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Air and Space - 11 hours 38 min agoThe rookie card of the future Yankees legend once sold for pennies. But, even with garish colorization, it became a treasured symbol of the golden age of the sport that is now valued in the millions...
Vox - 11 hours 38 min agoRichie Bell stood at the door of an East Village bar, nervous for a singular reason: he had to hand over his phone to a bouncer to get in. At 23 years old, Bell had hardly ever been without a device he got his first iPhone in elementary school but when he saw a video on TikTok advertising a queer, phone-free, funk dance party called Who's Dancing? , he decided to test his limits. He immediately purchased a ticket and planned to attend alone. Bell was pleasantly surprised to discover he wouldn't...
Amazon's online marketplace for tiny digital tasks is being sunsetted. The company says its Mechanical Turk service, launched in 2005 to connect businesses with people willing to do quick jobs for pennies , will shut down on Sept. 30. The company simply says the decision was made following one of its...
With oversight from Clive Barker himself, and a role reprisal as Pinhead from actor Doug Bradley, Revival aims to introduce new audiences to the discomfort of Hellraiser If a horror game gives its own director a physical reaction, it's probably doing something right. While researching the images people find hardest to look at, game director Emil Esov discovered he has trypophobia a fear of clusters of small holes. Rather than tone the scary images down, he fed them straight into Clive Barker's...
Ukraine is dangling its highest civilian honor as it pushes Elon Musk for more digital reach into Russia. President Volodymyr Zelensky has awarded Musk the Order of Liberty, reports the Ukraine Independent , for "contributions to the protection of human life and freedom, and the development of relations between the peoples...
Popular Mechanics - 1 day 1 hour agoIt isn't as groundbreaking as its predecessor but may be worth a look if it's your first foldable.
The government agency that's encouraging high-risk and high-reward research.
Two Americans have died from measles, the first such deaths this year in the US, as the country grapples with the highest number of cases in more than three decades.
At the height of the Cold War, one very specialized computer was so secret that the world didn't know it existed. It ran its jobs up to 200 times as fast as any other computer of its time. It was the U.S. National Security Agency's main cryptographic processor in operation from the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 through the Vietnam War and on past the 1975 Helsinki Accords . The machine stopped running only when its moving parts finally gave out. The Harvest computer mattered because...
GeekSpin - 1 day 10 hours agoYour Xfinity router just got a new job: watching for movement inside your home. Comcast has launched WiFi Motion, an opt-in feature that turns an Xfinity Gateway and connected Wi-Fi devices into motion sensors. The idea is to give people a camera-free way to know when something or someone is moving around the house. Also, […] Read the original article here: Xfinity routers can now track motion and share data with police...
More than one-third -- 35% -- of webpages created after the launch of ChatGPT in 2022 show signs of AI authorship, a Pew Research Center anaylsis found.
Vox - 1 day 10 hours agoA protest against data centers in central Texas. | Sara Diggins/The Austin American-Statesman Welcome to The Midterms, Actually. Every week I'll be writing about two things: one big idea or trend I see forming across the 2026 primaries, and one thing I'm hearing from a voice on the ground. You can sign up here to get it in your inbox every week. Let's get into it. One big idea: The data center backlash is a democracy story This week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman acknowledged a small hurdle...
This article is brought to you by Ollobot . From about 2017, individuals began to truly connect with the initial wave of companion robots. These devices had personality, moved around, joked, and answered when you spoke to them. Most early companion robots, however, were still limited by simple voice-command interactions and narrow functionality. Once the novelty wore off, many ended up sitting unused on shelves. As some of those companies went out of business and turned off their servers, many owners...
Ahead of its November release, scenes from the highly anticipated video game 'Grand Theft Auto VI' have been circulating online.
NPR - 2 days 1 hour agoOpenAI is slowing down development of its cutting edge AI models to shore up safety protections as concerns rise about artificial intelligence agents going rogue.
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GeekSpin - 2 days 2 hours agoResearchers at UMass Amherst have found a way to bring expired credit cards back to life at checkout, effectively bypassing standard security expiration checks. The findings, presented this month at the USENIX Security 2026 conference, rely on using two smartphones running relay software, an app that creates a long-distance digital bridge between two points. One […] Read the original article here: Experts warn your expired credit cards can still be charged...
Observer - 2 days 8 hours agoThe next A.I. governance challenge will be whether companies can account for what happens once multiple systems interact with customers, data and one another. The answer, McMillanAI's Jeff McMillan argues, begins with auditability and ownership.
Energy transfer is the secret ingredient that makes iced tea a particularly refreshing drink on a hot day.
Vox - 2 days 11 hours agoA Reddit logo seen displayed on a smartphone. | Mateusz Slodkowski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The internet kind of sucks right now. And it's been getting harder and harder to use over the past several years. Imagine you're training for a marathon, or just trying to get in better shape, and you want to buy a new pair of shoes. Well, good luck! You're going to have to wade through sponsored links, affiliate marketing, AI summaries, and websites seemingly engineered for search...
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