Amazon's latest AI shopping "feature" generates fake product images while you type, because apparently searching through the world's largest pile of actual products was too grounded in reality. Available starting… Read the rest of the article: Amazon uses AI to invent products you can't buy
Dementia Donnie thinks this infographic is impressive. To celebrate his pool guy coating the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool a deep blue, Trump held up a visual aid comparing its 2,030-foot… Read the rest of the article: Grandpa Pudding Brains unveils "our pool is bigger than skyscrapers" chart
Living under an airport's takeoff path usually means complaining about the noise. A Redditor who goes by I_am_Root01 went the other way and built a ceiling projection that shows every… Read the rest of the article: A hobbyist projects SFO's overhead planes onto his ceiling in real time
TL;DR: ChatPlayground AI lets you compare GPT, Claude, Gemini, and more side-by-side in one tab—and lifetime access is $59.97 (reg. $619) through June 14 I don't know what's worse—handling monthly individual subscription… Read the rest of the article: If you're paying a la carte for AI models, this $60 lifetime pass gets you ChatGPT, Claude & more
Meta has backed off a little. After announcing in April that a tool called the Model Capability Initiative would log employees' keystrokes and mouse clicks to train its AI models,… Read the rest of the article: Meta backs off tracking workers' keystrokes after they revolt
Don Marti has a rule of thumb: when Meta, Google, and Apple all line up behind a new "privacy" feature, someone should ask who actually benefits. In a post about… Read the rest of the article: When Meta, Google, and Apple agree on "privacy," watch your wallet
It seems global bear populations are letting humanity know we've encroached far enough. Seems this bear really wanted to explain the rules of the wild. Previously:• A bear got into… Read the rest of the article: Bears in Japan also sick of humans
In The Armchair Economist, Steven Landsburg makes the case that burning your own money is a form of philanthropy. Destroy a banknote, he argues, and "all surviving money slightly increases… Read the rest of the article: The strange economics of setting your own cash on fire
On the evening of April 15, 1856, an American named Jack Oliver took a slice of watermelon from a Panama City vendor, José Manuel Luna, and refused to pay the… Read the rest of the article: A stolen slice of watermelon sparked a deadly 1856 riot in Panama
In 1995 the Japanese construction giant Taisei Corporation unveiled plans for the X-Seed 4000, a tower four kilometers tall — a building shaped like Mount Fuji that would have stood… Read the rest of the article: What happened to the 2.5 mile high building designed to be taller than Mount Fuji?
Raw Story reports that Owens is scheduled to appear at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on a panel called "A Big Family, A Big Reach: New Demographics and Narratives… Read the rest of the article: Candace Owens takes her patriot act to Putin's talent show
Substacker Dean Blundell has a long look at the Epstein-related baggage now sloshing around Bari Weiss' CBS News, and the argument is not that proximity proves guilt. It is that… Read the rest of the article: Bari Weiss' CBS News swims in Epstein-related baggage
California's proposed replacement-tire rules are aimed at reducing rolling resistance, which is exactly the boring technical phrase that matters here. A tire that takes more energy to roll makes a… Read the rest of the article: Sticky tires are dirtier than they look
A hiker on Glacier National Park's Grinnell Glacier Trail surprised a grizzly in a noisy snowfield, and the grizzly responded with a fractured-arm performance review. A 32-year-old man suffered non-life-threatening… Read the rest of the article: Bear shows hiker who is boss
Responding to the latest dietary craze, America put protein in Pop-Tarts, chips, candy, soda, and water, and now the whey mines are running dry. The Atlantic reports that wholesale whey… Read the rest of the article: No whey? Protein shortage looms
I know you just got done running around and trying to keep your sailor suit intact in Silent Hill f, but Konami has another helping of moody horror for you… Read the rest of the article: The next Silent Hill has a twist fans won't see coming
Honestly, I wondered what game announcement could possibly be so hype-inducing that PlayStation would rent out theaters nationwide to host it. The Last of Us 3? Bloodborne 2? Unfortunately, the… Read the rest of the article: New God of War game does not feature the god of war
With how great Insomniac's Spider-Man game was and how okay its sequel was, it's no surprise that Marvel has apparently designated them the Marvel game studio. Despite a devilish sequel… Read the rest of the article: Insomniac's Wolverine game looks every bit as bloody as it should
It's surely no surprise that my favorite Sesame Street character is Aloysius Snuffleupagus, a.k.a. Mr. Snuffleupagus, a.k.a. Snuffy. I mean, it's not a secret that I'm a sucker for an… Read the rest of the article: Newly discovered fish species looks just like Big Bird's best friend, Mr. Snuffleupagus
At Slope Point, the southernmost tip of New Zealand's South Island, the wind has become a sculptor. The trees here don't grow straight toward the sky. They all lean in… Read the rest of the article: Antarctica's winds permanently bent New Zealand's trees sideways
