A typical tour of duty as a Red Shirt is intense, but brief. (lemmy.world)
UK toddler has hearing restored in world first gene therapy trial (www.theguardian.com)
Belgian sex workers to get health insurance, pensions and maternity leave in world first (www.yahoo.com)
Tesla Tells Cybertruck Owner Coolant Leaks Aren't Covered By Warranty After Only 35 Miles (jalopnik.com)
Flavor Flav is the official hype man for the US women's water polo team in the Paris Olympics (apnews.com)
EA wants to place in-game ads in its full-price AAA games, again (www.techspot.com)
EA has tried this before, with predictable results. In 2020, EA Sports UFC 4 included full-screen ads for the Amazon Prime series The Boys that would appear during ‘Replay’ moments. These were absent from the game when it launched, with EA introducing the ads about a month later, thereby preventing them from being...
LOOK AT IT (lemmy.world)
top ten loopholes (lemmy.cafe)
Online dating apps be like (lemmy.world)
Target will only sell Pride Month collection in some stores after backlash in 2023 (abcnews.go.com)
UN assembly approves resolution granting Palestine new rights and reviving its UN membership bid (apnews.com)
Baby Killdeer I rescued from a storm drain (sh.itjust.works)
One of the parents was running around the drain making a bunch of noise, went to investigate and found the baby trapped inside. I fished it out with a hair net wrapped around a coat hanger that I taped to a broom handle.
Nearly all Gaza campus protests in the US have been peaceful, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
Analysis of 553 protests in solidarity with Palestinians between 18 April and 3 May found 97% of them did not cause serious damage...
you don't need more 4GB of RAM (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Improvised bookmark (lemmus.org)
Mutts by Patrick McDonnell, May 10, 2024.
Handbrake/ffmpeg: What free video codec to use for 720p videos?
I have a lot of old movies, most will barely be 720p....
Amid fresh warnings that Russia is preparing “violent acts of sabotage” in Europe and NATO states, experts say there is already a significant uptick in what appears to be covert Russian sabotage (www.france24.com)
Jenny Mathers, a specialist in Russian intelligence services at Aberystwyth University in Wales, said there has been a notable increase in the number and intensity of Russia-linked incidents for the past year, adding that “we are likely to see an acceleration of this trend"....
What is my boy Hatchi plotting? (lemmy.ca)
First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says (thehill.com)
The first Neuralink implant in a human malfunctioned after several threads recording neural activity retracted from the brain, the Elon Musk-owned startup revealed Wednesday....
Northern Lights could be visible in England and Wales as severe solar storm to hit overnight (news.sky.com)
The Northern Lights are set to be visible across large parts of the UK overnight as a huge solar storm is going to hit Earth....
EA is looking at putting in-game ads in AAA games — 'We'll be very thoughtful as we move into that,' says CEO (www.tomshardware.com)
EA CEO Andrew Wilson confirmed the company is considering putting ads in traditional AAA games — titles that players purchase up-front for around $70 apiece. In the Q&A part of EA’s latest earnings call, Eric Sheridan from Goldman Sachs asked Wilson about dynamic ad insertion in traditional AAA games. Wilson said,...
You will suffer me. (lemmy.world)
"Don't call me that. I'm a member of Parliament, not your favorite Risian stripper." (tesseract.dubvee.org)
Offscreen is Amos hitting on Lwaxana who just kind of materialized on the Roci. He calls her “Pumpkins”.
Public school tried to ban student’s lesbian art work because it’s “offensive” to Christians (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Communicating trauma through art is fine, as long as you don’t remind the Christian fundies that their beliefs and practices are a prime source of religious trauma for lots of people.