Jan 24
The 1961 Pontiac Monte Carlo was a sweet little two-seat roadster that never made it into production. Read the story behind this awesome car.
Jan 24
If your Windows-based computer is booting slowly, it may not be a hardware problem. You can see which apps launch at startup and disable some if needed.
Jan 24
Heartbreak and body horror intersect in Laura Moss’ Birth/Rebirth, a homage to Frankenstein and David Cronenberg’s visceral nightmares that also puts motherhood—in various senses of the word—under the microscope. It just premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival and will stream on Shudder later this year.
Jan 24
Some unsettling imagery out of Europe last week: The Drina river, a 215-mile waterway that constitutes much of the border of Bosnia & Herzegovina and Serbia, has been covered in trash.
Jan 24
NASA and DARPA Collaborating on a Nuclear-Powered Rocket for Quick Trips to Mars
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One of the bigger questions surrounding NASA’s interest in sending a crewed mission to Mars surrounds the best way to get there, and it appears the agency might have found its answer. NASA announced today that it will be developing a nuclear thermal rocket engine in collaboration with the Defense Advanced Research…
Jan 24
Microsoft announces $52.7 billion in Q2 revenue amid plans to layoff 10,000 workers
Posted in: Today's ChiliLike many big tech companies, Microsoft is preparing for the worst after announcing plans to lay off 10,000 employees in the upcoming third quarter. It turns out that the company’s second quarter was a mixed bag: It earned $52.7 billion in revenue, which was up 2 percent from last year, but a slight miss from the $52.9 billion analysts expected. Profits also fell by 12 percent to $16.4 billion, a trend that may continue throughout the year.
Despite the faltering PC market, Microsoft has been riding high on cloud revenues for years, and that seems to be continuing. its intelligent cloud business was up 18 percent from last year, reaching $21.5 billion. Microsoft’s belt tightening didn’t stop the company from potentially investing $10 billion more in ChatGPT creator OpenAI, yet another sign that AI is going to play a major role in its future projects. The company plans to add ChatGPT to its Azure OpenAI service soon, and it’s reportedly planning to integrated that technology in Bing.
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Jan 24
Fans Praise Chrissy Teigen’s Breast Milk Stains In First Postpartum Instagram Photo
Posted in: Today's ChiliThe model shattered stigma with her first Instagram photo of herself since giving birth.
Jan 24
Nick Fuentes, a known white nationalist streamer who pushes Holocaust denial conspiracies and other anti-Semitic hate, has a lingering, if not growing presence across social media. He has followers subtly spreading his ideology on sites like Instagram, but now Elon Musk and Twitter has done the overt racist,…
Jan 24
Everything Everywhere All at Once, the little multiverse film that could, has received 11 Academy Award nominations. The Daniels’ transcendent film from A24 nabbed recognition in the most coveted category—Best Picture—along with acting nods for stars Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Stephanie Hsu, and Jamie Lee Curtis. W…
Jan 24
The next version of Android isn’t due out until late this year, but it’s as good a time as any to start sniffing around for what’s to come. A recent edit to the Android 14 source code shows that Google is working on stricter API requirements to prevent Android users from installing old apps. It’ll be a boon for…
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