This morning, NPR published a long, detailed article about U.S. Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito retiring. Announced from the bench, wrote veteran court reporter Nina Totenberg. But he hasn't retired;… Read the rest of the article: NPR retracts comically specific article about Supreme Court's Samuel Alito retiring, after he doesn't
Microsoft's gaming division is having a rough time of it, having sold fewer consoles this generation than Sony and the game industry's general troubles pinching its ambitions. New Xbox chief… Read the rest of the article: Mass layoffs expected at Xbox, as prices go up
Hollywood director Carl Rinsch is off to the clink for 30 months after defrauding Netflix of $11 million it sent him to complete a sci-fi series. The Associated Press' Jennifer… Read the rest of the article: Prison time for director who conned Netflix out of $11m
The Last Museum archives 5.8 million artworks housed in the world's museums, from old masters to obscure comic books. Its one of those websites where a couple of minutes turns… Read the rest of the article: Browse 5.8 million works of art at the Last Museum
Flagdoku is a flag-themed puzzle game (below is embedded my solution to today's challenge) and a search engine for flags. All your favorites are there, and some you might not… Read the rest of the article: Flagdoku tests your knowledge of flags
Writer-director Robert Eggers (Nosferatu, The Witch) moves his moody bleak weirdness to medieval England for Werwulf, which comes to theaters this Christmas. It's not clear exactly what the story is… Read the rest of the article: Howl you know if Werwulf is worth seeing if you don't watch this trailer?
At 0°N 0°E, where the prime meridian crosses the equator, there is an island. But there is no land there to be found, and the seabed lies nearly 5,000 meters… Read the rest of the article: Now space has been corrupted by capitalism, there's only one place left to escape to: Null Island
The Osmo Pocket 3, a tiny gimbaled camera with a big sensor, is a runaway success for DJI. Even movie pros use them, a fact that led it to develop… Read the rest of the article: DJI claims 17 stops of dynamic range for its Osmo Pocket Pro camera
A Georgia man killed a woman then died while trying to dispose of her remains in the Alabama woods. The bodies of Daniel Robbins, 44, and Jessica Folds, 47, were… Read the rest of the article: Killer dies of heart attack while disposing of victim's body
After Valve announced the Steam Machine, popular tech toy maker Dbrand announced the perfect accessory for it: a 3D case wrap that turns it into a Companion Cube, the mindless… Read the rest of the article: The Steam Machine Companion Cube was a lie
PettyMillion is an exciting new website that hopes to collect a million "petty complaints." You can complain about anything you like, so long as it is trivial and unworthy of… Read the rest of the article: Website hopes to log 1,000,000 complaints
CERN's Large Hadron Collider has collided its last hadron. The 27-kilometer (17-mile) ring, buried dozens of meters underground on the French and Swiss border, begins decommissioning today. The collider will… Read the rest of the article: Large Hadron Collider retired for upgrades
The U.S. Supreme Court today declined to hear President Trump's appeal against a $5 million judgment after he was found liable for sexually abusing the writer E. Jean Carroll. None… Read the rest of the article: Supreme Court rejects Trump appeal of sexual assault verdict
An Irish software firm managing membership of cannabis social clubs left more than a million member records and roughly 985,000 identity-document photos sitting on a server that required no password,… Read the rest of the article: A million passports leaked online by marijuana club portal
"Don't judge a book by its cover," they say, but how can one not? The cover's right there. Uncovered is a website that forces the issue by presenting book excerpts… Read the rest of the article: Uncovered: read book samples without knowing who wrote it, what the title is, or looking at the cover
The European Space Agency on Wednesday released the largest and most detailed visible-light image of the Milky Way's center. The picture shows more than 60 million stars in the galactic… Read the rest of the article: 60 million stars shine in Euclid telescope's new image of the Milky Way
Two Kentucky residents were arrested last week after a detecive looked in a bag labeled "deffntely not a bag full of drugs" and found it to contain narcotics. In a… Read the rest of the article: Bag labeled "deffntely not a bag full full of drugs" was full of drugs
Firewood is a free online log-chopping simulator: rounds of firewood are placed upon an old stump and you must use an axe to chop them into appropriately-sized splits. Rounds come… Read the rest of the article: Firewood chopping simulator
Last year, Ford CEO Jim Farley said that AI would eliminate half of white-collar jobs. This year, Ford brought back 350 veteran techs after an AI-powered system failed to deliver… Read the rest of the article: Ford rehires hundreds of "graybeard" engineers after AI shortcomings
AllRGB is an old-fashioned image gallery on the web. The draw? Each image on it must include, without repetition, one pixel for every RGB value. The objective of allRGB is… Read the rest of the article: Gallery of images with one pixel for each RGB value
