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Thursday July 31, 2025. 04:25 PM
Tractive sold internet-connected GPS pet trackers. Then it sold out to the pet food subsiary of candy giant Mars, and one of its product lines was remotely disabled. Scharon Harding reports on a corporate acquisition that disappeared a useful and well-liked gadget entirely....
The ridiculously named 'One Big Beautiful Bill' signed last month allocates $85 million to transfer a 'space vehicle' to 'a field center of the Administration that is involved in the administration of the Commercial Crew Program and 'placed on public exhibition at an entity...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River Site used to make bombs for America's nuclear arsenal. Now there's a radioactive wasp nest there. A report from the agency described its discovery and destruction, but remains alarmingly light on further detail. Radiological...
A lawyer in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to forging the signature of a U.S. district judge. Michael Brandon Cohen, 41, did so twice after failing to file a lawsuit on behalf of a civil client. From a Department of Justice press release: On...
The makers of Celcius energy drinks and High Noon vodka seltzers issued a recall after learning that some of the latter were mislabeled as the former. Bottoms up! The U.S. Food and Drug Administration posted an alert Wednesday warning that 'Beach Packs' of 'Astro Vibe...
I skipped the Nintendo 64 because of its peculiar three-limbed controller, but 8bitdo's new one for the ancient console—a companion piece to Analogue's forthcoming 4k-capable replica of it—takes after Nintendo's more modern designs. It has a Hall Effect joystick, 'Turbo' ...
Wednesday July 30, 2025. 11:00 PM
TL;DR: Turn your phone into a telescope with the Hestia smart device that connects to your phone. It's currently on sale from $299 to $259.99. The mess of the stars has been the subject of so much art and innovation. From paintings in the Sistine Chapel in Rome to the...
In a New Yorker piece, Burkhard Bilger accompanies Americans who cross a dusty strip of the Sonoran Desert into Los Algodones, aka 'Molar City,' where more than a thousand dentists work in a town of 5,500. Patients come 'to be healed or transformed or to put an end to their...
This commercial for wind farms takes the seaweed crisp. This is a lot of fun, but don't lose sight of the fact that it's pointing out the President of the United States is ol' pudding brains. Previously:• Trump still thinks wind farms are killing whales The post Samuel ...
A typical United States generational beef about clothing, and some poetry, seems to have given us a word that today has one thousand uses, dude. 'They were young. They were vacuous. They were effeminate — and they were drawing a bit of attention from the humorists and...
Long-term stress can drain the color out of everything—sweet drinks taste bland and friends feel like strangers. According to research published in Neuron and reported by Eric W. Dolan in Psypost, a team of researchers learned how ketamine puts the color back. — Read the re...
If you have ever wondered what your brain is complaining about when it yells 'I need sleep,' read Derek Lowe's latest post at Science.org. He walks through a brand-new fly study that tackles the oldest question in sleep research: where does the need to sleep actually come...
The latest conspiracy theory running around is that collaborating Murdoch and Vance will execute a 25th Amendment rug pull on the Orange Menace, when the time is 'right.' I guess the Lincoln Project knows what gets under Trump's skin. Sowing more suspicion that Shady JD...
Trying to drum up more interest in a fading game type, as new modes like Blitz soar in popularity, Epic is making its Fortnite OG mode even more OG. Skill-based match-making was brought into Fortnite to allow newer players to learn as they progressed. — Read the rest The po...
When you take tropical vacations, a common hotel warning is to 'lock your door' to keep out would-be burglars — but not always the kind you might think. At least not for one traveler, who neglected to take the hotel's advice, only to let out a high-pitched scream as a...
Ah, the old 'he stole my underage spa employee' defense — truly the stuff of presidential greatness. On Tuesday, President Trump released the latest chapter in his ever-morphing Epstein saga. The headline? Jeffrey Epstein was banished not for, you know, the whole...
I am a giant fan of the Libby app for acquiring library books to read on my e-reader. Having received quite a few 'day of' newly released books, sometimes the only option to read the book is via the Libby app, and I can not send it directly to my Kindle. — Read the rest The...
In this footage, Adrian Munsey performs 'The Lost Sheep,' his touching 1979 song about such creatures, ovine and human alike. It really hits you about 2:50 in when you realize that home is as distant as the heart itself. Here's a better recording, though it lacks the...
While no one was watching, two curious bear cubs slipped into a backyard and discovered a trampoline. A Ring camera caught the whole scene: the pair bounced like naughty toddlers who know they're bending the rules. I never imagined animals would seek out a trampoline, yet...
Sometimes, disputes between property owners and highway planners result in surreal looking buildings, like this Japanese office building. The Gate Tower Building in Osaka, Japan features something no other office building in the country has. A highway exit ramp passes...
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