate facts and data. Enter Beautiful News, which aggregates a wide range of good news...
In the days of my youth all the cool kids had butterfly knives, and then we didn't. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! This video shares the history of the balisong, a fantastic knife from the Philippines that was briefly hugely popular in the US....
I ran across reports of two studies relating to AI today that combine to paint a sad picture. Kids are using LLMs to complete schoolwork, and the LLMs aren't even good at it. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! — Read the rest The post More...
A revered ride at Disneyland has been updated, which will cause complaints no matter how incredible or inconsequential the changes are. After making massive updates to how guests enter and exit Disneyland's Haunted Mansion, the ride and story have been updated with a few new ...
After Donald Trump's election victory in November, Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk were named as co-heads of a vaguely-defined 'Department of Government Efficiency' charged with reducing the cost of running the country. If the inefficiency of having two unelected corporate...
From 1989, Fingers Inc.'s beautiful mix of 'Can You Feel It' with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have A Dream' speech. The post Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream," the deep house mix appeared first on Boing Boing.
After 'donating' a free month of internet service to people who buy his hardware, Musk is sharing videos of his heroism. As is his expertise in everything, much of the aid Musk offered is illusory. Starting February 10, anyone who purchased a $349 kit and claimed the 'free' ...
A CyberTruck was seen roaming the streets of Manchester before the local authorities declared it illegal, announced safety concerns, and seized it. You may not be surprised to learn the owner of Cybertruck imported it to the United Kingdom, and began driving it around...
Made by MSCHF is a Phaidon art book about the Brooklyn art collective's principles and evolution. Founded in 2019 by a group of friends, MSCHF began as a series of project releases, dropped every two weeks. They now boast a team of twenty-five members and a loyal following...
Benj Edwards writes that it's 'Time to Make Computing Personal Again,' taking the technology back from the algorithms, the business incentives and all the other things that have made computers anything but the 'radical idea' they once represented to individuals. — Read the re...
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