The Verge on an Amazon influencer suing a rival for mimicking her vibes

Mia Sato talks to two women whose similar aesthetic was shaped by Amazon product options, social media algorithms, and other larger influencers # | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 14 minutes ago

How Tiny Fragments Unlocked the Hidden 4-Billion-Year History of Asteroid Ryugu

Researchers studied tiny asteroid fragments from Ryugu, revealing that it originated in the outer solar system and evolved over billions of years. Using Mössbauer spectroscopy, they discovered changes in the asteroid’s composition due to temperature shifts, offering new insights … | Continue reading


@scitechdaily.com | 29 minutes ago

CD Projekt Q3 revenue down 49% as Witcher 4 development enters full swing

Cyberpunk 2077 and Phantom Liberty are still selling, but CDP saw revenue decreases in 2024-2025's penultimate quarter. | Continue reading


@gamedeveloper.com | 31 minutes ago

The Ten Best Books About Food of 2024

Travel to the American South, Vietnam and beyond with this year’s best cookbooks, memoirs and historic deep dives | Continue reading


@smithsonianmag.com | 43 minutes ago

Rare 1,600-Year-Old Pendant Discovered in Turkey Depicts King Solomon Defeating the Devil

The fifth-century artifact was found in the ruins of a structure that may have been connected to the military. Historians think it was used as a protective amulet | Continue reading


@smithsonianmag.com | 44 minutes ago

Al Shalliker navigates through memory and time on new album “The Diamond Hill”

The Diamond Hill is Al Shalliker condensing that ephemerality to its purest form, through delicate songwriting and laying it bare like an open book. And it's a pleasure to read it. | Continue reading


@lessthan1000followers.com | 54 minutes ago

Are Americans’ perceptions of the economy and crime broken?

A responsible news media has a lot of jobs, but here’s one of the most important: giving audiences an accurate image of the state of the world around them. How’s the country doing, overall? Is the economy booming or busting? Is crime climbing or dropping? Anyone can, of course, r … | Continue reading


@niemanlab.org | 54 minutes ago

More retractable cables, please

The Charger by Counterpart has a built-in 4-foot USB-C cable that can be retracted with the press of a button. | Image: Counterpart The switch to USB-C has vastly simplified my life, and I am very grateful for it, but I still struggle with cable clutter. Dealing with gadgets and … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 58 minutes ago

Mercedes-Benz now has an Apple Watch version of its mobile app

Mercedes-Benz’s new Apple Watch app replicates the functionality of its mobile app so you don’t need to always reach for your phone. | Image: Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-Benz announced today it’s bringing popular features from its mobile app to the Apple Watch so owners can interact w … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 1 hour ago

Over 1,000 arrested in massive ‘Serengeti’ anti-cybercrime operation

Law enforcement agencies in Africa arrested as part of 'Operation Serengeti' more than a thousand individuals suspected of being involved in major cybercriminal activities that caused close to $193 million in financial losses all over the world. [...] | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 1 hour ago

There's a room-sized time capsule in Georgia that will be opened 6,098 years from now

In 1936, Georgia's Oglethorpe University president Dr. Thornwell Jacobs initiated the creation of the Crypt of Civilization, the world's oldest and largest time capsule. Located in Atlanta's Phoebe Hearst Hall, the vault was sealed on May 28, 1940, with instructions to remain uno … | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 1 hour ago

16 Types of Mushrooms (Plus How to Use Them in Your Cooking)

A peek into the wide world of edible fungi. READ MORE... | Continue reading


@thekitchn.com | 1 hour ago

Peggy Noonan on How to Save America

‘Any jackass can knock down a barn, but it takes a man to build one.’ The columnist sounds off on populism, Trump, and the fragility of American institutions. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 hour ago

Sadly, Boebert shuts down her Cameo site

Enthusiastic theatergoer and proud Congressperson from the State of Colorado Lauren Boebert has removed her "America First pep talks" and offerings from Cameo. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! My money is on fear of an Ethics investigation, but it is al … | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 1 hour ago

Hulu’s best Black Friday deal is back with $.99 a month for an entire year

You can’t even buy a bag of chips for $1 anymore. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Hulu is again running one of the best streaming deals we’ve seen in Black Friday sales. Now through December 2nd, new and returning (after more than one month) Hulu subscribers can get ad- … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 1 hour ago

New AI Technology Reveals the Secrets of Aluminum-Tolerant Microorganisms

The AI-RACS system, developed by Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers, automates the isolation of aluminum-tolerant microorganisms, advancing microbial research through high-throughput workflows. Researchers from the Single-Cell Center at the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and … | Continue reading


@scitechdaily.com | 1 hour ago

Threads says 35 million users signed up in November

Image: The Verge Meta’s Threads has accrued over 35 million signups so far in November and is “going on three months with more than a million signups a day,” Meta spokesperson Alec Booker told The Verge in an email today. 20 million of those signups have come since November 14th, … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 1 hour ago

Boris Johnson blames Church of England for obesity crisis

Former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson blames the Church of England for the country's obesity rates, on the basis that the lack of spiritual nourishment leads people to binge eat. The obvious projection—Boris being an overweight atheist or agnostic with a history of briefly-hel … | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 1 hour ago

Amazon’s new Madden doc is a startup story — and a cautionary tale

Christian McCaffrey is on the cover of Madden NFL 25, looking as real as ever. | Image: EA A small, ragtag group of coders with a big idea builds something special. It’s a smash hit, bigger than their wild expectations. Competitors emerge, and the team suddenly has to scramble to … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 1 hour ago

Bang & Olufsen’s new $499 earbuds have better ANC and replaceable batteries

The Bang & Olufsen Beoplay Eleven wireless earbuds will be available in natural aluminum and copper tone colorways. | Image: Bang & Olufsen Bang & Olufsen announced its new Beoplay Eleven wireless earbuds today, carrying forward a stem design similar to Apple’s AirPods that the c … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 1 hour ago

Delight Between Science and Magic: Euler’s Disk and the Sound of the Singularity

One afternoon in the late 1980s, sitting in the company cafeteria, aerospace engineer Joseph Bendik found himself so bored that he took a coin out of his pocket and began spinning it atop the table. In a testament to the eternal paradox of boredom and wonder as two sides of the s … | Continue reading


@themarginalian.org | 1 hour ago

How Private Industry Inherited the Intelligence Community's Toolkit—and Why Quantum Computing Will Shatter It

Note: Timeline estimates in this article are speculative projections that could shift dramatically based on advances or setbacks in quantum computing research and development. | Continue reading


@hackingbutlegal.com | 1 hour ago

Neo-Nazis cry victim after hostile reception during Columbus march

LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! On November 16, neo-Nazi demonstrators who marched through Columbus's Short North area were shocked that people didn't roll out the welcome mat for their swastika-laden parade through the Short North. — Read the rest The … | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 2 hours ago

Anthropic says Claude AI can match your unique writing style

Anthropic is adding custom styles to Claude that quickly adjust the tone and length of responses. | Image: Anthropic Anthropic is adding a new feature to its Claude AI assistant that will give users more control over how the chatbot responds to different writing tasks. The new cu … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 2 hours ago

This killer translucent keyboard kit is on sale for $95

Buying a new keyboard probably won’t make you happy. But this one is orange. | Photo by Nathan Edwards / The Verge The Omnitype Bauer Lite, one of my favorite keyboards of the year, is down to just $95 ($25 off) this week as part of Omnitype’s ongoing Black Friday sale. I paid fu … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 2 hours ago

The Arecibo Message fifty years later

On November 16, 1974, a group of scientists sent a message to the stars, with the hope that someone out there might be listening. They used the 1,000-foot Arecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico, constructed a decade earlier. Today, the Arecibo Message is still on its way to the star cl … | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 2 hours ago

Elon Musk learns how EV charging works from Pete Buttigieg

Image: Hugo Herrera / The Verge You’d think Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and its wide-reaching Supercharger network, would already know about the workings of the federal National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program that has dedicated $7.5 billion to building a national … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 2 hours ago

Stanley gives us a photo of America’s future working class

From Costco, a children’s toolkit with a picture of exactly one child: A closer look at the future member of America’s tool-using working class: | Continue reading


@philip.greenspun.com | 2 hours ago

The Muster Point Project’s new album “It Was Here He Received His Only Formal Education” is an alt-country masterpiece

An album that openly deals with remembrance, loss, and change, It Was Here He Received His Only Formal Education features some of The Muster Point Project's best work yet. | Continue reading


@lessthan1000followers.com | 2 hours ago

Raccoon Resistance

After Toronto unveiled its “raccoon-resistant” compost bins in 2016, some people feared the animals would be starved but many more celebrated the innovative design. Rolling out this novel locked bin opened a new battlefront in city’s ongoing “war on raccoons.” Toronto’s new organ … | Continue reading


@99percentinvisible.org | 2 hours ago

Get 50% off Malwarebytes during Black Friday 2024

Malwarebytes' Black Friday 2024 deals are now live, offering a 50% discount for one and two-year subscriptions to personal, family, and business subscriptions to its standalone anti-malware software, VPN, and Personal Data Remover services. [...] | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 2 hours ago

Atlantic hurricane season is coming to an end — will the US be ready for the next one?

A hurricane specialist works on tracking Hurricane Beryl at the National Hurricane Center on July 1st, 2024, in Miami, Florida. | Photo by Joe Raedle / Getty Images This is the last week of a truly shitty Atlantic hurricane season. It was record-breaking. People are still recover … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 2 hours ago

Korean man jailed after gaining weight to avoid military service

A man in South Korea is off to jail after gaining weight to avoid being drafted into the military. The man, not named in reports, gained 44 pounds when his number came up. This placed him in a category that allowed him to do the national service required of young people in a comm … | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 2 hours ago

Eigene Identität im offenen Web vs Wiederholung von bekannten Risiken

In reply to Kann man die Twitter-Uhr zurückstellen? Zum Bluesky-Hype im österreichischen Journalismus by Heinz Wittenbrink Du hast denke ich recht Heinz das der Umzug von Journalisten in Richtung Bluesky eine verpasste Chance ist. Aber nicht nur für die Journalisten selbst als in … | Continue reading


@zylstra.org | 2 hours ago

Scientists Uncover Immediate Brain Benefits From Everyday Physical Activity

According to a new study, taking a mid-day walk or doing household chores could enhance cognitive processing speed, making it comparable to being four years younger. Exercise is known to enhance brain health and lower the long-term risk of cognitive decline and dementia. However, … | Continue reading


@scitechdaily.com | 2 hours ago

What 'Lucy,' One of the World's Most Important Fossils, Has Taught Scientists in the 50 Years Since Her Discovery

The famous early human is still providing lessons to anthropologists about prehistoric Earth and its inhabitants | Continue reading


@smithsonianmag.com | 2 hours ago

The $2 Boxed Mix I Use to Make My Family’s Favorite Thanksgiving Side (Everyone Asks for the Recipe)

It’s so good. READ MORE... | Continue reading


@thekitchn.com | 2 hours ago

RFK Jr. is against vaccines — but praises the benefits of heroin

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — the next U.S. health secretary, if Donald Trump has his way — extolls the virtues of heroin as if he were peddling a brain-boosting supplement on QVC. "I was at the bottom of my class," he confessed on the Shawn Ryan Show podcast a few months ago, before T … | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 2 hours ago

Out of Control 

Malignancies, car crashes Power’s decisions rash Politics, war, ideological clash Terror marring summer skies Buildings imploding, cutting short lives Death, loss, insanity, sundering ties Young men angered over trifles Seeking fame with rifles Innocent lives stifled Spouses swif … | Continue reading


@waiterrant.net | 2 hours ago

IDEs with GenAI features that Software Engineers love

AI-first IDEs like Cursor, WindSurf, Zed and others, are challenging Visual Studio Code’s dominance. What’s making devs switch over? | Continue reading


@newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com | 2 hours ago

What are those blue dots on coin cell batteries? The real story behind them

LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Yesterday a redditor named joshcam posted a photo of a coin cell battery with purple colored dots arranged in three concentric semicircles. They posted: To the naked eye, these dots are an iridescent, deep purple, the ki … | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 2 hours ago

Report: Sniper Elite battle royale spinoff cancelled after Tencent pulls funding

The now-scrapped 'Project Archipelago' would have turned Rebellion's stealth franchise into a multiplayer shooter. | Continue reading


@gamedeveloper.com | 2 hours ago

Trump’s Tariff Threats Will Soon Be Tested

Donald Trump believes that tariffs have almost magical power to bring prosperity; as he said last month, “To me, the world’s most beautiful word in the dictionary is tariffs. It’s my favorite word.” In case anyone doubted his sincerity, before Thanksgiving he announced his intent … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 2 hours ago

BJ’s Just Announced a Major Price Change That Has Shoppers Upset

This new store policy is controversial. READ MORE... | Continue reading


@thekitchn.com | 3 hours ago

Footage exposes kindergarten shoe thief as weasel

Enough shoes went missing from a kindergarten in Japan's Fukuoka prefecture that staff at the school set up a video camera to see who was taking them. The culprit was soon revealed: a weasel. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? — Read the rest The post Footage exposes kindergarten … | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 3 hours ago

Our family broke down and got a stinkin’ puppy.

Our family broke down and got a stinkin’ puppy. ✏️ Handwritten by Geoff Graham on November 26, 2024 Post navigation 👈 Previous | Continue reading


@geoffgraham.me | 3 hours ago

“About 1 second remaining” is the new beachball spinner.

“About 1 second remaining” is the new beachball spinner. ✏️ Handwritten by Geoff Graham on November 26, 2024 Post navigation 👈 Previous | Continue reading


@geoffgraham.me | 3 hours ago

The post X-battle: Threads is down, but not out

The fight to capture ex-X users heats up, as Meta, the sleeping giant, wakes up and realises that it has a blue butterfly problem… | Continue reading


@onemanandhisblog.com | 3 hours ago