On November 29th, 2024 with 70 comments
Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun consumed Maurizio Cattelan's "Comedian" artwork -- a banana taped to a wall -- during an event in Hong Kong on Friday, declaring...
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On November 25th, 2023 with 61 comments
No one is a prophet in their own land, including European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde, who admitted on Friday that her son lost "almost all" of...
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On September 3rd, 2023 with 51 comments
CNN reports that newspaper chain Gannett "has paused the use of an AI tool to write high school sports dispatches after the technology made several major flubs...
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On August 20th, 2023 with 77 comments
In 1995 Bill Watterson walked away from "the madness that had consumed him for practically his entire adulthood," writes the American Conservative.
Though...
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On September 18th, 2022 with 65 comments
Randall Munroe does more than draw the online comic strip XKCD. He's also published a funny new speculative science book (following up on his previous New...
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On March 19th, 2021 with 58 comments
An otherwise meaningless game during Monday's preliminary stage of the $200,000 Magnus Carlsen Invitational left a pair of grandmasters in stitches while...
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On November 26th, 2020 with 190 comments
Residents of an Austrian village will ring in the new year under a new name -- Fugging -- after ridicule of their signposts, especially on social media, became...
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On October 1st, 2020 with 313 comments
According to the Subway Ireland website, the chain's six-inch and footlong subs are available on six different kinds of bread, including nine-grain multi-seed,...
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On December 20th, 2019 with 65 comments
The US Department of Agriculture listed Wakanda as a free-trade partner -- despite it being a fictional country. From a report: A USDA spokesperson said the...
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On September 20th, 2019 with 143 comments
Hundreds of people arrived early Friday at a gate at the once secret Area 51 military base in Nevada at the time appointed by an internet hoaxster to "storm"...
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On September 10th, 2019 with 96 comments
The organizers of the Storm Area 51 festival called "AlienStock" have canceled the event in the Nevada desert, citing a "possible humanitarian disaster"...
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On June 28th, 2018 with 158 comments
How many exclamation points does it take to exclaim something? One, a human of sound mind and a decent grasp of punctuation might say. But, on the internet, it...
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On December 16th, 2017 with 65 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader Baron_Yam writes, "Some AI news items are amusing. This is one of those." ProKras reports:
What do you get when a predictive...
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On April 3rd, 2017 with 158 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: A self-confessed "grammar vigilante" has been secretly correcting bad punctuation on street signs and shop fronts in...
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On February 3rd, 2017 with 333 comments
Between reality and the bubble of fantasy news stories, these are tough times for satirists. From a report on AP, submitted by several readers: The New Yorker...
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On June 9th, 2016 with 160 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Ars is excited to be hosting this online debut of Sunspring, a short science fiction film that's not...
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On May 16th, 2016 with 231 comments
Turns out crossing a line, even for a prank by a YouTube star, can go bonkers. An anonymous reader cites a BBC report: Four members of the controversial...
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On May 6th, 2016 with 232 comments
The UK's 200 Million Euro polar research ship won't be called Boaty McBoatface. Instead, the new ship will be called RRS (Royal Research Ship) Sir David...
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On April 22nd, 2016 with 120 comments
Reader schwit1 writes: The drone that reportedly hit a British Airways jet earlier this week may have actually been a plastic bag, a minister has said....
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On February 16th, 2016 with 85 comments
Mark Wilson writes: 13 years ago, BBC3 launched in the UK. Last night, the TV station broadcast over the airwaves for the last time. In a bid to slash...
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On March 17th, 2015 with 59 comments
An anonymous reader writes A British newspaper is celebrating "the world's worst ebook artwork", as discovered by the creator of a new Tumblr feed. 'It's the...
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On February 25th, 2015 with 320 comments
An anonymous reader writes: An MP from the governing Conservative Party has said that using astrology could radically improve the performance of Britain's...
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On February 11th, 2015 with 277 comments
slimjim8094 writes: According to the NY Times, Jon Stewart is leaving "The Daily Show." This was announced during the taping of this evening's show. He will...
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On November 19th, 2013 with 168 comments
cold fjord writes with this report from The Telegraph: "The original members of Monty Python will reunite more than 30 years after the comedy troupe last...
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On September 10th, 2013 with 222 comments
judgecorp writes "Britain's Channel 4 screened Blackout, a drama about a cyber-attack which crashes the national power grid. The show was silly enough, with a...
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On September 4th, 2013 with 61 comments
Anita Hunt (lissnup) writes "Hot on the heels of Dave Cameron's demands to make such content universally 'opt-in,' the Independent reports 'Westminster...
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On July 19th, 2013 with 341 comments
New submitter ciotog writes "The town of Deer Trail, Colorado (population approximately 550) will be voting next month on whether to offer licenses for drone...
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On July 5th, 2013 with 530 comments
An anonymous reader writes "The Guardian is running a story about a recent recruitment session held by the NSA and attended by students from the University of...
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On May 15th, 2013 with 135 comments
danomac writes "Canipre, a Canadian anti-infringement enforcement company, has been using photos on their official website without permission. This company...
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On February 8th, 2013 with 644 comments
Andy Prough writes "Apparently those wise folks at Fox have figured out America's reluctance to invest as much money in solar energy as Germany — the...
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