Texas banned abortion and made a point of not studying the healthcare outcomes. ProPublica sifted through data on millions of hospitalizations of pregnant women and concludes that the outcomes are… Read the rest of the article: Maternal sepsis rate rises in Texas after abortion ban
You've seen fake QR codes slapped on parking meters, but have you seen them on gravestones? Police in Munich are investigating after 1,000 headstones and crosses were defaced with QR… Read the rest of the article: Mysterious QR codes added to 1,000 graves in Munich
After one intruder got too close, the U.S. Secret Service deployed a Belgian Malinois named Hurricane. The next one over the fence didn't get very far at all, and Hurricane… Read the rest of the article: Heroic dog who protected Obama White House from intruder dies at 16
The National Science Foundation fired 168 employees this week, a spokesperson disclosed, to comply with executive orders from the White House to reduce the federal workforce. It amounts to about… Read the rest of the article: 168 employees fired at National Science Foundation
A prosecutor with U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Dallas is an overt racist and white supremacist, reports The Texas Observer, which attributes to him various statements it found… Read the rest of the article: Texas ICE prosecutor: "America is a White nation", "I am a fascist"
Apple's cheapest iPhone is now a 16th-generation model. The iPhone 16e is $599, looks like other contemporary models, and comes in black or white. Gone is the home button, present… Read the rest of the article: Apple's iPhone 16e is relatively cheap and fast
An opossum that ate an entire Costco chocolate cake is in recovery at Nebraska Wildlife Rehab, reports KETV. Kim Doggett and her family had left the cake out only to… Read the rest of the article: Opossum "cake bandit" recovering after eating whole cake
Humane's AI assistant pin arrived to "scathing" reviews and the company was soon reportedly processing more returns than sales of the lapel gadget. After less than a year of use,… Read the rest of the article: Humane pin dead, HP eats remains
Building upon earlier efforts, the 88×31 GIF Collection amasses examples of an early and long-obsolete web advertising format. A collection of 4540 classic 88×31 buttons from the 1990s, 2000s, and… Read the rest of the article: The 88×31 GIF Collection
MapCanvas creates "beautiful map portraits"—minimal maps of anywhere you might search, with options for colors, water bodies, custom text, specific print sizes. You can even order posters. We transform cherished… Read the rest of the article: MapCanvas generates minimal, customizable maps to print out
Described as the "king of the ancient Egyptian forest," the hypercarnivorous hyaenodonts were enormous mammals—imagine a hyena twice the size of a Kodiak bear—so successful they spread across the globe.… Read the rest of the article: What happened to the ancient apex carnivore that suddenly disappeared from the fossil record?
If the idea of emulating a PC on a Nintendo Entertainment System sounds like a torturous exercise in proving Turing completeness and the very opposite of fun, console yourself with… Read the rest of the article: Emulate a PC on a Nintendo Entertainment System
Remember YouTube Multiplier, which played multiple YouTube embeds at once? The logical next step is here: the YouTube Sequencer, which allows users to play YouTube videos like drum samples, arranging… Read the rest of the article: Try using Youtube as a drum sequencer
Target is learning that its efforts to please Donald Trump and the GOP have done nothing to improve its bottom line while generating worse "real consequences," reports Ariel Messman-Rucker for… Read the rest of the article: Target scrapped DEI to please Trump. It's not helping business.
At tintin.dlazaro.ca you may experience the "What a week, huh?" meme, updated daily in accordance with the current day. It's at the website of Daniel Lazaro, a Canadian computer scientist,… Read the rest of the article: Tintin and Haddock "What a week, huh?" meme updated every day, week, month and year
Daniel "Dana" Puchau's Ink Console is a specialized e-ink handheld designed for playing gamebooks. There are several games on show that use the built-in game engine, and a game development… Read the rest of the article: Ink Console is a portable e-ink gamebook console
Owners of a Kindle—Amazon's locked-down e-readers and note-taking gadgets—are the beneficiaries of a new jailbreak that opens every model for general-purpose use. WinterBreak, based on Mesquito, requires the user to… Read the rest of the article: New Kindle jailbreak opens all models
Twitter, renamed X by owner Elon Musk, is reportedly blocking links to the messaging service Signal. Matt Binder: X, formerly Twitter, is blocking users from posting a "Signal.me" link through… Read the rest of the article: Why is Twitter censoring links to Signal?
Apple has resumed advertising on Twitter, reports Joe Rossignol at MacRumors. It stopped in 2023 when Twitter owner Elon Musk posted "you have said the actual truth" in response to… Read the rest of the article: Apple resumes advertising on Twitter
The BBC posted an exposé on U.K. chancellor Rachel Reeves, the country's finance minister, who "exaggerated" her professional experience on her resumé. She did not work at the Bank of… Read the rest of the article: Britain's Chancellor Rachel Reeves fibbed on resume and was investigated over expenses at last real job
