The Lotus is a card-shuffling robot. It bridges the gap between super-cheap card shufflers that don't really work and casino-grade ones that cost thousands of dollars. This one is under $100, and it looks great.

From the company's Our Story page: "At the bottom, you have $20 plastic shufflers that jam, break, and sound terrible. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: A one-time $54.97 payment gets you Microsoft Project Professional 2024 for Windows, the scheduling and resource-planning tool that normally lists at $1,129.99.

Project auto-populates start and end dates from task dependencies, so moving one milestone reshuffles everything downstream without you rebuilding the timeline by hand. — Read the rest

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Former President Barack Obama made the remarks Monday at Salem State University, after Trump barred CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from White House grounds because of coverage he described as "fake news."

Speaking with historian Doris Kearns Goodwin at Massachusetts' Salem State University, Obama called freedom from government retaliation against critical journalism a "foundational" issue. — Read the rest

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I've been advised that if I don't want Apple "Intelligence" on, I should stay on OS 26 and decline the chance to install nearly 30GB of stuff I don't want.

Remember when Apple put U2 on your iPod and wouldn't let you delete it? — Read the rest

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California certainly has adult sea turtles, but we've never seen them lay eggs this far north before.

NOAA studies green turtles in Southern California. Over the last 20 years, roughly 60 have been spotted in San Diego Bay. Turtles also appear around Seal Beach and the San Gabriel River. — Read the rest

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Disney has greenlit a new Darkwing Duck series, with Mark Hamill taking over as Drake Mallard and Seth Rogen voicing Launchpad McQuack. Negaduck and Megavolt are also returning, because some problems really do survive every reboot.

The original "Darkwing Duck" series ran for 91 episodes, beginning on Disney Channel and then airing on ABC from 1991-1993, eventually making its way to video games and comic books.

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I watched this video on The Kid Should See This; it's a time-lapse of "jelly bean" isopods eating chunks of sweet potato. I've not heard of jelly bean isopods before, so I looked it up and learned that it's a rare color variety of pill bug that came from a single colony on the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia and comes in a variety of colors: orange, gold, red, yellow, black, striped, and speckled. — Read the rest

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Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein was today sentenced to 15 years in prison on his most recent sexual assault conviction in New York.

His victim, production assistant Miriam Haley, told the Manhattan court in an impact statement that Weinstein abused his position and power and that "It is a life sentence for me." — Read the rest

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Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Elon Musk and his DOGE Pals are up against giant A.I. robots!

-> ANNOUNCING The Tom the Dancing Bug Community Saves America Drive! For every Tom the Dancing Bug book(s) order through the end of September, $20 will be donated to Spread the Vote to help voters VOTE. — Read the rest

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You Can See Everything, a documentary by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim profiling Theranos fraud Elizabeth Holmes, was revealed two weeks ago. The very idea of Fielder interviewing Holmes was enough to capture the internet's attention, and the teaser clip sent it into a frenzy. — Read the rest

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My friend, illustrator Drew Friedman, drew the cover art for Your Time Is Now: The Sammy Petrillo Story, a new biography of legendary Jerry Lewis impersonator Sammy Petrillo (star of Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla). It came out today. — Read the rest

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The Orange Menace made yet another strategic blunder, trying to decide which news sources could cover him, and now he has no microphone.

Now Donnie Diapers just looks ridiculous, yelling into the wind, his comb-over flowing. Attempting to kick CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House press pool; Trump pissed off the whole gang. — Read the rest

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My last battery lasted six years. When the truck was in for service, the mechanic tried to sell me a $300 new battery. Luckily, I had just watched this Project Farm video.

I have had a long-running joke with a close friend about our ability to kill car batteries. — Read the rest

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Nasa activated the 300-megapixel camera on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope this weekend and the first test images are in. The results are out of focus—testing and calibration will take months—but delightful all the same, hailed as "green donuts." — Read the rest

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In 1967, Kleenex offered pop art pillows in the shape of giant size Kleenex boxes. They cost $2.95 each plus two premium seals cut from Kleenex packages. You could get all three for $8.25 and six seals.

The pillows came in three designs. — Read the rest

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Today, Open Culture posted about the International Dada Archive, which has a great collection of scanned pamphlets and zines from the Dada art movement in the early 20th century.

I could only find one magazine in English in the collection, called The Blind Man. — Read the rest

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Good news today for fans of Hawaiian shirts and punching Bruce Lee: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino's action-packed movie about movies, is getting a sequel.

I know what you're thinking: Tarantino hates making sequels! He'll insist to this day that Kill Bill is just one movie! — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Nine Oak Academy courses covering IT fundamentals through ethical hacking make up the 2026 CompTIA Certification Training bundle, and access is on sale for $24.99 (reg. $269.91).

A single CompTIA Security+ exam voucher costs about $404, and that's before any study material. — Read the rest

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A24, the independent studio famed for horror movies with perfect aesthetics, is following up its success with The Backrooms with a feature based on the SCP Foundation, another online mythos of unclear origins and extremely diverse authorship. Unfortunately, the SCP Foundation Wiki reports that it has nothing to do with the project and that it has received no response to its inquiries, from the filmakers or A24 itself. — Read the rest

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Clavicular, who rose to fame promoting the weird grooming methods termed "looxmaxxing," has worse problems than being mogged by a chad judge. The influencer, legally named Braden Peters, faces felony charges in Massachussets, where he is accused with drugging someone for sex, with procuring liquor for someone under 21 years old, and with rape. — Read the rest

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In the late 1980s, Dave Blair was at UC Santa Cruz making fractal art with video cameras and monitors. Decades later, he's still at it, and his work is mind-bendingly cool. He says, "This time it's an order of magnitude improvement, I finally achieved 4K. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: This grade-A refurbished Apple iPad 9th Gen with 256GB of storage is on sale for $209.99 (MSRP $479), near-mint and running Apple's A13 Bionic chip.

A new 9th-generation 2021 iPad 9th with 256GB of storage space normally runs $479 from Apple. — Read the rest

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Singapore's National Library Board wants to pay people to read.

The goal is to help people build a daily reading habit by giving them 20 virtual coins if they read 15 minutes a day and log the session on a government website. — Read the rest

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Last week, we shared news of allegations that Colorado's hands-on congressperson Lauren Boebert was involved in yet another scandal. Both she and one of the three named staffers she was supposedly involved with have denied it.

Boebert calls the accusations "filthy garbage," and she is the expert. — Read the rest

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Researchers at Stanford, Caltech, and UC San Francisco say that recent experiments with mice reveal that their brains are actually two different organs. They extended this finding to human brains. One brain consists of the midbrain and forebrain, which control language and reasoning and are the seat of consciousness, while the hindbrain runs sleep, breathing, hunger, and heartbeat. — Read the rest

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Rarely is a "trivia about a movie you love" video worth the watch, but this one is packed with awesome stories about Dino De Laurentiis' Flash Gordon.

Brian Blessed's Hawkman remains one of the best characters ever to take to the skies. — Read the rest

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SquachWatch is an open-source ESP32 firmware project that turns a cheap touchscreen board into a portable detector for trackers, cameras, Flock readers, and other wireless devices that plague us.

The CheapYellow Display is already a ridiculously cool piece of hardware that makes you wonder how a cheap handheld device like this can cost under $20 shipped. — Read the rest

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Two sea lions have been found decapitated, roughly 100 miles apart. One in San Francisco and the other in Pacific Grove.

It appears someone took home the head of a dead sea lion that washed up on San Francisco's Ocean Beach; they left the rest. — Read the rest

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A couple of years ago, the Pokémon Company clarified that Poké Balls are not tiny pocket monster prisons, but rather like a "high-end suite room in a fancy hotel." Japanese company NOT A HOTEL is a sort of high-end timeshare/fractional ownership company specializing in unique architecture and picturesque locations. — Read the rest

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A month ago, a "Time Warp" parody would have been an easy tribute to Tim Curry. However, Britain's new Patriot Platform has been sending groups of masked, black-clad anti-immigration "activists" into the streets. Hundreds of these bigots blockaded Dover, demonstrators confronted the RNLI in Portsmouth, and the group's leader later marched masked followers into the Daily Mail's offices. — Read the rest

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