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Telegram has disclosed names of administrators, their phone numbers and IP addresses of channels accused of copyright infringement in compliance with a court order in India in a remarkable illustration of the data the instant messaging platform stores on ...

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It's been quite a week on Hawaii's Big Island, with two active volcanoes — Mauna Loa and Kilauea — erupting at once . Video shared yesterday by the US Geological Survey (see below, make sure your sound is up!) shows Mauna Loa's stu...

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Meta founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said he was still optimistic about the metaverse on a longer, "five-to-ten-year horizon" at the New York Times Dealbook Summit in New York City on Wednesday. From a report: "The way we communica...

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Quokkas enjoy an online renaissance, for obvious reasons. Just look at them! These plucky, perpetually-smiling marsupials have captured the hearts of the Internet, to the point where there are now entire accounts dedicated to tweeting hourly pictures of t...

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Consider the humble garden gnome: a jolly little fellow in a red hat, smiling passively at passersby. Perfectly innocent, right? Well, what if I told you that the precursor to the garden gnome tradition used to involve real people paid to live in gardens?...

Lantern Stories is a cool new outdoor public artwork by Yu-Wen Wu in San Francisco's Chinatown that celebrates Asian culture. I stumbled upon it the other night. Over the long weekend, my dear friend Joyce planned a group evening adventure to San Fran...

Badlands is a spinoff of the popular rock n' roll true crime podcast Disgraceland , with lurid stories of sex, drugs, and murder in other celebrity cultures. And just in time for the World Cup, the new season takes a look at the seedy underbelly of so...

In an effort to stop dolphins from pilfering fish out of human nets, some researchers in Greece began experimenting with ways to deter the horny aquatic mammals. After several failed attempts involving noisemakers and camouflage nets, the scientists turne...

The French baguette is now under UNESCO safeguarding as an item of "intangible cultural heritage." The bread is joined by a number of other global foods, traditions, and crafts. From this year's additions to the UNESCO intangible cultural heri...

Volume 4 of The Complete Tom the Dancing Bug! TOM THE DANCING BUG: ALL-MIGHTY COMICS! Books currently being personalized, signed, sketched in, and sent out! Let's go! Information here. (Order by Thursday, 12/1 and your order will be in the mail to you...

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Out of all the beaten-down public companies in the autonomous driving space, Embark Technology stands out as a conspicuously terrible stock market performer. From a report: The San Francisco-headquartered company, which develops autonomous driving technol...

I knew a woman who had an early 60s Bugeye Sprite in the late 1990s. The car was hard to keep running then, and she had a terrible time finding parts. However, she really enjoyed running it through the various canyons between Malibu and the north end of t...

Portland police are on the lookout for two gentlemen in Oregon who crashed their van into a convenience store, stole an ATM, then tried to crack open the machine — only to start a huge fire in their van. And it was all caught on two separate cameras...

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Remittances to low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) withstood global headwinds in 2022, growing an estimated 5% to $626 billion. This is sharply lower than the 10.2% increase in 2021, according to the latest World Bank Migration and Development Brief....

Outgoing US Congressperson Madison Cawthorn issued a farewell address on the floor of Congress wherein he decried all sorts of stuff and babbled about strength. Cawthorn was an awful clown of a super-Trump supporter who lost his North Carolina primary, fa...

Staunchly defending the most minor put-upon group of people to theoretically be discriminated against, a favored FOX news host claimed that the unvaccinated have been mistreated far worse than any of the very, very long list of people who have been discri...

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Spotify's CEO Daniel Ek renewed his attack on Apple on Wednesday in a series of tweets alleging the iPhone maker "gives itself every advantage while at the same time stifling innovation and hurting consumers." From a report: Ek tagged a number...

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NASA's Orion spacecraft captured his spectacular selfie from a distance of 268,563 miles from Earth, the farthest a spaceship built for humans has ever gone. The first mission in the Artemis program—which in 2025 (at the soonest) will return hum...

On Saturday, a woman on a Southwest flight from Houston, Texas to Columbus, Ohio attempted to open an exit door mid-flight. The 34-year-old shoved a flight attendant as she lunged for the exit door and attempted to open it. After the flight attendants res...

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hondo77 writes: Two years ago, Disney Research Studios developed AI-powered tools that could generate face swap videos with enough quality and resolution to be used for professional filmmaking (instead of as questionably low-res GIFs shared around the int...

gif: pong74ls/Wikipedia (CC BY 3.0) Fifty years ago this week, Atari installed the first Pong machine in a Silicon Valley bar called Andy Capp's. The world was never the same. Back in 1999, I wrote a feature for Salon about Pong co-creator Nolan Bushn...

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Crypto exchange Kraken writing in a blog post: Today we're announcing one of the hardest decisions at Kraken to date. We're reducing our global workforce by approximately 1,100 people, or 30 percent, in order to adapt to current market conditions....

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