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Supergiant Betelgeuse’s smaller companion star imaged
Having shown the massive star Betelgeuse as an indistinct blob, astronomers at the Very Large Telescope in the Atacama Desert have now imaged its…
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Rob Beschizza
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Boing Boing Digest, July 28, 2026
Ferrets in trousers, a tooth in the eye
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Boing Boing
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Netflix honors Raygun with a documentary
Move over Melania...
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Jason Weisberger
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Grandpa Pudding Brains says airplanes didn’t exist during his father’s lifetime
The Orange Menace’s father lived through two world wars, the jet age, the moon landing and the rise of mass commercial aviation.
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Jason Weisberger
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Tourists turned Auschwitz’s death tracks into a photo set
Tourists staged a photo shoot on the railway tracks leading into Auschwitz-Birkenau, where deportation trains carried thousands of people to their…
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Jason Weisberger
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Iranian LEGO movies bashing Trump just get better
Lil’ Marco and Donald clearly hate Iran’s anti-war propaganda.
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Jason Weisberger
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Disruptive preacher boasts that 200 trapped airline passengers heard her sermon
The fasten-seat-belt sign was doing most of the evangelism.
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Jason Weisberger
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New video card has only 4GB of RAM
With AI datacenters gobbling up all the available memory, spec sheets have stalled and system builders are making the most of what they can get.
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Rob Beschizza
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PocketByte: a modular handheld gadget for “play, life, and tinkering”
PocketByte is a modular handheld good for retrogaming, listening to music, watching videos or assisting you with your personal digits. It’s all very…
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Rob Beschizza
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Road sign reprogrammed to protest ICE killings
An electronic road sign in Portland, Maine, was reprogrammed Monday to show the message “NO MORE ICE KILLINGS.“ Staff at WGMA write that the sign was on…
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Rob Beschizza
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The many brands of Taylor Farms, suspected source of America’s diarrhea lettuce
Taylor Farms is the suspected source of the “diarrhea lettuce” linked to the ongoing outbreak of Cyclosporiasis, now entering more states as it exits…
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Rob Beschizza
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Online Tower of Babel gets a new brick for every Wikipedia edit
According to the book of Genesis, the legendary Tower of Babel was built by mankind and destroyed by God.
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Rob Beschizza
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