A Delaware judge has again denied Elon Musk's bid to award himself a pay package at Tesla worth $56bn, upholding her own earlier ruling that the process leading to it… Read the rest of the article: Elon Musk loses bid to award self $56bn pay package from Tesla
Flexbar is a MacBook-style horizontal touchbar as a discrete USB gadget, perfect for anyone who wanted one on their PC or who miss their disappearance from Apple's laptops. They're 10… Read the rest of the article: Flexbar is a USB gadget for anyone missing the Touchbar
Public Domain Review has a festive nativity featuring works that will enter the public domain on January 1, 2025. In our advent-style calendar below, find our top pick of what… Read the rest of the article: Films, books and artwork entering the public domain in 2025
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Have you ever struggled to insert or remove a stubborn RJ45 plug? Now you can replace the problem with… Read the rest of the article: Magsafe ethernet cable available, finally
A legal presumption that computer data is infallibile may have led to a major scandal in the U.K: the jailing of hundreds of postal workers on false embezzlement claims tied… Read the rest of the article: Courts in UK may stop treating computer data as legally infallible
Passengers have traveled 13 trillion miles—2.3 light years—since the last serious airline crash affecting a U.S. carrier. How far have US airlines carried passengers since February 2009? According to the… Read the rest of the article: 13 trillion miles since the last fatal airplane crash in U.S.
Oxford University Press named "Brain Rot" its word of the year, referring to the deterioriation of one's mental state and intellect as a result of consuming content, especially online. It… Read the rest of the article: Brain Rot is Oxford's word of the year
If Elon Musk wanted to create a classic fantasy role-playing franchise with none of the wokery that now inhabits Dungeons & Dragons, he could do it a dozen times over… Read the rest of the article: Xungeons & Xragons: Elon wants to buy Hasbro and do to the game what he did to Twitter
Today I enjoyed reading Don't F*ck With Scroll, a particular but cromulent criticism of a trend on the web that drives me nuts: taking scroll away from the reader. Let… Read the rest of the article: Awesome minimalist websites
In this footage posted by Sports News, said to be recorded at 70,000 frames per second but played back at about 5 fps, a ball splats against a steel plate… Read the rest of the article: Splat! 70000 fps Video of a "golf ball" hitting a steel plate at 150 mph
As spotted in vending machines in Japan, the tiny Casio retro ring watch is coming to America! The Verge's Andrew Liszewski writes that it turned up on the company's U.S.… Read the rest of the article: Clock ring: tiny Casio retro watch coming to U.S. for Christmas
Denmark, roughly the area of Wisconsin, is to plant a billion trees, replacing 15 percent of the nation's farmland with forest. $6.1 billion was earmarked by legislators in compensation to… Read the rest of the article: Denmark to plant a billion trees
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Nuisance litigation of the sort heralded by Cease 'n' Decist letters is on the rise, and I enjoyed reading… Read the rest of the article: "Continue and Persist" letter encourages recipient to carry on
UFC strawweight Luana Pinheiro recently limped out the octagon after being elbowed in the anus during a fight—a move that would have been illegal until recently and which remains at… Read the rest of the article: UFC fighter still in pain weeks after being elbowed in anus
Jurassic Park may have the tourists, but Triassic Toilet serves up the science. The inner lives of dinosaurs are revealed in Digestive contents and food webs record the advent of… Read the rest of the article: Fossilized dinosaur poop reveals their dietary secrets
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! A discarded cigarette: what a perfectly French way to destroy centuries of French history. But Notre Dame was restored… Read the rest of the article: Notre-Dame prepares to reopen five years after fire that nearly destroyed it
Candace Owens, an online influencer who graduated from standard right wingery to holocaust denial with some Hitler praise along the way, was denied entry to New Zealand. Officials cited her… Read the rest of the article: Nazi defender Candace Owens banned from New Zealand
The U.S. healthcare system is ruthless and profit-seeking by design. That it's also infested with frauds and crooks is an example of why the freedom in free markets rarely extends… Read the rest of the article: Former hospital CEO detained amid corruption scandal
Jet Set Willy is a sprawling 8-bit classic requiring the player to tidy up his own vast mansion, infested with monsters after a party gone wrong. Pixel for pixel, every… Read the rest of the article: The whole of Jet Set Willy's mansion in one 4k screen
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Proposed not long ago, Australia's ban on under 16s on social media is already law. The law will make… Read the rest of the article: Australia's social media ban for under 16s becomes law
