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On my first trip to Kyushu, a Fukuoka subway sign used the word "rucksack" in quotes. The Japanese word for backpack, ryukku, comes from German.

Patrick Stewart, the Olivier award-winning Shakespearean actor who achieved international stardom as Star Trek's Jean-Luc Picard and The X-Men's Professor X, is dead at 86. Already a distinguished stage and…

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It feels like AI is coming for everybody's jobs, but especially for phone scammers. Thanks to the availability of consumer AI, anyone in any call center anywhere can throw up a decently convincing-sounding AI agent to fleece people out of their money with…

Keep your Cyberpunks or your Fallout 76es: when it comes to launch disasters, No Man's Sky remains the undisputed champion, which I'm not sure is something to be proud of.…

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Elon Musk and His Doge Pals must finad and defeat the biggest threat to Western Civilization! -> "Back in 2012 Bolling — noting that the comic was more widely read than ever yet generating less money than ever — started a…

A few years ago, I was on a plane with my Kindle Paperwhite in my lap, and when I grabbed the seatbelt to strap in, the buckle hit the screen and cracked it. It was still usable, but the bright spot was distracting.…

The Atlanta Falcons declined to comment after being contacted regarding its "New PFP" ("new profile picture") on social media, other than to deny that it is an official logo. The…

Maria Passer's photos of Vorkuta, Russia show snow-buried streets and empty bedrooms so full of icicles you can't see the furniture.

A man named John builds wooden squirrel boxes filled with bedding, then watches the squirrels relax and cuddle on hidden cameras.

Hundreds of spiders wove their webs along a power line in Indonesia, forming a nearly invisible wall against the cloudy sky.

Melvin West, 70, cut a rare map from a 17th-century atlas at the Caird Library in Greenwich, London, and was sentenced to three years in jail for the theft. But…

A stolen painting was identified at Parma's annual antiquity fair by cops using AI software trained on photos of missing works. the police system flagged one of the snapshots with…

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A long-awaited OLED upgrade to Apple's iPad Mini launched this week with an international marketing campaign. But a moment in one ad has drawn controversy in South Korea, as the…

After Florida cop Brian Louis Sguros performed a welfare check at Dennis West's home and found his dead body, he did what any reasonable law enforcement officer would do under…

Overgrown is a Chrome browser extension that plants seeds in neglected browser tabs, which slowly become overwhelmed by spreading foliage. Creator Charlie Gerard was inspired by a creative exercise around…

Comu Action Pro review: strong microphones, long battery life and AI transcription

PlayStation Size says Grand Theft Auto 6 will be a 210 gigabyte download, ahead of the preload early next month.