TL;DR: Make coding easier with Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026, on sale for just $29.97 (MSRP $499.99) through tonight at 11:59 PM.

Even experienced coders sometimes need a little help. Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 combines professional development tools with AI-powered assistance to help you tackle code more efficiently. — Read the rest

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My friend and Wired colleague Gary Wolf is one of my favorite writers. He wrote a bunch of fantastic articles for Wired magazine, including a profile of Ted Nelson, creator of the Xanadu hypertext project, and he wrote a history of Wired magazine, a book called Wired: A Romance. — Read the rest

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Illustrator Robert Ullman, who did some great illustrations for Make magazine when I was editor there, has a new Kickstarter for a 48-page comic about his trip to Zion National Park. What a great way to capture an experience and share it with other people. — Read the rest

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The Saudi-owned and operated son-in-law of our dementia addled President is tired of people getting things wrong, and maybe sometime he'll tell us the side of the story he wants us to hear.

Jared Kushner, whose private-equity firm took a $2 billion investment from Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund and who is best known for marrying Diaper Don's daughter, is sick and tired of being kicked around by the press and is not gonna take it anymore, someday, really. — Read the rest

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Id Software's 1992 shooter Doom now runs on toothbrushes, alarm clocks and all sorts of other modern gadgets that contain tiny supercomputers. But it doesn't run on the 8-bit home computers (or even 16-bit ones) that are even older than it is. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Handle your PDFs with ease with this lifetime subscription to PDF Expert's Premium Plan while it's on sale for 43% off. 

While a few software products include some kind of PDF management, nothing's better than the real thing. Take, for example, PDF Expert, a PDF editor that lets you edit, annotate, compress, merge, convert, sign, and protect PDFs from a single workspace. — Read the rest

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Camera Index represents camera expert Pierro Pozella's quest to document every film camera ever made. He aims to turn it into the ultimate encyclopedia of the form, complete with specifications, manuals and, of course, photographs of the gadgets. [via Kosmofoto]

"Our aim is to create one of the most comprehensive film camera archives available, while keeping it freely accessible to photographers, collectors, researchers and anyone interested in analogue photography.

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British singer Olivia Dean's song I've Seen It lifts a section of melody from 1981 Bill Withers hit Just The Two Of Us, according to a lawsuit [PDF] filed in California. The songs "share musical features … so striking" that it cannot be a coincidence, claim lawyers for Mattie Music Group, which manages Withers' catalog. — Read the rest

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People keep waiting for a groundbreaking reinvention of the e-reader, but Kindle already does it pretty well.

The e-reader line has been refreshed. New Basic, Paperwhite, and Colorsoft versions are available, along with Signature editions for the Paperwhite and Colorsoft. The shape has changed somewhat. — Read the rest

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Potter & Potter Auctions just closed its "Weird Tales! UFOs, Curiosities and Tattoos" auction, and it is fun to browse through the catalog and see what was offered and how much money people paid. Items included books on pseudoscience, human skulls, wooden boxes full of glass eyes, quack medical devices, apothecary jars, pickled medical specimens, death masks, exotic weapons, the Lord's Prayer on a grain of wheat, binders of mugshot photos, and more. — Read the rest

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The Orange Menace has lost his multiple bids to slap his failure-associated name on a revered institution and has been ordered not to tear it down on a whim, so he is selling off the parts.

Movers have been photographed hauling out the Steinways, which AlterNet reports are being sold because the Center is closed. — Read the rest

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New U.S. passports are coming, and first-time applicants can apply online. Digital selfies will also be allowed, making the process easier than ever. Passports are currently mailed in paper envelopes. New ones will come in a white box with the golden seal. — Read the rest

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After about 10 minutes of officer testimony, it took about 35 seconds of dashcam video to see the charges dropped.

Chavez Morgan was issued a citation for an illegal lane change that caused a minor mirror-clip incident on the highway. He told the officer he had dashcam footage and explained what happened, but the officer still judged him the culprit. — Read the rest

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A social media ad for "nutritionally complete" meal replacement shakes was banned by the UK's advertising watchdog over a suggestion the shakes can replace conventional food. Huel's ad, which ran on Instagram and YouTube, showed celebrity entrepreneur Spencer Matthews talking to Huel Founder Julian Hearn about a race-winning athlete who "only eats Huel." — Read the rest

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Mandelnaut is the ultimate 1990s poster shop spinner, generating beautiful images of fractals with a huge array of options and settings and outputting images at custom dimensions.

Making fractal wallpapers: rendering escape-time fractals, finding beautiful views, and teaching models to judge them

There are Mandelbrots, Multibrots, Julias, and Phoenixes to explore and zoom around, 13 rendering modes, and hundreds of color schemes organized by hue and various pallette cycling knobs and dials on top. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Get $150 in travel data credit, usable in 200+ countries, for just $69.99 (reg. $150) with aloSIM.

The last thing anyone wants to do after landing in their travel destination is wander around looking for the best and most affordable network carriers. — Read the rest

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Christopher Paul is running unopposed to become the chief of police in Elizabeth, Louisiana, a village of 417 people. Paul, however, was recently charged with raping two 13-year-old girls twenty years ago, creating a dilemma for locals who might not want someone suspected of serious crimes to be their only full-time police officer. — Read the rest

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Kenjiro Tsuda, an actor famed in Japan for his lustrous baritone, sued TikTok over an account that used an AI-generated replica of his voice in more than 180 videos. Tokyo District Court ruled this week that a persons' voice can be protected under Japan's publicity rights law. — Read the rest

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Fujifilm's ever-growing Instax range trends toward both high-end retro and pocketable fun (consider the runaway success of Kodak's Charmera), with both to be found in the Instax Pal 2. Shorn of its printer and only 1.4 x 1.6 x 3.6 inches (37 x 42 x 92mm), it's completely unlike the bloblike original in style. — Read the rest

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Executives from Samsung and Micron, two of the world's top sellers of random access memory, warned this week that the RAM shortage would continue through 2028. AI companies take it all for their datacenters, and what's left for everyone else will continue to command premium prices. — Read the rest

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