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Saturday April 27, 2024. 01:29 PM
Mad inventor and artist Tim Hunkin's latest YouTube video is a fun walk through his process for creating a mechanical coin-op game. Hunkin is the long-time explainer of mechanisms in his 'The Secret Life Of _____'' BBC series and one of the original creators featured in...
These frogs are White's tree frogs, also known as Australian green tree frogs or dumpy tree frogs (rude), and are absolutely characters from a Studio Ghibli film. They don't seem to be very good at distinguishing food from a person's finger, but apparently, frog bites are...
Climate change is increasing the number of days people are exposed to hazardous pollution, affecting already disadvantaged communities the most.
Watch a 2-story houseboat drift across the San Francisco Bay. The boat was being towed to its new home after a legal battle that forced many houseboats to relocate. Out of context, this looks like a house that slid off the side of a cliff and got lost at sea. — Read the...
Plus: Google holds off on killing cookies, Samourai Wallet founders get arrested, and GM stops driver surveillance program.
Sarah Perez reports via TechCrunch: EyeEm, the Berlin-based photo-sharing community that exited last year to Spanish company Freepik after going bankrupt, is now licensing its users' photos to train AI models. Earlier this month, the company informed users via email that it...
A ban on weapons of mass destruction in orbit has stood since 1967. Russia apparently has other ideas.
If you’re hitting the trail or even just camping in the backyard this summer, make sure you have the right accessories on hand. For instance, this Outdoor Flashlight with Flame Simulator & 2400mAh Powerbank not only gives you a flashlight when the sun goes down, but it adds a...
Enjoy this video from 1957 made to show students examples of outfits deemed as proper—and improper—by the school's dress code. The 'bad taste' outfits include jeans, open leather jackets, and skirts that were too tight in the eyes of the school. — Read the rest The...
The iconic windmill that decorates the Moulin Rouge Cabaret in Paris has collapsed like a dying diva in the third act. The New York Times reports that the blades fell off, probably around midnight Wednesday. No one was hurt in the accident, except for perhaps civic pride....
Continues to expand EMEA HQ in existing buildings instead SaaS biz application vendor Workday has pulled out of a new-build development in Dublin as it rethinks plans to expand EMEA HQ.…
Laser beam comms are fast, so long as the weather cooperates NASA's optical communications demonstration has hit 25 Mbps in a test transmitting engineering data back to Earth from 140 million miles (226 million kilometers) away.…
Working out just isn’t the same when you don’t have music. But wired headphones can be a serious pain when you’re trying to break a sweat. So, get a pair of wireless headphones like the Mercato Open-Ear Bluetooth Headphones while they’re on sale. These open-ear headphones...
Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from Nature: The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has released the highest-resolution geological maps of the Moon yet. The Geologic Atlas of the Lunar Globe, which took more than 100 researchers over a decade to compile,...
An anonymous reader quotes a report published last week by Physics World: Researchers at the Dutch quantum institute QuTech in Delft have announced plans to build Europe's first 100-quantum bit (qubit) quantum computer. When complete in 2026, the device will be made publicly ...
The FTC is issuing more than $5.6 million in refunds to Ring customers as part of a privacy settlement. The Associated Press reports: In a 2023 complaint, the FTC accused the doorbell camera and home security provider of allowing its employees and contractors to access...
In its third-quarter earnings call on Thursday, Microsoft reported a 30% drop in Xbox console sales, after reporting a 30% drop last April. 'It blamed the nosedive on a 'lower volume of consoles sold' during the start of 2024,' reports Kotaku. From the report: In February,...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit overturned a prior district court decision, lifting the injunction that blocked New York's law mandating that ISPs offer $15 broadband plans to low-income families. Ars Technica reports: The ruling (PDF) is a loss for six trade...
Regarding the release of the MS-DOS 4.00 source code, Michal Necasek makes an excellent point about how just dumping the code in git is a terrible and destructive way to release older source code. It’s terrific that the source code for DOS 4.00/4.01 was released! But...
A Utah cat named Galena was playing in a large box, when suddenly things got dark. Meanwhile, Galena's human parents didn't know where she was, and grew frantic as they looked everywhere for their pet. They even put up 'missing' flyers and recruited their friends and family ...
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