Portmanteau generator Unknown 18:07 Add Comment Edit The Portmanteau and Rhyme Generator accepts two input words and produces weird coinages that are often surprisingly funny. "Rhino... Read More
Who needs foldable smartphones when you can just clip two together? Unknown 16:27 Add Comment Edit Samsung and Huawei wowed early-adopters (and their creditors) this week with cutting-edge designs for foldable tablet-phones. LG's gen... Read More
A belt that won't set off metal detectors Unknown 14:02 Add Comment Edit I have a friend who drives seven hours from Los Angeles to San Francisco instead of flying, just so he doesn't have to take off his shoe... Read More
German town seizes and sell's family's dog on eBay to cover their debts Unknown 13:43 Add Comment Edit So you think American authorities' taste for asset seizure is bad? Try the city fathers of Ahlen in Germany, who seized a pedigree pug a... Read More
Royal bombshells, Obama’s boozing daughter, and if Star Trek’s Captain Kirk was a cat, in this week’s dubious tabloids Unknown 12:22 Add Comment Edit How could so much misinformation be packed into so few words? A “bombshell” psychological report in the latest National Enquirer reveals t... Read More
Russian sailor, possibly inebriated, smashes cargo ship into South Korean bridge Unknown 12:22 Add Comment Edit The Yonhap News Agency reports that a 6,000 ton cargo ship under the command of a drunk Russian captain ran into the Gwangan Bridge in Bus... Read More
My favorite 'Baby Shark' remix Unknown 12:08 Add Comment Edit This is my favorite Baby Shark remix by default. I do like it a lot tho. Pretty active driving song. Rollingstone : You’d think a song... Read More
Here's the CIA's "Phoenix Checklist" for thinking about problems Unknown 12:03 Add Comment Edit The "Phoenix Checklist" is a set of questions developed by the CIA to define and think about a problem, and how to develop a solut... Read More
Watch this massive tarantula drag an opossum it just killed Unknown 11:57 Add Comment Edit A team of scientists went to Peru's lowland tropical forest to document invertebrates and saw an uncommon sight: a large tarantula, the... Read More
Cohen implicated Trump in at least 14 felonies today Unknown 11:47 Add Comment Edit Ken Gude, senior fellow at Center for American Progress in Washington DC, wrote a Twitter thread listing all the felonies Trump may have com... Read More
A single tuna fish sold for $3.1 million Unknown 11:42 Add Comment Edit In 2019 a single bluefin tuna, weighing 279 kilograms, sold at auction in Tokyo's famous Tsukiji fish market for $3.1 million dollars. ... Read More
Facebook is working on a crypto coin for WhatsApp Unknown 11:42 Add Comment Edit Facebook is reported to be developing a cryptocurrency pegged against “fiat currency” and to be shared on Facebook-owned WhatsApp. Executive... Read More
Oregon becomes first state to pass statewide rent control Unknown 11:37 Add Comment Edit SALEM, OREGON: State lawmakers today voted to make Oregon become the first U.S. state to have statewide limits on how much landlords can rai... Read More
The Lunar Library: nano-etched civilizational archives of 30m pages, designed to last for billions of years Unknown 11:32 Add Comment Edit The Arch Mission Foundation is nano-etching 30,000,000 pages' worth of "archives of human history and civilization, covering all su... Read More
#FixItAlready: EFF's wishlist for fixing tech's worst privacy and security choices Unknown 11:17 Add Comment Edit Android should let users deny and revoke permissions; Apple should let people encrypt Icloud backups, Twitter should end-to-end encrypt DMs;... Read More
Brewers yeast genetically modified to produce THC and CBD Unknown 11:12 Add Comment Edit Science will open the floodgates on cheap, reliable high-volume production of THC and CBD. Yeast's rapid growth and ease of culturing wi... Read More
Sweden arrests tech worker said to be Russia spy Unknown 11:12 Add Comment Edit In Sweden, officers of the Swedish Security Service have arrested a person who worked “in a high-technology sector” and is believed by inve... Read More
AOC's Rolling Stone interview: portrait of a principled, shrewd, brilliant activist/politician Unknown 11:12 Add Comment Edit Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Rolling Stone interview with Alex Morris paints a portrait of a politician and activist whose brilliance as ... Read More
YouTube is disabling all comments on videos of young children Unknown 10:47 Add Comment Edit “YouTube is disabling all comments on videos featuring young children as it attempts to head off an organised ring of paedophiles who were u... Read More
Woman reports a black man to the cops because his dog humped her dog at the park Unknown 10:32 Add Comment Edit Yet another idiot calling the cops on a black person for doing normal person things. In this case, a white woman is on the phone reporting ... Read More
Former coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler is new EPA administrator. Unknown 10:17 Add Comment Edit The GOP-led U.S. Senate today confirmed ex-coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler to run Environmental Protection Agency, in a vote mostly along party... Read More
Insistent not-a-racist GOP Rep. Mark Meadows displays his racism Unknown 09:57 Add Comment Edit "We'll send him back to Kenya, or wherever it is," GOP Rep Mark Meadows said about President Obama, while laughing hard. This... Read More
Videos of Mark Meadows saying "send Obama home to Kenya" resurface hours after he denied being a racist at Cohen hearing Unknown 09:57 Add Comment Edit Towards the end of the Michael Cohen's Oversight Committee hearing yesterday, Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) was highly insulted when Rep. ... Read More
The "Reputation Management" industry continues to depend on forged legal documents Unknown 09:52 Add Comment Edit Back in 2016, a "reputation management" company called Profile Defenders was caught forging court orders in order to get complain... Read More
Pentagon Inspector General reveals widespread retaliation against whistleblowers with impunity for the retaliators and the wrongdoers Unknown 09:32 Add Comment Edit Last November, the Pentagon's Inspector General presented Congress with a "little-noticed" report on whistleblowing in the US ... Read More
Fortnite Battle Royale Season 8 has pirates, bananas and battle royale Unknown 09:22 Add Comment Edit Fortnite Battle Royale Season 8 is here! Season 7 drew to a close with free Valentine's battle passes for everyone willing to brave h... Read More
Amazon killed Seattle's homelessness-relief tax by threatening not to move into a massive new building, then they canceled the move anyway Unknown 09:07 Add Comment Edit Seattle's immensely popular business tax was designed to do something about the city's epidemic of desperate homelessness , but th... Read More
Bad security design made it easy to spy on video from Ring doorbells and insert fake video into their feeds Unknown 08:52 Add Comment Edit Researchers from Dojo/Bullguard investigated the security model of the Ring smart doorbell -- made by Amazon -- and discovered that the vide... Read More
Tiny Type Museum: own a time capsule of the print age Unknown 06:42 Add Comment Edit The Tiny Type Museum is a limited-edition handmade box set of traditional printing tech, including hot metal and wooden type, custom-made l... Read More
London's awful estate agents are cratering, warning of a "prolonged downturn" in the housing market Unknown 06:42 Add Comment Edit London's estate agents were notorious profiteers of the property bubble, listing on the stock exchanges and rewarding investors with soa... Read More
Russian tanker loses fight with Korean bridge Unknown 06:22 Add Comment Edit What happens when a stoppable force hits an immovable object? The stoppable force stops. The Korea Herald reports : The Korea Coast Guard... Read More
Yet another study shows that the most effective "anti-piracy" strategy is good products at a fair price Unknown 06:22 Add Comment Edit It's been 20 years since Napster burst on the scene, and after decades of lawsuits, draconian criminal penalties, even no-knock gunpoint... Read More
Check out this enormous carrot Unknown 06:17 Add Comment Edit "Found a bit of a crackin' one" from Boing Boing https://ift.tt/2T8foic via IFTTT Read More
EFF's roadmap for a 21st Century antitrust doctrine Unknown 05:42 Add Comment Edit 40+ years ago, extremists from the Chicago School of Economics destroyed antitrust law , pushing a bizarre theory that the antitrust laws on... Read More
This scratch-off map is a great gift for globetrotters Unknown 05:02 Add Comment Edit If you love to travel, you love reminiscing about the places you've been. Aside from the photos, you might turn maps into keepsakes, put... Read More
Fox hit with $179m (including $128m in punitive damages) judgment over shady bookkeeping on "Bones" Unknown 14:52 Add Comment Edit Fox has been ordered to pay $179m to profit participants on the longrunning TV show Bones; the judgment includes $128m in punitive damages b... Read More
Florida cops charged after one punched teen and another tried to destroy the evidence Unknown 14:12 Add Comment Edit After a raid in Miami, police Sgt. Manuel Regueiro approached and punched an 18-year-old cuffed suspect in the face. The victim warned the ... Read More
Oops: radioactive corpse cremated Unknown 14:02 Add Comment Edit A man who took radioactive medication in his final days was cremated in 2017, a mistake that released potentially dangerous Lutetium 177 in... Read More
Apple layoffs hit nearly 200 employees in self-driving car division Unknown 13:42 Add Comment Edit IMAGE: 3000 Kifer Road, a site of layoffs reported by Apple to the State of California, believed to involve Apple's self-driving car div... Read More
China is rushing facial and voice recognition tech for pigs. Here's why. Unknown 13:32 Add Comment Edit In China, technology firms are working with the government to push voice and facial recognition to help pigs, many of which have been dying ... Read More
Matt Gaetz investigated over threatening Michael Cohen tweets Unknown 13:12 Add Comment Edit Photo: Matt Gaetz and Donald Trump in happier times, via the congressman's Twitter . The Florida Bar is investigating Republican congre... Read More
Small number of Facebook Pages did 46% of top 10,000 posts for or against vaccines Unknown 12:57 Add Comment Edit “WHILE FACEBOOK’s scale might as well be infinite, the actual universe of people arguing about vaccinations is limited and knowable,” writes... Read More
FTC fines app TikTok/Musical.ly $5.7 million for child data privacy violations Unknown 12:47 1 Comment Edit The Federal Trade Commission today fined Musical.ly, now known as TikTok, $5.7 million dollars for violating children’s privacy laws. The F... Read More