- newManitoba's premier: booze returns when the Epstein files do
A whole lotta Canadians love them some Wab Kinew. The current premier of Manitoba (think Minnesota but a whole lot more hockey), Kinew wore a lot of hats before wading into politics: journalist, author and musician. In every one of those roles,…
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- newDoorDash sprints towards replacing its drivers with robots
Reading this story made me so damn tired: as part of their effort to replace human employees with delivery robots, DoorDash has come up with a cunning plan: they're gonna use the human employees they want to replace to load delivery robotsSome work…
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- newMaster ChatGPT and AI Agents with this $25 Certification Prep Bundle
TL;DR: Take your AI knowledge from basic understanding to exam-ready with The Ultimate AI Learning Bundle: ChatGPT, AI Agents & Microsoft AI Certification for just $24.99 (reg. $145).The Ultimate AI Learning Bundle: ChatGPT, AI Agents & Microsoft…
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- newMan, those Romans sure lost a lot of cargo boats
Yet another untouched Roman wreck has been discovered off the coast of someplace in the Mediterranean. This time, off the coast of Sicily. Naturally, Italian Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli declared the sunken boat "one of the most significant und…
- 15 hours ago 11 Aug 26, 2:28pm -
- newSteamOS is coming to more computers
I'm not fond of bricking my hardware. But I'm very fond of Valve's SteamOS. If you haven't had the opportunity to mess with a Steam Deck or Steam Machine, SteamOS is a deliciously easy-to-use, low-maintenance Linux distribution tuned to work on their…
- 15 hours ago 11 Aug 26, 2:15pm -
- newHow Disney builds immersive theme park worlds from their movies
The upcoming hour-long film on Disney+, "Disney Worldbuilders," focuses on how the cinematic visions of seven filmmakers have been realized as physical, immersive areas of Disney theme parks.The film has more than its share of Disney and former CEO…
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- newAI told Reddit's biggest jerks they did nothing wrong 51% of the time
Researchers at Stanford and Carnegie Mellon ran a test to measure how often chatbots flatter users. In a paper on social sycophancy in AI advice, they ran OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, DeepSeek, Qwen, and Mistral through thousands of personal dile…
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- newAustralian crew pulls off extraordinary Antarctic medical evacuation
Getting sick in Antarctica is no fun. Getting sick in Antarctica in the middle of winter is another problem.On July 31, an Australian crew flew a cold-weather-configured Airbus A319 Long Range from Hobart to McMurdo Station, answering an urgent call…
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- newThe government secretly injected a house painter with plutonium
On May 14, 1945, doctors at the University of California Hospital in San Francisco injected Albert Stevens, an Ohio-born house painter, with plutonium without telling him. Stevens had checked in with what doctors diagnosed as terminal stomach cancer.…
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- newThe designer of Voltron and the Power Rangers robots has died
Katsushi Murakami designed the Voltron robots, most of the robots in Power Rangers, and many of the Go-Bots. Matt Alt, the author of Pure Invention, reported Murakami's death in a farewell to the designer on his newsletter on August 10, 2026. — Rea…
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