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vendredi 13 décembre 2024, 18:16
In 1393, a French king who believed he was made of glass hosted a masquerade ball that ended in flames. The Bal des Ardents (Ball of the Burning Men) became one of history's most notorious party disasters, made even more bizarre by the host's deteriorating mental state. —...
Republican snowflake Scott Jennings had a meltdown on CNN when Democratic commentator Bakari Sellers gently touched him on the arm during a roundtable discussion about grocery prices. 'Don't touch me!' the frigid MAGA panelist snapped, triggering a burst of laughter from...
IEEE Spectrum reports on the discovery and scanning of a 1968 IBM demo of its Executive Terminal. Back then, it was a top of the line gadget for future-oriented businesspersons. It may now form a fantastic double-bill with another famed tech demo from that magical year. —...
Before a vaccine was developed in the 1950s, Polio killed millions and left many survivors so weak they depended upon machines to breathe. The last person to require an iron lung, Paul Alexander, died March 13, 2024 at the age of 78—a sad but heartening reminder that...
This is a viral example of pareidolia, a psychological phenomonenon that causes us to see meaningful things in nebulous stimuli, most famously faces. But the caption it comes with—'Does this image upset you?'—is even cleverer. In blacksmithing, 'upsetting' refers to the...
Oh my horses, there's going to be an M4 MacBook Air. Great googly moogly in a bouncy castle! And it might have a better camera. Jumpin' jellyfish on a unicycle! References in the latest edition of MacOS reveal the device's forthcoming availability. — Read the rest The post M...
Sean Hodgins made Become Anyone 2.0, an LED face mask that lets its wearer adopt the glowy, low-resolution appearance of anyone they please. If humans are not fooled, they will at least be entertained. And some surveillance systems may be fooled. — Read the rest The post...
Watch a horse scratch its head and make a funny face that is impossible not to laugh at. When this horse had to scratch an itch on its neck, it didn't hold back. The horse bends its head almost completely upside down, and has a field day rubbing against a fence. — Read the re...
You either put up with whatever piece of junk you can scrape together or you compete against the AI industry to get your hands on a decent GPU: life has been pricey for gamers of late. But Intel's $250 Arc B580 video card, already exciting buyers, is proving its mettle in...
This guy has mastered the art of hiding coins. In this funny yet impressive video, a man conceals a coin in a tangerine, which is then sealed inside of an egg shell (using paint and sculpting material to make the egg look perfectly whole again), which is then concealed...
One could be forgiven for calling Naughty Dog a one-trick pony. Since 2013, the vast majority of the studio's output has revolved around The Last of Us and little else – remakes, remasters, and ports, oh my! Studio head Neil Druckmann has been speaking about the studio's...
The journal Science has published a paper authored by an international group of leading scientists sounding the alarm on current efforts to create something called 'mirror life.' Link to an abstract of the paper is here. 'All known life is homochiral. — Read the rest The...
In the United States, the average American will spend $2000 this holiday season—traveling to see family, buying gifts, decorating, throwing parties, and more—and many will go (further) into debt doing so. To add insult to injury, many folks are already experiencing one...
Image from Wikipedia The post Take a trip to the Mountain Dew headstone in Johnson City, Tennessee: visit the resting place of the original bottle design appeared first on Boing Boing.
From Software boss Hidetaka Miyazaki has gone on record stating that Elden Ring as an IP is done for the time being, a sentiment echoed by the air of finality that seemed to linger around the game's sole expansion, Shadow of the Erdtree. — Read the rest The post Elden Ring i...
So that's what CD Projekt Red has been cooking in all the time since Cyberpunk 2077. Before stepping into the realm of sci-fi, it was the low-fantasy, distinctly Polish Witcher series that put them on the map, with 2015's The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt rightly considered one of...
TL;DR: Save 68% on a Microsoft Office permanent license for Windows, but check out now because our holiday sale ends soon. There's a hidden secret that Microsoft doesn't want you to know: you don't have to be trapped in their endless subscription system to use Word, Excel, an...
Scotty Allen, a former Google engineer, successfully machined an entire iPhone housing from a solid block of aluminum — a feat that took 11 month accomplish. 'This is the start of a revolution,' explains Allen on his Strange Parts website. 'Owning our phones shouldn't just ...
jeudi 12 décembre 2024, 23:00
TL;DR: Check out now to save 35% on this durable silicone USB-A to USB-C phone cable. How many phone cords have you lost? Now, how many stopped working because they were so frayed? That's a lot. Add that to the number of times you've had to untangle them all, and we're...
In August 1996, hundreds of puzzling messages flooded Usenet newsgroups, each bearing the cryptic subject line 'Markovian Parallax Denigrate.' The posts contained seemingly random strings of English words, and to this day no one has figured out what they mean. These messages ...
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