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Tuesday June 11, 2019. 06:25 PM
InfoWars settled a lawsuit by paying $15,000 to cartoonist Matt Furie for using his comic book character, Pepe the Frog, in a poster without permission. Pepe was an innocuous character who first appeared in Furie's 2005 comic Boy's Club, but was co-opted by neo-nazis,...
Residents of Stockport, England, were 'awoken by mooing' recently after a herd of cows invaded the neighborhood: 'It's just done a poo.'
Since the earliest days of the 'semantic web,', millions of dollars and hours of coding effort have been thrown at the problem of really organizing large corpuses of information, with two approaches emerging: rigid ontologies (like the Dewey Decimal system) that require a...
In this Wired video, Clint Emerson, a retired Navy SEAL and crisis management professional, explains the difference between observation and 'true situational awareness.'
ETA Prime takes a look at the new Pocket Go from Bittboy. The $40 device emulates GBA, SNES, MD, SMS, PCE, NES, GBC, GB, NEOGEO, and more.
A Guam man plead guilty to stealing $12,000 worth of corned beef and mackerel from a supermarket there, reports the Pacific Daily News. Edwin Guiao Ocampo paid a $500 fine and 'must also stay away from the store owner.' A co-defendent, Iacinto Namio, will pay a $100 fine.
Are your gambles paying off of late? Maybe it's time to double down on something wonderful, friends. The worst that can happen is that you'll die knowing that you tried for something better... or that you live a long life with your failure. In either event, you did your...
Some 15 hours of Thom Yorke's demo recordings, dating back to the OK Computer era, were accessed and downloaded by a hacker who then attempted to extort $150,000. Rather than pay up or lose control of the media, Radiohead released it all online instead. Bandmate Jonny...
In 2017, British auction house Christie's auctioned off the painting 'Salvator Mundi' by Leonardo da Vinci (or by his workshop, at least) for $450 million. The buyer was a Saudi Arabian prince and Minister of Culture thought to be buying the art on behalf of Mohammad Bin...
Watch live video from Fight_for_the_Future on www.twitch.tv Today is the one year anniversary of the FCC repeal of net neutrality going into effect! Senators who support an open Internet are going to the floor to attempt to force a vote on the Save the Internet Act, the bill ...
The AP obtained footage from a security camera showing two speeding Chicago police vehicles, lightbars on, crashing into one another and then into a third car idling nearby. The driver of that vehicle, an 84-year-old retired teacher, was killed in the collision. The footage...
Zainab Altalaqani and Tuhfa Kasem both graduated from Detroit's Universal Academy this year, and to honor their academic achievements, school administrators named them co-salutatorians, which meant that they would get to address the graduating class, faculty and parents at...
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (also known as the PKK,) has been taking pot shots at the Turkish government, in the name of Kurdish independence, since 1984. In 2013, Turkey's ruling high rollers, the Justice and Development (light on the former and regularly delivering on...
In this fascinating video from Vanity Fair, master gaffer Andy Day takes us behind the scenes -- literally -- to show how sets are lit for the screen.
Philip Treece primarily collects most anything to do with conjuring and magicians. In fact, he's got an entire website dedicated to his massive collection. But that didn't stop him from picking up this super-cool vintage automaton that depicts a butcher making sausage. He...
Sick of the same old vacation pics? Here are 7 of our favorite pieces of photo and video gear for shutterbugs on the go. These gimbals and action cameras can take panoramic, cinematic shots anywhere - even underwater. Slick Smart GoPro Stabilizer Gimbal This gimbal is...
Richard Kadrey (previously) is the pioneering cyberpunk writer best known for his blockbuster supernatural horror series Sandman Slim; but as anyone who follows his work knows, he's got more than two arrows in his quiver. His latest, The Grand Dark, a noir, dieselpunk book...
Monday June 10, 2019. 11:55 PM
Tyson Foods recalled 5,814 cases of 'Fully Cooked, Whole Grain Golden Crispy Chicken Chunk Fritters' after consumers reported finding pieces of plastic in them. Fast Company: The product was produced at one plant location on February 28, 2019, and each case bears the case...
Back in 2012, Jon Corbett made headlines by showing that he could easily get metal through TSA checkpoints' full-body pornoscanners: his experiences fighting the TSA convinced him to get his law license and hang out a shingle, and now he has his first client: Rhonda Mengert, ...
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