A YouTuber who goes by soiboi soft built an 8×8 pixel display that uses pneumatics and stretchy silicone instead of LEDs. The effect is mesmerizing and appealing.

The orange rubber panel covers 64 cavities. When a vacuum forms in one of the cavities, it produces a dimple in the rubber. — Read the rest

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Famed country music singer, philanthropist and businesswoman Dolly Parton is dead at 80. Her death was announced by nephew Brian Seaver on social media.

"Dolly has lived in the light and is in the arms of Jesus, surely met by Carl, her parents and countless others who have watched her and longed to meet her in the heavens."

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Criterion recently invited director Terry Zwigoff into its famous closet filled with its DVDs and invited him to talk about his favorite movies. Zwigoff directed Crumb, the 1995 documentary about underground cartoonist Robert Crumb, and Ghost World (2001), based on a comic by Daniel Clowes, who co-wrote the screenplay with Zwigoff. — Read the rest

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Rack-01 is an web-based techno synth and sequencer where all the controls are right there on a single page. Despite being an extremely polished app, it's all right there in the View Source: you can download the HTML file and it'll run from wherever you put it. — Read the rest

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For all of you who own a replica Flock camera, here's a nifty cover to protect it from the elements. It hooks onto a pole, making it easy to cover your replica Flock camera even when it is mounted somewhere high up. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Pay just $59.95 once for a Windows video suite that enhances blurry or shaky footage, upscales videos and images, converts media, edits clips, records screens, and digitizes DVDs.

Some videos are blurry. Some shake like they were filmed during an earthquake. — Read the rest

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A kids' Halloween costume featuring a tiny bowler hat and giant red-lipped smile led to a backlash for retailer Target, which has now withdrawn the "Circus Clown" outfit from sale. The costume's resemblance to vintage Jim Crow caricatures and blackface performers, especially as posed at Target's app and website, was soon spotted. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Pay $29.97 once for Microsoft Office 2021's Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, OneNote, Publisher, and Access on one Windows PC.

If you're a working professional who prefers a traditional, standalone software experience, Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows Lifetime License might just be right up your alley. — Read the rest

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When Swedish artist Johan Karlgren had children, he started playing around with Perler beads, tiny plastic tubes that come in lots of different colors. They are kind of like physical pixels: you place the beads on a plastic grid of pegs and then heat them with an iron, making the beads fuse together. — Read the rest

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A virtual urban menace plaguing the United Kingdom has now struck Glasgow. While folks across the Irish Sea are clear on what's going on, the Scots are having a time of it.

Initially, the Gardai in Wexford, Ireland, debunked the extra creepy incarnation of Dr. — Read the rest

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Gary Leff, who runs the View From the Wing website, posted an Instagram reel from a woman who said American Airlines kicked her family out of business class seats on a flight from Miami to Milan so that deadheading pilots could occupy those seats. — Read the rest

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Democratic leadership hasn't been what we'd hoped and has, quite frankly, been weaker and lamer than anticipated. Hakeem Jeffries, however, has found a new way to capitulate.

After Chuck Schumer's blood pressure-raising tirade about guac and chips, I think most people just put the Dems' leadership on mute. — Read the rest

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"It's going to completely rebrand everything that was noble about the National Guard into being mundane at best and threatening at worst." — Anonymous National Guardsperson

After a year of patrolling Washington, D.C., Guard members are describing what it feels like to be turned from the people Americans welcome after hurricanes and floods into an armed political presence no one can trust. — Read the rest

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Weirdo JD Vance has a funny story about disregarding his wife's wishes over extremely important life choices.

Shady JD is proud he got his way. After yelling at his kid to shut up and let him kiss some ass to get the VP gig, it's unsurprising that Usha Vance had given him a choice: "You can be VP, or you can have a fourth child." — Read the rest

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Distracted from tyranny and destroying every global economic market he can find, Diaper Donnie has a grand ol' time.

Dipsy Donald looks positively chuffed, waving an oversized flag to start his Freedom 250 car race, producing the unmistakable expression of a five-year-old who has just been informed that yes, he really does get to do it himself. — Read the rest

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The cash-strapped university system spent $17 million to give everyone ChatGPT, watched sign-ups trickle in, and responded by dumping another $39 million to it.

As its campuses struggle with layoffs, cuts, and a $2.3 billion budget deficit, the CSU system is pouring money into OpenAI. — Read the rest

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Most stars drift gracefully along their galactic orbits, the constellations reforming only on unimaginable timescales. But some stars are in a rush, and astronomers have spotted their fastest yet: an otherwise unremarkable star, S301, orbiting a black hole at up to 8% the speed of light. — Read the rest

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At this point, new videos from Epic Rap Battles of History feel a bit like Halley's Comet. If you're lucky, you get two a year, which doesn't quite square with their average runtime of three minutes until you start thinking about all the work involved. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Lifetime MagellanTV access with 4,000+ documentaries and new content added weekly is just $149.97 (reg. $999).

At some point, "watching television" became scrolling through menus for 40 minutes, then giving up and rewatching something familiar. MagellanTV offers a more useful rabbit hole: more than 4,000 documentaries, movies, and series about history, science, nature, space, crime, culture, and civilization. — Read the rest

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has upgraded its recall of frozen blueberries to the highest level of risk. The berries, sold at Publix stores, tested positive for E. coli contamination and have caused at least 12 illnesses and 4 hospital visits across 8 states. — Read the rest

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Golden Axe, the 1989 Sega arcade game vaguely inspired by Conan and other sword-and-sandals classics, is to be a kids' animated television show from Paramount. Here's the trailer; it debuts next month!

In an homage to SEGA's iconic 1989 video game, Golden Axe follows legendary warriors Ax Battler, Tyris Flare and Gilius Thunderhead as they reunite to save Yuria from the evil giant Death Adder, who just won't seem to stay dead.

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Death Valley is not being coy about any of this.

After getting their car stuck, a 68-year-old tourist and his travel partner attempted to walk out of Death Valley. The scorching 113F heat quickly left him unable to continue. By the time rescue personnel were able to reach him, he was dead. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Master the songs you love on the piano no matter your skill level with a 5-year subscription to the Classic Plan from flowkey Piano Learning App for just $67.97, 92% off the $899 regular price.

If you've been meaning to take your piano playing to the next level, this is your time. — Read the rest

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The Hamberdgular has been overeating. Diaper Don managed to pack on 14 pounds while under doctor's orders to lose weight.

Famed for bringing in McDonald's for athletes, mistaking his own love of NY taco salads as respect for Mexican people, and sharing awesome cake with a dictator, it's no wonder Grandpa Pudding Brains is inflating. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Get a lifetime AcePDF Converter & Editor license for Windows and Mac for $23.97 instead of its $99.99 MSRP.

PDFs are useful right up until one arrives with the wrong page order, an enormous file size, or a typo trapped inside a scan. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Get lifetime access to ChatPlayground AI's Unlimited Plan for $59.97 through Aug. 25 (reg. $619).

One AI answer can be useful. Several AI answers sitting side by side are much better at revealing which robot understood the assignment—and which one wandered into the woods. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Headway Premium turns bestselling books into 15-minute summaries and costs just $49.97 (reg. $299.95) for lifetime access.

Your unread book pile means well, but it's starting to feel less like an enjoyable hobby and more like a judgmental stack. Headway Premium makes those big ideas easier to reach by condensing bestselling fiction and nonfiction into summaries you can read or hear in roughly 15 minutes. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Update to Microsoft Windows 11 Pro for just $10.49 (Reg. $199) — that's over $190 in savings for a limited time only, with code SAVE30.

Is it time to upgrade to a newer version of Windows? Whether your computer was running outdated office apps or you're looking for new capabilities, you can't go wrong with a switch to Microsoft Windows 11 Pro. — Read the rest

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Seafoam green has always been one of my favorite colors. One of the reasons is that it has a mid-20th-century feel to it (at least for me), an era I associate with good industrial design.

Recently, designer Beth Mathews visited the Manhattan Project site in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. — Read the rest

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Many people willed their remains to Harvard Medical School on the understanding they would be used in research and education. But the school's morgue manager sold these body parts on the black market, was caught, and now Harvard has agreed to pay $53m to settle class action lawsuits filed by 47 grieving families. — Read the rest

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