Cruises are like floating piles of shit and piss that you pay to ride for a week. But sometimes cruises need to release a bit of that shit and piss so that the ship doesn’t sink. Dumping of bilge water is tightly regulated when cruises are near populated areas. But Princess Cruises, owned by Carnival Corp, just spent… Read more…
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Carnival Cruises to Pay $40 Million Fine for Secretly Dumping Shit Water Since 2005
Recently, top YouTubers are saying that, yet again, the behemoth video sharing network is fucking them over. This time, it’s about an alleged issue with subscribers—suddenly, they’re disappearing. And, no, it’s not because they unsubscribed. YouTube, for their part, denies that there’s a glitch. Read more…
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Top YouTubers Say They’re Being Screwed Yet Again By The Platform
The chat app Slack boasts more than 4 million daily active users, but I bet this guy is the only one using it from his Commodore 64. Read more…
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This Guy Built a Slack Client for the Commodore 64
We already saw how the new $1.6 billion sarcophagus —the 843-foot wide, 354-foot tall steel shield that entombs the radioactive material leaking from the damaged nuclear reactor left over from the Chernobyl disaster—was going to be put in place to replace the old concrete structure that enclosed the damaged reactor… Read more…
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Watch Chernobyl’s Huge Radiation Shield Slide in and Enclose the Damaged Nuclear Reactor
Insects aren’t the first thing that come to mind when we think of Antarctica, but as the discovery of a rare Antarctic beetle shows, this frozen continent was quite different millions of years ago. Read more…
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Ancient Bug Discovered in the Heart of Antarctica
Reddit’s CEO Steve Huffman has been caught editing comments of users of the infamous pro-Trump subreddit The_Donald. For a site which prides itself on “authentic” conversation, the ability of site administrators to secretly alter content has drastic implications. Read more…
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Reddit CEO Caught Secretly Editing User Comments, Chatlogs Leaked [Update]
A cyber attack oddly gave San Franciscans something to be thankful for this weekend when officials responded to a hack of the city’s transit system by giving away free rides . Read more…
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Commuters Get Free Rides After Hackers Target San Francisco Public Transit
Not many people in the U.S. will know that Luc Besson’s lavish new scifi epic, Valérian and the City of a Thousand Planets , is actually yet another movie adaptation of a hit comic book. This is mainly because Valerian the comic was never a hit in the U.S., although it’s been one of Europe’s best-loved scifi series for… Read more…
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A Guide to the Epic Scifi Movie Valérian, and the Fantastic European Comics That Inspired It
If you’re looking for a fun weekend project and have a Pi Zero lying around, consider making your own electric, powered skateboard like this one from The Raspberry Pi Guy. Controlled with an old Wiimote and capable of 30 km/h (about 19 mph), it’s not a bad way to get around town. Read more…
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This DIY Electric Skateboard Is Powered by a Raspberry Pi Zero
An out of the park home run is a feat few ballplayers ever achieve. But Shohei Otani, who plays baseball for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters in Japan, managed to blast a home run right through the roof of the Tokyo Dome stadium. Read more…
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Japanese Baseball Player Blasts a Ball Right Through the Stadium’s Roof