There's hot, and then there's so-hot-you-have-to-stand-in-a-public-fountain-while-yodeling hot. According to the Associated Press, the heat in Basel, Switzerland, was so intense recently that contestants and performers at the nation's annual yodeling… Read the rest of the article: Swiss Yodelers retreat to fountains to beat brutal heat

It can be so hard to keep kids entertained during the summer break. There's only so much swimming, trips to the trampoline park, and sleepovers that parents can afford both… Read the rest of the article: The first trailer for Buddy isn't, you know, for kids

For a long while now, farmers using John Deere tractors to plow their fields have been getting plowed by John Deere. The storied heavy equipment company decided that selling farmers… Read the rest of the article: FTC deal forces John Deere to share repair tools for 10 years

You may have noticed that it's a bit warm out. As good as the sun can feel after a long winter, the temperatures that the majority of the western hemisphere… Read the rest of the article: Watch this classic John Ford western for absolutely free

There's so much shitty stuff happening in the United States, Iran, and Europe that it's easy to forget there's really shitty stuff still going on in Gaza that the United… Read the rest of the article: Israeli soldier shot an unarmed Gaza aid driver, witnesses say

At the time that this post was written, at least 50 individuals had died in the custody of the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The deaths… Read the rest of the article: Mexican Government files charges against ICE for murder

There are already plenty of reasons to stay the hell away from anything that Meta has its grubby little rat hooks on: Facebook surveils and monetizes everything you do while… Read the rest of the article: How to opt out of Meta using your Instagram posts to make AI images

Nothing says happy holidays like a new Robert Eggers film cast with his growing merry band of weirdos. With this in mind, it's gonna be a Christmas to remember as… Read the rest of the article: Werwulf is coming just in time for Christmas!

There's nothing new about hired mourners. The practice of paying folks to pretend to care about someone's passing goes back thousands of years, crossing cultural divides, from east to west.… Read the rest of the article: You can hire a mysterious stranger to mourn your passing

In a perfect world, the 1967 Outer Space Treaty would be honoured by every nuclear-armed nation in the world, allowing everyone to breath easy about the fact that, of all… Read the rest of the article: Scientists working to uncover space-based nuclear weapons

Oh, Lordy, my wallet: I'm not one to invest in, or generally write about, crowdfunded hardware. I've been burned one too many times. But a decidedly old-school Personal Digital Assistant… Read the rest of the article: PocketMage is a crowdfunded PDA with a keyboard and e-paper screen

Employees working in just about any industry that you can think of have spent the past few years being forced to train or work with Artificial Intelligence. All too often,… Read the rest of the article: Adobe, Amazon, and Atlassian are telling workers: use AI less

Email aliases have one job: to hide your actual email address. Having an alias that you can use to sign up for new online subscriptions, newsletters, or to give out… Read the rest of the article: Apple's Hide My Email leaked real addresses for a year

There are few movies that have had a longer-lasting influence on our culture than Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior. Its fingerprints are all over the video games we love,… Read the rest of the article: Lord Humungus actor Kjell Nilsson dead at 76

It hasn't been easy to be a Plex user these past few years. I mean, yeah, setting up a Plex server on your computer or NAS? Easy as taking the… Read the rest of the article: Plex's five-year plan costs what a lifetime pass used to

Even if you fly business class, the mixers available on most flights are understandably limited. Flight attendants don't have the time and sure as hell aren't paid enough to be… Read the rest of the article: Aged & Ore's bottle kit packs TSA-compliant cocktails for travel

After years of T9 texting on a Motorola Star Tac, seeing a BlackBerry phone with its comparatively ample physical QWERTY keyboard felt like a revelation. Texting and email had been… Read the rest of the article: Clicks Communicator brings back the physical keyboard for $500

You can find anything on the dark web if you know how to look. Ghost guns, suicide kits, leaked credit card credentials, malware for rent and, according to Apple Insider,… Read the rest of the article: Hackers stole iPhone 18 Pro schematics from Apple supplier Tata

There's close to 14,000 man-made satellites bopping around in low-Earth orbit. Many of us willingly bring wiretaps into our lives: smartphone apps that constantly listen; smart speakers that do our… Read the rest of the article: TED-stage futurist/longevity salesman says mass surveillance will make us behave

A few years back, Jason told me that my body has the marks of an interesting life. It's a nice way of saying that I've had the crap beaten out… Read the rest of the article: Man lives with a knife blade in his chest for 8 years