Welcome to “Scene of the Crime,” a recurring column in which we examine single memorable scenes from crime movies. Scene: Quinlan’s Death Film: Touch of Evil (1958) The foggy climax of Touch of Evil takes place just over the border in Mexico, up and down an oil rig, and eventuall … | Continue reading
Something is happening in the lunchrooms of America’s middle and high schools: They’re getting louder. In the past few years, the aural environment has been dominated by clanging trays, pinging registers, and scraping silverware. Now, raised voices are once again soaring above th … | Continue reading
Two of the best parts of the Internet celebrate their 24th birthday today, the online multilingual encyclopedia Wikipedia maintained by thousands of volunteers and Creative Commons, the nonprofit organization offering online legal tools to the public for sharing and reusing creat … | Continue reading
Image: The Verge Will the last device leaving the Nest app please turn out the lights? The day finally arrived; Google has announced it’s transitioning the Nest Protect smoke and CO alarm to the Google Home app. This means you’ll be able to get alerts and notifications for your a … | Continue reading
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The findings suggest that specific medications may play a crucial role in preventing dementia. A study conducted by researchers at the University of California, Irvine, has revealed that cardiovascular conditions like high blood pressure and diabetes, which are known to cause dam … | Continue reading
Microsoft says it will drop support for Office apps in Windows 10 after the operating system reaches its end of support on October 14. [...] | Continue reading
You'll feel like a rock star with this amazing portable speaker playing your favorite tunes. | Continue reading
Without Elle Fanning. The post “A Complete Unknown” Arrives in London first appeared on Go Fug Yourself. | Continue reading
The Invisible Man's Leigh Whannell directed and co-wrote the updated Universal Monsters creature feature, in theaters Friday. | Continue reading
A new study sheds light on tattoo designs found on more than 100 mummies from Chancay culture, a group that lived on the Peruvian coast between roughly 900 and 1500 C.E. | Continue reading
Over 660,000 exposed Rsync servers are potentially vulnerable to six new vulnerabilities, including a critical-severity heap-buffer overflow flaw that allows remote code execution on servers. [...] | Continue reading
Highlights from Burke, Rosenbaum, Goddard, and Chu, plus new work from Ada Palmer! The post Jo Walton’s Reading List: December 2024 appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Image: Apple Much of Severance — the sci-fi workplace thriller on Apple TV Plus — takes place in a brightly lit office, with characters huddled over strange computers where they do work they’re told is both mysterious and important. In the show, that work looks a bit like an alte … | Continue reading
Photos by Stacie Joy Last Wednesday night, we headed out to TY Eye in Ridgewood (Queens!) for a show featuring several of our favorite local bands. Organizers billed the evening as the first annual Fuck Fest, ostensibly an LP release show for TDA's latest, and titled Fuck. We've … | Continue reading
In this article about console porting, we’ll discuss specifically the solutions we found to translate the save system. | Continue reading
Paris y Londres is a quaint neighborhood in Santiago featuring beautiful old buildings, cobblestone streets, and one of the oldest churches in Chile. But tucked along the unsuspecting historical streets is a building with a dark past. While the building was once the headquarters … | Continue reading
Society is ever advancing, with technology becoming increasingly dominant presence in of our lives. While those who grow up with it find it normal, those who see it develop sometimes feel like they are caught by it. Nach Vorn, or "Foreward," represents this feeling of inexorable … | Continue reading
"A plastic toothbrush takes 1,000 years to decompose in a landfill." Woman demonstrates easy trick for extending the life of your toothbrush: 'Love this' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Hey folks! One of the things I promised to do better with the Code Break show was scheduling. With that being said, I'm here to announce the next event and I've got about 4 already on the calendar after that. Hopefully this year I can get a bit more consistent with schedule. That … | Continue reading
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I finished reading Sirens & Muses by Antonia Angress. It left me gutted, but like in a good way. It leaves so much unsaid, which I found pleasant and sorrowful and so yawningly, humongously open that it left me feeling a little claustrophobic. A few years ago everyone, everyone, … | Continue reading
LG, Samsung and Lenovo have all been working on stretchable screens for at least two years. It looks like Lenovo will be the first to market; they've announced their ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, a laptop whose screen expands from 14" to 16.7". While that doesn't sound like much, the com … | Continue reading
Urban planners from Mexico City to Toulouse are adopting the high-flying mode of transit. Will it catch on elsewhere? | Continue reading
This sign behind a bunch of gaggle white dude senators complaining about DEI raises the question: did they hire the best person to make their sign or just another dumbass who looks like them? LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? — Read the rest The post GOP Senators enjoying their D … | Continue reading
Antarctica's Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf may be under threat due to relatively warm water from the deep sea flowing towards the shelf. Is climate change to blame? | Continue reading
Daniel Bessner in The Nation: Noam Chomsky is the most famous critic of US empire in the world. No single living intellectual comes close. Even John Mearsheimer, the international relations theorist well-known for his critiques of US foreign relations, can’t hold a candle to Chom … | Continue reading
Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Streaming TV services keep getting more expensive, and those subscription costs will only continue to rise in 2025 and beyond. Amid all these price hikes, the best we can hope for is that the companies behind them will continue to add new features … | Continue reading
The sacrifices of this proposed agreement are the cost of Israel’s weakness on October 7, Michael Oren writes. | Continue reading
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James Harr had a great idea to capitalize on a social media moment. Then most of the platforms removed him. | Continue reading
Photo by Prince Williams/Wireimage Drake’s ongoing legal battle with his label, Universal Music Group, has escalated. The artist filed a lawsuit in federal court today, accusing UMG of harming his reputation and endangering him for profit. The suit stems from the diss track “Not … | Continue reading
Micro.blog’s tweets import sometimes struggles, and it needed a few kicks before we finally got Romit Mehta’s tweet archive of over 140k tweets imported. But it works! The cool thing about the architecture is that after import it makes everything available on a separate blog and … | Continue reading
Say farewell to Red No. 3, a dye linked to thyroid cancer in rats and hyperactivity in children. | Continue reading
Transform your TV into an entertainment center where you can enjoy all the content you want for around $30. | Continue reading
Yale Climate Connections: Climate change and comedy are not a natural pairing. But a few years ago, comedian Stuart Goldsmith started to feel depressed about climate change. Goldsmith: “I just found that I couldn’t really talk about anything else. I wasn’t thinking about anything … | Continue reading
You probably heard the news that Meta has decided to get rid of fact checkers and they’ll rely more on a Twitter-style community notes type of thing. Many people have written about the pros and cons of this decision (and also about the political implications). I’m not interested … | Continue reading
The bone fragments were once thought to be some of the oldest human fossils found in Japan. | Continue reading
Western culture has long painted eating bugs as backward and gross. But learned disgust can be overcome — if the conditions are right. | Continue reading
The History Guy explained how an argument about a missed shot at a bird hunt led to the creation of The Guinness Book of Records. | Continue reading
Today's software ecosystem evolved around a central assumption that code is expensive, so it makes sense to centrally develop and then distribute at low marginal cost. If code becomes 100x cheaper, the choices no longer make sense! Build-buy tradeoffs often flip. The idea of an " … | Continue reading
Tesla's sensor-only approach fails in edge cases and is highly unreliable. Here, it sees something distinctly different from a train. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! lol, a clip of a Tesla's vision system trying to understand a train labyrinth.zone/not … | Continue reading
A total of 25 sites are listed on the watch list and face a number of threats, from war to tourism. | Continue reading
Book 4 for 2025! My goal is 30 this year. My friends at Valancourt Books have recently been reprinting the works of horror master Robert Bloch, most famous for penning Psycho (1959) but also an award winning author of many … Continue reading → | Continue reading
Good article by Jason Snell at Macworld about how Apple’s previous playback is in conflict with recent products like the Vision Pro and Apple Intelligence. Also this bit about how Apple’s culture is still in the 1990s despite their massive success: Today’s Apple is a titan, but i … | Continue reading
Jean-Michel Basquiat (Luna Luna)Over my decades as a play-based preschool teacher, I've never had to deal with a bored child. I've worked with sad and angry children, frightened and frustrated children, and even children who were experiencing emotions that our language cannot ful … | Continue reading
The Halloween and Christmas collision takes over every season in our exclusive look at Loungefly's latest fandom fashion collection. | Continue reading
A groundbreaking study led by Nobel Laureate David Baker and Timothy Patrick Jenkins introduces innovative, computationally designed proteins that can neutralize lethal snake venom toxins, offering potential for safer, more effective, and cost-efficient treatments. This new appro … | Continue reading