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Ross Scott Gets A Second Chance For His ‘Stop Killing Games’ Crusade

July 15, 2025 Blogmaster

A little over a year ago we discussed YouTuber Ross Scott’s attempt to build political action around video game preservation. Scott started a campaign and site called Stop Killing Games…

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Chinese firms rush for Nvidia chips as US prepares to lift ban

July 15, 2025 Blogmaster

Chinese firms have begun rushing to order Nvidia’s H20 AI chips as the company plans to resume sales to mainland China, Reuters reports. The chip giant expects to receive US…

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Seagate’s massive, 30TB, $600 hard drives are now available for anyone to buy

July 15, 2025 Blogmaster

For more than two decades, hard drive manufacturer Seagate has been experimenting with heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology for increasing hard drive density—drives that use tiny lasers to heat up…

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Congress moves to reject bulk of White House’s proposed NASA cuts

July 15, 2025 Blogmaster

A budget-writing panel in the House of Representatives passed a $24.8 billion NASA budget bill Tuesday, joining a similar subcommittee in the Senate in maintaining the space agency’s funding after…

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Large study squashes anti-vaccine talking points about aluminum

July 15, 2025 Blogmaster

A sweeping analysis of health data from more than 1.2 million children in Denmark born over a 24-year period found no link between the small amounts of aluminum in vaccines…

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Medieval preacher invoked chivalric hero as a meme in sermon

July 15, 2025 Blogmaster

Medieval poet Geoffrey Chaucer twice made references to an early work featuring a Germanic mythological character named Wade. Only three lines survive, discovered buried in a sermon by a late…

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Belkin Bricks Most Wemo Smart Home Devices, Again Demonstrating You Don’t Own What You Buy

July 15, 2025 Blogmaster

Belkin is the latest company to painfully demonstrate that you no longer own what you buy, and the whims of corporate executives can very often leave you with expensive paperweights.…

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Corporate inadequacy has rendered my favorite rediscovered gadget useless

July 15, 2025 Blogmaster

I went for a run this morning while holding my iPhone, which was connected to a cable that attached to my earbuds. I’ve exercised with wired headphones for years, but…

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DHS Dumps Intel Office Because Actual Intel Keeps Contradicting Trump’s Bigoted Narrative

July 15, 2025 Blogmaster

The Trump administration invoked the Alien Enemies Act to expedite its ejection of anyone not white enough to be considered worthy of citizenship. ICE raids occur daily, performed by masked…

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UnitedHealth’s Response To People Cheering Their CEO’s Murder: Silence The Critics

July 15, 2025 Blogmaster

When your CEO gets murdered and half the internet celebrates, most companies might pause and ask “why do so many people hate us?” But UnitedHealth had a different response: hire…

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