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A tractor trailer sitting across railroad tracks in Pecos, Texas caused a train to derail yesterday afternoon, killing one person and injuring four others. After jumping the tracks, the train crashed into the town's Chamber of Commerce building,

After years of discarding two Chemex three-layer paper coffee filters daily, I decided to cut back on waste and try a stainless steel coffee filter. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! I felt like my daily coffee ritual was ...

TL;DR: This holiday, give someone the gift of a more streamlined workday with 1minAI's collection of almost all the major AI models, now only $39.99 (reg. $234). When AI first came out, we were a little worried it would take a lot of people's jobs. -

As the rabid GOP fights itself over government funding, Sen. Rand Paul suggests replacing Speaker Mike Johnson with Elon Musk. "The Speaker of the House need not be a member of Congress," the Kentucky lawmaker posted this morning. "Nothing would ...

Chen Jinping, 60, pleaded guilty Wednesday to acting as an illegal agent of the Chinese government and faces up to five years in jail. Jinpung wasn't a spy or a smuggler, though: he operated a secret police station, as used by the Chinese Communist ...

It's no secret that Nvidia's 5000 series of GPUs is on its way, and there are no surprises for guessing the model numbers, either, but now we know for sure what's coming in the new year. This is thanks to an apparently-premature update, quickly ...

The Federal Trade Commission ruled that ticket sellers, hotels and rental sites must disclose the total prices, including all fees, upfront. This would also prohibit them from hiding charges until the last minute, though NBC News reports that the ...

I was lucky enough to spend the weekend in the always-weird-and-wonderful Bisbee, Arizona, where I had the grand pleasure of experiencing Bisbee's newest artistic labor of love: The Freak Family Roadshow. And boy does it deliver! It has everything I ...

The Commodore 64, released by the long-dead manufacturer in 1982 with 64kb of RAM and capable of displaying 16 colors at once, is more than merely alive. It was still performing inventory and point-of-sale duty at the Hilligoss Bakery bakery in ...

What level of marketing is this? In any case, the first big budget entry in James Gunn's new DC universe, which wallpapers over the confusing jumble of cameos and half-baked plotlines that constituted the last one, is just over the horizon. -- Read ...