Speed cameras, banned in many states and disinventivized under laws limiting government agencies' ability to profit from crime and other legal infractions, are coming to California. Governor Gavin Newsom (previously… Read the rest of the article: California governor Gavin Newsom signs law allowing traffic cameras to issue automatic fines
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Rob Beschizza Minecraft is the most successful game of all time, and it's "not even close," reports Zack Zweiden. The blocky build-n-survive masterpiece recently sold its 300,000,000th copy. To put that massive… Read the rest of the article: 300m copies of Minecraft sold
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Rob Beschizza If there's something faintly unnerving about Apple keeping the boxed iPhones in Apple Stores remotely updated, consider how obvious the idea is, at least, given modern wireless charging and data… Read the rest of the article: Apple stores to update products in their boxes
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Rob Beschizza James Carter's Starring the Computer collects appearances of home computers in television shows and movies. The Commodore 64 is well-represented, but my childhood haunt the Amstrad CPC isn't quite so… Read the rest of the article: Appearances of home computers in movies and TV shows
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Rob Beschizza Bandcamp laid off about half its employees yesterday, according to reports from those affected posted on social media, following the company's sale to music licensing platform Songtradr. In an email… Read the rest of the article: Bandcamp lays off half its workforce
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Rob Beschizza Joran van der Sloot, the main suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway on the Dutch island of Aruba, says he will reveal details of her death… Read the rest of the article: Natalee Holloway suspect to reveal details of her death in plea deal
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Rob Beschizza U.S. Wildlife Service officials report that they are removing 21 entries from the list of endangered species because they are extinct. Here's the full list, mostly birds and mussels, such… Read the rest of the article: 21 species removed from endangered list because they are extinct
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Rob Beschizza Cory Doctorow, co-founder of this very website, has a new audiobook in the works: The Lost Cause. He's self-financing it through Kickstarter, making it feasible to produce without caving to… Read the rest of the article: Cory Doctorow's next audiobook, The Lost Cause, launches on Kickstarter
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Rob Beschizza Alleged presidential candidate Ron DeSantis's polling looks bleak, and his campaign is laying off staff and running out of money. That didn't stop him racking up $1.5m in costs jetting… Read the rest of the article: DeSantis spent $1.5m on private flights while his campaign struggles for money
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Rob Beschizza When Elon Musk took over Twitter, he said that "removing child exploitation is priority #1," but his whimsical management of the company saw the moderators responsible mostly fired and an… Read the rest of the article: Australia fines Twitter over failure to co-operate with Child Sexual Abuse Material probe
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Rob Beschizza Sarah Huckabee Sanders' office is supposedly going to use Republican Party funds to reimburse the state for a $19,000 lectern put on a government credit card. "Scrutiny" of this oddly… Read the rest of the article: Why was Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders' fancy $19,000 lectern put on a government credit card?
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Rob Beschizza There is hope for the world: the coughing at classical concerts is intentional, according to researchers at the University of Hannover. The average concertgoer, the report said, coughs at 0.025… Read the rest of the article: Study finds that people "cough on purpose during classical concerts"
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Rob Beschizza Vince Clarke, of Erasure, Yazoo and Depeche Mode fame, is releasing his first solo album after 40 years in the charts. The resultant album's mood of synth-generated, cosmic remoteness isĀ interrupted… Read the rest of the article: Vince Clarke's first solo album
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Rob Beschizza Microsoft finally getting to devour Activision means it gets Candy Crush and Call of Duty and other big-ticket modern game franchisesāthings it needs, given the slack sales of its latest-generation… Read the rest of the article: Microsoft now owns Infocom and its interaction fiction classics
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Rob Beschizza Ever dreamed of a camera sensor assembly so tiny that it fits behind a shutter curtain, allowing you to put your old film camera back into action? Your dream is… Read the rest of the article: Image sensor gadget gives old 35mm film cameras a digital upgrade
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Rob Beschizza Everything old is new again: Netflix is to open a chain of brick-and-mortar stores. Two will open, test sites, with "major cities around the world thereafter." According to a Bloomberg… Read the rest of the article: Netflix to open retail stores
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Rob Beschizza You can make pancakes from a mix, or you can make it from ingredients. Ingredients like flour, which has eight ingredients of its own, such as wheat. Making wheat will… Read the rest of the article: Recursive Recipes lets you drill down into recipes for each individual ingredient
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Rob Beschizza Three people were hurt and another arrested after shots rang out at the State Fair of Texas. Police said "one man shot at another man," reports KDFW, and those shot… Read the rest of the article: Texas State Fair evacuated after shooting
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Rob Beschizza Huck reports on Wasteland of my Fathers, an exhibition taking "a vivid look into an under-reported chapter in punk's story": the Welsh scene. Victimize formed on a council estate in… Read the rest of the article: The Welsh punk band scene in the 1980s
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Rob Beschizza Users trying to install popular performance benchmarking apps on Google's new Pixel 8 phones report being unable to do so. Sanjiv Sathiah, for Notebook Check: In a highly unusual move,… Read the rest of the article: Google reportedly blocking benchmarking apps on Pixel 8 phones