Apple today announced the fourth-generation of its in-house silicon and a range of new iPads, thinner and brighter than ever, which show what the M4 do. Hardware ray-tracing in games!… Read the rest of the article: Apple shows off M4 chip and new iPads
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Rob Beschizza Cars used to have real bumpers on the outside, but now they have elaborately-molded ABS assemblies over them which crack if you look at them wrong and come packed with… Read the rest of the article: Fender benders now result in vastly expensive repairs
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Rob Beschizza Haley Blunt, 24, of Lake City, Florida, was charged last Wednesday with burglary after officers from the Lake City Police Department were dispatched to NW Hunstboro street there. One can't… Read the rest of the article: Naked Florida woman breaks into neighbor's house
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Rob Beschizza Deez-Nuts Kroll, 42, pleaded not guilty to two misdemeanor charges in Wisconsin and was released on an $11,000 bond. Kroll, whose first name is listed in court records as "Deez-Nuts,"… Read the rest of the article: Wisconsin man named Deez-Nuts pleads not guilty to whatever he was charged with
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Rob Beschizza Fatih Arslan reports from the annual Braun Börse, a collector's fair held May 4 at the company's headquarters in Kronberg, Germany, "the perfect place for any Braun or Dieter Rams… Read the rest of the article: Design classics at the annual Braun collector's fair in Germany
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Rob Beschizza Director Stanley Kubrick was famously perfectionist and infamously unpleasant to work with, and this extended to an early biography of him written by Neil Hornick, now published as The Magic… Read the rest of the article: The Stanley Kubrick biography his lawyers blocked in 1970 is finally published
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Rob Beschizza Get Any Plant is an online aggregator of nurseries and online stores with some 6,000 species of plant to buy. It has Venus Fly Traps, handsome Echevaria, beautiful Salpiglossis, and… Read the rest of the article: Site tells you where you can order 6,000 species of plant
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Rob Beschizza Most "fleece" is just extruded plastic filament and its use in clothing is, according to clothing company Patagonia, a serious source of pollution. Washing them results in microplastic soup, which… Read the rest of the article: Fleece clothing a "serious pollutant"—it's made of plastic, after all
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Rob Beschizza Tesla's layoffs expanded over the weekend with staff involved in software, service and engineering all reporting that they'd gotten their pink slips. The 10 percent workforce reduction announced earlier by… Read the rest of the article: Tesla layoffs now an ongoing "bloodbath"
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Rob Beschizza The Rabbit R1, like the Humane AI Pin not long before it, launched to rough reviews. Though the portable AI assistant gadget is more attractive than Humane's, thanks to its… Read the rest of the article: Is Rabbit R1 just an Android app running on generic Android hardware?
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Rob Beschizza After a sound thrashing in local elections left them in third place behind Labour and Liberal Democrats, the U.K.'s governing Conservative party is doubling-down on culture war rhetoric: it plans… Read the rest of the article: UK to ban new unisex toilets
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Rob Beschizza Helldivers 2 is the breakout game of 2024 on PC, but its publisher Sony sells game consoles, wants everyone playing it using PlayStation Network, and announced that it would require… Read the rest of the article: Sony backs off PlayStation Network login requirement for PC hit Helldivers 2
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Rob Beschizza Early in the 20th century, London printer T.J. Cobden-Sanderson dumped the beautiful Doves Type into the river during a business dispute. As the only lead they had, that meant the… Read the rest of the article: Thames New Roman: how the famed Doves Type was rescued from the bottom of a river
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Rob Beschizza North Yorkshire Council is unilaterally altering English grammar because its database is frightened of apostrophes. Accordingly, the pesky punctuation marks are being removed from road signs going forward. St. Mary's… Read the rest of the article: Local council in England to remove apostrophes from road signs because Computer Says No
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Rob Beschizza The Starship Troopers-inspired game Helldivers 2 has been a big hit for Sony, but earlier this week it forced players to log in through the PlayStation network—even if they're playing… Read the rest of the article: Helldivers 2 removed from Steam across much of the world, refunds given
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Rob Beschizza Former Ligonier Valley Police Chief John Berger is behind bars in the Westmoreland County Jail, near Pittsburgh, after being charged Friday with sexual assault. He had already been fired after… Read the rest of the article: Former police chief charged in rehab center rape
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Rob Beschizza When Nintendo took legal action against open-source Nintendo Switch emulator Yuba, many developers forked the repository, effectively creating thousands of duplicates on GitHub and elsewhere. The Japanese game giant went… Read the rest of the article: Nintendo hits GitHub with 8,000 emulator takedown notices
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Rob Beschizza Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Azerbaijan) and his wife were indicted on corruption charges Friday. They accepted nearly $600,000 over 10 years in bribes from an oil company owned by a foreign… Read the rest of the article: Texas Democrat Henry Cuellar and wife charged with corruption
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Rob Beschizza Weird Al Yankovic's UHF was a critical and theatrical flop when it was released in 1989, but its brilliance was obvious in due course—thanks to VHS and cable TV. It's… Read the rest of the article: Weird Al's UHF gets a 4K release
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Rob Beschizza Facebook supposely bans militias, but they're there all the same, reports Wired's Tess Owen—and using the plaform to coordinate their activities. "Join Your Local Militia or III% Patriot Group," a… Read the rest of the article: More than 100 far-right militias use Facebook to coordinate activities