After 30 years, Pokémon remains among the most desirable collectible franchises in fandom and auctions regularly prove the cards' growing value. But one scalper went too far in his efforts to acquire the latest Squirter or PewPew or whatever, attaching a GPS tranceiver on a delivery driver's vehicle and using it to track her movements. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Microsoft Office 2024 Professional Plus includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, and Access for one Windows PC, with a lifetime license now $49.97 (reg. $249.99).

Your streaming services, cloud storage, and probably half the apps on your phone already want a monthly payment. — Read the rest

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If you haven't figured out the deal with Elon Musk, yet, a blockbuster documentary is on its way to explain it in detail. Filmed by Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) and scheduled for release on October 9, the "definitive and unvarnished examination" of the world's richest person was years in the making and was well-received at its premier at the Venice Film Festival. — Read the rest

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I've maintained for a while now that GTA 6's marketing runup has exemplified everything wrong with the way games are sold today, from Rockstar skipping out on making a physical edition to the paywalled trailers to, inexplicably, a Vice City-scented candle. — Read the rest

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A daycare in Fort Worth, Texas, is being sued after a substitute teacher allegedly encouraged 4-year-olds to fight one another, and herself injured one of them. Surveillance video from the Arka Montessori Academy shows the incident clearly, and KDFW News reports that the state "confirmed the child suffered physical injuries and emotional distress" and cited the daycare 16 times since it opened in 2024. — Read the rest

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Researchers are sending an underground robot into a hill whose vaguely boat-like shape has long excited Biblical literalists in search of Noah's Ark. The Noah's Ark Scans expedition hopes to find evidence of The Flood at the Durupinar formation near Mount Ararat in Türkiye. — Read the rest

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The government of the Netherlands plans to replace Microsoft's Windows and other software with a custom Linux-based operating system and IT suite named DAWO (Digitaal Autonome Werkomgeving Overheid).

De Nederlandse overheid maakt een eigen digitale werkomgeving op basis van de Nederlandse Linux-distributie NixOS.

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TL;DR: Internxt's 10TB lifetime plan gives new users encrypted cloud storage across unlimited devices for $269.97 (MSRP $2,900) through Sept. 29.

Some people delete files. Other people look at a photo from 2014, think, "I may need this someday," and immediately close the storage-management screen. — Read the rest

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Elizabeth Holmes, the Theranos founder and convicted felon, will move to a halfway house next year. ABC News was first to report her forthcoming transfer from federal prison, where she was imprisoned after being sentenced to 10 years and 3 months on wire fraud charges. — Read the rest

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In the early days of computer game development, Star Trek was a popular topic for young programmers with access to mainframes. Players could hunt Klingon ships across the galaxy's numbered sectors while conserving their dilithium crystals and photon torpedoes. The programs were copied, edited and expanded by those who played them—or just made over from scratch. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: AskAnyModel puts 50+ AI models in one browser-based platform and lets you compare up to six responses at once, with lifetime access to the Pro Plan now $39.99 (reg. $499).

Why ask one robot when you can convene a panel of six? — Read the rest

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Roland's GO:KEYS is an all-in-one portable keyboard with speakers and plenty of presets: great for beginners and musicians on the run. The GO:KEYS 3 Minion, a new co-branded model, is aimed at youngsters. But I think we can all take enormous pleasure in the built-in Minion voice instrumentation, which includes singing, choruses and various examples of laughter and gibberish. — Read the rest

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U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly has granted a temporary restraining order reinstating Politico, MS NOW, and CNN to the White House press pool. He doesn't think DOJ has much chance of pulling this off.

Reporters immediately reported for work, only to find they weren't allowed to enter the White House for several hours as their "hard cards" were turned back on. — Read the rest

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Ranting about "transgenderism" in Congress, U.S. Senator Thomas "Tommy" Tuberville (R—Alabama) briefly diverted his attention to a different group: furries. "Many" airline pilots, flight attendants, and air traffic controllers, he said, are part of the furry community. If the thought represents a masterclass in the unprovable and unfalsifiable, it's one that's clearly been on his mind; Tuberville did not identify a source for his claim. — Read the rest

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It is unclear whether her plea to pardon broker and President of the United States Donald Trump helped speed this along, but Elizabeth Holmes is getting out of prison quite a bit early.

Just four years into an eleven-year term, Elizabeth Holmes will head to a transitional facility intended to help rehabilitated criminals find work, manage their finances, and re-enter society as a productive cog in our machine. — Read the rest

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If you like Tove Janssen's Moomin, with its nearly perfect charm-disquiet ratio, you'll surely love the above "Diving with Shells" mug with Moomintroll enjoying a dip. The €46,023 sale price, though, set a record at Muumimukit rahaksi, a website specializing in Moomin rarities. — Read the rest

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This week on the popular theme park podcast Disney Dish with Len Testa and Jim Hill, Disney historian Jim Hill tells the story of The Walt Disney Transportation Company and its one achievement: installing a PeopleMover in what was then called The Houston Intercontinental Airport (now The George Bush Intercontinental Airport). — Read the rest

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If you have ever eaten French fries in the vicinity of seagulls, you have experienced kleptoparasitism, even if you don't know the word. Seagulls snatch fries from humans. Bald eagles harass ospreys into dropping fish. Pea crabs live inside mollusks like clams and oysters and steal their food. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: This $32.97 (reg. $418.99) bundle gives one PC perpetual licenses for Windows 11 Pro and Microsoft Office Professional 2021, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Access, and Publisher.

A Windows PC isn't much use without an operating system, and for plenty of people, it isn't quite ready for work until Word and Excel show up, either. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: DVDneXtCOPY DVD Ripper converts your discs, including copy-protected ones, into MP4, MKV, AVI, and MOV files that play on the devices you actually use. Get it for $29.99 (reg. $59.99).

Discs don't age well. The player in the living room is probably the last one in the house, and the shelf of movies sitting next to it plays on nothing else you own. — Read the rest

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Actor and director Richard Harrison, famed for low-budget but eminently memorable military epics, spaghetti westerns and martial arts flicks, is dead at 90. His friend Joan Borsten announced his death on social media and eulogized "an A-life in B-movies"

Harrison never let his movie star status, especially in Italy where he couldn't walk down the street without being recognized, go to his head.

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Turns out Walter Masterson's question to voters at Trump's mid-term Republican convention was so difficult it was unfair: Who are you voting for?

Perhaps they are ashamed. Maybe they really do not know. Certainly, MAGA does not care who it votes for or what their values are, so long as they are "Republican." — Read the rest

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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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