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Saturday December 27, 2025. 05:00 PM
TL;DR: PDF Expert's Premium Plan gives Mac users full-strength PDF editing, signing, and OCR for a one-time $79.99 (reg. $139.99), skipping subscriptions while keeping things sleek and civilized. PDFs have a special talent for showing up at the worst possible moment —...
Lobbyists 'close to Trump' are charging $1m and up to secure presidential pardons for their clients, with some paying as much as $6m. The Wall Street Journal reports a simple process: you give them the money, they talk to someone in Trump's inner circle such as his son, then ...
A Salvation Army bell ringer was arrested Tuesday after trying to 'impale' the manager of the store he was collecting donations at. This Florida man's weapon of choice: the distinctive red tripod used by the church to carry donation buckets. Martin County Sheriff's Office...
Famed football coach and commentator John Madden, a legend to sports fans and gamers alike, has received in death the ultimate form of memorialization: a biopic starring Nicolas Cage in a fat suit. Netflix posted a trailer (embedded below) for the upcoming movie, to be...
Bethesda Softworks, the studio behind blockbuster Elder Scrolls and Fallout open-world RPGs, has earned a reputation for overpromising and underdelivering. Studio boss Todd Howard once claimed Fallout 3 would have 'over 300' endings—it actually has two. This latest promise...
If Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 serves as a shining example of anything besides the brazen laziness of 'too big to fail' developers, it's the steadily declining writing quality of big-budget games. Actually, those two are the same thing. Think about how many tutorials desperatel...
If you worked as a typist for Merriam-Webster in the pre-internet era, one of your tasks would have been typing out every word spelled backwards. While this sounds absurd, there's an excellent reason that only makes sense if you're old enough to remember looking things up...
Chinese robotics startup EngineAI released a video of its latest bipedal robot that was so impressive many assumed it was CGI, despite the 'No AGCG No CGI' tag. The robot kicks through saloon-style doors and spars with a human counterpart, mirroring their movements. — Read...
If you care about your privacy, you might want to start taking the bus. An anonymous source recently told Reuters that Uber doesn't feel it's making enough money from ride-hailing alone. So naturally, they're planning what many other app-based companies do: exploit their...
Comic books entertain kids and adults who refuse to abandon the visual stories that captivated them as children. Modern comics are emotionally complex and gritty, tackling the same issues we face daily. That complexity makes characters with god-like powers relatable—they...
Please join the team that makes it possible for your friendly neighborhood comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug to exist in this world! And be the first on your block to get each week's Tom the Dancing Bug comic! JOIN THE INNER HIVE! — Read the rest The post Tom the Dancing Bug:...
Friday December 26, 2025. 11:47 PM
Mere days after the EU fined Elon for running Twitter as a Nazi bar, his bro Donald wants Europe to stop cleaning up its platforms and start tolerating Nazis, in the name of 'free speech.' In a nice little show of 'regulations for thee, but not for me,' the administration...
TL;DR: You can get Microsoft Office Professional 2021 and Windows 11 Pro for a one-time $39.97 (reg. $418.99), which is less than most people pay for a few months of software subscriptions. If your computer life currently depends on expired trials, browser tabs pretending to...
TL;DR: Get lifetime access to 1ForAll AI (Advance Plan) for $89.99 (reg. $792) while turning text, spreadsheets, PDFs, and prompts into professional voiceovers, images, and videos. Creating voiceovers, images, and short videos often means bouncing between tools and pricing...
The doors on gentlemens' bathroom stalls at the Shuibei mall in Shenzhen, China, have smoked glass windows for privacy. But they turn clear if the occupant smokes, report local media, and trigger an alarm. The glass uses a special technology that is normally opaque and cuts ...
Kyle Hedquist, then 17, murdered Nikki Thrasher, 19, in 1994, shooting her in the head and leaving her body on the side of a rural road. Sentenced to life without parole, he received clemency in 2022 from Oregon's then-governor, Kate Brown. — Read the rest The post Murderer...
Thursday December 25, 2025. 11:00 PM
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Happy Holidays! Have a happy and safe holiday, however you celebrate. Previously:• Run-DMC invades MTV• Run-DMC's lesser-known holiday track 'Christmas Is' asks listeners to 'give up the dough'• Brain Rot: Hip Hop Family Tree, Run-DMC Releases Their First...
TL;DR: This refurbished Microsoft Surface Laptop 3 packs an Intel Core i7, 16GB RAM, and a 512GB SSD for $379.99 (reg. $1,099), which means serious Windows horsepower without the financial side-eye. If your current laptop sounds like it's asking for early retirement, this...
Wednesday December 24, 2025. 11:28 PM
A Bloomberg News report found that at least 15 people have died in Teslas when their doors failed to open after crashes. The doors are electrically controlled, reportedly at the insistence of CEO Elon Musk, leaving panicking occupants to cook, drown or bleed out when the...
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