- newPriceless Eisenhower globe broken after Hegseth orders it moved to his office
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wanted Dwight Eisenhower's 30-inch globe—a priceless World War II artifact—moved into his office. The recolation was botched, reports the Washingon Post, which received photos of the now-ruined antique. Hegseth's a…
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- newDon't let typing slow down your AI prompting — switch to voice dictation for $25 for life
TL;DR: With VoiceType, you can speak 9 times faster than you type. Get a lifetime subscription for $24.99 (MSRP $154).When efficiency is the goal, you want to speed up the most laborious part of AI prompting: typing. With VoiceType AI, you can dicta…
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- newMass Effect 5 trailer leaks the day after studio closes
So. BioWare, the legendary RPG studio that created the Mass Effect series, was shut down just yesterday, taking with it an in-development Mass Effect 5. In my coverage of the initial event, I lamented that we'd never see the project again thanks to i…
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- newNew Orleans artistic haunted house heralds horrors of the Deep South
Greetings, all. I'll be your psychopomp this evening, the keeper of the crypt, the mistress of the dank, the lightning rod of this sterling dungeon, if you will. I ask you now to picture something horrid, something ghastly, but all too real…Imagin…
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- newI couldn't stop eating these 16-yen corn puff sticks in Japan
When I was in Japan earlier this month, one of my travel companions introduced me to the wonderful world of Umaibo, a puffed corn snack that you can buy in all convenience stores throughout Japan.I wasn't expecting them to be so much fun to eat, but…
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- newThe Underwater Cabaret, a magazine made by a poet hiding from Nazis
The most famous person who hid in an attic in the Netherlands from the Nazis during World War II is Anne Frank, whose diary became a posthumous literary sensation.But there was another Jewish author, also hiding in a Netherlands attic, who also foun…
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- newUncensored Library hides forbidden literature inside Minecraft
The Uncensored Library is what you might call gamizdat: forbidden literature hidden inside a game. A Minecraft server (or downloadable map) housing a massive and beautifully-designed neoclassical library, it's packed with books, essays and other writ…
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- newVisual Studio Professional 2026 drops to $30 and opens your 2022 projects as is
TL;DR: Get Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 with faster solution loads and full Visual Studio 2022 compatibility for a one-time $29.97 (reg. $499.99).Microsoft's professional developer tools usually come with a recurring subscription, and t…
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- newPlaydate Season 3 launches with an adorable frogs and abominable dungeons
Playdate (previously) is a delightful handheld console with a 1-bit display (for an original Mac-like aesthetic) and a peculiar hand-crank control in addition to the regular controls. Unlike other game machines, it comes with "seasons" of curated gam…
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- newIn 1897, London had lampposts that sold coffee, tea, and "fluid beef"
London's Victorian Era Exhibition in 1897 featured a wide variety of modern innovations, the weirdest of which was a lamppost that doubled as a vending machine, dispensing coffee, cocoa, milk, tea, and a concoction called "fluid beef." Called the Plu…
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