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Thursday March 27, 2025. 12:59 AM
Hey suckers who thought switching to diet soda would help curb those cravings — science has some deliciously ironic news for you! Turns out your brain isn't falling for that zero-calorie sleight of hand. In fact, it's getting even hangrier about it. — Read the rest The...
A Sydney man's quest to collect every element on the periodic table went wrong when he ordered plutonium samples online, triggering a major hazmat incident and potential jail time. Emmanuel Lidden, 24, now faces up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to breaching...
Without Elon Musk at his side, Donald Trump fell flat on his face at a press briefing today. In fact, the befuddled president proved to be the most clueless commander-in-chief in U.S. history, knowing absolutely nothing about his administration's recent national security...
TL;DR: Outfit any computer with two Microsoft must-haves with the Ultimate Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows Lifetime License and Windows 11 Pro Bundle, now only $54.97 (reg. $438). What if we told you it only takes $55 to make an old computer feel new again? —...
TL;DR: Code like Steve Jobs with assistance from Microsoft Visual Studio Professional, the first 64-bit IDE that's now discounted to only $27.97 (reg. $499) through March 30. Here's a scenario every coder understands: Imagine spending literal hours debugging your software,...
Wednesday March 26, 2025. 11:04 PM
Six Centuries of Type & Printing is a handsome volume from Glenn Fleishman (previously) about the history of the technology culminating in what you most likely looking at right now: letters on a screen. They used to take bits of metal dipped in sticky colored liquid, then...
An overwhelmed black Lab who had just given birth to 14 puppies was in an emotional quandary. 'She wanted to be with me in bed like we sleep every night,' her owner explained. On the other hand (or paw, as it were), 'she also knew her babies needed her.' — Read the rest ...
University of Maryland has announced its 2025 commencement speaker: an 'environmental advocate, best-selling author, Peabody Award winner' and a 'champion of creativity, kindness and believing in the impossible.' He is also green. 'Nothing could make these feet happier than...
Dr. Vijay Agarwal is a neurosurgeon at the Montefiore Einstein Medical Center. Some years ago he received a curious call from a TV producer wanting his take on the concept for a new show. 'It was just a thought at that stage—you know, 'We wanna develop a procedure that...
Having meddled in geopolitics, it seems that Elon Musk is finding out. January and February's European vehicle registration numbers are in, and Tesla has dropped 49% year over year. Fewer new vehicles mean fewer clean energy credits to sell to other automakers. — Read the re...
Sharks were long thought to be silent predators of the deep. Nope! Scientists have recorded the first known recording of the sounds sharks make. Unfortunately, it doesn't sound like the theme from Jaws but rather a series a of clicks. Listen below! — Read the rest The post S...
[UPDATE: 3-26-25, 4:18 pm PST] After The Guardian and AP News reported that the four missing U.S. Army soldiers were found dead in Lithuania, as per a statement by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, a NATO spokesperson later said that the deaths were not yet confirmed, and...
A city councilor in Cambridge, Massachussets, is accused of paying for sex at 'high-end brothels' operated out of 'luxury apartments' and faces calls for his resignation. Paul Toner is described as a 'most frequent customer' of the service, has apologized in vague terms ('I...
You know the United States has a big problem when its U.S. Director of National Intelligence can't even remember what country she was in when she and her military colleagues sent classified information to a journalist less than two weeks ago. — Read the rest The post Tulsi...
Best Electronics (previously) is an Atari parts store still open after 41 years, reports Tom's Hardware, servicing a hardware lineup that ended 32 years ago. It has even spent six-figure sums developing upgrades. Best Electronics bought thousands and thousands of pallets of ...
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt displays no concerns about credibility and has yet to meet a lie she can not tell. Texts with detailed timelines of US plans to attack Houthi rebels in Yemen mistakenly disclosed to a journalist have been shared publicly. — Read t...
After The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg was 'inadvertantly' invited to join a backchannel Signal chatroom used by Trump administration officials, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared forthcoming war plans with the group. Hegseth claimed that he had not in fact done this,...
A lawsuit filed in response to Trump cabinet members' spine-chilling abandonment of federal record-keeping rules has been assigned to the same judge that MAGAs are riled at. MAGA Mike has threatened a constitutional crisis and to defund a co-equal branch of government for...
Continuing to attack lawfirms, Attorneys General, Judges, and the courts, cyberbully Donald Trump fails to 'be best' and doxxes New York's Letitia James. Social media users attacked Trump's sharing of documents that disclose the address of a property owned by NY AG Letitia...
Populous was a flagship game of the 16-bit era, creating a new genre from scratch and showing what computers such as the Amiga A500 and Atari ST were capable of. It was popular enough for 8-bit conversions to be attempted, and one of these abandoned efforts has surfaced...
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