MacMusic  |  PcMusic  |  440 Software  |  440 Forums  |  440TV  |  Zicos
boing
Recherche

PC / Tech. > BoingBoing

mercredi 6 août 2025, 18:11
Vibrio vulnificus is so hot right now… because it's so hot right now. According to a warning released by the Louisiana Department of Health, the flesh-eating bacteria is living its best life in the waters slopping up against the beaches of America's east coast. — Read the...
    13
Constitution.congress.gov is the U.S. Congress's official website presenting the Constitution of the United States of America. Visitors noticed this morning that passages from it were missing, as can be shown by comparison with snapshots of the page at the Internet Archive's ...
    8
I thought y'all might want to see some real, actual baby bunnies after perhaps being fooled by that recent fake, AI-generated video of those bunnies jumping on a trampoline that was recent circulating online. Referring to the fake video, Snopes explains: We reached out...
    20
TL;DR: For two days only, you can get a Babbel lifetime subscription for $134.99 with code LEARN at checkout (MSRP $599). So you've mastered 'Where is the bathroom?' in high school Spanish, but can you charmingly compliment someone's smile in French? — Read the rest The post...
    13
— Coming soon! Volumes 1 and 2 of The Complete Tom the Dancing Bug! Sign up now to be informed when the Kickstarter launches later this summer! Volumes 3-8 of the Complete Tom the Dancing Bug Library are available right now… Click here for info. — Read the rest The...
    24
A portmanteau of 'slop' and 'cybersquatting,' slopsquatting is the hot new thing in enshittification. Chatbots often hallucinate names, titles, software packages and of course domains to fill up the bucket when asked questions. There are predictable and persistent patterns...
    12
In this video, or, rather, this film, now rendered in digital form after an unknowable sequence of transfers that surely involved video recording and/or transmission, we learn the basic computing terms of 1976. Meet Harry, a 1970s businessman overwhelmed by his backlog and...
    16
Seattle Police report they arrested an armed man who 'copulated' with a refridgerator at the Trader Joe's on East Madison St and then threatened to kill everyone in the store with a knife. Those are the 'cold hard facts,' writes an evidently delighted press officer. — Read...
    9
Stop what you're doing and marvel at the cinematic trainwreck currently achieving the impossible on Rotten Tomatoes: a perfect zero percent score. Not 'almost zero' — absolute zero, like the temperature at which all molecular motion stops. Which, coincidentally, is exactly ...
    14
I thought Jim Acosta displayed real integrity when he made his grand exit from CNN to avoid giving in to Trump. It was a bold, brave move, and one that sent a clear message of defiance in a media landscape that so often toes the party line. — Read the rest The post Jim...
    6
When two storms knocked out power to 90% of Houston last year, tech journalist Dwight Silverman decided it as time to buy back-up power. His article on portable power stations is worth reading if you want to keep your fridge and laptop working when the power goes out. — Read...
    30
mardi 5 août 2025, 23:00
TL;DR: Learn one of 56 languages with the scientifically proven spaced repetition technique from Qlango for only $31.97 (reg. $119.99) until Sep. 7 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Language learning is hard! Unless you live in a new country for half a decade, getting those vocab words and...
    15
Glass Beach, Fort Bragg, is literally trash made pretty. From 1906 to 1967 the town used this stretch of coast as an open dump — people hurled bottles, appliances, whatever, over the cliff. For the next fifty-plus years the Pacific surf worked like a giant rock tumbler,...
    10
The 2008 Orbiting Carbon Observatory and its 2014 replacement cost hundreds of millions of dollars to put in space and the data recorded is of such 'exceptional' quality that farmers use it to track their fields, optimize yields and predict droughts. — Read the rest The...
    12
Alpha-gal syndrome is an immune system misfire developed after being exposed to a tick bite. It is rapidly spreading across the United States and globally. Alpha-gal syndrome is actually an allergy to a sugar molecule with a tongue-twisting name:...
    12
A co-owner of 'Trump Burger' is already embroiled in an ownership dispute with his business partner also finds his green card in question. Roland Beainy, co-owner of Trump Burger in Texas, risks losing his green card with his wife. He reportedly owns 50% of the burger...
    16
Gareth Ward, an Australian politician found guilty in July of rape and sexually assaulting two other men, has yet to resign or be removed from his job as a member of New South Wales' state parliament. Though he is now imprisoned, his lawyers have managed so far to prevent...
    8
Strong-armed by the President into displaying MAGA's alternate version of history, Confederate 'heroes' are back in the National Park Service. The National Park Service is planning to restore and reinstall a statue of Albert Pike, a Confederate general and Freemason leader, ...
    9
What happened to the one ubiquitous sound of the Ice Cream truck tinkering through American neighborhoods? Wow. I had no idea that ice cream trucks were so dangerous, as I have only happy childhood memories of them. This video explains it well, and I was surprised to...
    17
Not just any Voltron mind, you, but Lion Force Voltron. While I wasn't particularly excited about the Might Morphin' Power Rangers coming to Fortnite, Voltron is a big deal. I wonder if we will see the robo-lions come together to form him, or what. — Read the rest The po...
    23
News copyright owned by their original publishers | Copyright © 2004 - 2025 Zicos / 440Network
Date Actuelle
ven. 24 oct. - 00:25 CEST