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The latest HTML trickery for web designers
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (365+ words) HTML Can Do That is a pleasantly minimal website by Chris Burnell, explaining some of the interesting tricks you can do without javascript or even styles. Did you know you can do popover modals now just with markup? Isn't that…...
The Digi-Comp I was a $5 plastic computer powered by rubber bands
1+ week, 19+ hour ago (428+ words) The Digi-Comp I was a plastic and rubber band toy that sold for $5 in 1963. According to Chris Staecker, a Fairfield University math professor who posted a video about its operation, "This was the first digital computer." It didn't use electricity;…...
DoorDash sprints towards replacing its drivers with robots
1+ week, 6+ day ago (367+ words) Reading this story made me so damn tired: as part of their effort to replace human employees with delivery robots, DoorDash has come up with a cunning plan: they're gonna use the human employees they want to replace to load…...
Turn complicated ideas into clear diagrams with Microsoft Visio 2024 for $45
2+ week, 1+ day ago (425+ words) Disclosure: Boing Boing earns a commission on purchases made through links in this post. TL;DR: Microsoft Visio Professional 2024 helps turn workflows, networks, floor plans, and other complicated ideas into polished diagrams. Get a lifetime Windows license for $44.97 (reg. $579.99). Some…...
This AI PDF editor can answer questions about your documents for $50
2+ week, 1+ day ago (497+ words) Disclosure: Boing Boing earns a commission on purchases made through links in this post. TL;DR: Ask questions about PDFs, generate summaries, edit documents, and convert files without juggling multiple apps. PDNob Pro is $49.99 for life (reg. $349.95). AI has finally…...
The sharpest pictures ever taken of the Sun show it swirling
2+ week, 2+ day ago (271+ words) This churning is what produces the Sun's biggest outbursts. "These twisting motions are creating magnetic energy, which can build up to produce those large-scale explosions," NSO astronomer Dr David Kuridze told BBC News. His colleague Dr Friedrich Woeger said the…...
Mars dust is full of perchlorates, silica, and heavy metals
2+ week, 2+ day ago (335+ words) NASA created a Martian Dust Limit Working Group this year to figure out how much Mars dust a person can safely breathe, and Leonard David reports for Space.com on the dust hazard and how future astronauts might deal with…...
Roku launches 24 hour AI slop channel
2+ week, 2+ day ago (255+ words) Now you can immerse yourself completely in the uncanny valley by watching Fairgound, a new 24/7 AI slop channel available on Roku. It offers "series, films, and shorts from the world's best AI storytellers" across a variety of genres. [via Cord…...
LifeLock Core Identity Theft Protection - Boing Boing
2+ week, 3+ day ago (450+ words) Disclosure: Boing Boing earns a commission on purchases made through links in this post. TL;DR: If you regularly bank, shop, and manage your finances online, this discounted 15-month subscription offers an affordable way to monitor your identity and respond…...
Doing no "evil," Google proposes paving over protected wetlands for a data center
2+ week, 3+ day ago (424+ words) Google has encountered a difficult engineering problem at its enormous Fort Wayne data center: some of the land it wants to build on is protected wetlands. And if state authorities decide to go ahead with the data center campus, it…...