- newUpdate to Windows 11 Pro for less than $11 with this limited deal
TL;DR: Update to Microsoft Windows 11 Pro for just $10.49 (Reg. $199) — that's over $190 in savings for a limited time only, with code SAVE30.Is it time to upgrade to a newer version of Windows? Whether your computer was running outdated office…
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- newWhy seafoam green was used in control rooms
Seafoam green has always been one of my favorite colors. One of the reasons is that it has a mid-20th-century feel to it (at least for me), an era I associate with good industrial design.Recently, designer Beth Mathews visited the Manhattan Project…
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- newHarvard Medical School to pay $53m after donated body parts sold on black market
Many people willed their remains to Harvard Medical School on the understanding they would be used in research and education. But the school's morgue manager sold these body parts on the black market, was caught, and now Harvard has agreed to pay $53…
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- newThis Tokyo intersection lets up to 3,000 pedestrians cross at once, and you can watch it live on YouTube
A scramble is a type of corner pedestrian crossing where vehicles from all directions stop while pedestrians cross freely from one street to the other, often crossing diagonally. The most famous one is the Shibuya Scramble in Tokyo. Up to 3,000 peopl…
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- newDoes AI-assisted writing count as cheating? This essay says the question is backward
I'm fascinated by the range of human reactions to the increasing use of AI, especially when it comes to writing. A lot of people have made up their minds about it: It's garbage. It's evil. It's evil garbage. It's going to usher in a post-scarcity wor…
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- newPadres catching coordinator arrested at airport, held by ICE
Oswaldo Pirela, the San Diego Padres' (Major League Baseball) minor-league catching coordinator, was arrested at an El Paso, Texas airport as he prepared to return to his home in Peoria, Arizona, where he lives with his wife and two children, aged 9…
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- newARC Raiders' first promotional tie-in is with… Subway
Game studio Embark has teamed up with Subway to promote its extraction shooter ARC Raiders. Purchasing a meal will earn players a code for a new skin, complete with a removable (unbranded) Subway sandwich, or possibly a wrap, tethered to the front an…
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- newAnti-AI fonts considered harmful
Bizarre or misshapen typefaces designed to confuse or stymie AI (previously and previously at Boing Boing) regularly go viral. But they're works of art making a point rather than something to actually use in production."Anti-AI fonts are useless and…
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- newBig Beef has big beef with Big Fraud's cut-rate meat
Looking for slack from voters pissed off about grocery prices, the Orange Menace is taking another swing at lowering prices. This time by "flooding the market with government-subsidized, below-market beef."For a guy who loves capitalism and decries…
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- newTrump meets boy rescued from drowning, tells him he probably wouldn't have helped
Grandpa Pudding Brains invited a 10-year-old Nathaniel Rai and the lifeguard who saved him to the White House. He then told Nathaniel he would not have saved him, "probably." The look on the kid's face says it all. It also lets the screaming million…
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