Hydrogen vehicles in Denmark left without fuel as all commercial refuelling stations shuttered (www.hydrogeninsight.com)
Man accused of raping, waterboarding girlfriend in her university dorm room for days until she escaped (www.cbsnews.com)
Unity backtracks slightly on plans to charge developers for game installs (www.eurogamer.net)
Game development engine Unity has U-turned on some parts of its hugely controversial plan to enforce fees on game creat…
'Personality-driven' influencer esports league revealed, immediately implodes over NFT controversy (www.pcgamer.com)
Fairphone 5 Launch (inv.tux.pizza)
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The NYPD has stopped tens of thousands of people under Mayor Adams. Just 5% were white. (gothamist.com)
The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion - 10-08-2023 (lemmy.world)
Have you been spending hours trying to pass a level? Or maybe you are completely addicted to a newly bought game. Do you have a question about a game or would like to share something else? In the Weekly Discussion Thread, you can do it all!...
Houston man ticketed for feeding unhoused found not guilty (www.chron.com)
8BitDo’s $100 wireless mechanical keyboard screams ’80s NES (arstechnica.com)
Moscow targeted again as Kyiv steps up drone attacks inside Russia (www.cnn.com)
Russia says Ukraine targeted Moscow with drones on Sunday, the latest in a series of attacks that have brought the Ukraine war to Russia’s capital.
FCC chair: Speed standard of 25Mbps down, 3Mbps up isn’t good enough anymore (arstechnica.com)
Young Koreans favor iPhones over Samsung Galaxy: survey (www.koreaherald.com)
Big oil quietly walks back on climate pledges as global heat records tumble (www.theguardian.com)
Leading energy companies are intent on pushing the world in the opposite direction, expanding fossil fuel production and insisting that there is no alternative. It is evidence that they are motivated not by record warming, but by record profits, experts say.
Age Reversal Breakthrough: Harvard/MIT Discovery Could Enable Whole-Body Rejuvenation (scitechdaily.com)
Age Reversal Breakthrough: Harvard/MIT Discovery Could Enable Whole-Body Rejuvenation::In a pioneering study, researchers from Harvard Medical School, University of Maine, and MIT have introduced a chemical method for reversing cellular aging. This revolutionary approach offers a potential alternative to gene therapy for age...
YSK: Imperial units are based on the metric system (en.wikipedia.org)
“Standards for the exact length of an inch have varied in the past, but since the adoption of the international yard during the 1950s and 1960s the inch has been based on the metric system and defined as exactly 25.4 mm.”
As Twitter flounders, Mastodon refreshes its official app for Android users (techcrunch.com)
UK children to be taught how to spot extremist content and fake news online (www.theguardian.com)
Children will be taught how to spot extremist content and misinformation online under planned changes to the school curriculum, the education secretary said....
Trump holds seemingly pointless press conference filled with false claims (www.independent.co.uk)
Former President Donald Trump spent nearly an hour at his Palm Beach, Florida, social club on Thursday ranting to a room full of reporters as he tries to grab the spotlight from a resurgent Democratic ticket fronted by Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.
Fast-food chains battle for low-income diners with summer value meals ***Better headline: Fast food restaurants scratch head when customers don’t want to pay higher prices for shitty food. (www.cnbc.com)
TriliumNext Notes - The last note taking app you should ever need (github.com)
TLDR: After the fantastic Trilium Notes entered maintenance mode, a significant group of community members (including myself) have committed to moving the project forward....
JD Vance once wrote that he 'convinced myself that I was gay' when he was a kid (www.businessinsider.com)
Yes, there’s more to it than that and it’s quite stupid and also quite bigoted. Republicans don’t need to know that. They didn’t and won’t read his book anyway.
Tesla’s Share of U.S. Electric Car Market Falls Below 50% (archive.ph)
A new report estimates that the company led by Elon Musk accounted for just under half of all battery-powered vehicles sold in the second quarter of the year.
Texas woman arrested for allegedly attempting to drown 3-year-old Palestinian Muslim child in possible hate crime (www.nbcnews.com)
Child Advocates Back Surgeon General's Call for Tobacco-Like Warnings on Social Media (www.commondreams.org)
New breakthrough may let us charge smartphones in 60 seconds (bgr.com)
What if charging your phone took less time than brushing your teeth? A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences could very well hold the key to a next-gen charger capable of recharging your phone in just 60 seconds....
