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Tuesday July 1, 2025. 03:10 AM
Comcast's terms of service specify that they'll use their WiFi Motion service to tell the police or any other third party about your movements at home, should you turn it on. [via Hacker News] Subject to applicable law, Comcast may disclose information generated by your...
Monday June 30, 2025. 11:00 PM
TL;DR: Combine all your favorite AI models into one with 1min.AI, now $80 for a lifetime subscription. You know what's better than a robot butler? A robot army. An OpenAI subscription is a pretty expensive way of giving you basically one AI helper with a relatively limited se...
Some pencils are not for making art, but are the art. Sean, at his YouTube channel, carefully sculpts minuscule creations out of the cores. The videos have a quiet scratchy ASMR vibe and the outcomes are enchanting. A longer format Full Video of the fancy letter T...
'Your penis disappears after a handshake' — this startling claim spread across the Central African Republic in 2024, causing riots and forcing government denials. But what began as a street-level panic transformed into an international propaganda scheme when pro-Russian...
Senator John Fetterman again showed disdain for his job as a U.S. lawmaker, telling reporters at the U.S. Capitol today, 'Oh my God, I just want to go home!' 'I've already missed our entire trip to the beach,' the Pennsylvania Democrat cried, lamenting about the long and...
Nine experienced hikers fled their tent in the dead of night, choosing certain death in -40°F weather over whatever horrified them inside. Their half-cut tent was found a month later, still containing nine pairs of boots and the group's journals. The 1959 Dyatlov Pass...
Ryland Headley, 92, was convicted today in the rape and murder of 75-year-old Louisa Dunne, who he strangled in her home in Bristol. What makes the case remarkable is not his age now but the age of the investigation: it took 58 years to find, prosecute and convict him in the ...
Sharing a cornucopia of conspiracy theories, Lauren Boebert, a theater aficionado and Congressperson, attempted to sound smart. Lauren asks for a tin foil while denying the moon landing occurred. Having seen Capricorn One a few times too many, this Colorado representative to ...
Before there was space tourism, there was space burial. Celestis has been sending cremated remains to space since 1997, when the remains of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and four others were launched into orbit, and burned up in the atmosphere upon reentry in 2002. —...
Season 3 of Squid Game has come and gone, leaving considerably less impact than Season 2, which in turn left considerably less impact than Season 1. Far be it from Fortnite to miss out on a cross-promotion, though. Both Fortnite and Squid Game focus on battle royales...
My memories of the slip 'n 'slide were more of splitting chins and forearms open on sprinklers, and my father, the local doctor, giving neighbor kids stitches. I think this commercial was a generation or two after mine: Previously:• Slip 'N Slide is all sold out...
A family is desperately seeking help in freeing their father, a twenty-year California resident, before he disappears altogether into CBP's for-profit detention and deportation system. Picking up supplies to fix a fence for a customer, a local handyman was chased down and...
New research reveals that daily low-dose cannabis use can preserve and enhance working memory in adults over 65. (Working memory is the brain's ability to temporarily hold and manipulate information, like remembering a phone number long enough to dial it or keeping track of...
WordPress is the swiss army knife content-management software that most of the world's media websites run on, this one included. Though open-source, the software and its ecosystem are marshalled by founding creator Matt Mullenweg, and this oversight has become controversial...
Now that Donald Trump's whirlwind bromance with Elon Musk has reached its predictable demise, Musk will surely seek revenge, says his former longtime friend. 'I've had my share of blowouts with Elon over the years,' Silicon Valley entrepreneur Philip Low, whose decade-long...
Recreating the circumstances of classic movie The Truman Show would, of course, be illegal and highly unethical. Any number of groups have used 'in Minecraft' as a get out of jail free card when discussing illegal activity, however, so why should this be any different? —...
A father leaped into the sea to save his daughter as she plummeted overboard. The safety barriers on these ships are generally child-proof, so it is a mystery as to how this child managed to climb over the railing. A father jumped into the ocean to save his young daughter...
For $20 and a WiFi connection, you can make a handheld gadget to watch the International Space Station circle the Earth in real-time. A new open-source project called SpaceStationTracker transforms an inexpensive pocket-sized device with a 2.8-inch color touchscreen into a...
For anyone who has always wanted to meet an opossum, I have some terrific news for you! I just learned about 'PossumFest,' a celebration of all things opossum, which will take place in Cumberland, Kentucky, on September 6, 2025, from noon to 8 pm! — Read the rest The post...
Here's a puzzle from The Pyrgic Puzzler by Christopher Maslanka: You drop a ball from 1 meter high. Each time it bounces, it rises to half its previous height. Find the total distance the ball travels (up and down) until it stops. — Read the rest The post This bouncing...
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