Aug 04
Ballistics experts will fire up to 139 shots at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Friday during a reenactment of the 2018 Parkland massacre.
Aug 04
Tinder Is Getting an AI Upgrade to Help You Decide What Photos Are the Hottest
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Like every other tech company, Tinder is bringing artificial intelligence to its operations in an attempt to create a better user experience, its parent company Matchgroup said in its Q2 earnings letter on Wednesday. The company says it plans to create new features around the needs of Gen Z users.
Aug 04
Lin-Manuel Miranda is a noted fan of bringing New York City stories to the stage and screen (Hamilton lyrics call it “the greatest city in the world,” after all), and he’ll be tackling a new tale set in his hometown for his next project: a stage musical adapting Sol Yurick’s 1965 novel The Warriors—previously the…
Aug 04
Axiom Space will fly a fourth crew to the International Space Station (ISS) as NASA once again selects the private space venture for another mission to low Earth orbit.
Aug 04
Players jumping into the hotly anticipated Dungeons & Dragons RPG Baldur’s Gate 3 will likely want to skip through the intensely rambling licensing agreement. But for those players who actually decide to stay awhile and listen—er, sorry, wrong game—I mean read the mountainous EULA agreement, developer Larian has a…
Aug 04
An older woman with steel gray hair, wearing a tiara and a stylish red dress-suit combo, sits at the front of the Lorcana line at Gen Con 2023, explaining to a group of four younger men what happened that morning. She has a diagram. This is Esther Emerald. That’s not her real name; that’s her character’s name for a …
Aug 04
The pair make a house a home in the newest episode — and ruffle some feathers in the process.
Aug 04
17-year-old Sammy and 19-year-old Jack of Built To Thrill constructed their wooden Shadow Stalker roller coaster in their East Brunswick, New Jersey backyard. That’s pretty impressive. For reference, at 17, I tried building a birdhouse, and the roof collapsed even before any birds decided to nest in it. That was probably for the best.
The coaster can accommodate a single person on an action-packed 8-second thrill ride, with the first hill providing some sweet airtime. At least enough to make a rider’s hat come off. And if your hat isn’t going to come off, can you even call it a coaster?
Unfortunately for its young builders (but probably fortunately for nearby neighbors), the town of East Brunswick has ordered the immediate closure and deconstruction of Shadow Stalker as a result of failing to acquire the necessary building permits and inspections. The team is currently looking to rehome the coaster, which I 100% would do if knew my own neighbors wouldn’t come after me with torches and pitchforks.
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Aug 04
Blazing Ocean Temperatures Threaten Critical Coral Reefs in the Florida Keys
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Scientists and conservationists are working to observe and save coral reefs off the coast of Florida after a year of heat waves and alarming ocean temperatures.
Aug 04
Hasbro Explains How Star Wars Toys Get Chosen, and Why They Sometimes Take Forever
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When I was 19 years old, I stood outside a Toys “R” Us for hours, waiting for midnight so I could buy toys from Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. It was mere weeks before the movie was released, the hype was at an all-time high, and I spent a lot of money because of it.
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