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 is 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 franchises—things 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
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Rob Beschizza "Nearly" complete copies of early editions of the Whole Earth Catalog (previously at Boing Boing) and related publications are now online, reports Boone Ashworth. They're at wholeearth.info. A nearly complete… Read the rest of the article: Whole Whole Earth Catalog online
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Rob Beschizza Post-Soviet countries Azerbaijan and Armenia have fought several conflicts over the Nagorno-Karabakh region in recent decades, but the last, in 2020, ended with Azerbaijani forces finally overrunning the disputed territory… Read the rest of the article: Azerbaijan may invade Armenia soon, lawmakers told
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Rob Beschizza Actor Michael Caine, star of classics such as The Muppet Christmas Carol and Jaws: The Revenge1, is retiring at 90. "I keep saying I'm going to retire. Well I am… Read the rest of the article: Michael Caine retires from film at 90 to become novelist
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Rob Beschizza California governor Gavin Newsom (previously at Boing Boing) last month signed a law raising the mininum wage for fast food workers to $20 an hour, and has now signed one… Read the rest of the article: California governor Gavin Newsom signs law raising healthcare workers' minimum wage to $25 an hour over coming years
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Rob Beschizza Menacing, red-eyed robot wolves are being used to deter bears from encroaching upon towns in rural Japan, reports Andrew Paul for Popsci. Stories about solar-powered robotic wolves first surfaced back… Read the rest of the article: Robot wolves guard Japanese towns from boars, bears
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Rob Beschizza LeVar Burton is to replace Drew Barrymore as the host of November's National Book Awards ceremony. "It's an honor to return as host of the biggest night for books, especially… Read the rest of the article: LeVar Burton replaces Drew Barrymore as National Book Awards host
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Rob Beschizza Yamaha's Motoroid 2 is a concept bike that balances itself — the follow-up to an earlier, less-bizarre prototype presented in 2017. "It's unclear how exactly you'd be supposed to control… Read the rest of the article: Yamaha's self-balancing Motoroid 2 bike looks like an AI hallucination
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Rob Beschizza Tinkerer and skill-collector polymatt restores an ancient and unusual Thinkpad in this video—the mechanically-unique and complicated butterfly-keyboard model from the 1995 which shows how this sort of thing is properly… Read the rest of the article: Rare 1995 IBM Thinkpad butterfly laptop meticulously restored
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Rob Beschizza The No Fakes Act [pdf] would prohibit the use of AI to replicate the image, voice, and visual likeness of individuals without permission, excepting parodies, news, documentaries or other fair… Read the rest of the article: No Fakes act would limit replicating voice or likeness of individuals
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Rob Beschizza Regulators in Britain first disapproved of Microsoft buying Activision-Blizzard's epid $68bn gaming deal—and now they've approved it. The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has concluded that the deal can… Read the rest of the article: UK approves Microsoft acquisition of Activision-Blizzard