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  • This crowd-controlled street view simulator lets players drive across America together

    The latest addition to neal.fun is a road trip simulator using Google Street View and a custom overlay. Viewers vote every ten seconds to choose a direction. As expected with… Read the rest of the article: This crowd-controlled street view simulator lets players drive across America together

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  • Don't stay at an Airbnb without bringing this $40 device Hidden Camera, Bug, GPS & RF Detector

    TL;DR: Protect your privacy while you travel with this hidden camera, GPS, and bug detector, now on sale for $39.99. It seems like every few weeks I see a video on… Read the rest of the article: Don't stay at an Airbnb without bringing this $40 device

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  • YouTube's favorite money-throwing manchild learns that Mexico's president doesn't appreciate his temple tourism tomfoolery MrBeast. Photo: Joe Seer / Shutterstock

    The dead-eyed, YouTube view-powered homunculus who calls himself Mr. Beast just can't seem to keep himself out of hot water. He's pissed off his own employees, contestants on his real-life… Read the rest of the article: YouTube's favorite money-throwing manchild learns that Mexico's president doesn't appreciate his temple tourism tomfoolery

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  • How every fictional character connects to Street Fighter's Ryu

    With so many crossovers, collaborations and Fortnite seasons out there, it's starting to feel like entertainment – video games in particular – is just becoming this big amorphous mass of… Read the rest of the article: How every fictional character connects to Street Fighter's Ryu

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  • Hollywood's AI fail: Lucasfilm presents the dumbest creatures ever

    Rob Bredow, the Senior Vice President of Creative Innovation, Digital Production & Technology at Lucasfilm, has a TED talk about the future of filmmaking, and yikes. If he intended to… Read the rest of the article: Hollywood's AI fail: Lucasfilm presents the dumbest creatures ever

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  • ICE Barbie and Duck Dynasty jerk want immigrants to compete for basic human rights Maxim Elramsisy / Shutterstock.com / Chatty G

    ICE Barbie Kristi Noem is at it again – or at least the department under her stewardship is, unfortunately. Amidst the Trump administration's monstrous handling of immigration issues, suffering as… Read the rest of the article: ICE Barbie and Duck Dynasty jerk want immigrants to compete for basic human rights

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  • Bring your ideas to life with this $28 all-in-one coding platform Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2022 for Windows

    TL;DR: If you need some help with coding, Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2022 for Windows is a great tool and it's currently on sale for $27.97 (reg. $499) through June 1. Whether… Read the rest of the article: Bring your ideas to life with this $28 all-in-one coding platform

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  • Feeling unproductive? This man shattered 48 coconuts in a minute, blindfolded, with his bare hand, so yeah, you're definitely slacking Phototalker/Shutterstock.com

    Do you ever sit down at the end of a long day and think, "Wow, I did absolutely everything I could… and somehow still accomplished nothing"? Well, buckle up, because… Read the rest of the article: Feeling unproductive? This man shattered 48 coconuts in a minute, blindfolded, with his bare hand, so yeah, you're definitely slacking

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  • Switzerland's attempt to take credit for the world's inventions just backfired spectacularly

    Although a winner has not yet been crowned in the 2025 Eurovision competition, I have a bone to pick with it all the same. On its surface, Hazel Brugger and… Read the rest of the article: Switzerland's attempt to take credit for the world's inventions just backfired spectacularly

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  • Tortoise hero saves his upside-down buddy

    I had to skip to the end of this video after a few minutes to make sure it had a happy ending, and was very relieved when I found out… Read the rest of the article: Tortoise hero saves his upside-down buddy

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  • Texas man tows car with shoelace, highway chaos ensues (video) Image: Montypeter / shutterstock.com

    A tow-job gone wrong wreaked havoc on a Texas Highway the other day. In this wild video, you can see one car towing another by an alarmingly thin piece of… Read the rest of the article: Texas man tows car with shoelace, highway chaos ensues (video)

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  • Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 gets first DLC Kingdom Come: Deliverance II. Image via Warhorse Studios

    Earlier this year, I compared the excellent Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 to Oblivion, another medieval-styled RPG that I hold very close to my heart. As luck would have it, the… Read the rest of the article: Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 gets first DLC

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  • Bird-filled version of Nelly Furtado's "I'm Like a Bird" wins the internet today birb (plural birbs) (Internet slang, childish, humorous) A bird, especially a small and cute one. (Image: Dave Carroll / shutterstock.com)

    This musical masterpiece is truly what the internet was made for. It's absolute perfection! And I promise you, the time it takes to watch it will be the best 20 seconds of… Read the rest of the article: Bird-filled version of Nelly Furtado's "I'm Like a Bird" wins the internet today

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  • U.S. Senator wants high-end graphics chips to have mandatory geolocation This one is may be geolocated to a landfill.

    U.S. Senator Tom Cotton (R—Arkansas) introduced a bill that would require manufacturers of high-end graphics processors (i.e. Nvidia, but also AMD, Intel and Apple) to include geotracking technology in them.… Read the rest of the article: U.S. Senator wants high-end graphics chips to have mandatory geolocation

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  • Singer's Audio Study Mate was a 1970s multimedia machine Techmoan / YouTube

    The Audio Study Mate was a "multimedia briefcase," as Hackaday's Al Williams puts it, combining a cassette player with a 35mm film strip viewer to create a 1970s audiovisual smorgasbord.… Read the rest of the article: Singer's Audio Study Mate was a 1970s multimedia machine

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  • Chess banned by Afghanistan's Taliban rulers

    You know what God hates? Chess. Afghanistan's Ministry of Promotion of Virtue has banned the game due to "religious considerations," and officials from the Ministry of Sports there confirmed that… Read the rest of the article: Chess banned by Afghanistan's Taliban rulers

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  • Facebook and Instagram overwhelmed by scam ads and listings Image: Brian A Jackson / shutterstock.com

    The Wall Street Journal reports an "epidemic" of scams targeting Facebook and Instagram users. Meta knows about it but is "reluctant to add impediments for ad-buying clients" driving a 22%… Read the rest of the article: Facebook and Instagram overwhelmed by scam ads and listings

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