Harry Kane became England's all-time World Cup leading scorer after scoring in Saturday's 2-0 win over Panama at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey.
Read Full Story →The bracket for the World Cup knockout rounds is now set! How far will the U.S. go, and who should be the favorites to win it all? Let's judge some overreactions!
Read article →Excellent use of AI to create relatively accurate and realistic tours through history. Chloe is an engaging and personable guide–a fact of some importance. Hat tip: Kevin Bryan. The post Chloe vs. History appeared fir...
Read article →The wait for Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced doesn't have to be painful if you get through it with these captivating open-world hits.
Read article →Trinity Moravian Church, a politically diverse congregation in Winston-Salem, N. C., has been raising money to retire medical debt in the surrounding community.
Read article →Iran says it targeted U.S. military facilities in Kuwait and Bahrain following U.S. strikes on targets in and around the Strait of Hormuz.
Read article →Bahrain and Kuwait have condemned Iran’s retaliatory attacks after a second day of US strikes on Iran.
Read article →Portugal's draw with Colombia on Saturday means a destined quarterfinal matchup between Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi is off until possibly the final.
Read article →Portugal's refusal to manage Ronaldo's workload may come back to haunt them.
Read article →Pixar's animated film Elemental opened to a record-low $29.5 million domestically in June 2023, the worst opening weekend in the studio's 28-year theatrical history. The result significantly underperformed pre-release projections of around $40 million and fell below the previous low-water mark set by The Good Dinosaur in 2015. Industry analysts pointed to several contributing factors: the film was not based on established intellectual property, and audiences had grown accustomed to Pixar films debuting on Disney+ after Soul, Luca, and Turning Red skipped theatrical releases during the pandemic. Despite the poor opening, Elemental earned a strong A CinemaScore from audiences who did see it, suggesting positive word-of-mouth had potential to improve its long-term performance.
Read Full Story →In May 2023, Microsoft announced that Windows 11 would gain native support for RAR and other archive formats — including 7-zip, tar, and gz — by integrating the open-source libarchive project directly into the operating system. The change meant users could open and extract RAR files through File Explorer without needing to install any third-party software, ending a dependency that had existed for nearly three decades.
Read article →The Sokal Affair was a 1996 academic hoax engineered by NYU physics professor Alan Sokal, who submitted a deliberately nonsensical paper to the cultural studies journal Social Text. Titled "Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity," the article mixed real scientific terminology with fabricated claims — including the assertion that quantum gravity renders objective reality a social construct — designed to flatter the journal's postmodernist editorial slant.
Read article →Santa Cruz County has pursued an active approach to reducing food-waste-related greenhouse gas emissions, implementing mandatory organic waste collection programs driven in part by California's SB 1383 legislation, which took effect in January 2022 and requires all residents to separate food scraps from regular trash. Since the program's launch, the county's composting initiative has diverted tens of thousands of tons of organic material from the Buena Vista Landfill, sharply cutting methane released from decomposing food waste.
Read article →The emergence of generative AI tools in 2023 prompted rapid adoption — and exploitation — on dark web forums, where cybercriminals began circulating cracked versions of legitimate large language models alongside purpose-built malicious alternatives. Two of the most prominent, WormGPT and FraudGPT, appeared on dark web marketplaces in July 2023, offering subscribers AI-powered capabilities for generating phishing emails, writing malware, and creating fraudulent content with no built-in safety guardrails.
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