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mardi 19 août 2025, 19:25
Why send boring old wedding invitations when you can include invoices in the envelope? Invitin is a new app that encourages couples to treat their sacred union like a cash grab by charging admission to their own friends and family. Because Aunt Susan hasn't suffered enough...
Scientists have created a brain implant that can decode a person's inner thoughts with 74% accuracy, but only after they mentally 'speak' a personalized password, with one participant using the phrase 'Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang.' The Stanford University team, in research...
China's been spending a lot of money on a lot of thing that irritate a lot of nations. Armed artificial islands to control chunks of international water, infrastructure programs in Africa and South America in the hopes of buying the loyalties of nations that once favoured...
TL;DR: Be an eco-warrior and save over 40% on a new-to-you ASUS Touchscreen Chromebook, now on sale for $119.99 (reg. $229) while supplies last. If you're anything like me, technology FOMO can be so real. I mean, watching a new model drop when you finally think you got the...
Have you ever looked at a barcode on one of your favorite products and wondered, 'Will it Riff?' Well, that's exactly the question that the members of Small Town Titans — who describe themselves as an 'American rock n' roll power trio from York, PA' — have been asking. — ...
I'm always on the lookout for new musical talent to join my fictional animals-only band, and I'm excited to have stumbled across a new lead singer — er, I guess I should say lead howler — to add to the mix. — Read the rest The post Sheepdog and human sing...
If you struggle with anxiety, you can use the free exercises on anxiety toolkit to relax your nervous system. The exercises on this site are also great for mindfulness or unwinding before bed, even if you aren't feeling particularly anxious. Every anxiety app I've tried has...
A report published by MIT's Decentralized AI project found that 95% of the generative AI programs at U.S. companies aren't working. Summarizing 150 interviews with managers, a survey of 350 employees and 300 public AI efforts, the report found that the overwhelming majority...
Half-Life 2 is still one of the best games ever made, and is absolutely worth playing even 20 years later. I get it, though. You're a busy person. It's a pretty meaty game, and sometimes you just don't have time to sit down and go through the entire campaign. — Read the rest...
Fall is just around the corner, which means it's the perfect time to start baking pies that will startle anyone who walks into your kitchen. Check out this pie inspired by The Exorcist. It features a demonic dough face, cherry blood, and eerily realistic looking teeth. —...
Lawn mower racers can hit speeds up to 50 mph as they zip around dirt tracks (without blades). It started as a solution to expensive motorsports and grown into a global phenomenon. The British Lawn Mower Racing Association (BLMRA) launched in 1973 when a group of racing...
Woe, how quickly the hubris of man makes them forget. Does no one remember how the last solo Gollum project worked out? Evidently, Andy Serkis doesn't. The actor who brought Gollum to the big screen and has since made a career out of romping around soundstages covered in...
West Texas A&M University, a public college in the Lone Star state, banned drag performances in 2023. The Fifth Circuit court has now blocked the ban, whose own proponents admitted was probably an unconstitutional infringement of students' First Amendment rights. — Read the r...
You can watch live today as Kiruna, in the north of Sweden, moves a 35m-tall, 672-tonne (741 U.S. ton) church 3 miles down the road. I direktsändning följer vi den världsunika flytten av Kiruna kyrka, från gamla stadskärnan till dess nya plats, fem kilometer bort. —...
Shannon 'SJ' Joslin, a ranger and biologist at Yosemite National Park, was fired August 12 after they 'failed to demonstrate acceptable conduct' by posing by a trans flag on El Capitan. The National Park Service said that 'is pursuing administrative action against multiple...
With Trump acting on every impulse his melting brain provides him with, the militarized takeover of Washington DC that has seen hordes of armed federal agents searching the streets for anyone engaging in wrongthink has almost been tragically easy to forget about. — Read the...
lundi 18 août 2025, 23:48
In 1965 animator Chuck Jones adapted a short picture book called The Dot and The Line: a romance in lower mathematics as a 9-minute cartoon. It follows a rigid blue line who adores a carefree red dot; she, however, swoons for a swaggering squiggle. — Read the rest The post W...
TL;DR: Get these AI Smart Camera Recording Sunglasses and see the world in a brand new way for just $69.99 (Reg. $99.99). For a while, smart glasses seemed like something out of a science fiction movie. But here they are. Bad news: most of them are pretty uncool. — Read the...
In the most recent issue of the free Recomendo newsletter, my friend Kevin Kelly wrote about his new guide, called Everything I Know About Publishing and Self-Publishing. Kevin knows what he's talking about: 'In my professional life, I've had several bestselling books...
Just a friendly heads up: several hand soaps on sale out there have been recalled. Washing your hands with them to prevent bacterial infections and other nasty things can lead to… bacterial infections and other nasty things. According to NBC Chicago, DermaRite Industries...
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