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The Portmanteau and Rhyme Generator accepts two input words and produces weird coinages that are often surprisingly funny. "Rhino...

Who needs foldable smartphones when you can just clip two together?

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Samsung and Huawei wowed early-adopters (and their creditors) this week with cutting-edge designs for foldable tablet-phones. LG's gen...

A belt that won't set off metal detectors

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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...

German town seizes and sell's family's dog on eBay to cover their debts

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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...

Royal bombshells, Obama’s boozing daughter, and if Star Trek’s Captain Kirk was a cat, in this week’s dubious tabloids

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How could so much misinformation be packed into so few words? A “bombshell” psychological report in the latest National Enquirer reveals t...

Russian sailor, possibly inebriated, smashes cargo ship into South Korean bridge

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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...

My favorite 'Baby Shark' remix

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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...

Here's the CIA's "Phoenix Checklist" for thinking about problems

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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...

Watch this massive tarantula drag an opossum it just killed

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A team of scientists went to Peru's lowland tropical forest to document invertebrates and saw an uncommon sight: a large tarantula, the...

Cohen implicated Trump in at least 14 felonies today

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Ken Gude, senior fellow at Center for American Progress in Washington DC, wrote a Twitter thread listing all the felonies Trump may have com...

A single tuna fish sold for $3.1 million

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In 2019 a single bluefin tuna, weighing 279 kilograms, sold at auction in Tokyo's famous Tsukiji fish market for $3.1 million dollars. ...

Facebook is working on a crypto coin for WhatsApp

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Facebook is reported to be developing a cryptocurrency pegged against “fiat currency” and to be shared on Facebook-owned WhatsApp. Executive...

Oregon becomes first state to pass statewide rent control

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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...

The Lunar Library: nano-etched civilizational archives of 30m pages, designed to last for billions of years

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The Arch Mission Foundation is nano-etching 30,000,000 pages' worth of "archives of human history and civilization, covering all su...

#FixItAlready: EFF's wishlist for fixing tech's worst privacy and security choices

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Android should let users deny and revoke permissions; Apple should let people encrypt Icloud backups, Twitter should end-to-end encrypt DMs;...

Brewers yeast genetically modified to produce THC and CBD

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Science will open the floodgates on cheap, reliable high-volume production of THC and CBD. Yeast's rapid growth and ease of culturing wi...

Sweden arrests tech worker said to be Russia spy

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In Sweden, officers of the Swedish Security Service have arrested a person who worked “in a high-technology sector” and is believed by inve...

AOC's Rolling Stone interview: portrait of a principled, shrewd, brilliant activist/politician

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Rolling Stone interview with Alex Morris paints a portrait of a politician and activist whose brilliance as ...

YouTube is disabling all comments on videos of young children

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“YouTube is disabling all comments on videos featuring young children as it attempts to head off an organised ring of paedophiles who were u...

Woman reports a black man to the cops because his dog humped her dog at the park

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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 ...

Former coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler is new EPA administrator.

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The GOP-led U.S. Senate today confirmed ex-coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler to run Environmental Protection Agency, in a vote mostly along party...

Insistent not-a-racist GOP Rep. Mark Meadows displays his racism

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"We'll send him back to Kenya, or wherever it is," GOP Rep Mark Meadows said about President Obama, while laughing hard. This...

Videos of Mark Meadows saying "send Obama home to Kenya" resurface hours after he denied being a racist at Cohen hearing

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Towards the end of the Michael Cohen's Oversight Committee hearing yesterday, Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) was highly insulted when Rep. ...

The "Reputation Management" industry continues to depend on forged legal documents

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Back in 2016, a "reputation management" company called Profile Defenders was caught forging court orders in order to get complain...

Pentagon Inspector General reveals widespread retaliation against whistleblowers with impunity for the retaliators and the wrongdoers

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Last November, the Pentagon's Inspector General presented Congress with a "little-noticed" report on whistleblowing in the US ...

Fortnite Battle Royale Season 8 has pirates, bananas and battle royale

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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...

Amazon killed Seattle's homelessness-relief tax by threatening not to move into a massive new building, then they canceled the move anyway

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Seattle's immensely popular business tax was designed to do something about the city's epidemic of desperate homelessness , but th...

Bad security design made it easy to spy on video from Ring doorbells and insert fake video into their feeds

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