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mercredi 15 janvier 2025, 14:59
Elwood Edwards achieved fame as the voice that welcomed you to your AOL account, warmly informing you that 'You've got mail!' after all the old-timey modem screeching was done with. Elwood died in November. John Graham-Cumming writes about his encounter with Elwood's...
TL;DR: Edit, annotate, convert, and scan PDFs with a lifetime subscription to UPDF for just $59.99. If you've ever tried to sign, edit, or reorganize a PDF using outdated or overpriced software, you probably know how maddening the process can be. — Read the rest The post PD...
Representative Nancy Mace threw a tantrum today on the House Floor after colleague Jasmine Crockett called her a 'child.' And then, acting like a child, the triggered lawmaker challenged Crockett to a fight. Mace's juvenile outburst came while Crockett was addressing Mace's...
Frequent litigant essential to the financial health of the legal services industry, Elon 'Pedo Guy' Musk, is being sued by the SEC for failing to disclose his active stake in Twitter and using that secrecy to acquire additional shares at an artificially low price. — Read the...
Futurism is declaring this onset of 'Slopaggeddon,' search rapidly becoming dominated by AI slop that doesn't answer our questions. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! AI slop and SEO have come together to ruin the credibility of Google Search. —...
mardi 14 janvier 2025, 23:18
When Mike Goldman offered $5,000 to anyone who could compress a randomly-generated file of their chosen size in early 2001, he thought his money was perfectly safe. After all, it's mathematically impossible to compress truly random data. But Patrick Craig spotted a loophole...
This lovely creature is Bathynomus vaderi, an isopod newly named after Darth Vader for obvious reasons. A crustacean in the order Isopoda, which also includes wood lice, Bathynomus vaderi can reach almost a foot in length and weigh more than two pounds. — Read the rest The p...
Rescue workers in Peru are desperately searching for what may be as many as seventeen miners trapped in a collapse caused by an assault led by rival miners. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! In what sounds like claimjumping with intent to kill,...
A talented corgi named Dash used to spend his days hurling toys at his humans. Until he took up the piano and became a busker in New York City. Playing tunes on a pet-size piano, the pup now keeps busy drawing a large crowd at Central Park and other outdoor spaces as he...
The dissociative 'psychedelic' drug Ketamine has shown to be helpful at relieving depression in zebrafish. The new scientific study by Harvard researchers could increase our understanding of how ketamine works in the human brain to alleviate depression and eventually lead to ...
You'd think six years would be enough time to scrub down a meat factory infested with insects and mold, but when it comes to Boar's Head deli meats, the slime and stink keep on a comin'. The black mold, rancid smells, and other unsanitary conditions found at the Jarratt,...
Spokane, Washington police arrested Dan D. Phelps, 53, for allegedly trying to shoot his roommate Daniel Perkins. Phelps is legally blind and hit his friend, Joey Anselmo, instead. The bullet hit Anselmo in the knee, just above his prosthetic leg. LIKE BOING BOING BUT...
Given the power of the PDF engines in current desktop Web browsers, Thomas Rinsma created a version of Tetris that can be played within a PDF itself: PDFTRIS LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! The idea came about when Rinsma 'realized...
In today's computers, when we switch a transistor from 0 to 1, we charge it up (requiring energy), and when we're done, we discharge it, losing all that energy as heat. It's like filling a bucket with water only to immediately dump it out. — Read the rest The post...
As Trump-pick for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth dodges questions on everything from drinking on the job and cheating on his wives to invading Greenland, one of his bumbling sidesteps really sticks out: he cannot answer whether or not he would shoot protestors if Donald...
Jon Stewart finds the GOP response to Los Angeles' devastating wildfires lacking basis or compassion. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Wildfires have regularly burned California for far longer than the name 'California' has been applied to...
Graduate student Pavlos Sakellaridis has developed and tested an LLM-powered agent capable of running Dungeons & Dragons sessions, training it on transcripts from the popular streaming show Critical Role. His research provides the first rigorous evaluation of AI's potential...
On the left is Walmart's old logo. On the right, the new one. The modest change to the 'assterisk', first introduced in 2008, thickens its forms—good for the ever-smaller screens, perhaps, where it may be seen and touched. The wordmark, below, also got a substantial...
These videos prove Elon Musk's pathetic self-aggrandizement that he is a champion video gamer is nothing but lies. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! How is it fun to have someone else win at video games for you? — Read the rest The post...
TL;DR: This Lenovo IdeaPad is in brand-new condition, but it's priced like a refurb: just $579.99 (reg. $1,069). I'm tired of buying a new computer every couple of years. That's why I've been looking out for deals like this one: a nice laptop built very recently for a...
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