What People Are Getting Wrong This Week: Is Jim Carrey a Clone? In the swirling vortex of social media conspiracies, this week’s hottest absurdity claims Jim Carrey was replaced by a clone or drag performer at the César Awards in Paris. Spoiler: He’s not a […]
Day: March 4, 2026
Re-creating the complex cuisine of prehistoric Europeans
SEM analysis of pottery residues showed people combined fish with a wide variety of plants when cooking.
Google faces wrongful death lawsuit after Gemini allegedly ‘coached’ man to die by suicide
A lawsuit filed on Wednesday accuses Google’s Gemini AI chatbot of trapping 36-year-old Jonathan Gavalas in a “collapsing reality” that involved a series of violent missions, ultimately ending with his death by suicide. In the days leading up to his death, Gemini allegedly convinced Gavalas […]
How a prize-winning cartoonist brings hand-drawn comics to the web
Jailed during the 2021 coup in Myanmar, American journalist Danny Fenster spent six months as a political prisoner. For much of his incarceration he battled boredom and fear, subsisting on meditation and podcasts on an SD card smuggled in by mail, sent by his girlfriend, […]
Honor’s Robot Phone is a bad robot, an interesting camera, and maybe your friend
After over four months of teasing, I’ve finally been able to see Honor’s Robot Phone in action. And after all that, it looks pretty legit – just so long as you weren’t actually expecting a robot. The Robot Phone could more accurately be called the […]
Middle East Tensions Soar: US-Israel vs. Iran, Naval Ship Sinks, and Khamenei Assassinated Amid Global Turmoil – 3/4/2026, 8:29:17 PM
Based on the latest news reports, the major global developments include: Middle East Conflict: The US and Israel have launched extensive military operations against Iran, with death tolls rising to over 1,045 in Iran[4] and more than 700 Iranians killed according to the Red Crescent[5]. […]
Google isn’t waiting for a settlement — the 30 percent Android app store fee is dead
In November, Epic and Google jointly proposed a settlement that would change Android’s fate globally without cracking open Google’s Android monopoly quite the way it otherwise might. Today, Google has decided it’s not waiting for that settlement to be approved: it’s moving forward with many […]
US-Israeli War with Iran Escalates: Strikes, Embassy Closures, Oil Prices Soar, and Strait of Hormuz Shut – 3/4/2026, 4:24:31 PM
The dominant global news story as of March 4, 2026, is the escalating US-Israeli war against Iran, now in its fifth day, marked by widespread strikes, retaliatory attacks, embassy closures, evacuations of Americans from the Middle East, surging oil prices, and closed Strait of Hormuz. […]
Are consumers doomed to pay more for electricity due to data center buildouts?
Data center operators to sign pledge to supply their own power instead of relying on grid.
PlayStation is reportedly moving away from PC ports
It sounds like PlayStation is putting its focus back on console exclusives. According to a report in Bloomberg, Sony’s gaming division is moving away from porting PS5 games to PC, which reportedly includes cancelling plans for a PC port of Ghost of Yōtei. It’s a […]