Defending a war only he wanted, Donald Trump offered Los Angeles and San Diego up as sacrificial lambs to Iran. Scoffing, Iran has no interest in civilian targets. The war has cost the United States over 80 aircraft, and at least 8 US bases have been hit. — Read the rest The pos … | Continue reading
An engagement accompanied by the Southern California standard, a mariachi band, was interrupted by an angry woman declaring, "This isn't Mexico!" Technically, the bitter bigot is correct. Mexico ceded California in the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Culturally, she's pretty f … | Continue reading
Josh Lieb has been a comedy writer/producer for some of the best comedy on television: The Daily Show with John Stewart, The Simpsons, NewsRadio, etc. He's been writing funny and interesting children's books recently, and his latest is a Choose Your Own Adventure picture book th … | Continue reading
I mean, fair play, if the Hollywood machine can turn games like Minecraft and Call of Duty into movies, nothing is off limits. If you've never played Embark's twin titans The Finals and ARC Raiders, the former is an immensely stylish capture-the-flag shooter with some of the best … | Continue reading
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The Texas Senate race is already off the rails. The Republicans are desperately trying to discourage folks from voting for James Talarico, without reminding them that the candidate they would be voting for is Ken Paxton. It is great to see Talarico has a sense of humor and under … | Continue reading
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Autonomous is an AI-forward company that sells everything from a coaster that tracks how much water you drink, a creepy-cute Pixar-esque companion lamp, to $20,000 backyard office pods. Another offering is the Autonomous Key, which promises to help kick the doomscrolling habit. — … | Continue reading
Embark's promised big next step in Arc Raiders is set to release on October 8th. Will it bring back the fading player base? Arc Raiders had one of the most exciting launches and ramp-ups in years. It held on for a few months, but then rapidly lost players, at a rate that seemed … | Continue reading
For the first 15 years or so of this century, subscription satellite TV was available in Latin America with a one-time purchase of a pirate box. The channel operators tried to stop it, and the pirates nimbly worked around the locks. — Read the rest The post Entertainment wants t … | Continue reading
The Orange Menace, who has notably been sued by women over alleged "affairs" during his current marriage, gave his bag carrier a good once-over and then described her as a "perfect person," where perfect seems to mean her legs. While musing over television vehicles for Natalie, D … | Continue reading
Disneyland's fume-soaked Autopia has been given until February 1st, 2027, to change or shut down. A few years ago, Disney got caught running Autopia cars that were not emissions-approved. They agreed to a 30-month timeline to clean up its grossly polluting car ride, or shut down … | Continue reading
Steve Hilton has a really creepy and weird ad for Governor of California, and its probably not helping him. I guess first-time voting has changed a lot since I was a kid! The ad even has Republicans pissed off. Pastor Jack Hibbs of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills, whom the South … | Continue reading
The new Star Wars racing game is available for free on a service you likely forgot exists. Star Wars: Galactic Racer is out today on PlayStation, Xbox, and Steam, but also on Amazon Luna, free to play for Prime members. — Read the rest The post Star Wars: Galactic Racer is free … | Continue reading
With police abuse of Flock surveillance cameras often making news and backlash growing against the rapid deployment of ALPR (Automated License Plate Readers) across the U.S., some cities are finding ways to make sure taxpayers know as little as possible. The Fort Worth suburb of … | Continue reading
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Doom, the classic first-person shooter, brought PCs to their knees in 1993. But now it runs on toothbrushes and earbuds and has even been implemented on the Commodore 64. Now it has been ported to SQL, the structured query language used by many relational databases. — Read the re … | Continue reading
"Natural healing" coach Barbara O'Neill is permanently banned from providing health services in Australia, but will soon be touring Britain and Ireland to deliver lectures such as 'The Science of Breath' and 'What Really Does Cause Disease.' O'Neill has claimed that cancer can be … | Continue reading
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Donald Trump sent U.S. service members to war in Iran. When an Iranian drone strike on Port Shuaiba in Kuwait killed six and left dozens wounded, nine report they were not classified as wounded and were left to figure out their own medical care. — Read the rest The post Wounded … | Continue reading
Still failing to read the room, Sam Altman thinks the world should accept "some bad things happening" for the benefits of artificial intelligence. This is an incredible bargain to offer humanity while Forbes says you're worth about $3.3 billion, and the bad things under discussi … | Continue reading
Having abandoned Donald Trump for a longer-lasting future that doesn't involve being left to die with the press corps, Karoline Leavitt surprises us only by jumping to Fox News so quickly. Leavitt was one of Trump's most vile press secretaries. Not the pitiful joke of Scaramucci, … | Continue reading
As a big fan of Naughty Dog's zombie-killing/teenage angst simulator The Last of Us, I was gutted to discover that an ongoing multiplayer mod for The Last of Us: Part 2 had been axed by Sony. The moment you decide to charge for a mod, you're making money off someone else's IP and … | Continue reading
The President of the United States stood in a high school gym in Vandalia, Ohio, and described his vision of a Republican victory this November, insisting they'd "shove it up their ass." The audience cheered. Trump was stumping for Ohio Republicans Jon Husted and Vivek Ramaswamy … | Continue reading
My friend and Wired colleague Gary Wolf is one of my favorite writers. He wrote a bunch of fantastic articles for Wired magazine, including a profile of Ted Nelson, creator of the Xanadu hypertext project, and he wrote a history of Wired magazine, a book called Wired: A Romance. … | Continue reading
Illustrator Robert Ullman, who did some great illustrations for Make magazine when I was editor there, has a new Kickstarter for a 48-page comic about his trip to Zion National Park. What a great way to capture an experience and share it with other people. — Read the rest The po … | Continue reading
The Saudi-owned and operated son-in-law of our dementia addled President is tired of people getting things wrong, and maybe sometime he'll tell us the side of the story he wants us to hear. Jared Kushner, whose private-equity firm took a $2 billion investment from Saudi Arabia's … | Continue reading
Id Software's 1992 shooter Doom now runs on toothbrushes, alarm clocks and all sorts of other modern gadgets that contain tiny supercomputers. But it doesn't run on the 8-bit home computers (or even 16-bit ones) that are even older than it is. — Read the rest The post Doom porte … | Continue reading
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Camera Index represents camera expert Pierro Pozella's quest to document every film camera ever made. He aims to turn it into the ultimate encyclopedia of the form, complete with specifications, manuals and, of course, photographs of the gadgets. [via Kosmofoto] "Our aim is to c … | Continue reading
British singer Olivia Dean's song I've Seen It lifts a section of melody from 1981 Bill Withers hit Just The Two Of Us, according to a lawsuit [PDF] filed in California. The songs "share musical features … so striking" that it cannot be a coincidence, claim lawyers for Mattie Mus … | Continue reading
People keep waiting for a groundbreaking reinvention of the e-reader, but Kindle already does it pretty well. The e-reader line has been refreshed. New Basic, Paperwhite, and Colorsoft versions are available, along with Signature editions for the Paperwhite and Colorsoft. The sh … | Continue reading
Potter & Potter Auctions just closed its "Weird Tales! UFOs, Curiosities and Tattoos" auction, and it is fun to browse through the catalog and see what was offered and how much money people paid. Items included books on pseudoscience, human skulls, wooden boxes full of glass eyes … | Continue reading
The Orange Menace has lost his multiple bids to slap his failure-associated name on a revered institution and has been ordered not to tear it down on a whim, so he is selling off the parts. Movers have been photographed hauling out the Steinways, which AlterNet reports are being … | Continue reading
New U.S. passports are coming, and first-time applicants can apply online. Digital selfies will also be allowed, making the process easier than ever. Passports are currently mailed in paper envelopes. New ones will come in a white box with the golden seal. — Read the rest The po … | Continue reading
After about 10 minutes of officer testimony, it took about 35 seconds of dashcam video to see the charges dropped. Chavez Morgan was issued a citation for an illegal lane change that caused a minor mirror-clip incident on the highway. He told the officer he had dashcam footage an … | Continue reading
A social media ad for "nutritionally complete" meal replacement shakes was banned by the UK's advertising watchdog over a suggestion the shakes can replace conventional food. Huel's ad, which ran on Instagram and YouTube, showed celebrity entrepreneur Spencer Matthews talking to … | Continue reading
Mandelnaut is the ultimate 1990s poster shop spinner, generating beautiful images of fractals with a huge array of options and settings and outputting images at custom dimensions. Making fractal wallpapers: rendering escape-time fractals, finding beautiful views, and teaching mo … | Continue reading
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Christopher Paul is running unopposed to become the chief of police in Elizabeth, Louisiana, a village of 417 people. Paul, however, was recently charged with raping two 13-year-old girls twenty years ago, creating a dilemma for locals who might not want someone suspected of seri … | Continue reading
Kenjiro Tsuda, an actor famed in Japan for his lustrous baritone, sued TikTok over an account that used an AI-generated replica of his voice in more than 180 videos. Tokyo District Court ruled this week that a persons' voice can be protected under Japan's publicity rights law. — … | Continue reading
Fujifilm's ever-growing Instax range trends toward both high-end retro and pocketable fun (consider the runaway success of Kodak's Charmera), with both to be found in the Instax Pal 2. Shorn of its printer and only 1.4 x 1.6 x 3.6 inches (37 x 42 x 92mm), it's completely unlike t … | Continue reading
Executives from Samsung and Micron, two of the world's top sellers of random access memory, warned this week that the RAM shortage would continue through 2028. AI companies take it all for their datacenters, and what's left for everyone else will continue to command premium price … | Continue reading
Florida recently ordered law enforcement agencies to remove Flock cameras installed on the state's roads: the intrusive technology and regular misuse by police officers has led to a national backlash against the company and surveillance cameras in general. Most are already gone, … | Continue reading
Book of Shapes [via] is a collection of minimalist generative SVG patterns created by Nikolaj Sokolowski. Beautiful and elaborate, yet each defined by a few lines of code, they can be customized for use on the web or in print. — Read the rest The post Book of Shapes: customizabl … | Continue reading
In an attempt to shame the Texas senatorial candidate, who is not accused of bribery or securities fraud, Dementia Donnie keeps calling the omnivorous James Talarico a "vagan." The number one way we know James Talarico isn't a "vagan" is because he isn't constantly telling us ho … | Continue reading
AI detection is a difficult job, made worse for everyone by it being such a delicious ingredient in academic snake oil. But one service has clearly outperformed the others in tests: Pangram. It went beyond obvious characteristics of LLM output such as perplexity and ngram distanc … | Continue reading
In 2006, The BBC reviewed predictions about robotics and AI made in the 1980s. Now, another 20 years later, we can reappraise its appraisal. When Will Intelligent Machines Take Over? The segment features Sir Clive Sinclair, icon of early home computing, who plainly claims that th … | Continue reading