We have had guns for 200 years but mass shootings only became common in the last 30. So what changed?
Police in England installed an AI camera system along a major road. It caught almost 300 drivers in its first 3 days. (www.businessinsider.in)
Police in England installed an AI camera system along a major road. It caught almost 300 drivers in its first 3 days.::An AI camera system installed along a major road in England caught 300 offenses in its first 3 days.There were 180 seat belt offenses and 117 mobile phone
Logitech CEO Wants to Sell You a Subscription-Based 'Forever Mouse' (gizmodo.com)
During a recent episode of The Verge’s Decoder podcast, Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber shed some possible insight into the company’s view on one of its most important products. Saying that “the mouse built this house,” Faber shares the planning behind a Forever Mouse, a premium product that the company hopes will be the last...
Why are socialist and communist countries usually considered more authoritarian than capitalist countries?
Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV (arstechnica.com)
A patent application from the company spotted by Lowpass describes a system for displaying ads over any device connected over HDMI, a list that could include cable boxes, game consoles, DVD or Blu-ray players, PCs, or even other video streaming devices. Roku filed for the patent in August 2023 and it was published in November...
Baltimore bridge collapses into river after being hit by cargo ship (www.theguardian.com)
A portion of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore has collapsed after a large boat collided with it early on Tuesday morning, sending multiple vehicles into the water....
Linux hits 4% on the desktop 🐧 📈 (gs.statcounter.com)
Honestly (lemmy.today)
I lose mine last month :( (telegra.ph)
PSA To people watching YouTube with AdBlockers
You might have noticed that even on Firefox (depending on your lists) YouTube may detect uBlock Origin on Firefox now...
Roses are red, violets are blue, everyone is using IPv6, why aren't you? (lemmy.world)
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Massive explosion rocks SpaceX Texas facility, Starship engine in flames (interestingengineering.com)
This was the first result on Google (lemmy.ml)
Asking ChatGPT to Repeat Words ‘Forever’ Is Now a Terms of Service Violation (www.404media.co)
Unity adding a fee for devs for each time a game is installed, after certain thresholds (www.gamesindustry.biz)
A key feature of NFTs has completely broken / Web3 was supposed to make sure the original artist always got paid. Not so much anymore. (www.theverge.com)
Texas school district agrees to remove ‘Anne Frank’s Diary,’ ‘Maus’ and 670 other books after right-wing group’s complaint (forward.com)
Conservative activists, led by a local pastor and outspoken Israel advocate, pushed the district, Mission CISD, to excise books mostly about gender, sexuality and race. Their demands represented an extreme version of a nationwide culture war over books that has played out in recent years — and ensnared a number of books with...
Who do you consider a Great Author of the last 50 years or so (first well-known work after 1970)? I'd like to get a feel for who's who in modern literature. Any language/culture. Fiction only.
Bonus points for any books you believe are classics from that time period. Any language, but only fiction please....
Can you muppets stop throwing away money on awful companies producing subpar games? (lemmy.world)
I propose 2024 is the year of early access games boycott....
What (free and open-source) applications do you use on a daily basis?
Try to avoid duplicates, keep it interesting.
China’s Youth Are Quitting the Rat Race to ‘Let It Rot’ (www.wsj.com)
Young people in China are becoming more rebellious, questioning their nation’s traditional expectations of career and family
The world's 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars (theconversation.com)
French election 2024 live: exit poll shows shock win for left-green alliance as far right falls to third (www.theguardian.com)
With GPL, you're programming Freedom. With MIT, you're programming for free. (lemmy.world)
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