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In 1984, David Braben and Ian Bell created Elite. Jordan Mechner created Karateka. Matthew Smith wrote Jet Set Willy, Mark Cerny developed Marble Madness, and Mike Singleton crafted Lords of Midnight. And Scott Andrew began work on The Plot of the Phantom, a text adventure he finally completed this year. — Read the rest
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Comcast's terms of service specify that they'll use their WiFi Motion service to tell the police or any other third party about your movements at home, should you turn it on. [via Hacker News]
Subject to applicable law, Comcast may disclose information generated by your WiFi Motion to third parties without further notice to you in connection with any law enforcement investigation or proceeding, any dispute to which Comcast is a party, or pursuant to a court order or subpoena.
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TL;DR: Combine all your favorite AI models into one with 1min.AI, now $80 for a lifetime subscription.
You know what's better than a robot butler? A robot army. An OpenAI subscription is a pretty expensive way of giving you basically one AI helper with a relatively limited set of skills. — Read the rest
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Some pencils are not for making art, but are the art. Sean, at his YouTube channel, carefully sculpts minuscule creations out of the cores. The videos have a quiet scratchy ASMR vibe and the outcomes are enchanting.
A longer format Full Video of the fancy letter T pencil carving.
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"Your penis disappears after a handshake" — this startling claim spread across the Central African Republic in 2024, causing riots and forcing government denials. But what began as a street-level panic transformed into an international propaganda scheme when pro-Russian media blamed France for orchestrating supernatural genital theft. — Read the rest
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Senator John Fetterman again showed disdain for his job as a U.S. lawmaker, telling reporters at the U.S. Capitol today, "Oh my God, I just want to go home!"
"I've already missed our entire trip to the beach," the Pennsylvania Democrat cried, lamenting about the long and laborious process he's had to endure while lawmakers debate Donald Trump's so-called Big Beautiful Bill. — Read the rest
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Nine experienced hikers fled their tent in the dead of night, choosing certain death in -40°F weather over whatever horrified them inside. Their half-cut tent was found a month later, still containing nine pairs of boots and the group's journals.
The 1959 Dyatlov Pass incident began as a routine winter expedition — nine students and graduates from Ural Polytechnical Institute setting out to earn their elite hiking certification. — Read the rest
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Ryland Headley, 92, was convicted today in the rape and murder of 75-year-old Louisa Dunne, who he strangled in her home in Bristol. What makes the case remarkable is not his age now but the age of the investigation: it took 58 years to find, prosecute and convict him in the 1967 crime—the U.K.'s — Read the rest
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Sharing a cornucopia of conspiracy theories, Lauren Boebert, a theater aficionado and Congressperson, attempted to sound smart.
Lauren asks for a tin foil while denying the moon landing occurred. Having seen Capricorn One a few times too many, this Colorado representative to the US Congress may not believe in history, but she claims to believe in God, so there is that. — Read the rest
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Before there was space tourism, there was space burial. Celestis has been sending cremated remains to space since 1997, when the remains of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and four others were launched into orbit, and burned up in the atmosphere upon reentry in 2002. — Read the rest
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Season 3 of Squid Game has come and gone, leaving considerably less impact than Season 2, which in turn left considerably less impact than Season 1. Far be it from Fortnite to miss out on a cross-promotion, though. Both Fortnite and Squid Game focus on battle royales motivated by money, after all, so it feels like a match made in heaven. — Read the rest
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My memories of the slip 'n 'slide were more of splitting chins and forearms open on sprinklers, and my father, the local doctor, giving neighbor kids stitches.
I think this commercial was a generation or two after mine:
Previously:
• Slip 'N Slide is all sold out thanks to bored kids stuck at home
• This Australian slip 'n slide gets crazier every year
• 'Ultimate Slip 'N Slide' pulled from Olympic lineup after explosive diarrhea outbreak
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A family is desperately seeking help in freeing their father, a twenty-year California resident, before he disappears altogether into CBP's for-profit detention and deportation system.
Picking up supplies to fix a fence for a customer, a local handyman was chased down and abducted by ICE. — Read the rest
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New research reveals that daily low-dose cannabis use can preserve and enhance working memory in adults over 65. (Working memory is the brain's ability to temporarily hold and manipulate information, like remembering a phone number long enough to dial it or keeping track of multiple steps while cooking.) — Read the rest
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WordPress is the swiss army knife content-management software that most of the world's media websites run on, this one included. Though open-source, the software and its ecosystem are marshalled by founding creator Matt Mullenweg, and this oversight has become controversial due to his dramatic battles with a WordPress hosting company and some contributors to the project. — Read the rest
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Now that Donald Trump's whirlwind bromance with Elon Musk has reached its predictable demise, Musk will surely seek revenge, says his former longtime friend.
"I've had my share of blowouts with Elon over the years," Silicon Valley entrepreneur Philip Low, whose decade-long friendship with Musk went sour in 2021, told Politico. — Read the rest
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Recreating the circumstances of classic movie The Truman Show would, of course, be illegal and highly unethical. Any number of groups have used "in Minecraft" as a get out of jail free card when discussing illegal activity, however, so why should this be any different? — Read the rest
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A father leaped into the sea to save his daughter as she plummeted overboard. The safety barriers on these ships are generally child-proof, so it is a mystery as to how this child managed to climb over the railing.
A father jumped into the ocean to save his young daughter after she fell overboard from a Disney Cruise Line ship on its way back to South Florida, prompting a dramatic rescue at sea, according to passengers, videos posted on social media and a statement from Disney Cruise Line.
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