Behold Bashar al-Assad, recently-departed despot of Syria, in repose. The snaps are floating around virally on the net, described as having been found in his abandoned palace outside of Damascus,… Read the rest of the article: Assad family snaps "found in palace"

Sony recently wound down blu-ray production, and now top competitor LG is following suit. No more disks, no more players. For major manufacturers, the format (if not optical media entirely)… Read the rest of the article: LG ends Blu-ray production

Time Map is an interactive historical map of the world. You can zoom in to place and time to find out what happened, who was what, where was when… it's… Read the rest of the article: Explore history with this online interactive map

Here's a profile in courage for you: FBI Director Christopher Wray, appointed by then-president Trump and about to be fired by president-elect Trump, has resigned to avoid the humiliation of… Read the rest of the article: FBI Director Christopher Wray quits early to avoid being fired

The "manifesto" of Luigi Mangione, suspected of murder in the killing of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson, is a short denunciation of the U.S. healthcare industry. But for what its author… Read the rest of the article: Luigi Mangione's manifesto

Boneless chicken doesn't have to be, ruled Ohio's Supreme Court, siding against a diner who choked on a bone and sued the restaurant that served it. The court affirmed its… Read the rest of the article: Choke on it: Ohio Supreme Court confirms that boneless chicken can contain bones

Car Thing was Spotify's first hardware product, a simple touchscreen music player for car dashboards that piped tracks from the online service. After three years, it all became e-waste, discontinued… Read the rest of the article: Spotify's Car Thing becomes Car Brick after service discontinued

Fay Gable and Robert Wenrich wed in 1951 and divorced in 1975. Then they wed again, in 2024. Both eventually remarried and remained with their spouses for many years until… Read the rest of the article: Couple remarry 50 years after their 1975 divorce

At A Single Div, web designer Lynn Fisher demonstrates the versatility of cascading style sheets, the markup that makes the web wonderful (or not, as the case may be). Everything… Read the rest of the article: What can be achieved with a single <div>?

The Onion bought Alex Jones' Infowars in a court-ordered bankruptcy auction, but a judge yesterday voided the result, saying it "left money on the table." Jones owes more than a… Read the rest of the article: Judge blocks The Onion's purchase of InfoWars

The Lord of Maps stamp kit makes it easy for those unskilled at illustration to draw maps of imaginary places. The $40 set comes with stamps for mountain ranges in… Read the rest of the article: Make fantasy maps the easy way with Lord of Maps stamps

Merchandise glorifying the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is widely available on the 'net. NBC News found 100 items with relevant text and images to be scandalized by. CNN… Read the rest of the article: Internet flooded with merch glorifying murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO

Microsoft's Surface Studio was a good idea—an all-in-one PC with a low-latency pen and touch display that could radically tidy the desks of pro designers and artists currently stuck with… Read the rest of the article: End of the road for Microsoft Surface Studio

I didn't expect much of 28 Years Later, third in the series, but the trailer nailed me down fast. The pastoral post-apocalypse is wildly evocative, replete with Rudyard Kipling narrating… Read the rest of the article: Folk horror vibes in 28 Years Later trailer

Already hinted at in configuration files, the Raspberry Pi 500 is now available. The 1980s-style all-in-one, stashing the computer inside the keyboard, is the successor to the Pi 400 and… Read the rest of the article: Raspberry Pi 500 is a computer in a keyboard

People in New Jersey are posting footage of large "drones" floating around overhead. Isn't it amazing! Large drones! 49 reports in one night. The sightings came after several weeks of… Read the rest of the article: Large "drones" intrigue locals in New Jersey

   LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS?   CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Google claims that "Willow", its quantum computing chip, cracks a key challenge in the experimental field. It solves, within… Read the rest of the article: Google "cracks" quantum computing challenge

Of the two notable things the president-elect said last night, media were most interested in his threat to jail political foe Liz Cheney. But the thing normal people were most… Read the rest of the article: Trump admits tariffs may raise prices on goods

Assad, tasteless billionaire that he is, owned a Ferrari F50. It's just one of many luxury cars that the deposed Syrian dictator possessed, and video of his garage was posted… Read the rest of the article: Rebels post video of Assad's collection of luxury cars

Gaming PC maker NZXT launched a rental program for computers. Inconsistencies and oddities in its performance claims arose, which the company put down to the variable availability of parts day-to-day.… Read the rest of the article: Thinking of renting a gaming PC? Think again.