Tynesider Chris McGuinness looks quite a lot like the musician and actor Sting. He is retiring from his job as a ferryman, reports the BBC. Mr McGuinness, from South Shields,… Read the rest of the article: Man who looks a bit like Sting retires from his ordinary job
The "capital G" Gamer set is upset that the new Assassin's Creed game, set in Sengoku-period Japan, has as its two protagonists a black samurai and a Japanese woman. The… Read the rest of the article: Funny article about gamers enraged at everything except layoffs
Microsoft would like you to use AI to record everything you ever do on your computer. This is definitely something you personally will benefit from, and will create no potential… Read the rest of the article: Wonderful new Windows feature records everything you ever do on your computer and feeds it to AI
Police bodycam footage from a "bewildered" officer in Sandusky County, Ohio, shows a traffic stop after he pulled over a USPS mail van for speeding at 105 mph in a… Read the rest of the article: Postal worker raced Mustang in USPS van, hitting 105 mph
Deleted photos aren't when it comes to iOS, a problem exposed by a bug which resulted in photos being restored after users deleted them. The Verge is unequivocal about the… Read the rest of the article: Apple bug restored photos that users deleted. Where did they come from?
A 70-year-old man was killed in Alaska by the mother of two newborn moose calves he was trying to photograph. Dale Chorman of Homer died Sunday after approaching the group… Read the rest of the article: Moose kills man trying to photograph its newborn calves
This magnificent supercut by HanahakiBlank shows scenes from anime videos depicting gadgets and technology: telephones, stereos, turntables, dashboards, game controllers, the lot. What a fascinating tribute to the precision and… Read the rest of the article: Anime depictions of gadgets and technology
Scarlett Johansson is famed for many roles, among them her disquieting performance in Her, a movie about the relationship between a man and an AI chatbot. When OpenAI boss Sam… Read the rest of the article: Scarlett Johansson denied OpenAI the right to use her voice. They used it anyway.
Lumina is a probiotic startup: it makes some sort of teeth potion? The only thing I actually know about it is that it doesn't want you to read Trevor Klee's… Read the rest of the article: Probiotic startup's legal threats to critic draw attention to his claims
Craig Wright, the Australian businessman who claims to be the pseudoymous Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto, recently lost a long-running legal battle in the UK to be recognized as author of… Read the rest of the article: UK judge: Craig Wright is a technobabbling liar and forger, not as clever as he thinks he is, and also not Satoshi Nakamoto
Samuel Alito, the right-wing U.S. Supreme Court justice, flew an upside-down U.S. flag outside his home. This is a traditional symbol of distress now mostly used by election deniers and… Read the rest of the article: Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito flew inverted U.S. flag outside home, a MAGA symbol of insurrection
I'm an uneasy fan of focus-writing tools. I always think I want something like that, then get annoyed with the reality of it. They're always either too fancy, too simplified… Read the rest of the article: Freewrite Alpha, writing gadget inspired by legendary Alphasmart, gets a good review
CNN reports that the International Criminal Court is seeking arrest warrants for Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas leaders including Yahya Sinwar. Hamas leaders' ordered the terror attacks on… Read the rest of the article: International Criminal Court arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas boss Yahya Sinwar
A scammer who variously claimed to be an Irish heiress, a witch, a psychic and a celebrity shmoozer is to be extradited to the United Kingdom, which wants to prosecute… Read the rest of the article: She's an Irish heiress, a psychic, a witch… and about to be extradited to the UK on fraud charges
A report in The Information foretells an "ultra-thin" iPhone design in 2025. This stands to reason given the new iPads released this month, barely 5mm thick, and corroborates the general… Read the rest of the article: "Ultra-thin" iPhone coming in 2025
Ebrahim Raisi, Iran's hard-line president, died in a fiery helicopter crash in remote, fog-shrounded mountains. Also killed was foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and others aboard the chopper. Raisi's death triggers… Read the rest of the article: Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi killed in helicopter crash
Minecraft, the voxelated open-world everything game, is 15 years old. Aren't birthdays just great? I still remember crying hysterically after my cousin blew out all the candles on my cake.… Read the rest of the article: Minecraft is 15 years old
Two years ago, I wrote about Jeff Dieschburg, an artist in Luxembourg who took work by others, made trivial edits, and won awards with paintings of the results. Sued there… Read the rest of the article: Photographer wins lawsuit against alleged painter who plagiarized her work
Cabel Sasser (previously) spotted an early Apple employee's ID card on sale on eBay—a fantastic find for anyone interested in computer history. But he noticed something off about it—the crispness… Read the rest of the article: Forged early Apple employee ID sleuthed—but still sold for a wee fortune on eBay
David DePape, the man who broke into Nancy Pelosi's home and struck her husband Paul with a hammer in 2020, is off to jail for 30 years. The attack left… Read the rest of the article: 30 years for Paul Pelosi attacker David DePape
