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"AWS has provided you with a cloud-optimized Linux distribution since 2010," notes the cloud service's blog. This week they announced the third generation of Amazon's Linux distro: 'Amazon Linux 2023'.Every generation of Amazon Lin...

Everything is Temporary by video artist @joepease is a short film where the world moves quickly around a man who stands frozen in place. The scenery around him changes from the beach to a graveyard to various city scenes, but the man doesn't budge. &m...

BGR reports:Elon Musk seems to be close to making good on his promise to open-source Twitter's code. Well, at least part of it. In a post on the social media platform, the Twitter CEO announced that the company will open-source the code used to recomm...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views. It's difficult to escape the vast popularity of pickleball . A blend of tennis, badminton , and ping-pong, the s...

A man is in jail after posting a nasty message to 4chan suggesting someone kill a Florida sheriff. Richard Golden, 38, was arrested at his mother's house Thursday. Upon answering the door, she shouted "they're here" into his lair. Volusia ...

"The World Health Organization on Friday called on China to release new data linking the Covid pandemic's origins to animal samples at Wuhan Market after the country recently took down the research," reports CNBC. The existence of the new data...

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In this footage, a "know your rights" guy filming in public snares two passers-by: a woman who falsely believes this is against the law, and a man who tries to physically intimidate him. The police are summoned, and not by the man filming. —...

Wyoming's Republican governor signed a law late Friday night banning the abortion pill and allowing a complete ban on abortion to become law without his signature. The pills are already banned in 13 states with blanket bans on all forms of abortion, a...

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Federal agents have arrested a Peekskill, New York, man they say ran the notorious dark web data-breach site "BreachForums4; under the name "Pompompurin.4; Conor Brian Fitzpatrick was arres...

I love street art of all kinds, and one of my favorite things to do is take photos of street art when I visit cities around the world. I was recently in Munich and, I gotta say, their street art scene is tops! — Read the rest...

The Academy Awards has already wrapped, but if you need more Oscars content, or you missed the show, or you haven't seen the films that were nominated for Best Picture, here's a quick peek at each film—if it were a scene from the sitcom Fras...

Techland is best known for its smash hit zombie game Dead Island , its spinoff/pseudosequel Dying Light , which saw even more widespread success, and that game's sequel, which saw a considerably more lukewarm response. Now, after more than a decade of...

The FTC's lawsuit against against Microsoft to stop their acquisition of Activison-Blizzard has been going on for some time now, but is somehow still in the discovery phase. Given the glacial pace the nevertheless historic case has been moving at, mea...

One of modern Hollywood's coolest aspects is the diverse voices and cultures that are finally included in the cultural conversation. For too many decades, Hollywood has looked a little monochromatic in terms of its lead actors and the stories they wer...

Some people have a life story that beggars belief. Last weekend's 95th Academy Awards ceremony was a story that was filled with redemption. After fading away from the public eye for years, Hollywood's best and brightest decided to finally praise a...

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You know, when Pokemon first hit the scene in the 90s, I doubt that anyone would believe that the franchise would remain equally as relevant almost 30 years later. Initially, Pokemon seemed to fit a similar bill of the litany of children's toy crazes ...

Lizard Ladder is an animation by Ted Wiggin about a group of animals who are caught in limbo. A snake, dog, lizard, and mysterious egg must navigate the strange and unpredictable plane of existence together. I love the electrifying feel to the sound effec...

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When you're the owner of the world's longest tongue, the sky is the limit . Watch how one this gentleman can touch the tip of his nose with his tongue repeatedly and with maximum vigor. He can also play Jenga with his tongue, make paintings using ...

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The Designers is an animation about two grumpy giants who don't know how to share . The giant creatures bicker with each other about who gets to use certain building blocks for each of their respective homes. They are constantly stealing the building ...

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The Brazilian government is studying whether to regulate Internet platforms with content that earns revenue such as advertising, its secretary for digital policies, Joao Brant, said on Friday. Reuters reports: The idea would be for a regulator to hold suc...

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The UK Space Agency said Friday it would back research by Rolls-Royce looking at the use of nuclear power on the moon. CNBC reports: In a statement, the government agency said researchers from Rolls-Royce had been working on a Micro-Reactor program "t...

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The geology of Brazil's volcanic Trindade Island has fascinated scientists for years, but the discovery of rocks made from plastic debris in this remote turtle refuge is sparking alarm. Melted plastic ...