Express, found in malls across the nation, has filed for bankruptcy protection. It will close 95 stores and try to stay alive by selling itself, reports NPR. Last month, the… Read the rest of the article: "Cheap formal" clothing chain Express bankrupt
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Rob Beschizza Arizona loser Kari Lake's quest to overturn her electorial defeat in the 2022 gubernatorial election was turned away Monday by the Supreme Court. Her lawsuit, challenging electronic voting machines, was… Read the rest of the article: Supreme Court not interested in Kari Lake's voting machine conspiracy theories
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Rob Beschizza Snake bite victims in Australia have been urged not to bring the snakes with them to the hospital. It's not necessary and only creates a new problem, say officials. "We… Read the rest of the article: Australian hospitals ask bite victims to stop bringing in the snakes that bit them
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Rob Beschizza Hookup app Grindr is accused of revealing users' HIV status in a lawsuit filed in London's High Court. The lawsuit claims that user data was shared with Grindr's advertisers via… Read the rest of the article: Grindr sued over claims it revealed users' HIV status to advertisers
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Rob Beschizza Equinox is a perfectly-made free web game—a very short one, to show off Little Workshop's skills—made with three.js and a custom game engine. Making use of visual & sound effects,… Read the rest of the article: Equinox: help an AI activate a damaged ship in this free web game
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Rob Beschizza Despite bribing San Francisco city officials for 18 years and being convicted of corruption, developer Sia Tahbazof, 73, was given only probation by U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illston. He… Read the rest of the article: No prison time for developer who bribed city officials for 18 years
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Rob Beschizza Zilog's Z80 was a lynchpin of the home computer revolution. The first two 8-bit machines I owned, the ZX Spectrum and the Amstrad CPC, both had one. The versatile chip… Read the rest of the article: Zilog to stop making classic Z80 8-bit CPU after 50 years
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Rob Beschizza Crypto crook Avi Eisenberg is off to jail after being convicted on various charges of fraud and market manipulation over shenanigans run on the decentralized exchange Mango Markets. Eisenberg is… Read the rest of the article: Crypto influencer convicted in $110m scam
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Rob Beschizza Indiana man Andrew Wilhoite, 41, won a primary election for a township board position after killing his estranged wife and being charged with murder. He was ultimately convicted of manslaughter… Read the rest of the article: Indiana Republican who won primary election while facing murder charge is convicted of manslaughter
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Rob Beschizza NBC News reports that carmaker Hyundai has paused its ads on Twitter, citing the presence of neo-Nazi material alongside its own posts. "We have paused our ads on X and… Read the rest of the article: Hyundai suspends advertising on Twitter after Nazi material runs with ads
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Rob Beschizza Volkswagen workers at the company's 3600-strong Tennessee plant have voted overwhelmingly to join the United Autoworkers Union. Shortly after 11 pm ETon Friday the National Labor Relations Board, the federal… Read the rest of the article: Volkswagen workers vote overwhelmingly to join union
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Rob Beschizza Want to take a screenshot that looks like a photograph of a screen taken at a jaunty angle with extreme depth-of-field, like in stock art or whatever? Blurmatic has you… Read the rest of the article: Blurmatic makes screenshots with a depth-of-field effect
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Rob Beschizza Attention, distracted writers: Nick Sjolinder's BYOK is a single focus-writing gadget that hooks up to a keyboard and displays text and text alone. There's four lines of it on-screen, buttons… Read the rest of the article: Tiny LCD display hooks up to a keyboard and shows only one thing: four lines of text
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Rob Beschizza Online marketplaces are stocked to the brim with low-quality e-books generated by LLMs or cruder generative methods. It's nothing new—hucksters have been slapping together garbage ebooks by plagiarizing wikipedia and… Read the rest of the article: The business of generating and selling low-quality ebooks
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Rob Beschizza "They say in thirty years, a burger and fries could cost $16, a vacation $12,400, and a basic car $65,000," leads a 1996 ad for financial services company TIAA (then… Read the rest of the article: 1996 magazine ad says it all about 2026
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Rob Beschizza Red Lobster is losing money claw over fist. Bloomberg reports the seafood chain is heading for bankruptcy. The reasons are many, including the high operating costs and expensive promotions such… Read the rest of the article: Dead Lobster: seafood chain sinking into bankruptcy
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Rob Beschizza Goldene is a layer of gold a single atom thick. It doesn't look very … goldy?… but it's a major achievement of materials science. Shun Kashiwaya and others: The synthesis… Read the rest of the article: Goldene is a film of gold one atom thick
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Rob Beschizza Short Stack is the world's smallest Nintendo Wii, created using a trimmed motherboard and custom stacked PCBs to replace what was cut. It's the size of a deck of cards,… Read the rest of the article: The world's smallest Nintendo Wii
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Rob Beschizza St. Louis cops severely beat a black man, Luther Hall, during a street protest in 2017. But Hall was not there to protest: he was in fact another cop observing… Read the rest of the article: Undercover cop beaten by colleagues during protest wins $23.5m payout
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Rob Beschizza PEN America published a report Tuesday charting the accelerating phenomenon of book bans across the U.S., especially in schools and the legislatures of Republican-led states. Conservatives claim books are used to… Read the rest of the article: Ed Scare: book bans spreading across America, driven by conservative rage