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“Margaret Hamilton, who led the 100-person team that
“Margaret Hamilton, who led the 100-person team that wrote the onboard software for the Apollo missions, guiding Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to a safe landing on the moon, died Sept. 30 in Cambridge, Mass. She was 90.”
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Archaeologists In Egypt Just Found A 1,900-Year-Old Ring Depicting The Lighthouse Of Alexandria
Archaeologists exploring the waters off Egypt’s Mediterranean coast discovered a 1,900-year-old ring emblazoned with an image of the Lighthouse of Alexandria.
How October 7 changed everything
This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. Jewish communities in Israel and around the world are currently marking the third anniversary of the October 7 attacks that killed 1,200 people and triggered the war in Gaza. Memorials for the victims of the attacks have been held at homes,
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Where in the world are typefaces being designed? The US
Where in the world are typefaces being designed? The US, Germany, and France…but also the UK, Netherlands, and Indonesia.
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Tech Workers’ Leverage Over Employers Is Shifting
Not long ago, tech companies courted their workers. Engineers were scarce enough that anyone who felt mistreated could quit and land somewhere else within weeks, so employers kept them around with generous perks and wide latitude on the job, and many firms took pains to look like the progressive institutions their staff expected them to be.
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Wildwood
Laika is the stop-motion animation studio that made Coraline & Kubo and the Two Strings. Their newest film, Wildwood, looks pretty incredible; have a look at the trailer.
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27 Years Later, The Most Outlandish Star Wars Villain Has, Somehow, Returned
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace’s iconic podracing scene is still controversial to this day. For some fans, it’s a fun, epic tribute to cinematic classics like Ben-Hur; for others, it’s an annoying random side quest that stops the momentum of the movie. But like it or not, it’s one of the most recognizable scenes in the Skywalker Saga, and one that’s getting revived in the new video game, Star Wars: Galactic Racer.
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Chet Hanks Ambushes Eric André to Reignite Bizarre Beef
André called Hanks “not well” following a disastrous appearance on ‘The Eric André Show’ in 2023
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Mark Carney Isn’t the “Leader of the Free World.” Lula Is
The headlines say it all: “Meet the New Leader of the Free World. No, It’s Not Donald Trump.” “Canada’s Carney Claims Mantle of ‘Leader of the Free World.’” “How Mark Carney Became Leader of the Free World by Standing Up to Trump.” Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is not just incredibly popular at home but, increasingly, around the world. Now there is even talk of him winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
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‘Bucking Fastard’ Takes Werner Herzog Back to His Weirdo Roots
Rooney Mara and Kate Mara play Irish sisters who talk, walk, and move in unison in 'Bucking Fastard,' the memorably bizarre new film from German director Werner Herzog.
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Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5 with 90% API price reduction, matching GPT-6 Luna
Anthropic calls Haiku its fastest model at standard speeds, while acknowledging that Opus in Fast Mode runs faster. It does not supply a tokens-per-second figure in the materials reviewed for this article.
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In 2005, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory calculated that
In 2005, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory calculated that the water stored by China’s huge Three Gorges Dam is enough to increase the length of a day by 0.06 microseconds and move the North pole by 0.8 inches. (A 9.1 earthquake had a bigger impact.)
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The Tragic Story Of Ishi, California’s ‘Last Wild Indian’ Whose People Were Wiped Out By Settlers
Ishi emerged from the wilderness 50 years after settlers slaughtered most of his people.
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Will you survive the Gom Jabbar? Los Angeles gets a real-life Arrakis, waiver included
Los Angeles. L.A. Desert city. Winner of water wars, destroyer of the Owens Valley. The Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río de Porciúncula will soon offer Dune fans the opportunity to stick their hands into a box full of unbearable pain, and I don't mean watching Timothee Chalamet and Zendaya act. — Read the rest The post Will you survive the Gom Jabbar? Los Angeles gets a real-life Arrakis, waiver included appeared first on Boing Boing.
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Trump wants to turn his private golf club into a presidential retreat
Having repeatedly tried to call his Florida dinner club "The Winter White House," Dementia Don has found a new grift: turning part of his private golf club into a new Presidential retreat à la Camp David without the gravitas or tradition. — Read the rest The post
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We Have Our First Clues About ’Doctor Who’s Historic Reboot
Doctor Who is in trouble. For a long time, it seemed like the series couldn’t be stopped, but after a controversial partnership with Disney+ and two reboot seasons, there are officially no current plans for the return of the main show — though we are getting a preschool-age animated series, so there’s a silver lining.
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Tempe cop punches 21-year-old woman in the face; police union calls it the "minimum required"
Tempe police released a video showing Eryn Bonner failing to obey the cops. Sadly, for Tempe's finest, the video also shows what they did about it. One of their officers shoves the 21-year-old ASU student to the ground, tackles her against a police bicycle and then punches her in face. —
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Game Boy becomes Game Man with giant-sized version
It's taken 37 years for Nintendo's humble Game Boy to hit puberty, but the hour has finally come. What's even cooler than a video game console you can carry around in your pocket? One the size of an actual person that runs on game cartridges a family of four could eat dinner on, of course. — Read the rest The post Game Boy becomes Game Man with giant-sized version appeared first on Boing Boing.
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Lots and Lots and Lots of Control Panels
To go along with my recent post about control rooms, here’s the Control Panels group on Flickr, containing almost 3000 photos of control interfaces for all kinds of things. You’ll see some of the same photos as in the Control Rooms group, but when you get past the first couple of pages, there’s more variety: fiddly knobs, entire walls of nearly identical switches, dials, inscrutable gauges, soda machine interfaces, bump it and you might die buttons, computers with switches, Swinging Fingers (!!), and many more
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What Will the Sebastian Maniscalco Drama Mean for Marcello Hernández?
Will ‘Saturday Night Live’ satirize comedy’s most expressive robber baron?
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