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Thursday March 20, 2025. 07:29 PM
Mariah Carey, accused of copyright infringement in her 1994 Christmas hit All I Want for Christmas is You, has won her case. A U.S. judge, Mónica Ramírez Almadani, rejected songwriter Adam Stone's claim that it lifted a song he wrote in 1989: the two merely shared...
Firefighters extinguished a blaze at the closed and previously burnt Pacific Dining Car. Declared a historic monument in 2023, Los Angeles' historic steakhouse, the Pacific Dining Car, is a treasure. Closed in 2020 due to the pandemic's impacts on dining establishments, it...
Donald Trump pardoned the violent rioters who vandalized the Capitol building and fatally attacked police officers on Janurary 6, 2021 — but Fox News suggests that Tesla protestors should get the death penalty. 'I know on January 20th that the president signed into law,...
Paul Lefebvre, author of the Goto 10 newsletter, chanced across a copy of the 1981 Atari VCS Catalog and shared his thoughts on the publication, which exemplifies the golden age of game consoles. Each game had its own fun slogan and artwork depicted for it in the same style ...
Police in Bennington, Nebraska finally arrested the 'highway phantom' suspected of causing crashes and then offering to help the victims. Spencer Rademacker, 23, allegedly put a coffee table, chair, and a child's bicycle in the middle of Highway 36 at night. — Read the rest ...
ChatGPT fabricated a horrific false story about a Norwegian man murdering his children, sparking a new privacy complaint that challenges AI companies' responsibility for their tools' hallucinations. The AI chatbot generated a detailed but completely fictional account...
Part fantasy, part biopic, A Moment for Love is 'an outrageous, campy comedy cult film about a singer-songwriter who meets a fashion designer and becomes part of his magical chosen family.' While I have yet to see this film, it was made by a very talented group of my...
Remember when your mom said it was rude to eavesdrop? Well, throw that advice out the airplane window because someone has created the most addictive social media feed ever by snooping on pilots' private chatter. This hero-we-didn't-know-we-needed built ACARS Drama, a system...
ET could go home, your home. One of the three original body models of ET used in Steven Spielberg's 1982 film is headed to the auction block next month. It's expected to bring in around $1 million. The 3-foot-tall artifact is from the collection of Hollywood SFX artist...
Yet another cabinet member of the Trump Administration has used a television interview to sell Tesla. This time, Commerce Secretary Lutnick portrays a used car salesman. The President of the United States read from a Tesla price list, selling cars from the White House. —...
Tesla is yet again recalling Cybertrucks — this time 46,096 of them — because of its cheaply attached front panel that keeps flying off the front of its cars. And by cheaply attached, I mean glued together (see video below, posted by Facts Guru). — Read the rest The...
A French scientist traveling to a conference in Houston was refused entry to the United States when text messages disagreeing with current US policy were found on their smartphone. US agents searched the cellphone of a visiting French scientist on their way to a space...
A story highlighting Hall of Fame baseball player and civil rights leader Jackie Robinson's military service has been deleted from the Department of Defense website, in a Stalinesque excising of black heroes. The URL, which originally included the phrase...
According to France's research minister Philippe Baptiste, a French scientist who arrived in the U.S. on March 9 to attend a conference was denied entry and expelled after American authorities searched his phone and found 'exchanges with colleagues and friends in which he...
The New York Times posted an amusing correction today after it was pointed out to it that Mario, the Nintendo character, does not wear suspenders, as identified by a clue in the newspaper's mini crossword. CORRECTION: Today's Mini Crossword contained a clue that incorrectly ...
Fujifilm's GFX100RF puts a medium-format sensor (44x33mm against full frame's 36x24mm) in a compact, fixed-lens design that might fit in your pocket, so long as you have large pockets. It's the lightest in the company's GFX series, weighing 1.62 pounds (735 grams, a hair...
Fit and finish were never Tesla's strong points, and now problems caused by a stainless-steel exterior trim panel have resulted in a recall on more than 46,000 Cybertrucks—which is most of those sold in the U.S., apparently. The rail assemblies implicated will be replaced...
After Southwest Airlines recently stunned its loyal customers by canceling its free-checked-bags policy, Frontier Airlines didn't waste anytime changing its own policy — by offering free checked bags. At least for the time being. In its limited-time promotion called 'Your...
TL;DR: Get two feature-packed beginner-friendly 4K drones with obstacle avoidance, optical flow stabilization, and intuitive controls for $99.97 (reg. $299.99) until 3/30 Why buy one drone when you can get two for the same price? The Ninja Dragon Phantom Eagle Pro and Blade...
Wednesday March 19, 2025. 10:17 PM
Beset by Shein, Temu and all the other fast-fashion options, U.S. retailer Forever 21 is bankrupt again. This time it's game over, too, with every store in the U.S. scheduled to close. If it has a future it is as the competition that killed it: online-only. — Read the rest ...
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