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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TL;DR: Give your fingers a break with VoiceType AI, a dictation tool that turns speech into polished text at up to 360 words per minute. Get unlimited monthly transcription for $39.97 (reg. $419) through November 8.

Your brain has already written the email, mapped out the project, and composed a devastatingly clever response to that one coworker. — Read the rest

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Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed shared a fairly uncomplicated theory about Donald Trump and the people surrounding him: "We are being actively bullied by the dumbest people in the room." Speaking with Hasan Minhaj, El-Sayed called Trump an "idiot," while granting him "one genius": his ability to get attention. — Read the rest

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Stanley Kubrick's personal archives are coming to auction for the first time. The auction will include props, scripts, equipment, and personal possessions from Kubrick's film archives. According to Bonhams, which is holding the auction, highlights from the sale include his director's chair, costumes from The Shining, and the original Star Child prop from 2001. — Read the rest

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McDonald's will have to explain the McRib, its occasional mystery meat sandwich, after failing to convince a federal judge to dismiss a class action lawsuit. The lawsuit contends that McDonald's "intentionally shapes" McRib patties, one of the fast-food giant's most expensive products, to lead diners to believe that they are made from actual rib meat. — Read the rest

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Annie says, "The Polar Bear Cams are live from Churchill, where hundreds of polar bears are gathering on the shore of Hudson Bay, waiting for the ice to freeze. It's like Fat Bear Week, except these bears are still waiting for dinner." — Read the rest

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Enjoy this scan of a 1975 copy of the Konsument catalog, which advertised the offerings of East Germany's state-run retail cooperative. The catalog shows the fashions, tools, housewares, consumer electronics, and other glorious goods made during the grim, oppressive Russian occupation. — Read the rest

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What is iron gall ink? Only one of the "most important substances in the history of civilization," says Joel Klein, the curator of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences at the Huntington in San Marino, California. That's because the ink, which is dark blue-gray, sinks into the surface of the paper or parchment and won't fade centuries after it's applied. — Read the rest

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Unknown hackers took over refrigeration controls in supermarkets in seven countries in Europe. This is the second attack. Last month, as many as 700 French supermarkets had to throw out frozen and refrigerated food after a cyberattack caused cooler temperatures to reach 122°F. — Read the rest

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Yet another word confuses Grandpa Pudding Brains, so he assumes everyone else is even more idiotic.

Explaining his objection to two candidates with nearly the same name appearing on the Alaska ballot, Diaper Don claims "incumbent" is confusing. He shows zero respect for the people who vote for him, but they never seem shake loose from the cult. — Read the rest

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Investigative vlogger Yoonj Kim first visited downtown Los Angeles' Metropolis towers, where her investigation found hundreds of condos that have been sitting empty for years. Naturally, she asked: why would the developer want to hold on to them?

One answer is the votes. — Read the rest

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Historic flooding has struck Sedona, Arizona, for the second time in two weeks. Residents unable to evacuate fast enough spent part of Sunday standing on their roofs waiting for helicopters. Some with their pets.

Oak Creek moved through neighborhoods fast enough to trap residents above the water, and state rescue crews flew them out one rooftop at a time. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Use AI to easily edit and convert PDFs with a lifetime subscription to PDNob Pro PDF Editor for $44.97, regularly $349.95.

Working with PDFs can be cumbersome — but with the PDNob Pro PDF Editor, AI features make creating, editing, and processing PDFs faster and more efficient. — Read the rest

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Alarming footage shows a New Jersey mayor charging at a local resident during a "heated" council meeting. The chaotic incident was streamed live as council members told Pemberton Township Mayor Matthew Bianchin to stop; Bianchini was ultimately physically removed from the room, yelling threats ("I am getting you – I am fu**ing get you!") — Read the rest

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