- newNo, the study behind "76% of honey is fake" didn't find 76% fake honey
YouTuber Zackary Smigel was freaked out by the alarming online claim that 76% of supermarket honey is fake and found something better: the statistic itself has been badly abused. The 76% number traces back to a 2011 examination of 60 jars that found…
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- newWord, Excel, and PowerPoint for $119.97, with no renewal notice next year
TL;DR: Get Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote for Mac or PC with a one-time purchase of Microsoft Office 2024 Home, now $119.97 (reg. $149.99).Microsoft 365 bills you every year, whether you opened Excel daily or twice to split a dinner check. —…
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- newRobert Fludd's "Black Square" is a 17th-century picture of nothing
The occult philosopher Robert Fludd created this image in the 17th century. It is called Black Square and quite literally represents nothing. The medium is not known for certain, but it is guessed to be an engraving. View this post on…
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- newThis skinless 1910 goat automaton bleats like a real goat
If you need to watch a video of a loud, bleating goat automaton without any skin, here you go. The House of Automata shared this lovely early-20th-century goat automaton. It is currently under construction for restoration, so it does not have any sk…
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- newWatch 48 hours of heavy snow bury a lawn chair, a car and the camera lens
This mesmerizing time lapse shows what 48 hours of heavy snow looks like. The camera starts off facing a lawn chair and a wooden stick pointing up from the ground. The snow eventually covers all of this and more.What 48 hours of heavy snow looks l…
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- newHappy Birthday, Cookie Monster!
It is the birthday of Sid "Cookie" Monster, who debuted in the premiere episode of Sesame Street on November 10, 1969, having already appeared as The Wheel Stealer in an unaired General Foods advertising spot and in an IBM training film titled "Coffe…
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- newAnthropic clamps down on using Claude to make copycat games—or reverse-engineer code
The flood of AI-generated slop games has set the thoroughly-troubled gaming industry reeling, but for indies it's even worse: success can depend on building a social media following by showing off clever and innovative gameplay concepts early in deve…
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- newIntel stock "collapses" amid broader tech retreat
Intel's stock price fell 9% today after a bad week that saw the company lose more than a third of its value. It's lost more than half of its value since the summer highs, in what Jared Blikre describes as "tech wreckage" and Intel's worst day since…
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- newIndustrial degreaser-rimmed margaritas send five to urgent care
My local Chili's burned down three years ago, but the Chili's in Forest City, North Carolina, burned three customers and two staff members with its specialty margaritas Thursday. The drinks were reportedly made using cleaning chemicals that "a worker…
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- newYour keyboard can take a hike: VoiceType AI is just $40
TL;DR: Give your fingers a break with VoiceType AI, a dictation tool that turns speech into polished text at up to 360 words per minute. Get unlimited monthly transcription for $39.97 (reg. $419) through November 8.Your brain has already written the…
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