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Thursday September 16, 2021. 06:31 PM
Comedian Julie Nolke's 'Explaining the Pandemic to My Past Self' was hands down her best sketch — until today's brilliant performance in 'My Call with Jeff Bezos.' Nolke plays two wicked villains —a Russian crook named 'Oksana' and Jeff Bezos — who have been...
Anyone looking for a new graphics card could get Far Cry 6 and Resident Evil Village for free with this new deal from AMD. AMD has announced that anyone who buys the Radeon RX 6900 XT graphics card from an eligible retailer will be treated to free access to Far Cry 6 and...
Located in Warren County, Missouri, the 'Picture Cave' is a natural chamber with walls covered in hundreds of paintings created 1,000 years ago by indigenous people in the region. On Tuesday, the cave and its 43 acres of surrounding land sold at auction for $2.2 million to...
As a young rapper, Jay-Z once teamed up with Damon Dash to sell CDs of his music out of a car in the Brooklyn projects. Today, the co-founders of Roc-A-Fella Records are embroiled in a legal fight involving one of the most cutting-edge investments: non-fungible tokens. From...
This November, some of the most interesting thinkers, technologists, and artists in the world will convene to discuss how tech is shaping our future.
Open-source project migrates deprecated apps to WebAssembly Microsoft Silverlight, now only supported in the legacy Internet Explorer, goes completely end of life on 12 October – but an open-source project called OpenSilver has appeared to convert Silverlight projects to...
When Microsoft finally added virtual desktop support to Windows 10, my productivity instantly skyrocketed. Virtual desktops create secondary (and tertiary, and..) home screens for your PC, each running instances of its own software, that you can quickly hop between....
This ars technica article describes a problem with the Travis continuous-integration service: A security flaw in Travis CI potentially exposed the secrets of thousands of open source projects that rely on the hosted continuous integration service. Travis CI is a...
I have enjoyed every incarnation of Charlie Addams' The Addams Family. The first animated film gave me the opportunity to introduce my daughter to television shows, movies, and Cousin It. While I enjoy these animated adventures, they do not compare to the television and...
Zhao Wei was the Reese Witherspoon of China, then she was censored by the Communist Party amid a clampdown of the country's entertainment industry. WSJ: She directed award-winning films, sold millions of records as a pop singer and built a large following on social media,...
Republicans are upset by MSNBC host Joy Reid's description of them as a 'creepy little COVID-loving death cult.' She also told them, 'You want it pumping through your veins with an ivermectin chaser.' Reid made the remarks during the beginning of her show, The Reid Out,...
You tell 'em, 4 New Square chambers The London law firm which secured a court injunction forbidding ransomware criminals from publishing data stolen from them has now gone a step further – by securing a default judgment from the High Court.…
The first ever Rust for Linux conference, known as Kangrejos, got underway on September 13. Organizer Miguel Ojeda used the opening session to give an overview of why there is interest in using Rust in the kernel, where the challenges are, and what the current status is. The...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted 3-2 Wednesday that a decade-old rule on health data breaches applies to apps that handle sensitive health information, warning these companies to comply. From a report: The new policy statement agreed to by the FTC was intended to...
In 1999, Jim Carrey was filming Man on the Moon, about eccentric comedian Andy Kaufman. He invited his pal Norm Macdonald (RIP) for lunch on the Universal Studios backlot where the iconic Psycho house seen in Hitchcock's classic film still stands. — Read the rest
OPINION: This week Amazon announced it would be bringing a completely new user interface to its excellent range of Kindle e-readers. This is great news, especially as the software update looks like it’ll clean up the slightly unintuitive interface that’s been on the Kindle,...
It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life... for Dorries Comment Nadine Dorries is the latest government minister charged with steering the data protection law through the choppy straits between the UK's desire to unleash 'data's power across the economy and society...
Tossing back a few with friends is tough enough as you get older. But if you're trying to lead a health-conscious lifestyle while still enjoying an alcoholic beverage or two…well, that can be a narrow tightrope to walk. The reality is that as you age, less & less alcohol...
For PC enthusiasts, the global chip shortages aren’t fresh news. Trying to get components for DIY builds or a even good pre-built PC at a decent price has been a wild ride since spring 2020, and laptops fly off store shelves as quickly as they arrive. But continuing to...
An anonymous reader shares a report: In January, Google's parent company, Alphabet, shut down Project Loon, an initiative exploring using stratospheric helium balloons to distribute wireless internet (an attempt to use solar-powered drones folded in 2017). However, some...
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