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Monday March 17, 2025. 04:53 PM
After failing to present any resistance, congressional Democrats' approval ratings are more than twenty points lower than those of President Trump. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's three planned book tour events scheduled for this week have abruptly been postponed as ...
Quite a few real companies are named Lumon (or Lumen), just like the sinister Lumon Industries in Severance. When the Apple TV+ series debuted in 2022, these companies didn't know what to make of the newfound attention they were getting from fans of the dark science fiction...
A French Member of the European Parliament demanded that the United States return the Statue of Liberty. The United States no longer represents the values under which the famed Statue of Liberty was gifted to it, and French MEP Raphael Glucksmann has demanded its return: ...
Attempting to return to his home in New Hampshire, green card holder Fabian Schmidt was detained at Logan Airport by ICE, tortured, hospitalized, and is still being detained. On what seems to be a minor charge, if still existent, Fabian Schmidt's horrific experience appears...
Clockwork's PicoCalc is a handheld portable computer powered by a Raspberry Pi Pico H (you might well want to upgrade to wireless). It has a qwerty keyboard, 320×320 display, SD card slot, integrated speakers, a 3.5mm phone jack and an 18650 battery compartment. — Read the re...
TL;DR: Create your own digital autobiography with this one-year subscription to Autobiographer, now just $69 (reg. $199), the best price on the web. Have you ever had one of those nights you never want to forget? Since memories don't always stick with us forever,...
My main interest in Japanese electronic pocket dictionaries is seeing them on Pinterest and becoming briefly excited by the idea it might be a cool new minimalist writing gagdget being crowdfunded online. Nope—electronic dictionary from Japan. The curiously persistent...
The engineers squeezed as much performance as they could from the 16-bit processors of yore and then turned the job of optimization over to coders. Such was the hunger for power they provided co-processors in the game cartridges themselves. It's astonishing, then, to find...
Amazon Echo users received an email notifying them that they could no longer opt out of sharing their voice recordings with the company to train Alexa's AI features. Dear Echo Customer,We are reaching out to let you know that the Alexa feature 'Do Not Send Voice Recordings' ...
There is a standard trailer for the 1979 movie The Jerk, starring Steve Martin. But I just discovered an alt trailer that is unusual, clever, and meta. It features Martin in a short film talking directly theater owners, ostensibly not intended to be shown to theatergoers. —...
I recently rode the 'Jurassic World VelociCoaster' roller coaster at Universal Orlando's Island of Adventure, and it's a groundbreaking ride with multiple inversions that tops out at 70mph. It's the fastest roller coaster in any Universal or Disney park. Photo: Ruben Bolling ...
Sunday March 16, 2025. 10:00 PM
TL;DR: Get the Ring Battery Doorbell Plus for $119.99 (reg. $149) and take total control of your doorstep. Gone are the days when people enjoyed answering the door when the doorbell rang. This is a familiar story: someone knocks, and instead of responding like a normal person...
TL;DR: Get a 1-Year Costco Gold Star Membership and $45 to spend for just $65. Where do you go for groceries? How about to pick up meds? Get gas? What about clothes shopping? What if you have an emergency and the only solution is a brand-new toaster? — Read the rest The...
TL;DR: Edit photos with AI using Luminar Neo, on sale for $89.99. The best thing AI can do right now is take over for all the really annoying work you don't want to do. Replacing photo backgrounds? You could either manually cut out the background and replace it yourself...
Saturday March 15, 2025. 10:00 PM
Have trouble falling asleep? You're not alone. And if you're tired of counting sheep or reading boring books every night, we have a more fun solution that could help. The SleepEEZ Mini Noise-Blocking True Wireless Earbuds for Sleeping were made to let you nod off while...
Crunchlabs proves Tesla's camera-only system is inferior to LIDAR, killing several mannequins in the process. Mark Rober also smuggled the LIDAR into Disneyland for some of the most amazing LIDAR mapping I've seen. Elon Musk's 'Anyone relying on LIDAR is doomed' quote is ...
Looking to spend less at the grocery store? Since we're all sick of paying top dollar for eggs, we might as well try to find more affordable ways to feed the family. BJ's Wholesale Club is ready to help you save up to 25% off grocery store prices. — Read the rest The post...
What would happen if everyone in the entire world peed into the Grand Canyon at the same time? One might think that the pee would at least fill up a noticeable portion of the canyon, but that is false. The amount of pee produced by 8 billion people at once would still be no...
Beware of this tiny critter that wants to make a home inside of your rice. The rice weevil is smaller than a grain of rice, but could turn a jar of perfectly good uncooked rice into a house for its entire family. — Read the rest The post Beware of the tiny weevil that turns ...
I recently ran across this video of Belle the greyhound sleeping in what looks like a terribly uncomfortable position, with her long bendy snout smushed and askew. I watched it several times because I truly couldn't believe that she—or any creature—could actually breathe...
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