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Friday December 6, 2024. 03:00 PM
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Skeleton Crew is pure 80s Star Wars fun. The kids are a classic 80s crew who ride (speeder) bikes and go on an accidental adventure. Major Tom (Coming Home) is a classic new wave song released in 1983....
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral has been closed since it was hit by a fire in 2019. It's now been restored and is set to reopen on Saturday. Among the celebrations of the event is a new nighttime sky show...
Britain developed an AI-based system for detecting benefits fraud. The AI determined that some groups are more likely to commit benefit fraud than others. A review shows that the AI was wrong. An artificial intelligence system used by the UK government to detect welfare...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! This baby name visualizer aligns oversized versions of the letters in your name to a graph of the popularity of the name over time. I was having a conversation recently about how every third girl in my...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! After years of cost-cutting, lobbying and mismanagement, Boeing finally sent hundreds of passengers to their deaths in 737 MAX jets that were hard to fly without training the pilots didn't receive. —...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Did you know about the bald eagle death spiral? It's a weird behavior where two eagles that have been put at odds will lock talons and simply plummet toward the ground, presumably as a high-stakes game...
Whenever Gen X's slacking, odd behavior and political derangement is noted, people wonder: was it all the lead? Experts have often been quick to say that no, it was not the lead. Well, guess what. A new study published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry found...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Video games can't always be perfect representations of the world around you, unless your name is Arthur Morgan. Luckily, YouTuber Void Darc is here to put things into perspective. — Read the rest The...
An analysis of Venus's atmosphere concludes that the planet was never home to life as we know it on Earth. As inhospitable as its lead-melting surface and sulphuric atmosphere now is, the world's past was no more amenable to survival: there simply wasn't enough water there...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Noble Signs, a fantastic sign making company in New York City has been rescuing old and classic signs destined for the junkyard for years, and is now making their Sign Museum collection accessible to the ...
Antec's Core Micro is a little branding around the Ayaneo Pocket, but comes with the promise of wider availability. The basic idea is that it's small, like many other inexpensive retrogaming handhelds, but also well-made and reasonably well-specified, like very few of them:...
A technical roadmap sourced to tech analysts Omdia poses an 18-inch foldable display on Apple's OLED roadmap alongside expected upgrades to laptops and iPads. Way too big to be a smartphone, the mystery tablet/laptop/display lurks in the margins. The OLED panel in question...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Behold Frenchie, an adorable rock hyrax who goes bonkers for cherry tomatoes. I cannot stop watching this video of Frenchie chowing down on her snack of choice—I swear I've watched it more than thirty...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! The holidays are a time for joy, family, and in 1983, a series of chaotic, violent events involving Cabbage Patch Kids dolls. The Cabbage Patch Riots occurred in the US during the holiday season of 1983, ...
While the Senate grapples with scandal-plagued Trump-pick Pete Hegseth for secretary of defense, the masterminds behind Project 2025 are willing to fork over $1 million to cinch the deal, according to The Independent. Because in MAGAland, it somehow makes sense to bring in a ...
Thursday December 5, 2024. 11:22 PM
The films of John Carpenter have earned their place in film history: Halloween is the classic. Big Trouble in Little China, the guilty pleasure. The Thing continues to grow in power every year. At the bottom of this legacy lies Starman. — Read the rest The post Starman at...
Times are bad for Intel, up the creek without a paddle and searching for a new boss. But one new product is making a splash: its new midrange 'Battlemage' graphics cards. For $249—less than what the competition is charging—the Arc B580 is a GPU that lands somewhere near...
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TL;DR: Revisit the classics and stream modern hits with the Kinhank Super Console X2 Pro, featuring retro video games and free shipping for $99.99 (reg. $159). Remember when multiplayer gaming meant elbowing your sibling on the couch instead of yelling into a headset? — Read...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Pantone's 2025 Color of the Year is brown. Well, not just any brown, mind you, but 'Mocha Mousse.' 'Underpinned by our desire for every day pleasures, PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse expresses a level of...
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