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Monday, August 11, 2025

AOL update

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AOL, the internet pioneer that introduced millions of Americans to the web in the 1990s, will discontinue its dial-up internet service on S...
Sunday, April 27, 2025

How Nintendo beat Atari

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The year is 1979. Atari is at the peak of its commercial success, but the mojo is gone. The freewheeling culture has been replaced by the Br...

recycling or donating your old computer

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[4/27/25] You can recycle  CD players and boom boxes at Best Buy [4/21/13] Recycle at Best Buy [2/27/13] Recycling for Education [11/8/...
Thursday, March 27, 2025

EPA roll back

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WASHINGTON (AP) — In what he called the “most consequential day of deregulation in American history,” the head of the Environmental Protecti...
Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Sora

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OpenAI has released Sora , its buzzy generative AI tool capable of creating hyper-realist videos. In a post issued on Monday, OpenAI said ...
Monday, April 29, 2024

G7 to end coal by 2035

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TURIN (Reuters) -Energy ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) wealthy countries reached a deal to shut down their coal-fired power plants ...
Friday, April 26, 2024

should you shut down your computer?

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Shutting off your computer every night has downsides. If you just put your computer to sleep, everything is right where you left it in the ...
Monday, December 11, 2023

The Nintendo NES

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Nintendo pretty much single-handedly saved gaming with the NES  back in 1985, and pop culture has never the same.
Thursday, November 02, 2023

Auto Offload on Fire TV

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Got this message when I switched to my Fire TV Stick 4K this afternoon. What's New on Fire TV "Auto Offload" feature to optimi...
Wednesday, September 20, 2023

global warming to peak in 2050

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The world will likely achieve the Paris Agreement target of limiting average global temperature rise to “well below 2°C”, finds a new foreca...
Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Venmo and your privacy

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On Apps Like Venmo, You May Be Oversharing TECHNOLOGY BRIAN X. CHEN There’s an app for snooping on your friends, family and colleagues to fi...
Wednesday, July 19, 2023

streaming tops cable

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Streaming represented 37.7 percent of all TV use in June, a high since Nielsen began releasing its Monthly Gauge reports in 2021. Streamers...
Wednesday, July 12, 2023

AI startup: xAI

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(Reuters) - Elon Musk launched his long-teased artificial intelligence startup xAI on Wednesday, unveiling a team made up of engineers from...
Monday, June 05, 2023

the Apple headset

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The Apple headset is coming, and it’s called the Apple Vision Pro. Apple on Monday entered a new category of interest to Hollywood: The vir...
Saturday, June 03, 2023

calibrate your TV with Netflix

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Netflix has a range of hidden test screens which let you calibrate your TV display , but enabling them really isn't obvious. How to use ...
Monday, December 12, 2022

nuclear fusion breakthrough

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The U.S. is on the cusp of announcing a scientific breakthrough that has eluded researchers worldwide for decades — one that could, decades...
Thursday, October 20, 2022

floppy disks live

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LAKE FOREST, Calif. (Reuters) - It has been two decades since their heyday, but one bulk supplier of the iconic 3.5-inch floppy disk used to...
Thursday, October 13, 2022

DART mission

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NASA ’s Asteroid Redirection Test Alters Its Orbital Period
Tuesday, August 16, 2022

robotaxi

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LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - Lyft and Motional are continuing their work towards launching a fully driverless robotaxi service in Las Vegas. Ac...
Friday, August 12, 2022

fusion ignition

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On 8 August, 2021, 192 laser beams pumped vastly more power than the entire US electric grid into a small gold capsule and ignited, for a fa...
Friday, August 05, 2022

methane emissions

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If carbon dioxide is an oven steadily roasting our planet, methane is a blast from the broiler: a more potent but shorter lived greenhouse g...
Saturday, July 23, 2022

how to sign out everybody on your YouTube TV

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If you keep hitting the three streams maximum on YouTube TV but don't think you should be, it could be that someone else is using your a...
Friday, May 20, 2022

Sony RM-VZ320 universal remote

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[5/20/22] Took home three TVs from my neighbor Steven.  Now testing it. The first TV was a 32" Samsung (model UN32EH4003F, September 20...
Friday, April 22, 2022

How you can help endangered species

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 “At some point climate change will find its way to your backyard. It will affect everybody,” says  Nikhil   Advani , director of climate, c...
Tuesday, February 22, 2022

global plastics treaty

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Feb 18 (Reuters) - United Nations member states are set to meet this month in Nairobi to draft the blueprint for a global plastics treaty , ...
Saturday, February 05, 2022

IPTIRLLTDOTI

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Pearls Before Swine, 1/30/22
Sunday, January 23, 2022

how to adjust your TV settings

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Most people's TV settings are way off to my eye.  Usually the color is set too high (like people are radioactive) and often the brightne...
Monday, December 13, 2021

Elon Musk, Time's person of the year

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What do you get the richest person in the world? How about a perch as Time ’s Person of the Year . The magazine has conferred that honor on...
Sunday, December 12, 2021

15 best science books of all time

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OK, just 15 more to go. Maybe I'll watch the movie to get one out of the way. *** [1/4/21] Down to 5 to go
Friday, December 03, 2021

recycling won't solve plastic crisis

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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Recycling will not be able to contain a runaway global plastic waste crisis , experts said on Friday as they called on...
Wednesday, September 29, 2021

PBS Live stream

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After checking out Antenna Man's video about PBS live streaming in some areas, I was surprised to see that it was available in my area ...
Thursday, September 16, 2021

U.N. head calls for cut in greenhouse gas emissions

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The head of the United Nations called Thursday for “immediate, rapid and large-scale” cuts in greenhouse gas emissions to curb global warmi...
Monday, August 23, 2021

The Metaverse

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In its most recent earnings call on July 29, Facebook Inc. (FB, Financial) CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he expects the social media platform to ...
Monday, July 05, 2021

the old aluminum foil trick

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People have been posting on Facebook that they've gotten improved results from their OTA antenna by using aluminum foil.  So I decided ...
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