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Brain scans of authoritarians show reduced grey matter in regions for empathy and social reasoning
4+ day, 12+ hour ago (205+ words) With so much going sideways since" forever, it can be hard to recall that some great stuff has happened. This week marked 43 years since Sally Ride strapped her ass" READ THE REST On the night of 21 August 1986, Lake Nyos in…...
HP 16c programmer's calculator returns in collectible form
5+ day, 15+ hour ago (333+ words) The HP 16c Collector's Edition [HP via Adafruit] revives a mundane but well-loved tool. In 1982, the original 16c was designed specifically for programmers and engineers; after three decades, only modest refinements were called for in an otherwise fully-retro recreation. With a supercomputing…...
The math is wild: Chat GPT Plus is $240/year5 years of Chat GPT, Claude & Gemini is just $99. 99
5+ day, 16+ hour ago (576+ words) Disclosure: Boing Boing earns a commission on purchases made through links in this post. TL; DR: Chat On Premium is $99. 99 for 5 years, giving you access to GPT, Claude, Gemini, Sonar, real-time web search with sources, image generation, cross-platform sync, and…...
Stop relying on Google Translate " Rosseta Stone can help you learn for real
6+ day, 16+ hour ago (423+ words) Disclosure: Boing Boing earns a commission on purchases made through links in this post. TL; DR: A1-year Rosetta Stone subscription is$127. 20(reg. $159) through June 28 as part of Deal Days " new users only. Google Translate will get you through a crisis....
Microsoft Office is somehow only $20 during Deal Days
1+ week, 10+ hour ago (409+ words) Disclosure: Boing Boing earns a commission on purchases made through links in this post. TL; DR: One payment, no renewals, no subscription drama " thislifetime Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019 licenseis just $19. 97 (reg. $229) through June 28. There is a reality where Word, Excel,…...
This $79. 99 refurbished Chromebook is tougher than the laptop on your desk
1+ week, 14+ hour ago (487+ words) Disclosure: Boing Boing earns a commission on purchases made through links in this post. Nobody's asking the family Chromebook to render 4 K video or run Call of Duty. You want something that boots fast, juggles a dozen browser tabs without…...
Crank GPT is an offline AI box for the apocalypse
1+ week, 18+ hour ago (347+ words) Crank GPT is a fully offline AI box that you power by turning a crank. There's no battery and no internet connection: just a single-board computer (Raspberry or Orange Pi) that runs speech recognition, a small language model, and text-to-speech…...
Buy Office and Windows once, then stop thinking about them for $35
1+ week, 1+ day ago (380+ words) Disclosure: Boing Boing earns a commission on purchases made through links in this post. TL; DR: The'Ultimate Microsoft Office Professional 2021 + Windows 11 Pro Bundle'includes lifetime licenses for both products and is on sale for $34. 97 (reg. $418. 99) through June 28 during Deal Days. We…...
Emojli was a social network where the only language allowed was emoji
1+ week, 2+ day ago (381+ words) Emojli launched on August 29, 2014 " a social media app that restricted usernames and messages to emoji only. No letters, no numbers, no punctuation. You Tubers Tom Scott and Matt Gray built it after seeing the success of Yo, an app whose…...
Claude AI is having a moment " this $20 course helps you keep up
1+ week, 5+ day ago (457+ words) Disclosure: Boing Boing earns a commission on purchases made through links in this post. TL; DR: The Claude AI Professional E-Degree is on sale for $19. 99 (MSRP $49) through June 14 and includes hands-on training for prompting, automation, integrations, workflows, andpractical Claude AI…...