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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…
    - 31 Jul 25, 9:44am -
  • 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
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    The Women of Ukraine's Railroads Keep the Trains RunningThe 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
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    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 -

    The Mary Sue

    Geeks are Sexy - Technology News

    • newDaily 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…
      - 8 hours ago 30 Jul 26, 7:57am -
    • newForget 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…
      - 8 hours ago 30 Jul 26, 7:56am -
    • newYou’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]
      - 8 hours ago 30 Jul 26, 7:55am -
    • newThe New Toxic Teaser Is One Seriously Unhinged Fairy Tale
      Fairy tales usually end with “happily ever after.” Toxic: A Fairytale for Grown-Ups starts with Yash turning a cemetery into an all-you-can-smash buffet of fists, bullets, and broken tombstones. The latest teaser for the upcoming Indian action ep…
      - 8 hours ago 30 Jul 26, 7:54am -
    • newHide n Seek [Comic]
      [Source: @deadthchan] Enjoying the content? Please consider supporting Geeks are Sexy!Click This Link for the Full Post > Hide n Seek [Comic]
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    • Inventing the Wheel [Comic]
      [Source: @butajape] Enjoying the content? Please consider supporting Geeks are Sexy!Click This Link for the Full Post > Inventing the Wheel [Comic]
      - 1 day ago 29 Jul 26, 1:00pm -
    • What Happens When Sonic Dies For Good? [Animated Comedy Sketch]
      What happens when Sonic actually dies? This animated sketch from Dorkly explores the terrifying aftermath of Sonic’s permanent game over, where Robotnik wastes no time celebrating, the woodland critters realize they’re kind of doomed, and one “…
      - 1 day ago 29 Jul 26, 12:00pm -
    • Daily Deals Drop: Get All 8 Dungeon Crawler Carl Books for Just $21.20, CHERRY Gaming Gear, LEGO Batman Forever Batmobile, and MORE!
      For today’s daily deals drop (July 29, 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 29 Jul 26, 7:44am -
    • This Giant D20 Is So Big, It Needed a Trailer to Travel
      Rolling a natural 20 is great. Rolling a 3-meter-wide natural 20? Even better. YouTuber Jazza teamed up with Lumin’s Workshop to build what is likely the world’s largest rollable D20, smashing the previous record with a colossal die made from alu…
      - 1 day ago 29 Jul 26, 7:40am -
    • I want to play a game [Comic]
      [Source: @goblinmodecomics] Enjoying the content? Please consider supporting Geeks are Sexy!Click This Link for the Full Post > I want to play a game [Comic]
      - 1 day ago 29 Jul 26, 7:35am -
    • Honest Trailers Roasts The Mandalorian & Grogu Like a Bantha on a Spit
      The latest Honest Trailer is here, and this time it’s taking aim at The Mandalorian & Grogu with a fully charged blaster set to “roast.” From questioning why Disney keeps turning streaming shows into theatrical releases to poking fun at Baby Yo…
      - 1 day ago 29 Jul 26, 7:32am -
    • B Drama [Comic]
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      - 1 day ago 29 Jul 26, 7:30am -

    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,…
      - 1 day 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…
      - 6 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…
      - 16 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…
      - 21 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…
      - 38 days ago 22 Jun 26, 7:00am -

    Neatorama

    • newA 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…
      - 5 hours ago 30 Jul 26, 11:07am -
    • newWhen 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…
      - 6 hours ago 30 Jul 26, 9:55am -
    • newBuilding 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…
      - 9 hours ago 30 Jul 26, 7:00am -
    • newMeningitis 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…
      - 23 hours 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…
      - 1 day 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…
      - 1 day 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…
      - 2 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…
      - 2 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…
      - 2 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…
      - 2 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…
      - 2 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…
      - 3 days ago 27 Jul 26, 8:07pm -
    • The Electric Microbus You'll Never Be Able to Afford
      I learned to drive on a 1970 Volkswagen Microbus. It had a gear shift that seemed three feet long. It wasn't powerful and didn't go fast, especially uphill, and it was never warm enough. As soon as I had my license, I was recruited to drive high scho…
      - 3 days ago 27 Jul 26, 7:21pm -
    • Surprising Fast Food Items from the Rest of the World
      Fast food restaurants in the US gather together around interstate exits, and they offer variations on sandwiches, chicken pieces, pizza, burritos, and fried potatoes on the side. They taste the same from coast to coast. Then in late summer, state and…
      - 3 days ago 27 Jul 26, 12:55pm -
    • Last Thursday Was the Busiest Day of Commercial Air Traffic in History
      July 23, 2026, was the busiest day for commercial air travel ever, according to data from @flightradar24.A whopping 153,359 commercial flights were tracked worldwide. pic.twitter.com/0fJ9mcjZkY— Colin McCarthy (@US_Stormwatch) July 25, 2026With the…
      - 3 days ago 27 Jul 26, 8:57am -

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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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    BoingBoing

    • newThe 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…
      - 2 hours ago 30 Jul 26, 2:10pm -
    • newTrailer 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…
      - 2 hours ago 30 Jul 26, 1:55pm -
    • newThe 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.…
      - 2 hours ago 30 Jul 26, 1:54pm -
    • newWisconsin 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…
      - 2 hours ago 30 Jul 26, 1:17pm -
    • newGrandpa 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…
      - 3 hours ago 30 Jul 26, 1:06pm -
    • newA 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…
      - 3 hours ago 30 Jul 26, 12:57pm -
    • newHappy 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…
      - 3 hours ago 30 Jul 26, 12:31pm -
    • newNew 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…
      - 6 hours ago 30 Jul 26, 10:02am -
    • newIn 1992, BBC ran a fake live ghost hunt and freaked out viewers
      On Halloween night in 1992, BBC1 broadcast what looked like a live investigation of a haunted house in a London suburb, with Michael Parkinson anchoring from the studio and Sarah Greene reporting from the family's living room. Ghostwatch was scripted…
      - 6 hours ago 30 Jul 26, 10:00am -
    • newSkip the resume rewrites with FirstResume for $39.99
      TL;DR: FirstResume helps automate the job search by tailoring resumes, writing cover letters, prepping interviews, researching companies, and tracking applications. Get lifetime access for $39.99 (reg. $899).Finding a job can feel like a full-time…
      - 6 hours ago 30 Jul 26, 10:00am -
    • newMarmots now have an OnlyFans account to fund research
      I never expected to have an OnlyFans account, but all manner of strange things are possible in 2026, so here we are. Science funding is under attack in the United States, and researchers are exploring alternate funding sources to keep the work going.…
      - 6 hours ago 30 Jul 26, 9:30am -
    • newThe only movie released in Smell-O-Vision piped 30 odors under the seats
      The 1960 mystery-comedy Scent of Mystery was the only film ever released in Smell-O-Vision, which delivered 30 odors to vents under the theater seats. Inventor Hans Laube called the mechanism the "smell brain": a belt of perfume containers wound onto…
      - 7 hours ago 30 Jul 26, 9:00am -
    • newA town duct-taped garbage bags over its Flock spy cameras
      Given recent events, it's safe to say that in many communities, Flock's creepy, all-seeing automated license plate readers (ALPR) have become as unwelcome as a fart in a space suit. The company's 90,000 ALPR devices have become a spiteful thing acros…
      - 7 hours ago 30 Jul 26, 9:00am -
    • newPhysicists were convinced Wolfgang Pauli presence broke lab equipment
      Wolfgang Pauli has a real law of physics named after him, the exclusion principle. Colleagues named a second one after him as a joke, "according to which a functioning device and Wolfgang Pauli may not occupy the same room." The Pauli effect was the…
      - 7 hours ago 30 Jul 26, 8:45am -
    • newFCC bans imported Roombas, robot mowers, and delivery bots

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    • newNetflix's Unabomber film digs into Kaczynski's Harvard years
      Jacob Tremblay is playing a teenage Ted Kaczynski in Netflix's upcoming UNABOMBER, and researching the role took him somewhere he didn't expect: Harvard. "I didn't even know he went to Harvard until I read the script; I think most people don't," Trem…
      - 8 hours ago 30 Jul 26, 7:45am -
    • newDiddy tossed in solitary after fight at Fort Dix prison
      No matter whether they get locked up in Castle Rock or Bangkok, life is rough for sex offenders. There's a caste system in the clink that places rapists, sex traffickers and pedophiles just below a burning bag of monkey shit in the incarceration food…
      - 8 hours ago 30 Jul 26, 7:30am -
    • newA DEVO founder's new video imagines Trump as a MAGA-zombie dictator
      DEVO co-founder Gerald Casale has a new animated music video out, and it does not hold back on Donald Trump. In "Just Do It!," Casale turns Trump into a cartoon dictator marching a MAGA zombie army through the collapse of American democracy, smashing…
      - 8 hours ago 30 Jul 26, 7:16am -
    • newMedical records and kids' phone numbers turned up in Google results
      Fun fact: over 60% of all workshop injuries are the result of using a table saw without really knowing how to use a table saw. We're talking somewhere between 30,000 and 40,000 cuts, slices and amputations, every year — and that's just in North Ame…
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    • newAI companies are scanning and destroying old books
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