- newNo more ads? Get speedy, secure, and seamless connectivity with this VPN for 94% off
TL;DR: Stream seamlessly and surf securely with iProVPN's advanced encryption ad-blocker for just $19.99 (Reg. $360).They're called cookies for a reason — they make you crave something you never wanted in the first place. Thanks to cookies, ads, AI crawlers, and surveillance technology, your browser probably serves you up advertisement after advertisement based on your browser history or conversations. — Read the rest The post No more ads? Get speedy, secure, and seamless connectivity with this VPN for 94% off appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 1 hour ago 24 Jul 26, 9:00pm -
- newOnline nihilist networks targeted in international crackdown
European police targeted thousands of websites hosting "nihilistic" material this summer, part of an international crackdown on violent content by investigators from nine countries. The Com, a decentralized network of such sites, was the key target, according to a press release from Europol. — Read the rest The post Online nihilist networks targeted in international crackdown appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 2 hours ago 24 Jul 26, 8:27pm -
- newAmiga Freeware Archive
In my acrylic case were maybe a hundred Amiga floppies, the contents of each neatly inscribed on the 3.3mm label edge with a Pilot V5. Now I have the rest of 'em: the Amiga Freeware Archive is a searchable catalog of free software for Commodore's Amiga, the world's first psychedelic computer. — Read the rest The post Amiga Freeware Archive appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 2 hours ago 24 Jul 26, 7:42pm -
- newBlade Runner 2099 trailer
Blade Runner 2099, sequel to 1981's Blade Runner and 2017's Blade Runner 2049, lands on Prime Video November 25. Though it's a TV series, all 8 episodes will drop at once, so no-one will be left hanging. Here's the trailer. — Read the rest The post Blade Runner 2099 trailer appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 4 hours ago 24 Jul 26, 6:12pm -
- newAstronomers may have detected an exomoon
Astronomers using the Very Large Telescope in Chile have found evidence of a moon-sized companion far beyond our own solar system, which might be the first exomoon to be detected (though it wouldn't be the first time we've been here). — Read the rest The post Astronomers may have detected an exomoon appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 4 hours ago 24 Jul 26, 5:46pm -
- newDesign proposals for European banknotes
The European Central Bank is preparing to issue cash with a "new look" and has published its Future euro banknote design proposals: "Designers from all over Europe have reimagined how they may look like, and one of their proposals is to become the next design of the euro banknotes." — Read the rest The post Design proposals for European banknotes appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 5 hours ago 24 Jul 26, 5:19pm -
- newThis $20 PDF editor keeps your files off the cloud and on your device (MSRP $50)
TL;DR: Tackle PDFs with ease forever with an IndyPDF Editor and Converter lifetime subscription, on sale now for just $19.99 (MSRP $49.99).If you have subscription fatigue, here's a deal for an app you pay for once and get to enjoy for life. — Read the rest The post This $20 PDF editor keeps your files off the cloud and on your device (MSRP $50) appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 7 hours ago 24 Jul 26, 3:00pm -
- newBritain's £36 million peanut farm harvested less than it planted
In 1946, with Britain still on wartime rationing and short of cooking fat, Clement Attlee's government approved a plan to plant peanuts across 3 million acres of Tanganyika, a stretch of bush roughly the size of Yorkshire, and turn the crop into margarine. — Read the rest The post Britain's £36 million peanut farm harvested less than it planted appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 8 hours ago 24 Jul 26, 2:00pm -
- newA chemist invented a fake Frenchman to justify capital L for liters
The International System of Units capitalizes a unit's symbol only when the unit is named for a person, which leaves the liter with a lowercase l that is easy to mistake for a capital I or the numeral 1. In 1978 Kenneth Woolner of the University of Waterloo solved that by inventing the person: Claude Émile Jean-Baptiste Litre, born in 1716 to a maker of wine bottles, who over a long and distinguished career proposed a unit of volume that entered the metric system after his death in 1778. — Read the rest The post A chemist invented a fake Frenchman to justify capital L for liters appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 8 hours ago 24 Jul 26, 2:00pm -
- newWhat if the whole planet ran on a single clock?
Every so often someone proposes to abolish time zones entirely and put the whole planet on a single clock. It would be the same time everywhere at once: when it reads 08:00 in London, it reads 08:00 in New York and Beijing too — even though New York's sky would look the way it usually does at 3 a.m., — Read the rest The post What if the whole planet ran on a single clock? appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 9 hours ago 24 Jul 26, 1:00pm -