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Rabid Bat Near Homes Prompts Police Alert
A rabid bat found near a Bay Area neighborhood has prompted a police alert, urgent testing, and renewed pressure on residents to protect pets and report any possible exposure.
2026-05-31
Funny Women Rewrite The Rules Of May
Eighteen comedians and creators used one morbid boyfriend joke to dominate feeds, bending horror into shareable humor and resetting the tone of online relationships talk.
2026-05-31
GitHub Copilot’s Token Meter Backfires
GitHub Copilot is moving to token-based billing, triggering anger from developers who see shrinking value, opaque limits, and a signal that Microsoft’s AI coding honeymoon is ending.
2026-05-31
Travel
Entertainment
Eye-Level Party Levels Every Guest
An Oakland event used custom foam platforms to equalize guests’ height, turning a casual party into a live experiment in status, posture and eye contact.
2026-05-04
Why Nintendo Keeps Super Mario Galaxy Movie Racing
Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto argues the rapid pace of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie mirrors game design, trading character pauses for dense visual action to hold broad, impatient audiences.
2026-05-03
Letterboxd Owner Quietly Tests the Exit Door
Letterboxd’s controlling investor is exploring a stake sale, forcing the film-focused social platform to weigh new ownership, fresh capital and the risk of losing its loyal cinephile identity.
2026-04-27
Animal
Technology
Nintendo tunes Switch 2 for legacy games
Nintendo rolls out a broad set of Switch 2 compatibility patches, improving frame rate, input latency and visual stability across a long list of legacy Switch titles.
2026-05-31
Google’s Gemini Spark Is Oddly Separate
Gemini Spark quietly automates inbox triage and local planning with persistent context, yet its split from core Google services leaves its long‑term role uncertain.
2026-05-31
Acer turns your PC into a handheld stream box
Acer’s Nitro Blaze Link is a Linux handheld built to stream games from a local Windows PC or cloud services, targeting Portal-style couch and travel play.
2026-05-30
Health
The Real Heart Diet Divide
A massive study reports that diet quality and consistent patterns, not low-carb or low-fat labels, drive better heart health and lower cardiovascular risk.
2026-05-31
Alarming Ebola acceleration in DR Congo
Ebola infections in DR Congo are rising at a record pace, Médicins Sans Frontières warns, as the WHO director-general visits the worst-hit area to confront mounting insecurity and community mistrust.
2026-05-31
WHO chief confronts surging Ebola crisis
WHO’s director-general travels into eastern Congo’s Ebola epicenter as infection numbers outpace contact tracing, treatment capacity, and security-limited aid operations.
2026-05-31
Car
Delicacy
ACGN
Maryland confirms imported measles case
Maryland health officials confirmed an imported measles case in a Baltimore-area resident who traveled abroad and are tracing contacts and urging MMR vaccination.
2026-04-20
Five surreal sci-fi anime for a Pragmata mood
Pragmata’s eerie, low-orbit isolation has clear cousins in five surreal sci-fi anime that mix cosmic dread, fragile humanity and brutal visual imagination.
2026-04-19
Capturing Affection Through Lenses
2024-04-03