Last minute geek

1. Out Now: PCLinuxOS Magazine’s September 2021 Issue
(English/Linuxtoday)

... Topix: Google May Have Invented Time Crystals Back In Time: Getting Started with Linux’s Time Machine Surveillance Valley: Book Review KDE’s […] The post Out Now: PCLinuxOS Magazine’s September ...

2. Body Of 16-Year-Old Girl Named Faith Who Was Swept Away In A Flash Flood Has Sadly Been Found
(English/ChipChic)

... retired Verde Valley Fire District Fire Chief and EMS Chief from Verde Valley Ambulance. She was recognized by the Yavapai County Sheriff’s […] Read all  ...

3. Woman Pulls 13 Teeth Out Of A Patient And Breaks Into A Dental Office
(English/ChipChic)

Sun Valley, Nevada. Ready for one of the craziest and strangest crimes I’ve ever heard of? 42-year-old Laurel Eich from Reno, Nevada, was recently arrested and charged with several different felonies ...

4. The Transformation Of This Sad Stray Cat Is The One Heartwarming Thing You Need To See Today
(English/ChipChic)

Golden Valley, Minnesota. When I say Bruce Willis, you say Die Hard, right? Or maybe The Sixth Sense. You’re definitely are not thinking of a cat, but here’s one that shares the same name as ...

5. This Pastor Used to Make Girls Wear One-Piece Swimsuits Only And Now He’s Going Viral For The Apology He Wrote
(English/ChipChic)

Spokane Valley, Washington. Bryce Brewer has spent the last 20 years of his life being a youth pastor, and during that time, he made it mandatory for girls attending his summer camps to only wear one-piece ...

6. She Was Just Found Dead Under Suspicious Circumstances On The Exact Same Property Her Sister-In-Law Was Burned And Murdered On
(English/ChipChic)

Water Valley, Mississippi. In December of last year, Kristina Michelle Jones was found the day after Christmas burned and murdered in her home. Kristina’s house had been set on fire, and the blackened ...

7. A Day After He Rode Off Alone This 5-Year-Old Was Successfully Rescued In The Mojave Desert
(English/ChipChic)

Lucerne Valley, California. 5-year-old Otto Dahl was camping with his family at the Cougar Buttes campsite in the Mojave Desert. Otto was riding along on his blue dirtbike when he rode off into the desert ...

8. After Getting Stranded In Death Valley While Camping, Her Boyfriend Ended Up Dying And Now She Has To Have Foot Surgery
(English/ChipChic)

27-year-old Emily Henkel and her boyfriend 32-year-old Alex Lofgren decided to make the drive from Tucson, Arizona, to Death Valley at the beginning of this month. The couple wanted to go camping in Death ...

9. The Tinkerings of Bob Noyce
(English/makezine)

written by Tom Wolfe, "The Tinkerings of Bob Noyce: How the Sun Rose on Silicon Valley,"  is one of my favorite articles about the development of a person we'd say now was a maker and who figured out how ...

10. PLAN C LIVE: The PRINTtoPROTECT Coalition of California’s Central Valley
(English/makezine)

... a grassroots effort of local makers working with community partners […] Read more on MAKE The post PLAN C LIVE: The PRINTtoPROTECT Coalition of California’s Central Valley appeared first ...

11. Google parent Alphabet is pruning its 'other bets'
(English/engadget)

Alphabet is changing. The Silicon Valley super-company, which serves as an umbrella for Google and smaller, riskier subsidiaries known as "other bets," was established in August 2015. Executives ...

12. New machine learning algorithm produces "near-perfect" fake human faces
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

Face-synthesizing algorithms often struggle with facial details like eyes and teeth. These features sometimes get pinned to a fixed spot as a head turns, resulting in an uncanny valley dweller. A new ...

13. Interactive online tour of Antarctica's microworld from science hacker Ariel Waldman
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... discovered in the Southern Ocean’s McMurdo Sound near McMurdo Station and the Erebus Glacier Tongue. Microbes from glaciers and frozen lakes were discovered in the McMurdo Dry Valleys at Lake Bonney and ...

14. Why are pigeons in Las Vegas wearing cowboy hats?
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

In the Las Vegas Valley, some pigeons are wearing cowboy hats. While the chapeaus may seem cute on first glance, and pigeons are annoying anyway, it's unlikely they are purposely making a fashion statement. ...

15. Modern archaeology is entering a paywalled Lovecraftian forum to access a 1929 edition of an Egypt travel guide
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

I had hoped In the Valley of Gods, Campo Santo's follow up to Firewatch, was going to adapt some of the magic of the Indiana Jones and Brendan Fraser Mummy films, and add a modern sensibility. The trailer ...

16. Swastikas painted on cars and homes in San Bernardino mountains
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... area in Wrightwood, said the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department on Wednesday. From the Los Angeles Times: Deputies with the Victor Valley substation spotted the Nazi symbols spray-painted on three ...

17. 'Firewatch' team pauses its next game to work on Valve titles
(English/engadget)

Did you get nervous when multiple former Campo Santo developers pulled mentions of In the Valley of Gods from their Twitter profiles? Your trepidation might have been justified, although it's not ...

18. What it's like to take a vacation in Singapore's Changi Airport
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... around the waterfall have a corporate name: the Shiseido Forest Valley, after the Japanese beauty company. The waterfall is officially known as the HSBC Rain Vortex. And it’s surrounded by stores and restaurants, ...

19. Save over 30% on this massive online training library
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

It should be obvious to anyone who has ever opened up a web page that the route to a career in Silicon Valley does not necessarily travel through a traditional university. Even so, budding coders need ...

20. Rapidly spreading virus outbreak in Colorado leads to 40 school closures
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... is incredibly fast. The second version also causes fever in several cases," Mesa County Valley School District 51 said in a statement. From the article: It's the first time the Mesa County Valley School ...

21. Tech companies won’t become banks, but they’ll pretend to
(English/engadget)

Silicon Valley has already eaten plenty of industries, from camera and newspaper businesses to watches and even flashlights. Now, Big Tech appears to be turning its attention to banking. But don't ...

22. Feral hogs find and destroy cocaine stash in woods
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

A coke stash hidden in the woods by suspected drug dealers was destroyed by boars, report police in Tuscany. The drug stash was hidden in a forest area in the Valdichiana valley. The law enforcement ...

23. 'Westworld' season three teaser brings us to Silicon Valley
(English/engadget)

While the first two Westworld seasons were centered around the use of AI and robotics technology at a sort of vacation getaway, the teaser revealed tonight turns the lens back toward Silicon Valley tech ...

24. Phone call leads police to $800,000 in stolen art by an artist who believed Jesus was a space alien
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... stolen art discovery by a phone call, and they ended up finding nearly 1,300 prints in a San Fernando valley home. That caller, not identified, told LAPD the art work was found in a relative’s possessions ...

25. VW's self-driving car group will have offices in Silicon Valley and China
(English/engadget)

Volkswagen hasn't been as active or vocal about autonomous driving as some of its competitors. The company has focused much of its recent attention on electric vehicle offerings, but that seems to ...