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    The Running Man’s final trailer amps up the high-octane action

    The original running man was so far removed from the book that you might as well consider this the first one.
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    Senators move to keep Big Tech’s creepy companion bots away from kids

    i fear that cat is out of the bag for the vast majority of people.
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    Felony charges after South Carolina high school filled with “fart spray”… for weeks

    If you want to learn more about the joy of natto... Japanology Plus -Natto
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    Gmail gets a dedicated place to track all your purchases

    you mean all the information they already have and surely is neatly arranged on their end for mining? Not seeing how offering us additional view options changes anything. damage already done. maybe your comment was /s.. @wildsman - I need to look into settings a bit more closely. thanks for that!
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    Bernie Sanders backs Trump’s plan to buy stake in Intel

    and term limits. someday.
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    After recent tests, China appears likely to beat the United States back to the Moon

    No one changes, so nothing changes? Unless you've always been on the "right" team of course. You know, that philosophy sounds like the crap that keeps convicts as second class citizens even after they've served out the punishment society has deemed appropriate. "You did something stupid, you...
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    After recent tests, China appears likely to beat the United States back to the Moon

    yeah, no one ever comes to their senses, sees the light, defects, pick whatever you want to call it. When someone does, we should just send them scurrying back, motivated to double down on their crap. That sure sounds productive.
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    SpaceX reveals why the last two Starships failed as another launch draws near

    I'm always torn between my desire to see this amazing behemoth succeed and my enjoyment of anything involving karma and Elon getting more acquainted.
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    Scientists use peacock feathers to make frickin’ laser beams

    moments of gold. "I was just in a hurry to spray that tree." says the sulking tiger. Peacock laughs insultingly from tree. Nature is awesome.
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    Experts lay into Tesla safety in federal autopilot trial

    Bad time for a breakup with his bestie Trump. He gets wind of this, he will be all in for a chance to screw up the Musk-iverse.
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    Ars reflects on Apollo 13 turning 30

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    Ars reflects on Apollo 13 turning 30

    My favorite history teacher had a similar approach. Dates were notional. What was important was to understand the general sequence, what was going on at the same time, what happened, why, and why it mattered. Not just a rote memorization of facts with context and meaning as footnotes. When...
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    HP reveals first Google Beam 3D video conferencing setup, priced at $25,000

    An HP product connected to the internet? No thanks. Update to require lighting by HP supplied bulbs incoming.
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    Elon Musk turns his focus back to space, says Starship and Mars matter most

    That's a failing of the general media then, not a single space reporter... There are a million reporters in the country that could band together to nail him to the wall. If I can't avoid Musk in the news, at least this story gives me SOMETHING positive related to the big tool.
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    Gouach wants you to insert and pluck the cells from its Infinite e-bike battery

    As dangerous as the hundreds, if not thousands, of other consumer devices with powerful batteries. The average consumers haven't manages to screw it up too bad, yet.
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    Apple legend Jony Ive takes control of OpenAI’s design future

    So it will be thin and white? Talk about training bias...
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    Neuroscientists are racing to turn brain waves into speech

    I suspect that the target audience for this have plenty of free time and would consider hundreds of hours of training time well spent.
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    A bonus from the shingles vaccine: Dementia protection?

    Get the shot... I know people with the post shingles nerve damage, it is life changing and not in a good way. If there are other benefits, that's great, but living your life in constant pain that is almost impossible to treat and difficult to manage is no way to spend your golden years... From...
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    Six ways Microsoft’s portable Xbox could be a Steam Deck killer

    Curb stomping MS by purchasing a product they don't sell and have expressed no real interest in doing so? That was worth $500 to you? A donation to a cool foss project would have been more useful. Sony rootkit, anyone? Proprietary removable storage formats? Obtrusive DRM embedded into...
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    Firmware update bricks HP printers, makes them unable to use HP cartridges

    Yep. I found some old powerline networking stuff in a box in the garage. Perfect to put printer wherever. Static IP and denied internet access on router. What updates? I want to put marks on paper, what possible update could improve that at this point?