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The person who named them woofers and tweeters should have named more stuff.

You know what would be great? If Google paid the sites that make up each AI Overview result

She seems nice

The TV I'm testing flicked over to The Rebound with Catherine Zeta Jones, and it was literally shot outside where I am sitting right now (16 years in the past)

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It's hard to imagine The Gorge was made by actual adult humans.

A wombat sits with its head down, grazing in short grass. Its small ears are slightly blonder than its grey-brown head and body

Wombats have little ears, and unlike many other species of bat, they are not known to use echolocation.🦇
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You've got about an hour left to score Brutal Legend (one of the best heavy metal games of all time), for $0.00 (one of the best prices of all time). doublefine.itch.io/brutal-legend

The 666-minute giveaway might almost be over, but our love for Ozzy will never end.

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The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok Or how, exactly, platforms die.

Reading about the origin of "enshittification" and it's reminding me of when companies thought pivoting to TikTok was a good idea www.wired.com/story/tiktok...

This Week in Videogames - TWIV Covering the important things happening in the world of videogames. News, reviews, and insights without ads or filler content.

Hello. About a year and a half ago, some guy called Ralph asked me if I wanted to make a new videogame website.

We're launching it today. Maybe you can even visit it if people stop hammering the server for a second.

Weezer White is still great, can confirm

Today's AI Appreciation Day Feels Weird. Celebrate These Other Made-Up Holidays Instead Commentary: Why are we dedicating a day to tech that's filling the internet with slop, burning through clean water, and destabilizing creative industries?

If I'm going to celebrate a meaningless holiday invented by marketing companies, it's going to be National Hot Dog Day, not AI Appreciation Day.
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I Watched a $30,000, 116-Inch TV. Now I Need a Bigger Living Room I spent a couple of hours with the Hisense 116UX TV, which has an RGB mini-LED backlight and a superfast 165Hz panel. Also, it's big.

I so badly want to see this in-person:

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So meaty

Why do you lock your door at night. Is it because you think I'll come in and debate you. Are you afraid of free speech

Baroness, Blue
Amy Winehouse, Back to Black
My Morning Jacket, Z
Eels, Daisies of the Galaxy
Future of the Left, Travels with Myself and Another
Stars, Set Yourself on Fire
Car Seat Headrest, The Scholars
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Nonagon Infinity
Mitski, Puberty 2
Wilco, A Ghost is Born

Testing a giant Hisense TV for CNET. Water bottle for scale.

Teams and Zoom together at last

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I had doubts about Eric the vampire as my favourite misanthropic Sec Unit. But Murderbot is great. Watch it!

If you like a site and want it to succeed, visit it directly and subscribe if it offers the ability.

Half-Life: Alyx (VR) is $17.99 on Steam buff.ly/91O7FKV

Listening to Australian records today because I'm feeling perverse, and inspired by the Hottest 100 of Australian Songs #Julythefourthbewithyou

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I'm enjoying Stick, but it replaces the optimism of Apple's other sports dramedy, Ted Lasso, with a view that hubris could make it fall apart at any moment

Phablet is not a valid entry for today's Spelling Bee and 2009 @cnet.com wants a word

Who knew Gristedes was still open?

I am putting together a new TV to test and it smells like sheep dung. I think it's a ploy to appeal to me as an Australian

Years ago, I was a charity telemarketer and I had to call Australian politician Don Chipp and ask him to donate money. Except it was obvious I knew who he was, and I was awkward, and he gave me no money.

I will admit I tapered off after the third