Captain Obvious Strikes

superfan has recreated Frodo’s exact journey from Bag End to Mount Doom in a 10-hour virtual trek through Lord of the Rings Online, an 18-year-old MMO.

Despite Boromir’s iconic warning, it turns out you can, in fact, simply walk into Mordor

How a huge dinosaur trackway was uncovered in the UK

Cocktails and checkmates: the young Britons giving chess a new lease of life

Laid-back clubs proving a hit in London, Birmingham and elsewhere as people look for new ways to socialise

Großes Ägyptisches Museum öffnet nach 20 Jahren Verzögerung

4K or 8K TVs Offer No Distinguishable Benefit Over Similarly Sized 2K Screen in Average Living Room, Scientists Say

study from the Complexity Science Hub Vienna finds that as people's close social circles expanded from two to five friends around the rise of social media (2008-2010), polarization in society spiked

In my mind, "Apple" as a brand used to be synonymous with "attention to detail" but sadly, over the course of the last 8 - 10 years, their choices have become anything but detail oriented.

This year, things have gotten so bad that I'm starting to think they've stopped caring about user experience, accessibility, and detailed QA tests altogether.

A single DNS race condition brought Amazon's cloud empire to its knees
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Fault in DynamoDB system cascaded through AWS services, knocking major sites offline for hours

it illustrates a serious pain point in modern cars -- myriad apps interacting with a diverse population of in-car software systems

Ultimately, more than 28 AWS services were disrupted, causing perhaps billions in damages, one analyst estimated for CNN

study reveals that foreign suspects are mentioned three times more in German media than their actual share in police statistics, influencing public perception of crime and migration

"In Kolumbien gibt es das Recht auf Habeas Data. Sie sind Eigentümer Ihrer Daten. Sensible Daten wie die Iris Ihrer Augen dürfen nicht einfach gegen Geld weitergegeben werden, ohne dass Sie wissen, wie sie verwendet werden"

Die durchschnittliche Zeit pro täglich aktivem Nutzer in den Vereinigten Staaten ist seit Juli um 22,5% eingebrochen, während die durchschnittlichen Sitzungen pro Nutzer um 20,7% gesunken sind

patterns that arise in origami can be translated into a set of points that together form the amplituhedron

This zoomable map shows every page of every issue of BYTE starting from the front cover of the first issue (top left) to the last page of the final edition (bottom right)

the owner of the New York Stock Exchange, said it would invest as much as $2 billion in Polymarket at an $8 billion pre-money valuation

If we could remove the 50 most concerning pieces of space debris in low-Earth orbit, there'd be a 50% reduction in the overall debris-generating potential, reports Ars Technica

AirPods Pro 3 Impossible To Repair, Earn Score of 0 In iFixit Teardown (macrumors.com)

World’s major cities hit by 25% leap in extremely hot days since the 1990s

Capitals from London to Tokyo need urgent action to protect people from deadly high temperatures, analysts say