In the heart of Chicago, a legend has simmered for decades, akin to a hot dog topped with everything but ketchup. It all began during the 1945 World Series when local bar owner William Sianis attempted to bring his pet goat, Murphy, to a game featuring the Cubs and the Detroit Tigers. Denied entry due…
If you were to ding Apple’s privacy credentials in one move, you could do worse than to launch AirPods with cameras. Whether or not they come to market, all of Apple’s existing ubiquitous earbuds would become a question mark for everyone in their vicinity: Are they recording me right now? According to Bloomberg’s well-sourced Mark…
This floating gadget monitors temperature, pH, and ORP (a stand-in for free chlorine), together giving you a solid picture of your pool’s disinfection capabilities, automatically updated every 15 minutes. While many chemistry monitors require replaceable supplies (quite costly) and regular battery replacements to work, Iopool’s solution is solid-state, needing no maintenance at all except for…
In recent days, a fantastical question has captured the attention of New Yorkers and local tabloids: Who is popping in and out of manholes across the city, and what are they doing in the sewer system? On May 5, security footage showed three people wearing hip waders entering a manhole in Queens. Then, in the…
Japanese authorities have been trying to catch a bear in north-east Japan after it injured four people and evaded capture seemingly by opening a window by itself. Footage released previously shows the bear chasing and attacking a man outside a building in Fukushima. The bear was then holed up inside an electronics factory but escaped…
A tree-like form arises out of numerical connections in a famous maths puzzle known as the Collatz conjecture Marzio De Biasi/Algoritmarte Almost a century ago, a mathematician came up with a puzzle that was so seemingly simple and yet so fiendishly difficult that it has been distracting other mathematicians ever since. It has become a…
As public backlash to the seeming omnipresence of artificial intelligence intensifies, the collective quest to weed out—and reject—telltale signs of its use continues. One of the first casualties, to my dismay, was em dashes—which are a great, and very human form of punctuation, by the way! There’s also the “rule of threes,” which is meant…
Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final delivered drama and excitement, showcasing a remarkable comeback by the Carolina Hurricanes. Facing a 2-0 deficit with just 10 minutes remaining, the Hurricanes defied the odds, becoming the first team since 1944 to win a Stanley Cup Final game after trailing by two goals in the closing minutes.…
The Carolina Hurricanes pulled off a stunning comeback against the Las Vegas Golden Knights, overcoming a 2-0 deficit with less than ten minutes remaining to win 4-3 in overtime. As the ESPN crew speculated on a potential sweep by the Golden Knights, it was Logan Stankoven who ignited the Hurricanes’ resurgence, showcasing tenacity that belied…
At the time she explained her actions in a video message to the British human rights lawyer David Haigh, who has been advocating for her: “I knew that it was the last chance to be with my children as they would never let me see them again. I genuinely believed that it was my last…