Really excellent article clearly explaining codecs. 👍

Nobody wants to go with me to the shitty behind-the-mall carnival, for some reason. It’s one of those ride-packed parking-lot joints, set up and pulled down stunningly fast with less than a week in between. You, too, went to one like it as a kid, didn’t you? Between rides you filled your belly with overpriced […]

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Our epic ranking of all 48 teams in this year’s tournament has all the answers you need.

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This post originally ran in 2018. Nothing has changed. I still won’t go to bed. YOU CAN’T MAKE ME! Yesterday at 8:23am, my husband texted me a link. No note, just a string of random letters and slashes and dots. I clicked and landed on a research article titled “Why don’t you go to bed […]

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The mysterious motorway queues that appear from nowhere share an unexpected link with rush-hour escalator bottlenecks on the London Underground.

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Quote from: M2026 on June 02, 2026, 23:30:45"CPU far behind ARM competition"
Really? A 40 -core CPU is only 48% faster , than the 20 -core CPU? lol
[/are you sick in the head clown?! I am pretty sure these laptops are not for...

Not everything can be awful, right? Not everything can be the worst. Anyway, I have just decided that I refuse to let everything be the worst and to succumb to the idea that no, it is, in fact, the worst. I feel a bit guilty about trying to grasp joy, but what choice does any […]

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Quote from: Satwik on June 05, 2026, 10:32:39Yeah why not, after all the price of N1X laptop is almost equivalent to M5 Max, it should compete to M5 Max, people will not buy a laptop which is similarly priced and is falling short by 50% from l...

Or you can use any B keyed m.2 SSD with a $5 B key to A/E key adapter.

Ibrahima Konate recently departed Liverpool after both his team and the club were unable to come to terms on a new contract and his current contract was allowed to expire. Konate is now a free agent, most likely headed to Real Madrid instead. That in and of itself is a blemish on the club, because […]

Liverpool had a bit of a seismic week: sacking Arne Slot last Saturday and this past Thursday, naming Adoni Iraola as his replacement. Life moves fast but you’d be forgiven if you’ve got a bit of whiplash between all of these happenings. Because Slot had just won the Premier League the year prior in what […]

anon-commenter Does it? Miss the point? The product looks great indeed - I merely did my best to explain the downsides as opposed to just writing OH LOOK THIS IS AMAZING GO BUY IT NOW, which is simply not what we are supposed to do as Notebookch...

While a great idea/niche-product in general, it's important to note that these will not work on Intel platforms from Gemini/Coffee Lake and onwards due to the Intel proprietary connectivity integration (in simple terms part of the WiFi/Bluetooth...

This article completely misses the point. This is a unique product that is great for certain niches. Prior to that, you would have to get a funky M2 A+E adapter to NVMe adapter, if you even had room available. With this new drive, many niche use-cases ...

So this uninformed guy just gonna ignore thag Switch 2 also getting a price hike and quoting the $450 price?

Most online gaming hubs require too much data just to load a basic slot game on your phone. I desperately needed a lightweight platform built for Somali players who love high-speed crash games. Registering an account through [url="https://winwin-somali...

Episode Description: An oncologist cried at her desk when she read these latest trial results. Researchers put exercise wheels in empty fields and sand dunes, and wild mice found them and ran, unprompted, for no reward. A new drug just cleared hepatitis B from the body entirely for one in five patients. Not suppressed. Cleared. […]

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Quote from: M2026 on June 02, 2026, 23:30:45"CPU far behind ARM competition"
Really? A 40 -core CPU is only 48% faster , than the 20 -core CPU? lol

Yeah why not, after all the price of N1X laptop is almost equivalent...

Light Lens Lab has unveiled the 75mm f/1.5 "Z21," a new manual focus mid-telephoto portrait prime lens for Leica M-Mount.

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The GPU part of M5 max is 40 cores, the CPU is 18 (6 super + 12 performance cores).

It's not all that surprising when you consider it's using an almost 2 year generic arm core vs latest custom arm core of apple.

Then again, by the time spark ships it w...

Engineers have developed a bicycle bell that can be heard by pedestrians wearing noise-cancelling headphones, potentially reducing collisions on busy streets.

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I wrote this on May 7, 2018 and I have no idea why it feels like I wrote it this morning, looking out my window and wondering what I was looking for. I’ve always done this, looked out my window and wondered why I was doing that, what was out there, what was I looking […]

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Why is this in feet and inches, when this news is irrelevant to people who don't know how to use standard measurements?

News of Liverpool Football Club sacking Arne Slot came to a surprise to fans on Saturday. As the football world races to play catch up, some former players have come out with the opinions on not just Slot’s dismissal but also the strong suggestion that his replacement will be Andoni Iraola. Speaking on Sky News, […]

To mark the 41st anniversary of the Heysel Stadium disaster, Liverpool FC have today ceremonially opened a new memorial at Anfield honoring the 39 supporters who lost their lives on May 29, 1985 at Heysel. The memorial is named “Forever Bound” and stands near the Anfield Road End at the ground in an area specifically […]

Episode Description: Sir David Attenborough just turned 100! Arielle and Karissa cover his 10-minute secret to a long life along with seven other solutions this week — belugas who prove that their species is capable of recognizing themselves, hemp plastic that survives boiling water, and an ocean sanctuary that might make fishermen richer by protecting […]

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This post first ran in 2023 Abstract Many years ago, some birds started breeding on an island. Several thousand of them still do. The world changes around them, but their basic needs have stayed the same. Will they be on the island much longer? We don’t know. We hope so. The signs are ambiguous. Keywords: […]

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You are probably going to read a lot this week about a Blue Moon appearing in the skies on Sunday evening, and pointing out that it’s not actually blue.

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Let's go Knicks!

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The 99’s origins stretch back to pre-war confectionery adverts, Italian immigrants and a mystery Cadbury’s naming decision.

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