Artemis II, the first crewed mission to orbit the moon since 1972, has been delayed again. The February 8 launch was scrubbed after hydrogen leaks were discovered during testing.

After an earlier launch was scrubbed due to extreme cold at the Florida launch site, NASA ran a "wet dress rehearsal" with the rocket's fuel tanks loaded with liquid hydrogen and oxygen. — Read the rest

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Spain proposed a basic online child safety law. Elon Musk freaked out as if someone had stolen his toys and grounded him for life. Rather than address the substance of very necessary legislation, Musk lashed out at Spain's prime minister as if protecting children was an assault on Elon and every freedom he finds important. — Read the rest

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Ask a Canadian about their taxpayer-funded healthcare system. No matter which province they hail from, they'll likely tell you it's nice not to have to sell your home to have your gallbladder removed, but the quality of care has sucked for a while now. — Read the rest

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Michael Beitz's Lies Bench plays with the idea of lies as something we rest upon. Made from dark maple and upholstered in soft salmon-colored chenille, the benches connect to spell "Lies" in loose, cursive lettering. Their simple, elegant design makes them feel comfortable and familiar, like furniture meant to be used. — Read the rest

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If you love Westerns, you probably think every cowboy was a gunslinger who carried a low-slung, hair-trigger revolver rig. Turns out that's nonsense invented for dramatic movie scenes.

This excellent video breaks down how folks really carried their guns in the 19th-century American West. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Mondly Premium is a language learning app using short lessons, everyday topics, and speech tools to help learners practice 41 different languages at their own pace for $79.97 ($299.99) until Feb. 15 at 11:59 p.m. PT.

Learning a new language is one of those things everyone swears they'll do … right after cleaning out the garage. — Read the rest

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YouTuber Oceanliner Designs shares an amazing new view of Nazi Germany's most powerful warship, from nearly 16,000 feet deep, on the bottom of the Atlantic, where Royal Navy forces left her.

The Bismarck was one of the largest and most powerful warships ever built. — Read the rest

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A Republican Senate candidate tried to buy Donald Trump's endorsement with free tickets to Melania's Brett Ratner-directed bomb. Evidently, it's clear that policy, principle, or actual competence won't sway the Orange Menace, only grift.

Republican candidate for Senate in Kentucky, Andy Barr, used campaign funds to buy out a showing of the movie, offered free tickets to anyone who showed up, and staged a bunch of photos to make it look like people really wanted to see the movie. — Read the rest

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A theater in Lake Oswego tried to garner some ticket sales for Melania's Brett Ratner-directed bomb with clever marquee jokes. Amazon became so offended that they yanked the theater's license to show the film.

"Got a call that the higher ups (i.e.,

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Tom the Dancing Bug: Are You a Dangerous Criminal? A Handy Quiz

The Devil Wears Prada 2, complete with Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci, hits theaters on May 1. Here's the trailer! If this is an extremely dubious sequel, it sells itself well. Hathaway's Andy is returning to Vog—sorry, Runway, as its new features editor, but Streep's Miranda Priestly has either forgotten who she is or is pretending to have forgotten who she is. — Read the rest

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Congresswoman Nancy Mace ordered her staff to boost her in a Reddit discussion about the "hottest women in Congress," upvoting positive comments and otherwise manipulating her standings. And that's just one magical detail in New York Magazine's portrait of the South Carolina Republican, "Nancy Mace Is Not Okay," by Jake Lahut. — Read the rest

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Pelletino is a tiny handheld Pac-Mac arcade game you play by tilting it. It runs the original 1980 arcade ROM under emulation on a 32-bit RISC-V ESP32-C6 microcontroller, wedded to a 240×280 ST7789 LCD and a six-axis inertial measurement unit to detect movements. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: This Headway Premium Lifetime Subscription provides users with unlimited access to over 2,000 text and audio book summaries for just $59.99 (reg. $299.95). 

In a world filled with technology and apps built to keep your attention, it can be difficult to switch over to more productive habits. — Read the rest

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Melinda French Gates, former wife of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, confirmed today that she left him over allegations now revealed in the Epstein Files. "I am so happy to be away from all the muck that was there," she told Rachel Martin on NPR's Wild Card. — Read the rest

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Representative Ted Lieu (D-CA) pointed out that the latest tranche of released Epstein files raises serious questions about Donald Trump, and that Republican fascination with Bill and Hillary Clinton is just a distraction.

"Why are Republicans are so interested in the Bill and Hillary Clinton it's because they're trying to distract from the fact that Donald Trump is in the Epstein files thousands & thousands of times. — Read the rest

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The scientific literature was wrong. The school textbooks will have to be replaced. Entire careers were built on falsehoods. New measurements overturn almost 50 years of consensus about the size and shape of the planet Jupiter, the largest in our solar system, which we now know is smaller than previously believed. — Read the rest

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Now you can finish those TPS reports in under 12 parsecs!

Please skip the comments about the measurement. I needed a line to open the review. This lovingly obsessive replica of the Falcon's pilot's chairs is beautiful. I do not know if they are comfortable. — Read the rest

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Thousands of miles behind Waymo, whose self-driving taxi cabs are so prolific as to have already entered into the realm of public nuisance, Tesla can't even tell the truth about its "Robotaxi."

Musk recently promised investors that the Tesla self-driving taxi was entering "unsupervised" trials in Austin, Texas. — Read the rest

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Shartgate is a reminder that America's political media environment has two different standards, depending on who is in power and which network pretends to be concerned.

An online pearl clutch has rocked the social medias for the last few days. So much so that Snopes had to take a look into the situation. — Read the rest

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Without apology or ambiguity, the interim United States attorney for the District of Columbia has said that Second Amendment rights for citizens no longer apply in the nation's Capitol.

"You bring a gun into the District, you mark my words, you're going to jail.

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Elon is playing a shell game; every time he screws up a company, Musk folds it into another and tells his investors this is innovation. Dumping his CSAM-generating AI company into his space ship company feels like a fairytale intended to keep valuations alive. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Grab Two Dozen Long-Stem Roses for just $24.99 (reg. $98.00). 

Valentine's Day is just around the corner, so flowers are simply a must. That being said… have you seen the price of roses these days?! And unfortunately, nothing screams 'lack of effort' like a sad bouquet. — Read the rest

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Despite the availability of the Switch 2, Nintendo's original Switch portable game console is still on offer. It's now the company's best-selling game console, according to Nintendo's own figures, having sold 155,370,000 units. The Nintendo DS, which sold 154m million units since 2004, is now in second place. — Read the rest

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The offices of X, formerly known as Twitter, were raided this morning by police in Paris. French authorities haven't announced what they're looking for, but the officers are from a cyber-crime unit investigating "unlawful data extraction and complicity in the possession of child pornography," so it presumably concerns Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok generating CSAM and deepfake pornography of real people for users of the platform. — Read the rest

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John Owen, one of the last veterans of the French and Indian War, posed for this photograph shortly before his death in 1843 at the age of 107. He was born on April 16, 1735 — making him one of the earliest-born humans ever to be photographed. — Read the rest

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Sociable weaver birds in the Kalahari Desert have adapted to the scarcity of trees by building their massive communal nests on telephone poles instead. Some of these nests appear to be as large as a truck. These photos from Lostfoundartny on Instagram look like something out of a Dr. — Read the rest

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Ice volcanoes are short-lived formations that appear along very cold lake shorelines, most commonly near the Great Lakes. This video shows what they look like when they "erupt." They resemble small volcanic cones, but there's no lava — just freezing temperatures and powerful waves. — Read the rest

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How I Experience the Web Today is a simulation of what it's like to complete a simple Google search in 2026. Accept or deny cookies. Enter your email. Allow notifications? Watch your sanity crumble.

The site responds to whatever you click, just like a real webpage would. — Read the rest

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Immigrations and Customs Enforcement says a man in its custody ran face-first into a wall. No officer caused it. No excessive force was involved. No one else is responsible. The legally in this country immigrant and business owner just decided to shatter his own skill. — Read the rest

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The product manager behind Ring/Amazon's expanded "Search Party" feature may actually care about pet safety and animal kindness: a lost dog, a community alert that helps find the lost pup. What it really does is further normalize a private surveillance network that conditions people to accept constant monitoring, expanded data sharing, and passive participation in a system they don't control waiting to be used against them. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Power your productivity with one purchase. Upgrade your Windows OS Microsoft Windows 11 Pro for just $12.97 (Reg. $199).

I've never believed in the old adage: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." In fact, in this day and age, sticking to that idea will keep you stuck in the mud while your peers race ahead of you. — Read the rest

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For only the third time in its 70-year history, Tito's Tacos has added an item to its legendary menu: a cheese quesadilla.

Tito's is a love-it-or-leave-it restaurant in West Los Angeles. Specializing in deep-fried tacos and long lines, if you think Tito's tacos are great, you are willing to brave the line. — Read the rest

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The Melania movie demonstrates two things: Jeff Bezos has fewer scruples than his Venice wedding already made clear, and Brett Ratner has not changed at all. Aside from that, Melania is as boring as everyone suspected.

Apparently created only because obscenely wealthy people needed a vehicle to bribe one another for consideration that benefits their highly dependent businesses on a friendly government, Melania the Movie exists as an embarrassing complication. — Read the rest

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While the rest of the country bellyaches about affordability and cannot find housing or healthcare, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has found $70 million to buy a new warehouse, where they plan to build another "detention center." There is no indication that the agency intends to abide by the document that limits what they can do inside such a prison. — Read the rest

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Hauled out of his stump at Gobbler's Knob, before daylight, by a bunch of oddly dressed men, Punxsutawney Phil has done his thing, while meteorology continues to exist.

The Punxsutawney Groundhog Club says that when Phil is deemed to have not seen his shadow, that means there will be an early spring.

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Convicted felon Trump is once again blaming the dead for state violence and excessive use of force.

The Orange Menace's desire to lower the temperature in Minneapolis lasted less than a week. Trump took to his diminutive social media network to declare Pretti an "agitator" and "perhaps an insurrectionist." — Read the rest

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The Zerowriter Ink is another focus-writing gadget featuring a mechanical keyboard, e-ink screen, and no distracting apps or features beyond simple word-processing tools. Similar to the Freewrite Alpha but with a more minimalist look and a lower price tag, it's reportedly shipping now after a successful crowdfunding campaign. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Get access to over 1,000 courses in IT, design, coding, and more with EDU Unlimited by StackSkills for 92% off at just $19.97 (Reg. $600).

There's a reason the 'curriculum' trend has taken over the internet. The most unlikely suspects — from people you knew once in school to streamers like Kai Cenat or entertainers like Chance the Rapper — are taking their learning seriously. — Read the rest

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Xikipedia is an experiment in user experience: Wikipedia content formatted into an infinite-scroll mobile-friendly feed. So you can doomscroll it. It was created by lyra rebane and the source code is available on GitHub.

Xikipedia is a pseudo social media feed that algorithmically shows you content from Simple Wikipedia.

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"All the Young Dudes," written by David Bowie for Mott the Hoople and a number 3 hit for that band in the summer of 1972, is the greatest glam record of all time. This according to Uncut magazine.

More hopefully, though, glam could be a key to self-discovery.

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Wikipedia maintains a list of inventors killed by their own inventions.

Franz Reichelt, a tailor, designed a wearable parachute coat. In 1912, he tested it by jumping off the Eiffel Tower. It did not deploy. Marie Curie discovered radium and died of aplastic anemia from years of radiation exposure — her papers are still too radioactive to handle without protection. — Read the rest

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In a crumbling 11th-century church in Halberstadt, Germany, an organ has been playing the same piece of music since 2001. It will finish in 2640. The composition is John Cage's ORGAN²/ASLSP — "As Slow As Possible" — and the organizers took the title literally. — Read the rest

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David French's latest New York Times column asks readers to imagine something that shouldn't require much imagination: it's October 2026, Trump's approval is abysmally low, Democrats are leading generic ballot polls by a wide margin, and none of it matters because ICE is running large-scale operations near polling stations in Democratic cities, purging voters with Latino, African, or Asian names from the rolls, while the FBI raids election offices in swing states. — Read the rest

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The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are a 43-year-old Border Patrol agent and a 35-year-old Customs and Border Protection officer, according to government records viewed by ProPublica, which published names of both men. The two agents were assigned to Operation Metro Surge, the immigration enforcement dragnet launched in December that sent armed, masked agents across the city. — Read the rest

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Ammon Bundy — who led two armed standoffs with federal agents and became the face of the Patriot Movement — now calls the Trump administration's immigration crackdown a "moral failure." In November, he wrote that "to call such people criminals for lacking official permission" to be in the country "is to forget the moral law of God, the historical truth of our own founding, and the Constitutional ideals that continue to define justice." — Read the rest

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The New York Times used a proprietary search tool to find more than 5,300 files containing over 38,000 references to Trump, his wife, Mar-a-Lago, and related terms in the Epstein documents released Friday. The files include unverified tips submitted to the FBI — some accusing Trump and Epstein of sexual abuse — as well as interview notes where victims describe interactions with Trump. — Read the rest

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In April 1951, Jack Kerouac taped together sheets of tracing paper to avoid the interruption of changing pages, then typed the first draft of On the Road in a three-week burst. The scroll — 121 feet of continuous typescript with no paragraph breaks, using the real names of his friends before the publisher made him change them — goes to auction at Christie's on March 12, with an estimate of $2.5 to $4 million, reports The Guardian. — Read the rest

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In 2007, Ibrahim Diallo switched to Dish Network and got an RF remote — the kind that doesn't need line-of-sight. A few months later, his loud neighbor switched to Dish as well. Same remote, same frequency.

"One day, I was in the living room watching TV when the channel just flipped," Diallo writes. — Read the rest

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Trump announced Sunday that he plans to close the Kennedy Center for roughly two years for construction, with the closure beginning on July 4 — America's 250th anniversary. "I have determined that The Trump Kennedy Center, if temporarily closed for Construction, Revitalization, and Complete Rebuilding, can be, without question, the finest Performing Arts Facility of its kind, anywhere in the World," he wrote on Truth Social, reports The Washington Post. — Read the rest

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