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Sunday December 28, 2025. 04:33 PM
A Ghanaian religious figure, Ebo Enoch, said that the world would end in a biblical flood on Christmas day. This event having not occurred, he has reportedly told his followers that the apocalypse has been postponed and that God has 'granted him more time' to build arks. —...
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Legendary French actress, animal rights activist and racist crank Brigitte Bardot is dead at 91, according to reports in French media. 'The Brigitte Bardot foundation announces with immense sadness the death of its founder and president, Madame Brigitte Bardot, a...
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There’s been endless talk online about just how bad Apple’s graphical user interface design has become over the years, culminating in the introduction of Liquid Glass across all of the company’s operating systems this year. Despite all the gnawing of teeth and scathing think...
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We’re all familiar with things like marquee and blink, relics of HTML of the past, but there are far more weird and obscure HTML tags you may not be aware of. Luckily, Declan Chidlow at HTMLHell details a few of them so we can all scratch shake our heads in disbelief. But th...
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Saturday December 27, 2025. 11:00 PM
TL;DR: With a lifetime subscription to Mail Backup X Individual Edition, you'll be able to backup, archive,  and manage your emails with ease. Grab yours now for just $34.97 (reg. $179), with coupon code ARCHIVE.  Technology isn't infallible, and never is this fact more costl...
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Works of art created in 1930 such as early Betty Boop cartoons depicting her as a dog, Disney's 'Rover' prototype for Pluto, and more Mickey Mouse cartoons, all enter the U.S. public domain on Jan 1, 2026. Literary works joining them there include Vile Bodies by Evelyn...
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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 —...
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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 ...
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If you have use BitLocker to secure files within Windows 11, you will almost certainly have noticed something of a performance hit. Microsoft is not unaware of this, and is taking steps to help improve things. The company is rolling out hardware-accelerated BitLocker, which...
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Depending on when you signed up for a Gmail account, and factoring in the uniqueness or otherwise of your name, your email address may be one you are happy with, or it could feel like a burden. If you have become unhappy with the @gmail.com address you chose years ago, you...
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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...
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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...
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If you’re building a package manager and git-as-index seems appealing, look at Cargo, Homebrew, CocoaPods, vcpkg, Go. They all had to build workarounds as they grew, causing pain for users and maintainers. The pull request workflow is nice. The version history is nice. You ...
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Christmas is already behind us, but since this is an announcement from 11 December – that I missed – I’m calling this a very interesting and surprising Christmas present. The team and I are beyond excited to share what we’ve been cooking up over the last little while: a...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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