TL;DR: Get a 12-in-1 USB-C hub with a built-in laptop stand for $54.97 (reg. $99.99) plus free shipping.

Thin laptops usually come with a couple of USB-C ports, and every monitor, drive, and memory card after that needs its own adapter. — Read the rest

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The Checkmate Retro Styled IPS Upgradeable Display is a flat-screen monitor that looks and works like a 1980s computer monitor. It's a Kickstarter project for people who want to play retro games on their old consoles and computers.

If you've ever tried to connect your old console to a modern TV, you might have learned that the picture is less than perfect. — Read the rest

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I bought Charles Burns' Big Baby in 1986. RAW Books (run by Maus creator Art Spiegelman and New Yorker cover editor Françoise Mouly) published it as a hardbound book that resembles a kids' picture book. The interior pages are black-and-white comic book panels telling the story of a normal boy named Big Baby, who solves a neighborhood mystery. — Read the rest

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While convicted felon and repeatedly accused of sexual misconduct Donald J. Trump was happily admiring other men's posteriors, bragging about pools, arches, and ballrooms, the GOP could not get him to say anything that would help their cause. He did apparently pause to shelve Stephen Miller, however, at Melania's request. — Read the rest

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Soon-to-be former Senator from Maine, Susan Collins got one thing right: voters are the reason she won't be in office anymore.

A scandal alleging Collins was on the take, a terrible record of standing against human rights and voting for terrible justices on invented premises are among the many, many reasons Maine voters walked away from Susan Collins. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Get a Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 license for $29.97 (reg. $499.99), paid once.

Visual Studio Professional is typically a paid Microsoft subscription that incurs a recurring fee. To keep the IDE without the renewals, consider a Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 license for $29.97 (reg. — Read the rest

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During the final weeks of the campaign, convicted felon and oft-accused of sexual misconduct, Donald Trump kept talking about Jon Husted's butt.

After repeatedly describing Husted's backside as a "pile of muscle," Dementia Don claimed the Ohio senator had jumped 12 points in the polls because "the audience loved" his anatomical review. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Turn one USB-C port into 13 with this docking station, now $34.97 (reg. $70).

A laptop bag full of single-purpose adapters gets heavy, and you usually leave the one you need at home. If you want one small gadget to replace them all, try the 13-in-1 Docking Station with Dual HDMI. — Read the rest

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Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Dementia Donnie bottoms out!

-Americans, patriots, and friends: Please join the team that makes it possible for your friendly neighborhood comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug to exist in this hostile Trumpverse! JOIN US IN THE INNER HIVE, and be the first kid on your block to get each week's Tom the Dancing Bug comic – before it's published anywhere, plus exclusive commentary, content, contests, giveaways, other stuff, and other other stuff! — Read the rest

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Toys "R" Us and Halloween went hand-in-hand back in the day. It's impossible not to feel nostalgic when thinking about it if you lived through that era as a kid. Luckily we have old commercials like this one from 1983 to remember how much fun the store was. — Read the rest

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This video made me laugh especially hard because I recently had a very similar experience in my own garden. If you've ever been gardening only to see some of your plants disappearing under the ground, as if they had decided to hide away, then you might know what I'm talking about. — Read the rest

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Here is a baby flamingo compilation from the San Antonio Zoo. Baby flamingos don't have their iconic pink feathers yet. What makes them especially cute is the way that they look a bit awkward trying to figure out how to walk. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Check hotel rooms, rentals, and cars for hidden cameras, audio bugs, and GPS trackers with this pocket-size detector, now $39.99 (reg. $59.99).

In The Conversation, Gene Hackman plays a surveillance expert who hunts for a bug by ripping his apartment apart, floorboards and all. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Use more than 50 AI models and send a prompt to six models at once with a lifetime subscription to AskAnyModel AI Pro Plan for $39.99, normally $499.

Stop paying every month for multiple AIs when you can get the leading models together in one user-friendly interface. — Read the rest

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When I was in Japan last month, we went to an okonomiyaki restaurant in Fukuoka, Japan. It was called Denko Sekka, in Canal City Hakata, a shopping center. (Denko Sekka means "lightning fast.")

Okonomiyaki is basically a kind of pancake or crepe cooked on a griddle. — Read the rest

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The money incinerator is just getting up to speed. Anthropic's amended IPO filing says the company now has $895.4 billion in purchase commitments and lease agreements; almost all of it is for compute and infrastructure. AI datacenter builders rejoice!

Anthropic hopes to hold 3.5GW of capacity by the end of the year and double that volume next year, the report added, citing sources with knowledge of the situation.

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A 3,000-year-old geography puzzle hides inside the Odyssey. YouTuber Honor Cargill-Martin examines an odd twist in the search for Homer's Ithaca: he may never actually have described Ithaca as an island at all.

Researchers spent decades, longer than Odysseus's trip home, looking for an island. — Read the rest

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A couple of Georgia Tech computer science students recently demonstrated a system that converts tongue and mouth movements into text. It uses eyeglasses that beam a radio signal into the user's head to measure changes inside the closed mouth. They say it's good for silently talking to AI chatbots in offices, libraries, and co-working spaces. — Read the rest

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The state of Iowa rubber stamps religious groups' requests to hold events on the Capitol grounds. But for the last three years it has rejected the Satanic Temple's request to hold an event with caroling, coloring pages, making ornaments, and a Krampus costume contest. — Read the rest

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Convicted felon and perpetual grifter Donald Trump has offered Americans an exit strategy I think we can all agree on. "If people ever got tired of me in the U.S., I'll move to Israel and become prime minister," he said Tuesday during a Fox & Friends call-in. — Read the rest

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RNC Chairman Joe Gruters responds to questions about the economy with a statement that his party is running against "communism." Republican leadership has not shown an understanding of communism, socialism, or really any economic model other than "grift."

Asked about the claim that Republicans are out of touch, RNC chairman Joe Gruters didn't respond by arguing that the economy is doing great. — Read the rest

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YouTuber Zackary Smigel was freaked out by the alarming online claim that 76% of supermarket honey is fake and found something better: the statistic itself has been badly abused.

The 76% number traces back to a 2011 examination of 60 jars that found 76% contained no detectable pollen. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Get Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote for Mac or PC with a one-time purchase of Microsoft Office 2024 Home, now $119.97 (reg. $149.99).

Microsoft 365 bills you every year, whether you opened Excel daily or twice to split a dinner check. — Read the rest

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If you need to watch a video of a loud, bleating goat automaton without any skin, here you go. The House of Automata shared this lovely early-20th-century goat automaton. It is currently under construction for restoration, so it does not have any skin or goat-like features at the moment. — Read the rest

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The occult philosopher Robert Fludd created this image in the 17th century. It is called Black Square and quite literally represents nothing. The medium is not known for certain, but it is guessed to be an engraving.

From the Public Domain Review:

Black square ("and so on to infinity…" inscribed in Latin around its edges) representing the nothingness that was prior to the universe, as pictured by the great occult philosopher Robert Fludd, who himself passed into infinity on this day in 1637.

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This mesmerizing time lapse shows what 48 hours of heavy snow looks like. The camera starts off facing a lawn chair and a wooden stick pointing up from the ground. The snow eventually covers all of this and more.

Watching the entire chair and even the camera lens become covered by snow was one thing. — Read the rest

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It is the birthday of Sid "Cookie" Monster, who debuted in the premiere episode of Sesame Street on November 10, 1969, having already appeared as The Wheel Stealer in an unaired General Foods advertising spot and in an IBM training film titled "Coffee Break Machine. — Read the rest

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The flood of AI-generated slop games has set the thoroughly-troubled gaming industry reeling, but for indies it's even worse: success can depend on building a social media following by showing off clever and innovative gameplay concepts early in development. And that's just the sort of thing sleazy copycats can use frontier models to slop up and sell. — Read the rest

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Intel's stock price fell 9% today after a bad week that saw the company lose more than a third of its value. It's lost more than half of its value since the summer highs, in what Jared Blikre describes as "tech wreckage" and Intel's worst day since 1974. — Read the rest

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My local Chili's burned down three years ago, but the Chili's in Forest City, North Carolina, burned three customers and two staff members with its specialty margaritas Thursday. The drinks were reportedly made using cleaning chemicals that "a worker mistook for sugar," writes Corky Siemaszko for NBC News. — Read the rest

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