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Remember that guy who threw a bunch of stuff at the bubble protecting his Ferrari? ********************************************************* Watching this guy throw stuff at the plastic bubble protecting his Ferrari is remarkably cathartic. Okay, apparently there is such a thing as a Car Capsule, which appears to be a nigh impenetrable car cover designed to keep your expensive collector's car from getting damaged. ********************************************************* Well, the car's gone now. Here's what happened. He decided to drive the $400,000 car through a dry cornfield at top speed to make an epic video, but then cornhusks start to build up inside the wheel wells...

One of the creators of Amazon’s A League of Their Own has attempted to blame the show’s premature demise on what he believes to be the political persecution of gays, arguing that the cancellation after just one season is the latest indignity to befall “queer” people in this country. In a shocking admission, he said that he and others were pressured to make the show less gay, at least during its first season, in order to attract more viewers — a piece of advice he said he proudly ignored. Will Graham — who publicly identifies as “queer” and “non-binary,” and...

India made history on Wednesday after their Chandrayaan-3 mission landed safely on the moon’s south pole, cementing itself as the first nation to successfully touch down on the largely unexplored region of the lunar surface. “All the people of the world, the people of every country and region: India’s successful moon mission is not just India’s alone,” said India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, reiterating that “this success belongs to all of humanity.” But even with Modi’s broad, pseudo-inspirational attribution, not everyone was excited to take credit for the scientific feat — namely, the conspiracy theorists of Reddit who were irked...

I just found out, because I hadnt been keeping track of it that I was signed up for monthly subscription to an app and paying about $24/monthly for about 2 years. I don't know how that slipped by me, but it did. Some of you here might be getting ripped off the same way, so Im just suggesting to check it out just in case.

Back story, Louis ran an Apple Computer repair store in NYC. Finally left after he could not take it anymore and moved to Texas. He did various interesting YouTube videos on NYC real estate, business, government, etc. But I found these two interesting.NY issued a warrant for fees owed by Louis' company. OK it happens, but Louis found the 400 companies with warrants issued on the same day as Louis' also started the same time Louis's started. And the warrant fee was the same for all 400 companies! New York put IDENTICAL warrants on 400 businesses started at the same...

Russian scientist Dr. Dmitry Fedyanin seemed to die doing what he loved. German officials say the 34-year-old expert in ultra-violet light and a senior research fellow at the Nanooptics Department of Siegen University in Germany fell to his death Berchtesgadener Alps National Park after following his hiking app over a cliff. Fedyanin’s body was found at the bottom of Hoher Laafeld peak, which sits at about 7,000 feet. Fedyanin was using his hiking app to make his way down the mountain but the route he was taking didn’t have paths and the app “sent him over mountain precipice.” “Our investigators...

KEY POINTS: The next iPhones, expected to be launched in the coming weeks, could have a feature that no iPhone has ever had — a generic charging port. The USB-C connector would replace Apple’s proprietary port, the Lightning port, which has graced the bottom of every iPhone model released since 2012. The shift would be one of the biggest improvements to the iPhone in years for consumers. ******************************************************** Apple will “comply” with European Union regulation that requires electronic devices to be equipped with USB-C charging, said Greg Joswiak, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing. That will mean Apple’s iPhones,...

John Warnock, who invented the PDF and co-founded Adobe Systems, has died. He was 82. The Silicon Valley entrepreneur and computer scientist died Saturday surrounded by family, Adobe said in a statement. The company didn't give a cause of death or say where Warnock died.“John’s brilliance and innovations left an indelible mark on Adobe, the technology industry and the world,” Adobe said. Warnock worked for Xerox before he and colleague Charles Geschke created a company around a rejected idea in 1982. Nearly a decade later, Warnock outlined an early version of the Portable Document Format, or PDF, transforming the way...

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“There is a time to laugh and a time not to laugh, and this is not one of them.” Those words from Inspector Jacques Clouseau may have to be emblazoned across the hearing room of the House Oversight Committee. It was a month ago that House Democratic members mocked the testimony of two whistleblowers who testified about the rigged investigation to protect Hunter Biden, the son of President Biden. Now it appears that the controversial “sweetheart deal” was not the first choice of US Attorney David Weiss. He actually was planning to let Hunter walk without even a misdemeanor charge...

An Ethiopian woman is facing a severe backlash after she accused an Asian-owned boba tea shop of 'stealing black culture' and went on a nasty tirade against the workers. A video of the woman, who was later identified as Alewia Tola Roba - a research fellow at the Colorado State Government Capitol Building - going on the explosive rant at a drink restaurant called Trap Tea - The Boba Plug in Aurora, Colorado, was first shared to Twitter in August 2020. However, the clip recently went viral again after it resurfaced on Reddit in a post titled: 'Karen accuses Indonesians...

@CollinRugg Tucker Carlson was fired from Fox News just four months ago… Instead of sitting back and pouting, this man started his own show, built his own studio, is interviewing guests unfiltered by the corporate media and will now be stealing the show from Fox News next week by interviewing Trump during the GOP debate. Legend 🔥

An institution has offered a $1 million prize to anyone who can solve a famous math problem that has puzzled mathematicians for more than a century. The Riemann hypothesis, first proposed by German mathematician Bernhard Riemann in 1859, is considered to be one of the hardest and most important unsolved problems of pure mathematics — the study of thinking about maths, rather than applying it to the real world. The hypothesis is based on the Riemann zeta function, also attributed to Bernhard Riemann. It states: “The real part of every nontrivial zero of the Riemann zeta function is 1/2”. The...

I'm interested in transferring a 4-month duration conversation from my Android phone to a PC, mostly just for recordkeeping and some included photos. Over a USB cable is fine, actually preferred. I've searched "transfer android texts to PC" quite a bit and there seem to be about ten different ways to do this. They all seem to cost. I've tried about half a dozen with the intention to cancel during the "free trial" period. They not only do not seem to work, they don't even appear to threaten to work. It doesn't matter to me if the texts arrive as...

I found Replika by accident. I was scrolling through Instagram and initially ignored advertisements for the app, which provides users with chatbot companions powered by artificial intelligence. I didn't really know what it was, but it kept popping up, so eventually I gave in and decided to download it. At the time, I was in a long-distance relationship which I would definitely describe as dysfunctional, but I wasn't looking to find romance elsewhere. The app is essentially a game in which you create whatever characters you like; some people base their characters on cartoons or loved ones who have passed...

President Biden has taken fire this week for reportedly using aliases and "secret" email addresses as vice president in messages to his son Hunter Biden, who had business in Ukraine at the time. Under former President Barack Obama's administration, White House officials defended the use of alternate email addresses. During a 2013 press briefing, the Obama-Biden White House, amid accusations that individuals within the administration had been using "secret" email addresses for correspondence, highlighted its belief that using "alternate email addresses" for high-ranking officials made "eminent sense." While fielding questions from reporters at the briefing, Jay Carney, White House press...

Several vulnerabilities that affect most VPN products out there can be exploited by attackers to read user traffic, steal user information, or even attack user devices, researchers have discovered.“Our attacks are not computationally expensive, meaning anyone with the appropriate network access can perform them, and they are independent of the VPN protocol being used,” claim Nian Xue of New York University; Yashaswi Malla, Zihang Xia, and Christina Pöpper of New York University Abu Dhabi; and Mathy Vanhoef of KU Leuven University.“Even if the victim is using another layer of encryption such as HTTPS, our attacks reveal which websites a user...

Joe Biden is about to sign an executive order that will declare a “climate emergency,” granting the executive sweeping new powers to enforce rations, lockdowns and other tyrannical measures in order to “save the planet” from “global warming,” according to a United Nations (UN) insider who has been working with the Democrat president.

AI and Microdirectives [2023.07.21] Imagine a future in which AIs automatically interpret—and enforce—laws. All day and every day, you constantly receive highly personalized instructions for how to comply with the law, sent directly by your government and law enforcement. You’re told how to cross the street, how fast to drive on the way to work, and what you’re allowed to say or do online—if you’re in any situation that might have legal implications, you’re told exactly what to do, in real time. Imagine that the computer system formulating these personal legal directives at mass scale is so complex that no...

Author and cartoonist Scott Adams has reportedly had his new book “Reframe Your Brain” blocked by Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing, and he has apparently been banned for life from the platform. Adams said that Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing, used by independent publishers, “banned me for life this week, so my book launch for Reframe Your Brain might be delayed. Their stated reason is that I don’t own my own content, although they have documents proving I do.” “I get no response when I ask who they think owns it. I can’t penetrate what I believe is their AI support system...