In 2019, the University of Maine set three Guinness World Records for 3D printing. They had the world's largest 3D printer, the largest solid 3D printed object, and the largest 3D printed boat. The 5000-pound boat was printed in 72 hours. — Read the rest
This is inspired. Waldo Jaquith created a Mastodon bot in response to the cliché email opening sentence of "I hope this email finds you well." "Twice a day it proposes a novel way to conclude that sentence that opens so many emails," Jaquith explains. — Read the rest
Airlines are notorious for their reluctance to issue refunds for canceled or delayed flights, making the refund process a nightmare for countless travelers. You practically have to beg for a refund, and the airlines employ a bureaucratic labyrinth that makes it very difficult to communicate with them. — Read the rest
The long-held promise of Artificial Intelligence was that machines would do all the drudge work and we would be left to create. In this AI-enabled utopia, assembly, construction, and hard labor of all kinds, as well as boring sorting and filing and such, would be handled by smart machines while we painted pictures, wrote poems, and sang songs together. — Read the rest
North America's Building Trades Unions has had a very long history with Donald Trump — which has been "wasted breath," says the union leader. And after more than 40 years of dealing with the self-centered conman, the union endorsed President Biden today with a scathing video ad against Donald Trump. — Read the rest
Looks like ammo-packing beachgoers might want to avoid the idyllic isles of the Turks and Caicos unless they're down for an extended, amenity-free island jailstay. American vacationers are learning the hard way about Turks and Caicos' strict new laws on ammunition possession, reports CBS News. — Read the rest
The superficially Earthlike appearance of Titan, as imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope, is belied by its cold and inhospitable weirdness. Titan is a strange world — a little bit Earthlike, if land were made of water ice, rivers and seas were filled with liquid methane and other hydrocarbons, and the atmosphere were thick and hazy, dotted with methane clouds. — Read the rest
TL;DR:Are you tired of looking at a cluttered desk or bedside table? Level up the way you charge your devices with the 15W Nightlight Wireless Charging Pad, and it's on sale for $39.99 (reg.$99) or 59% off. For most of us, there's a mess of unsightly charging cords by our bedside to keep all of our gadgets powered up. — Read the rest
An attempt to prove the existence of alien astronauts has revealed an ancient, all-too human practice — grave robbing. According to Reuters, journalist Jaime Maussan presented two mummified "alien" bodies to a Mexican congressional hearing on UFOs in 2023. They had elongated heads and three fingers on each hand and were quickly identified by scientists as human corpses. — Read the rest
In 2022, Sour Patch Kids joked about a collab with Oreos: Thinking 😌 about 💯 SOUR PATCH KIDS 😊 flavored 🍭 @Oreo cookies pic.twitter.com/1DWZSNpQ6K — Sour Patch Kids (@SourPatchKids) January 29, 2022 But what was a joke has become a reality. — Read the rest
Sen. Thom Tillis is a Republican who says the biggest threat to his party is not the Democrats, but something far, far worse: Marjorie Taylor Greene. "I think she's uninformed, she's a total waste of time," the North Carolina lawmaker said about the Georgia's MAGA kook last night on CNN. — Read the rest
Summer Lee, the first black woman elected in Pennsylvania to the U.S House of Representatives and a strong progressive voice in Congress, handily defeated a centrist challenger in Tuesday's Democratic Party primary race. Her opponent, Edgewood Borough Councilmember Bhavini Patel, campaigned on Lee's criticisms of Israel and Biden and with the benefit of a PAC funded largely by a Republican billionaire. — Read the rest