Twitter is getting worse than ever under its new ownership: every popular tweet is deluged with AI bots, right-wing memes and ads for sex workers, dropshipped gadgets and crypto scams.… Read the rest of the article: Twitter alternative Bluesky launches RSS feeds
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Rob Beschizza Former president Donald Trump thrashed his challengers in Iowa's primary caucus there, claiming 51% of the vote to Ron DeSantis's 21% and Nikki Haley's 19%. The victory cements his position… Read the rest of the article: Trump wins big in Iowa GOP caucus
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Rob Beschizza Ukraine claimed to have shot down an A-50 long range radar detection aircraft—an important and expensive spy plane whose destruction amounts to a "a blow to Moscow's air power," reports… Read the rest of the article: Ukraine claims to have shot down Russian spy plane
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Rob Beschizza Brian ParĂ©, 38, is a conspiracy theorist who posted claims that the government was deliberately setting wildfires to make people believe in climate change. But he was setting them himself,… Read the rest of the article: Man who claimed wildfires were a government conspiracy was setting them himself
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Rob Beschizza With Vivek Ramaswamy no longer qualifying for debates and his 15 minutes coming to an end, Donald Trump has no further use for him. In the former president's first public… Read the rest of the article: Trump dumps on Vivek: deceitful, sly, "not MAGA"
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Rob Beschizza McCheapest (via BBS, Hacker News) tracks the price of a McDonald's burger across the nation. It's pricier in the Bay Area, Seattle and up east, but you know who's getting… Read the rest of the article: Arizona is getting screwed on the price of a Big Mac
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Rob Beschizza David Lynch's 1984 movie Dune was spectacular but not well-received, and its slack box office didn't justify the planned sequels. But Lynch began script work for Dune 2 (with elements… Read the rest of the article: David Lynch's unfinished script for Dune 2 unearthed
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Rob Beschizza My favorite thing about MouthPad is that's how you'd say the word "mousepad" if you were wearing one: it fits into the top of your mouth and you use your… Read the rest of the article: MouthPad is a tiny tongue-operated mousepad for the top of your mouth
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Rob Beschizza We're accustomed to the uncanny random brand names used by factories to sell directly to the consumer. But now the listings themselves are being generated by AI, a fact revealed… Read the rest of the article: Amazon product name is an OpenAI error message
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Rob Beschizza Dru Marshall, 26, claims he was a senior footman at Windsor Castle and came into possession of a walking stick used by Queen Elizabeth II, who died in 2022. Marshall… Read the rest of the article: He tried to sell "Queen Elizabeth II's walking stick" on eBay. He's been sentenced for fraud.
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Rob Beschizza Capcom is reportedly adding retroactive digital rights-management features to its old titles via online storefronts, much to the chagrin of owners who say the software is slowing down the games… Read the rest of the article: Capcom adds DRM to old games, causing new problems for customers
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Rob Beschizza Classic fantasy epic Elfquest (previously) is to be an animated series at Fox. Deadline reports that Susan Hurwitz Arneson (The Last Amazon) is to write and run the show, produced… Read the rest of the article: Elfquest animated series in the works
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Rob Beschizza The Associated Press rounds up the crappiest gadgets at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which range from dangerous in-car touchscreens to privacy-violating AI snake oil. Respected audio… Read the rest of the article: Worst gadgets at CES
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Rob Beschizza With post-pandemic demand for new jets growing and the competition in bad shape, Airbus is picking up the slack. The Wall Street Journal reports that the European plane maker is… Read the rest of the article: Orders soar at Airbus, which makes jets where the side doesn't fall off
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Rob Beschizza Lee Carter, 52, a Houston-area rap artist who performs under the name Viper, allegedly kidnapped a woman and kept her in his garage under squalid conditions for four years, forcing… Read the rest of the article: Cops: Houston rapper kidnapped woman and imprisoned her in his garage for years
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Rob Beschizza Researchers found a sprawling ancient city in eastern Ecuador, reclaimed thousands of years ago by the lush Amazon rainforest. The BBC reports that a volcano nearby provided it with rich… Read the rest of the article: Lost city found in Amazon may have housed 100,000 before being abandoned and reclaimed by rainforest
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Rob Beschizza Brittany Watts, 34, of Warren, Ohio, miscarried her baby at home and was charged with "abuse of a corpse" last October. She faced up to a year in prison, but… Read the rest of the article: Grand jury in Ohio declines to indict woman charged over miscarriage
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Rob Beschizza Two men who died while imprisoned in Alabama lost more than their lives. When their bodies were returned to family members, they were missing their hearts and other organs, according… Read the rest of the article: Alabama prisoners' bodies missing hearts and other organs, say their families
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Rob Beschizza Hertz (previously) is selling off one third of its electrical vehicle fleet, mostly Tesla models, to replace them with gasoline-powered cars. It's dumping some 20,000 vehicles and with the used-EV… Read the rest of the article: Rental giant Hertz replacing Teslas with gasoline cars
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Rob Beschizza Microsoft's market capitalization has overtaken Apple's, making it the world's most valuable publicly-traded company. Up 1.6% Thursday, it is worth $2.875 trillion. Apple slid 0.9% to $2.871 trillion. It was… Read the rest of the article: Microsoft overtakes Apple as world's most valuable company