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Exploring Grand Theft Auto 4’s hidden history
You have to promise to pretend to be a little surprised when I tell you that Grand Theft Auto 4‘s Liberty City was based on real-life New York.
7 mins ago • Grant St. Clair
Saul Goodman returns to celebrate America’s 250th
It’s a funny world when Breaking Bad‘s comic relief lawyer Saul Goodman has more integrity than the sitting President.
8 mins ago • Grant St. Clair
Robots can kung fu, but can they summit Everest?
Pemba, a modified Unitree G1 humanoid robot, is on an expedition slated to culminate with a summit of Mount Everest.
10 mins ago • Gail P Sherman
Get uncomfortably, viscerally close to the Knicks celebration
Sixty-three arrests.
11 mins ago • Grant St. Clair
CrankGPT is an offline AI box for the apocalypse
CrankGPT is a fully offline AI box that you power by turning a crank.
4 hrs ago • Rob Beschizza
British police officer accused of using AI to fabricate evidence
A Derbyshire Constabulary officer is under criminal investigation over claims they used artificial intelligence to fabricate evidence. The BBC’s…
4 hrs ago • Rob Beschizza
Trump Arch in D.C. to be tremendously large and golden
When President Trump first showed reporters a model of the proposed United States Triumphal Arch, CBS News’s Ed O’Keefe asked who it was for. “Me,” said…
5 hrs ago • Rob Beschizza
Moneroeville Mall hosts final Dawn of the Dead tour
The sprawling Monroeville Mall outside of Pittsburgh is most famous as the setting for George A.
5 hrs ago • Rob Beschizza
Woman cheers Knicks win, LAPD bursts in and kills her dog
A victory yell should not end with a dead dog and a violated home.
21 hrs ago • Jason Weisberger
Keystone Kops get a physics lesson from falling bear
A bear rescue in Rancho Sahuarita, Arizona, turned into a live-action cartoon when a tranquilized bear dropped from a tree, hit the tarp, and one of the…
22 hrs ago • Jason Weisberger
Man who hates paying taxes loves government handouts
CNN quotes early Tesla investor Ross Gerber saying, “There would not be Tesla and SpaceX if it weren’t for the government.” That is the whole story in…
22 hrs ago • Jason Weisberger
Violet Jessop survived the Titanic, the Britannic, and a collision on the Olympic
Violet Jessop was born in Argentina in 1887, the eldest of nine children.
23 hrs ago • Ellsworth Toohey
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