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  • A cult-favorite series returns after 14 years to Nintendo Switch
    The Katamari Damacy franchise is back with its first brand-new entry on consoles in 14 years. Once Upon A Katamari, announced Thursday during the latest Nintendo Direct, will send the Prince of Cosmos back to Earth for a new roll-’em-up action adve…
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  • Cronos: The New Dawn is brutal pandemic horror: ‘Hard mode, in the old-school way’
    The new gameplay trailer for Cronos: The New Dawn, out Wednesday from Bloober Team, debuts some tense gameplay featuring the protagonist — a time traveler with futuristic armor and an arsenal of weapons — facing off against misshapen, humanlike e…
    - 31 Jul 25, 9:23am -
  • Square Enix announces new HD-2D action-JRPG
    During the Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase, a new Square Enix HD-2D action-JRPG game was announced, called The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales. According to the trailer, the game takes place in a land called Philabieldia that’s overrun…
    - 31 Jul 25, 9:08am -
  • A new Octopath Traveler game is coming December 4
    The Octopath franchise is getting a new title, Octopath Traveler 0, as announced in the Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase this morning. Rather than playing as eight heroes who start their journeys in different places, you’ll be following the story o…
    - 31 Jul 25, 8:53am -
  • Everything announced at Nintendo’s new Nintendo Direct
    Nintendo didn’t have a lot to show at the latest Nintendo Direct, but its third-party partners sure did! During a new Nintendo Direct: Partner Showcase broadcast on Thursday, major publishers and indie developers revealed what they’re bringing to…
    - 31 Jul 25, 8:52am -

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    What Cities From Chicago to Washington, DC, Look Like Under a Blanket of Wildfire SmokeWhat Cities From Chicago to Washington, DC, Look Like Under a Blanket of Wildfire Smoke
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    What Cities From Chicago to Washington, DC, Look Like Under a Blanket of Wildfire Smoke
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    The Webs of Covid-Related Caution Tape Across LondonThe Webs of Covid-Related Caution Tape Across London
    The Webs of Covid-Related Caution Tape Across London
    The Webs of Covid-Related Caution Tape Across London
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    Artist Rachel Cabitt Is Trapped in a Quarantine Horror FilmArtist Rachel Cabitt Is Trapped in a Quarantine Horror Film
    Artist Rachel Cabitt Is Trapped in a Quarantine Horror Film
    Artist Rachel Cabitt Is Trapped in a Quarantine Horror Film
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    The Women of Ukraine's Railroads Keep the Trains RunningThe Women of Ukraine's Railroads Keep the Trains Running
    The Women of Ukraine's Railroads Keep the Trains Running
    The Women of Ukraine's Railroads Keep the Trains Running
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    Space Photos of the Week: An Eternal Voyage of DiscoverySpace Photos of the Week: An Eternal Voyage of Discovery
    Space Photos of the Week: An Eternal Voyage of Discovery
    Space Photos of the Week: An Eternal Voyage of Discovery
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    High in the Alps, Giant Blankets Slow a Glacier's Ice MeltHigh in the Alps, Giant Blankets Slow a Glacier's Ice Melt
    High in the Alps, Giant Blankets Slow a Glacier's Ice Melt
    High in the Alps, Giant Blankets Slow a Glacier's Ice Melt
    - 26 May 20, 9:00am -

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    Geekologie

    • A longboarder's closest calls over 10 years of filming
      Lonboarder Josh Neuman put together this compilation of his ten closest calls while filming his longboarding over ten years. What he says about his number one closest call:What Happened: While on a production shoot we had one of the crew members…
      - 25 Aug 21, 2:57am -
    • Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot doing parkour
      This is incredible (chilling?) video of Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot doing parkour.Parkour is the perfect sandbox for the Atlas team at Boston Dynamics to experiment with new behaviors. In this video our humanoid robots demonstrate their whole-bo…
      - 19 Aug 21, 5:27am -
    • Absolutely stunning and hypnotic stop-motion animation using matches
      This is an incredibly well done and hypnotic stop-motion animation by Tomohiro Okazaki featuring every conceivable play on matches. And as if the creativity wasn't impressive enough on its own, it plays back at 60fps. The stop-motion video I made f…
      - 11 Aug 21, 2:22am -
    • This is a snownado
      Apparently snownados exist and if you guessed that they're dust devils but with snow you'd be correct. They're not nearly as interesting as Sharknados or firenados, but those are impossibly high bars for a 'nado. Keep going for another video of…
      - 10 Aug 21, 3:41am -
    • Surreal phone booth videos
      This is a series of surreal phone booth videos by TikToker solopsist. You may be wondering what a "surreal phone booth video" even is and I couldn't explain it to you if I tried, so I'll just let you experience them as I did. @solopsist There are…
      - 5 Aug 21, 2:59am -

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    • newCould a Shingles Vaccine Help Prevent Dementia? Science Says Maybe
      For years, scientists have known there was a strange connection between shingles and dementia, but no one could say for sure whether one actually influenced the other. Now, several major studies are providing the strongest evidence yet that the shing…
      - 9 hours ago 31 Jul 26, 9:00am -
    • newExorcism [Comic]
      [Source: Toonhole | Like Toonhole on Facebook | Follow Toonhole on Twitter] Enjoying the content? Please consider supporting Geeks are Sexy!Click This Link for the Full Post > Exorcism [Comic]
      - 10 hours ago 31 Jul 26, 8:00am -
    • The Wish [Comic]
      [Source: Port Sherry Comics | Like “Port Sherry Comics” on Facebook | Follow “Port Sherry Comics” on Instragram] Enjoying the content? Please consider supporting Geeks are Sexy!Click This Link for the Full Post > The Wish [Comic]
      - 1 day ago 30 Jul 26, 1:00pm -
    • The FCC Wants to Ban Almost Every Smart Robot You Can Buy
      Photo source: RyzPoloPalm on Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) If you’ve been thinking about picking up a robot vacuum, an autonomous lawn mower, or even a pool-cleaning bot, you might want to stop procrastinating. The U.S. Federal Communications Co…
      - 1 day ago 30 Jul 26, 12:00pm -
    • Daily Deals Drop: He Who Fights with Monsters LitRPG, D&D Starter Set, 32″ 240Hz Gaming Monitor, and MORE!
      For today’s daily deals drop (July 30, 2026) here are some of the best deals we stumbled on while browsing the web this morning! Please note that Geeks are Sexy might get a small commission from qualifying purchases done through our posts. As an Am…
      - 1 day ago 30 Jul 26, 7:57am -
    • Forget Running. Unitree’s AS2-W Robot Will Catch You… Then Breakdance Over Your Corpse.
      If you’ve ever watched a robot dog and thought, “That’s cool, but can it drift, climb a mountain, and breakdance?” Unitree apparently took that as a challenge. The company has unveiled the Super Athlete AS2-W, a robotic dog that combines legs…
      - 1 day ago 30 Jul 26, 7:56am -
    • You’re Hired! [Comic]
      [Source: Charlie Higson – Heck if I Know | Like “Axby Magazine” on Facebook] Enjoying the content? Please consider supporting Geeks are Sexy!Click This Link for the Full Post > You’re Hired! [Comic]
      - 1 day ago 30 Jul 26, 7:55am -

    Geeks of Doom

    • Star Trek 60: New Books, Games & More Coming For The ‘Star Trek’ 60th Anniversary
      This year, Star Trek celebrates the 60th anniversary since the airing of its first television episode, “The Man Trap,” on September 8, 1966 on NBC. There's a lot of events, tie-ins, merchandise, and more for Star Trek 60, including new books,…
      - 2 days ago 29 Jul 26, 11:32am -
    • New Book Tie-Ins Coming For ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’
      It is a glorious time for all Baldur's Gate fans! You don't have to be a Dungeons & Dragons nerd like me to like the video games, but it certainly does not hurt! I will admit, I was an addict of BG2 wayyyyyy back in the day. All of this is not ju…
      - 7 days ago 24 Jul 26, 9:07am -
    • Book Review: Don’t Go There: A Tour Of The World’s Most Sinister Spots
      Don't Go ThereA Tour Of The World's Most Sinister SpotsHardcover | KindleBy J. W. OckerPublisher: Quirk BooksRelease Date: July 14, 2026When you think of areas not to go to, most people will likely say the Bermuda Triangle, the infa…
      - 17 days ago 14 Jul 26, 7:00am -
    • Book Review: Dune: Deluxe Trade Paperback Edition
      DuneDeluxe Trade Paperback EditionBy Frank Herbert; Afterword by Brian HerbertPublisher: Ace BooksRelease Date: July 7, 2026"Beginnings are such delicate times." - Dune by Frank HerbertOver 60 years ago, one of the greatest scienc…
      - 22 days ago 9 Jul 26, 7:00am -
    • Summer 2026 Book Recommendations & Gifts
      The Summer Solstice is upon us! And with it comes plenty of new books and lots of warm weather and natural light to read them in.Below are some titles that I am personally looking forward to checking out this Summer, most of which land in the…
      - 39 days ago 22 Jun 26, 7:00am -

    Neatorama

    • newCan Anyone Finish the Impossible Bike Obstacle Course?
      How do you make a bike obstacle course so difficult that the best riders in the world can't do it? Red Bull seems to have cracked the code. First, you float it over water, so there's always some wiggling going on. Then you make the true course as nar…
      - 6 hours ago 31 Jul 26, 12:00pm -
    • newThe Bizarre Medieval Practice of Uterine Exorcism
      When you think of a "uterine exorcism," which you most likely have never thought about before, you might come to the conclusion that it's a euphemism for abortion. It's not. The euphemism for that was “menstrual regulators,” meaning concoctions t…
      - 10 hours ago 31 Jul 26, 8:08am -
    • newThe Rise and Fall of Miss Cleo, TV's Favorite Psychic
      Many years ago, I was running a radio contest and was looking for the 9th caller. I picked up the phone, and said "KD99, you're caller six!" and the phone said, "Hello! This is Miss Cleo!" It was a robocall and I hung up, but later joked that if she…
      - 23 hours ago 30 Jul 26, 7:38pm -
    • A Case of Murder Never Completely Solved
      The Illustrated Police News was an early British tabloid that sold sensational crime stories with often lurid illustrations between 1842 and 1938. One has to wonder how many times they were sued for defamation in the age of not-so-meticulous fact ch…
      - 1 day ago 30 Jul 26, 11:07am -
    • When the Parody Becomes Bigger Than the Source Material
      Remember when you found out that Foghorn Leghorn was a parody of a human radio character that would have been familiar to the original audiences of the 1940s? That was just one of many pop culture references in Warner Bros. cartoons that eventually l…
      - 1 day ago 30 Jul 26, 9:55am -
    • Building a Head-Mounted String Trimmer
      Matthew Dockrey is an engineer in Seattle. He loves to build and ride bicycles, but his rides are often thwarted by the lush greenery of that region. As an engineer, he's using his head to find a solution.Dockrey mounted an electric string trimmer on…
      - 1 day ago 30 Jul 26, 7:00am -
    • Meningitis Scare in the University Microbiology Lab
      A microbiology professor at a university in Utah gave his students a microbe to identify. The lab instructor expected most of the results, at least from the better students, to come back as the common bacteria Plesiomonas shigelloides. None did. Inst…
      - 2 days ago 29 Jul 26, 5:01pm -
    • This Zillow Listing Has Me Morbidly Curious
      I follow Zillow Gone Wild on X because it has weirdly customized homes that make for good blog content. But even that account (and TV show) isn't sure what to make of this home in northern Colorado. We have only external photos because the people sel…
      - 2 days ago 29 Jul 26, 1:22pm -
    • Get Ready for a Remake of <i>Attack of the Killer Tomatoes</i>
      Attack of the Killer Tomatoes was a 1978 spoof of the low-budget monster movies of the 1950s and '60s. It was cheaply made and critically panned, but made back five times its budget. The movie became a cult classic, and spawned several sequels. Almos…
      - 2 days ago 29 Jul 26, 8:04am -
    • The Man Who Hannibal Lecter's Glass Cell Was Designed For
      In The Silence of the Lambs, the murderous cannibal Hannibal Lecter was confined to a cell in the basement of a mental asylum because he was so dangerous. It was made of bulletproof glass instead of bars, because he had managed to kill someone throug…
      - 3 days ago 28 Jul 26, 7:31pm -
    • An Honest Trailer for <i>The Mandalorian and Grogu</i>
      Going into the Honest Trailer for The Mandalorian and Grogu, I realized I didn't know anything about the movie because its promotion was kind of lackluster and after it opened, no one talked about it at all. Oh yeah, it made money, because that's wha…
      - 3 days ago 28 Jul 26, 1:14pm -
    • Ancient Chinese Drilling Secrets Inspired America's Oil Wells
      As early as the first century BC, industrial workers in China's Sichuan Province were building derricks for wells, but they weren't drilling for oil. While most of the world got salt from ocean water or mines, Sichuan has salty aquifers underneath, a…
      - 3 days ago 28 Jul 26, 1:08pm -
    • Hiker Impaled on Trekking Pole Hikes 10 Miles to Safety
      p Let us praise David Cifaldi, a 32-year old nurse who was hiking up Granite Peak--the tallest peak in Montana. KTMF 12 News reports that Cifaldi was about 10 miles into the hike when he was accidentally impaled with a hiking pole.As a medical prof…
      - 3 days ago 28 Jul 26, 11:59am -
    • Hand-Drawn Zoetrope Looks Like Ants on a Plate
      YouTuber Limba Trip is creative maker of things, mostly hand-made zoetropes, anamorphic images, and music. One of his zoetropes that has gone viral shows ants dancing on a plate.In this time-lapse video, Limba Trip draws each ant carefully by hand. W…
      - 4 days ago 28 Jul 26, 5:04am -
    • Thumbelina, the Fat Squirrel on a Strict Diet
      In the wild, many gray squirrels die in infancy, and those who survive can live to about six years on average. Thumbelina almost died in infancy. She was only a couple of hours old when her nest was destroyed, but this family took her in. That was te…
      - 4 days ago 27 Jul 26, 8:07pm -

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    Longform

    • Longform Podcast #585: John Jeremiah Sullivan
      John Jeremiah Sullivan is a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine and has written for Harper's, The New Yorker, and GQ. He is the author of Pulphead and the forthcoming The Prime Minister of Paradise: The True Story of a Lost American Hi…
      - 26 Jun 24, 10:19am -
    • Longform Podcast #584: Ta-Nehisi Coates
      Ta-Nehisi Coates is an author and journalist. His next book is The Message.“I don’t think we have the luxury as journalists of avoiding things because people might say bad things about us. I don’t even think we have the luxury of avoiding thi…
      - 19 Jun 24, 6:53am -
    • Longform Podcast #583: Jay Caspian Kang
      Jay Caspian Kang is a staff writer for The New Yorker and a co-host of Time to Say Goodbye.“At some point, you have to kick it out the door, and it’s never finished to the degree that you would finish a magazine piece. But it, in some ways, is m…
      - 12 Jun 24, 12:37pm -
    • Longform Podcast #582: Joseph Cox
      Joseph Cox is a cybersecurity journalist and co-founder of 404 Media. His new book is Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever.“In the not too distant future, I will be a very old man, and maybe I won't be able to…
      - 5 Jun 24, 7:10am -
    • Longform Podcast #581: Tavi Gevinson
      Tavi Gevinson is a writer, actor, and the founder of Rookie. Her new zine is Fan Fiction.“Stories are unstable, and memory is unstable, and identity is unstable. All of these things that I've tried to make permanent in writing, they're actually un…
      - 29 May 24, 7:18am -
    • Longform Podcast #580: Rachel Khong
      Rachel Khong is a journalist and author whose latest novel is Real Americans.“It's about the ways in which we miss each other as human beings and can't fully communicate what it is like to be ourselves. … And I think that's what makes it so int…
      - 22 May 24, 8:45am -
    • Longform Podcast #579: Kelsey McKinney
      Kelsey McKinney is a features writer and co-owner at Defector.com. She hosts the podcast Normal Gossip and is the author of the upcoming book You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip.“I was always very interested in how you stra…
      - 15 May 24, 7:54am -
    • Longform Podcast #578: Lissa Soep
      Lissa Soep is an audio producer, editor and author whose latest book is Other People’s Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations That Never End.“I am so keenly aware of how much my own voice is a product of editing relationships and co-pro…
      - 8 May 24, 6:29am -
    • Longform Podcast #577: PJ Vogt
      PJ Vogt is the host of Search Engine.“One of our tests editorially is if we think we’ve got something good, but we haven’t started reporting or recording on it, I’ll just try asking the question at dinner and stuff. If it derails conversatio…
      - 1 May 24, 7:57am -
    • Longform Podcast #576: Lindsay Peoples
      Lindsay Peoples is the editor-in-chief of The Cut.“You see so many incredible people make one mistake and lose their job or they speak out about something and then the next day something blows up. And so I do think that I often feel like I have t…
      - 24 Apr 24, 7:25am -
    • Polk Award Winners: Jason Motlagh
      Jason Motlagh, a journalist and filmmaker, is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and the founder of Blackbeard Films. He won the Polk's Sydney Schanberg Prize for “This Will End in Blood and Ashes,” an account of the collapse of order in Hait…
      - 19 Apr 24, 7:00am -
    • Polk Award Winners: Brian Howey
      Brian Howey is a freelance journalist who won the Polk Award for Justice Reporting after exposing a deceptive police tactic widely used in California. He began the project, which was eventually published by the Los Angeles Times and Reveal, as a grad…
      - 18 Apr 24, 7:01am -
    • Polk Award Winners: Meribah Knight
      Meribah Knight is a reporter with Nashville Public Radio. She won the Polk Award for Podcasting for “The Kids of Rutherford County,” produced with ProPublica and Serial, which revealed a shocking approach to juvenile discipline in one Tennessee c…
      - 17 Apr 24, 8:43am -
    • Polk Award Winners: Jesse Coburn
      Jesse Coburn is an investigative reporter at Streetsblog. He won the Polk Award for Local Reporting for "Ghost Tags," his series on the black market for temporary license plates.“You can imagine this having never become a problem, because it’s…
      - 16 Apr 24, 7:11am -
    • Polk Award Winners: Amel Guettatfi and Julia Steers
      Amel Guettatfi and Julia Steers won this year's George Polk Award for Television Reporting for “Inside Wagner,” their Vice News investigation of Russian mercenaries on the Ukraine front and in the Central African Republic. “One of the best ta…
      - 15 Apr 24, 9:20am -
    • Longform Podcast #575: Megan Kimble
      Megan Kimble is the former executive editor of The Texas Observer and has written for The New York Times, Texas Monthly, and The Guardian. Her new book is City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America’s Highways.“I have neve…
      - 3 Apr 24, 9:46am -
    • Longform Podcast #574: Zach Harris
      Zach Harris is a journalist whose latest article for Rolling Stone is "Meet the Gen Z Hothead Burning Up Pro Bowling."“I'm not like a staff writer who has … status and access. But if I come up with something fun that you've never heard of that…
      - 27 Mar 24, 10:12am -
    • Longform Podcast #573: Rozina Ali
      Rozina Ali is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and the winner of the 2023 National Magazine Award for Reporting. Her latest article is “Raised in the West Bank, Shot in Vermont.”“I think it’s very, very important to spea…
      - 20 Mar 24, 12:01pm -
    • Longform Podcast #572: Derek Thompson
      Derek Thompson is a staff writer for The Atlantic and host of the podcast Plain English.“I am an inveterate dilettante. I lose interest in subjects all the time. Because what I find interesting about my job is the invitation to solve mysteries. A…
      - 13 Mar 24, 8:31am -
    • Longform Podcast #571: Tessa Hulls
      Tessa Hulls is a writer and artist whose work has appeared in The Rumpus, The Washington Post, and The Capitol Hill Times. Her new book, a graphic memoir, is Feeding Ghosts.“This project is the thing I have spent my entire life running from. I wa…
      - 6 Mar 24, 6:44am -

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    • newDOJ admits the Reflecting Pool "vandal" was the contractor
      The Trump administration arrested a former Olympian, David Hearn, for touching a loose piece of its janky Reflecting Pool liner, indicted him for felony vandalism, and then announced it had "tremendous evidence" of his wrongdoing. The evidence shows…
      - 47 mins ago 31 Jul 26, 5:23pm -
    • newThis gun lesson skipped directly to the consequences
      A 21-year-old Nebraska man set out to film an instructional gun video and accidentally produced a much more persuasive one. Police say the newly purchased 9mm discharged as he demonstrated how to rack it, sending a bullet through his leg and severing…
      - 1 hour ago 31 Jul 26, 5:07pm -
    • newA $12 Chico's shirt enters the Mitch McConnell proof-of-life mystery
      Architect of our demise, Senator Mitch McConnell's office released another photograph to prove that he remains alive and recovering. The doubting public responded by identifying his wife's $12 Chico's shirt and opening a textile-forensics lab.A fami…
      - 1 hour ago 31 Jul 26, 4:55pm -
    • newPreacher who loves a "captive audience" meets the person running the flight
      Recently, we shared the story of an airplane evangelist who likes to stand up and start bothering people on flights. It appears the airlines are over it.Public exhibitionist Whitney Lynn goes on a weird Jesus rant after being told she can not perfor…
      - 1 hour ago 31 Jul 26, 4:43pm -
    • newVoibe gives Mac users a much faster way to get words down
      TL;DR: Voibe AI Voice Dictation is $79.99 (reg. $199) with offline voice-to-text, app-wide cursor support, Apple Silicon optimization, and ongoing updates.A lot of writing time isn't really writing. In reality, it's waiting for your hands to catch…
      - 2 hours ago 31 Jul 26, 4:00pm -
    • newPatronscan's "ultimate bouncer" never forgets a face in San Francisco's gay bars
      Gay bars in San Francisco are installing ID and facial scanners and requiring patrons to give it up if they want to get in, with Cydney Hayes in The San Francisco Gazetteer likening the gates to the TSA and Jacob Ogles in The Advocate pointing out th…
      - 5 hours ago 31 Jul 26, 1:15pm -
    • newIf you like indie games, have you tried the Itch desktop app?
      If you visit Itch.io to check out indie and casual games, the website's so good you might never even realize that there's a desktop app (with downloads for Windows, macOS and Linux) to manage and run the games, apps and other interesting things hoste…
      - 7 hours ago 31 Jul 26, 11:20am -
    • newAI won't take your job, but someone who knows Claude might — this course is just $14
      TL;DR: Learn how to use Claude AI beyond basic prompts with the Claude AI Professional E-Degree, featuring four courses, 100+ lectures, and real-world projects for $13.99 with code COURSE30 through August 2.AI tools are becoming part of everyday…
      - 8 hours ago 31 Jul 26, 10:00am -
    • newAt $4 a gallon again, even Republicans souring on Iran war
      Republican support for President Trump's war with Iran remained steady at 71% in June, but has fallen to 61% in July, according to a survey by the Associated Press's NORC Center for Public Affairs. Everyone else overwhelmingly disapproves of the conf…
      - 9 hours ago 31 Jul 26, 8:40am -
    • newStolen Civil War cannonballs found in luggage
      TSA staff found five Civil War-era cannonballs in a passenger's checked suitcase at Gulf Shores International Airport in Alabama. Investigators found that the munitions were missing from nearby Fort Morgan; a child supposedly pilfered them and sneake…
      - 10 hours ago 31 Jul 26, 8:00am -
    • newAI assistant named for long-dead pharmacy founder mutters incomprehensibly and "demands that you talk to him"
      A Vermont pharmacy chain's new AI assistant led not to the efficiency improvements promised but to "delays, incorrect information and privacy concerns." The AI, named "Burt" after the chain's long-dead founder, is said to call excessively, get dosage…
      - 22 hours ago 30 Jul 26, 8:28pm -
    • newCuriosity rover finds field of honeycomb-textured "polygons"
      Picture a vast field of honeycombed polygonal rocks stretching to the horizon in an otherworldly valley. NASA's Curiosity rover did, and the Valle Grande, as NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is calling it, is the latest fascinating spot to be imaged…
      - 23 hours ago 30 Jul 26, 7:01pm -
    • Casio's new Ring Watch has a few smart features
      Casio's CRW-H001 is a tiny retro-style watch for your ring finger, and the newest model has a few smart features to make it an alternative to models from Oura and Samsung.Added to the tiny gadget is monitoring of the wearer's heart rate, blood oxyge…
      - 1 day ago 30 Jul 26, 6:09pm -
    • U.S. delegation uses AI slop map of Africa at AIDS conference
      A U.S. State Department map of Africa mislabeled every country it depicted during a presentation at the AIDS 2026 conference in Rio de Janeiro. The slide was so egregiously wrong that multiple attendees whipped out their phones to get a shot of it; E…
      - 1 day ago 30 Jul 26, 5:26pm -
    • Lawsuit claims underperforming Comcast workers subjected to abusive ritual
      A Comcast manager allegedly abused underperforming workers by smashing pies in their faces, a lawsuit claims, recording the assaults in camera and ordering other employees to participate in the abuse. If it's not quite so unhinged as Ebay sending a p…
      - 1 day ago 30 Jul 26, 4:15pm -
    • The cars he hated became the prosecution's photo department
      A man accused of spray-painting "Nazi" and "Fascist" on 13 Teslas was apparently undone by the feature he neglected to vandalize: their cameras. The cars became stooges for the cops; his takeout order supplied the mailing address.Irvine police said…
      - 1 day ago 30 Jul 26, 2:10pm -
    • Trailer for Wicker, starring Olivia Colman, Peter Dinklage and Alexander Skarsgård
      Wicker is a movie about a fisherwoman (Olivia Colman) who, tired of her community's disdain, has the basketweaver (Peter Dinklage) craft her a husband (Alexander Skarsgård) out of wicker. Here's the trailer, just out:I'm not sure what I expec…
      - 1 day ago 30 Jul 26, 1:55pm -
    • The new Washington bar exam could not demonstrate minimum technical competence
      In what seems like a story from the late 1990s, and not 2026, Washington's bar-licensure task force wanted to wait until 2027 to give their new high-tech exam time to "work out any issues with its administration." The state Supreme Court chose 2026.…
      - 1 day ago 30 Jul 26, 1:54pm -
    • Wisconsin moves to shut down anti-Trump brewery over minor permit violations
      Wisconsin alcohol regulators are trying to shut down Minocqua Brewing over permit violations so trivial they read less like public-safety concerns than a scavenger hunt for reasons to punish the state's loudest anti-Trump brewery.Wisconsin's Divisio…
      - 1 day ago 30 Jul 26, 1:17pm -
    • Grandpa Pudding Brains befouls a funeral
      A video from Lindsey Graham's funeral appears to capture two nearby mourners reacting as Diaper Don "shifts" in his seat. Perhaps it is fortunate there is no audio.The Orange Menace attended Lindsey Graham's funeral at Washington National Cathedral…
      - 1 day ago 30 Jul 26, 1:06pm -
    • A pig named Daisy rates foods by how much she licks her lips
      I've found a new favorite internet animal: a pig named Daisy, whose neon-pink-painted hooves and viral food reviews have made her an internet sensation. Her review process is simple. She tries the food, pauses to consider it, and if she likes it, she…
      - 1 day ago 30 Jul 26, 12:57pm -
    • Happy Mutants! Please help rescue marine mammals!
      The Marine Mammal Care Center (MMCC) needs your help. MMCC is the only year-round hospital in Los Angeles dedicated to rescuing and rehabilitating sick, injured, and orphaned seals and sea lions.Last year, MMCC competed in the Land Rover Defender…
      - 1 day ago 30 Jul 26, 12:31pm -
    • New York high school pauses plan for AI robot teacher that looks suspiciously like a RealDoll
      A high school in New York was set on installing an AI-equipped humanoid robot there this fall, but the Salamanca City Central School District has paused the plan after public outrage. Privacy and cost concerns were raised, but it was also suggested t…
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