- newDesecrated Ronald McDonald statue yours for $2500
In-restaurant statues of Ronald McDonald are largely a thing of the past, McDonalds having stepped back from using its famed mascots in marketing aimed at children. The vintage items fetch hundreds and even thousands of dollars, and sellers are often…
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- newWhy choose between ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini when one $60 platform gives you all three?
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- newQuentin Blake Centre for Illustration opens this week in London
Since the 1960s, Britons have been growing up with Quentin Blake's fabulous illustrations to books by Roald Dahl, Joan Aiken, Elizabeth Bowen, Sylvia Plath, William Steig, and even the first Dr. Seuss book that Seuss did not himself illustrate. — R…
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- newFlorida sues OpenAI over ChatGPT's alleged body count
Florida has become the first state to sue OpenAI and Sam Altman over alleged harms from ChatGPT.The lawsuit, filed by Attorney General James Uthmeier, accuses OpenAI of rushing unsafe products into the world, marketing ChatGPT as safe and reliable,…
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- newA deleted recording blows up Melania's Epstein story
A former model with a messy history around Trumpworld and Jeffrey Epstein has made a new, disputed claim about how Melania Trump met Donald Trump. Just about the only people claiming Epstein didn't introduce the two odious pairs are the pair themselv…
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- newMicrosoft Office 2019 is yours forever for less than the price of dinner
TL;DR: A lifetime license to Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019 for Windows is on sale for $19.97 (regularly $229) right now.Here's something Microsoft would rather you forget: there's still a version of Office that doesn't require a monthly…
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- newSnow sheds let alpine roads survive massive avalanches
Last April, a powerful spring snowstorm swept across parts of the Alps, triggering dangerous avalanche conditions in multiple regions. In some areas, avalanche danger reached Level 4–5 on Europe's standard scale.This incredible clip shared by @iml…
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- newWhat does a rock sound like when it's shaped into an instrument?
At the Svaram Sound Garden in Auroville, simple sculptures combine sound and art in a mesmerizing way. In this video, a visitor strikes a stone instrument with a smaller stone. It produces a clear, xylophone-like sound that makes me wish I could play…
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- newA couple and their pickup truck vanished in 2005, never found
Just before midnight on Saturday, February 19, 2005, Danielle Imbo and Richard Petrone Jr. left Abilene's bar on South Street in Philadelphia and walked toward Petrone's parked Dodge pickup. Nobody has seen them since — or the truck. It was never r…
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- newNothing says regret like a $150k Cybertruck
Doug DeMuro has a new video on Cybertruck values, and the short version is that paying $150,000 to be first now looks a lot like lighting $150,000 on fire.The truck may be bullet-resistant. The resale value is not.Previously:• Is a Hearse or…
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