The cost of being single – and how friends are teaming up to beat it — Many singles face extra costs for housing, bills, food and holidays but there are ways to ease the burden.
Considering the Many Forms a Family Can Take in Japanese Literature — Growing up, my mother and I often joked that I was a thirty-year-old in a ten-year-old’s skin. That happens when you’re an only child with a tendency toward bookishness—you spend all your time arou…
Mario meets Pareto — Discover how to find the best Mario Kart 8 build using the Pareto frontier method. This interactive guide explores multi-objective optimization of speed, acceleration, and other key stats to help you beat your friends on the race track.
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ReactOS "Open-Source Windows" Reaches The Milestone Of Being Able To Run Half-Life — ReactOS, the open-source operating system working for binary compatibility with Microsoft Windows computer programs and drivers, has reached the milestone of being able to enjoy the classic game
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Watch Perplexity Is 'Chip Agnostic,' Says CEO - Bloomberg — Computex in Taiwan is putting the spotlight on the companies building the hardware behind the AI boom. One of those companies is Perplexity, which took the stage with Intel to unveil the world's first "hybrid local/serve
GitHub - syncular/syncular: Offline-first SQL sync with Typescript and Rust cores — Offline-first SQL sync with Typescript and Rust cores - syncular/syncular
Gwendoline Riley on Mark Van Doren’s Shakespeare — The Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast features a series of conversations with past and present Windham-Campbell Prize winners about their favorite books and plays. Hosted by Michael Kelleher. Mike ta…
Here's a dirty trick for speedrunning 'SpongeBob' — It’s called the “gamer gunk theory.”
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European Stocks Close at Record on Upbeat Earnings, Mining Rally — European stocks hit a record high, boosted by another strong set of earnings, a rally in mining shares and optimism that a Middle East truce will be reached soon.
NYT's Wordle to become a TV game show | TechCrunch — The popular mobile puzzle game will become a TV game show next year.
this person mapped out every secret in half-life 2 by replaying it 40 times. the obsession is honestly kind of beautiful.
AI coding startup Cognition reportedly already in talks to raise at $40B valuation | TechCrunch — Cognition may be looking to raise another mega round just a few months after raising $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation.
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4975-4981: Happy 14th Landing Anniversary - NASA Science — By Susanne P. Schwenzer, Professor of Planetary Mineralogy at The Open University, UK
A new Subnautica 2 gameplay trailer just dropped ahead of its Early Access release - Engadget — Subnautica 2 will be available in Early Access on May 14.
Leander Schaerlaeckens Recommends 5 Books to Better Understand the World Cup — Soccer derives its beauty from its simplicity. Twenty-players and a ball on a rectangle of grass; put the ball in the other team’s goal; don’t use your hands. What makes soccer popular, I believe, …
This 55-inch Hisense QLED 4K TV punches way above its price tag — save $131 at Amazon — Hisense has discounted a range of screen sizes.
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This Is Lorelei Shares New Single "Oh No Now My": Listen — We the indie rock listeners of planet Earth have collectively anointed Nate Amos as our new king. Box For Buddy, Box For Star quickly emerged as one of the greatest albums of the decade, and Holo Boy, a collection of…
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Solo Dev's Train Sim Created Is Being Called The Best Ever Made — Steam reviews are blowing up for gorgeous Japanese train driving simulator Running Train
CSN Reports Loss Amid Efforts to Reduce Debt, Sell Assets — Brazilian steelmaker Cia. Siderurgica Nacional SA reported a 10th consecutive loss as it grapples with stifling debt and rising financing costs.
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July’s Best Reviewed Fiction — Colson Whitehead’s Cool Machine, Sigrid Nunez’s It Will Come Back to You, and Valeria Luiselli’s Beginning Middle End all feature among the best reviewed fiction titles of the month. Brought …
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Stacey Yu Recommends Books About Cats (and Their Owners) — Joy Williams wrote that one of eight essential attributes of the short story is “An animal within to give its blessing.” When I first came upon this wisdom, I was on the seventh draft of my debut n…
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A Poet’s Account of the Power of the Yodel — The yodel: the perfect acknowledgment of that which cannot be hidden anymore and therefore also that which we have always had to hide. The yodel: the flickering Adam’s apple. Not unlike a sound we …
GitHub - Wren6991/RISCBoy: Portable games console, designed from scratch: CPU, graphics, PCB, and the kitchen sink — Portable games console, designed from scratch: CPU, graphics, PCB, and the kitchen sink - Wren6991/RISCBoy
Lit Hub Daily: August 5, 2026 — Maybe you just need a writing date with Rumpelstiltskin. | Lit Hub Craft On Etna, The Call of the Wild, and the enduring appear of the canine narrator. | Lit Hub Criticism Margrét Ann Thors on writ…
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Minnesota man who killed Democratic lawmaker sentenced to life in US prison — Judge says that long sentence is merited for slaying of state Democratic lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark.
Signs and Signals that Lead to Magical Thinking | Jayant Maheshwari | TEDxSIS Surabaya Youth — Humans are skilled at finding meaning in patterns; however, even when a pattern has no meaning, they still tend to search for one. Jayant Maheshwari is a student with a keen interest…
WhoDunnitAI — The Voice-Driven Murder Mystery — Step into the interrogation room. Interview AI suspects with your own voice, catch their lies, and accuse the killer to their face. Solve the murder at Blackwood Manor — if you can.
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On the Other Side Is March — I’m a woman in my early sixties. Somewhere between late and never. No longer the career woman, mother, housewife and lover doing it all, meeting every demand, and then some, just with my left hand.…
Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc. — Jay Peters: Xbox’s huge outage even blocked games on disc An extended Xbox outage that began Sunday evening hasn’t just caused issues for people trying to play digital games — it blocked people from playing their…
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UBS to Pay $125 Million Over Anti-Money Laundering Violations — UBS Financial Services Inc., a subsidiary of UBS Group AG, has agreed to pay $125 million in fines to settle allegations by the US government that it willfully and repeatedly violated anti-money laundering rules.
The Tragedy of Loving Sylvia Plath — My Sylvia Plath fandom dates back to the early nineties, when I was in my late teens and randomly pulled The Bell Jar off the shelf at my local library in suburban Salt Lake City. I had never heard…
Collections: Why Are There No Empires in Age of Empires? — At long last, Relic Entertainment has announced that Age of Empires 4 is coming. Strategy gamers rejoice! I am excited – I played the first one back in ’98 (I may be dating myself here)…
Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles — In response to shifting trends in consumer preference, new games will be released on PlayStation Store and at retailers in digital formats only.
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All That Is Left of Life — When Maresciallo Tommaso Nardulli arrived on the scene at around eight, Signora Sattaflora had Betta Ansaldo covered with a white embroidered linen sheet from the dowry she had prepared over the ye…
5 new shows to watch this weekend across Netflix, HBO Max, and more (August 14-16) — Lanterns and Reacher are ready to take over television. Here's what you should watch this weekend.
The Losses that Carry Us: A Tribute to Marjane Satrapi — On Thursday morning, June 4, I woke to the tragic and shocking news of Marjane Satrapi’s death. It was not the first time I had learned of a loved one’s loss in exile in the most mundane, alienatin…
Nine Books That Showcase Queer Life in the Arab World — When the genocide in Gaza began in 2023, I remember seeing a repeated commentary on social media: every time a queer-presenting person posted about Israeli war crimes, a troll would pop up to tell …
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The Nicest Place — A nice place to visit on days like today.
The Moth | The Art and Craft of Storytelling — The Moth is an acclaimed not-for-profit organization dedicated to the art & craft of storytelling. It has presented true & first person stories worldwide.
Curiosity as an Instrument of Love: Thoreau’s Touching Account of 24 Hours with a Tiny Owl — “If you would learn the secrets of Nature, you must practice more humanity than others.”
The Queer Poetics in Writing About Past and Present Brazilian Politics — For novelist Cris Judar, language and bodies are charged with conventions and social norms, and as such, language and bodies contain within them the potential for social upheaval and change. They a…
The Language Makers Homepages — Flip through the personal homepages of programming language creators, ranked by their top PLDB language.