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Thursday October 24, 2024. 04:28 PM
Accusing social media companies of exploiting and manipulating young people, the government of Norway announced it is to prohibit the use of their platforms by children under 15 years old. The minimum age is currently set at 13 years old. — Read the rest The post Norway to...
Denuvo claims to be the most effective DRM system bundled with games (though it has been cracked over the years) and it works better than others because it integrates closely with the game's code and the hardware it's running on. — Read the rest The post DRM company Denuvo...
Kentucky State Sen. Johnnie Turner has died after accidentally driving his lawnmower into the deep end of his empty swimming pool. The 76-year-old Republican had been in 'critical but stable condition' last month, when the accident occurred, but last night he succumbed to...
Linus Torvalds, the creator and lead developer of Linux, confirmed that twelve Russian nationals were removed from the group of software engineers maintaining the operating system's kernel. They were cut loose to comply with sanctions against the county, he wrote. — Read the...
The Information's Wayne Ma and Qianer Liu report that Apple has scaled back production of Vision Pro and may end production by the end of the year. Apple has sharply scaled back production of its Vision Pro mixed reality headset since the early summer and could stop making ...
As a huge, lifelong fan of indie rocker Matthew Sweet, I was heartbroken to hear the news today that he recently suffered what his manager, Catherine Lyons, has described as a 'debilitating stroke.' According to AV Club: Matthew Sweet suffered a debilitating stroke in...
The Green Man Festival celebrates art, science, and culture every year in Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales. Atlas Obscura posted this epic video from the festival showing a couple walking around in costumes that make them look extraordinarily tall and headless. — Read the...
Watch Lord aka vinheteiro play the piano from afar using strings. Each string is attached to a key he needs for the song on one end, and then to his finger on the other end. His piano playing skills are still good, even when he's performing this difficult looking trick. —...
Many people began to experiment with Coca-Cola for cleaning rust and stains due to its acidic properties. While the classic drink has been around since the late 19th century, its reputation as a cleaning agent is relatively recent. The exact time when Coca-Cola was first...
Mexico City has announced the date of this year's annual Day of the Dead parade, November 2. You might think that this massively popular Día de Muertos parade through the city streets is an ancient tradition, but in fact it was started in 2016, after a fictitious Day of the ...
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, a pair of new homeowners in Concord, Massachusetts installed a new locked gate across a dirt road on what they perceived to be their property. They had only bought the house a few weeks before the lockdown hit, and were reportedly...
I was a huge fan of Charles Yu's brilliantly metafictional novel Interior Chinatown, about a stereotypically Chinese background character who's perpetually trapped in the screenplay of a police procedural TV show. Just read this delightful blurb: Willis Wu doesn't perceive...
Six weeks after professional beanie wearer Tim Pool was revealed to have been a very useful idiot for a Russian influence campaign, the unfortunately-popular right-winger announced plans to step down from his streaming empire to focus on his family. The problem is that Tim...
'The Incredible Machine' a fascinating 15-minute 1968 documentary from Bell Laboratories, showcases cutting-edge developments in computer graphics and digital technology that would lay the foundation for today's digital world. At the heart of the documentary is the 'Graphic...
TL;DR: Save 25% on these JBL on-ear headphones that offer almost 60 hours of listening! Okay, we're trying to stop judging people, but are you seriously still listening to your tunes with wired earbuds? Sure, you're being cost-effective, but at what cost? — Read the rest ...
The creeps of the MAGA empire are using the tired deepfake defense to try to mitigate the damage from rumored video of Trump that could hurt his reputation. 'You are about to see insanely desperate stuff from Democrats. Expect fake Al generated crap about Trump coming soon. ...
Someone is planting booby-traps across forest roads and trails in Oregon, and the U.S. Forest Service is looking for the culprit. Forest officials describe the malicious traps as either wires spread across roads or hidden boards with nails or spikes sticking out of them. —...
Wednesday October 23, 2024. 11:59 PM
Eek! A passenger on a flight from Dallas to Los Angeles last week noticed an un-fur-gettable stowaway when the silhouette of a huge rat appeared through the airplane cabin's overhead light fixture. 'What in the fu–' the passenger says, calling the rodent a 'super rat' before...
This sliver of a skyscraper will soon rise up from Dubai's skyline. The 73-story apartment building is 1,246 tall but, with only one apartment per floor, is just 73 feet wide. The posh flats in the new developmenrt—called Muraba Veil—start at around US$5 million. — Read t...
Famed statistician Nate Silver—founder of polling analysis site FiveThirtyEight—writes that his gut is telling him the next US president will be convicted felon Donald Trump. To be clear, Silver also writes, 'But I don't think you should put any value whatsoever on...
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