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I don’t make the rules. I just know them: The days leading up to Memorial Day are the best time to buy a grill (or a mattress, for that matter). That’s when the big grill and griddle makers are eager to show off their new line. It’s when they hope to lock you in for

A convicted child rapist who avoided jail time thanks to a leftist prosecutor was seen traveling with a missing girl this week in Virginia, according to police. Autumn Van Zandt, 17, went missing after Tuesday with Ronnie Reel, 39, and the pair “may be attempting to travel out of state,” the Fredericksburg Police Department (FPD)

Schlitz Beer has been discontinued after over a century of brewing, Wisconsin Brewing Company announced May 14, according to Milwaukee Magazine. Schlitz Beer was discontinued by its parent company, Pabst Brewing Company, according to Milwaukee Magazine. Zac Nadile, head of brand strategy at Pabst, said continued increasing costs prompted the decision. “Unfortunately, we have seen

A United Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing Thursday after an incident involving an unruly passenger. The individual attempted to open a plane door at 36,000 feet and assaulted another passenger, the New York Post reported. The flight took off from Newark Liberty International Airport and was headed to Guatemala City when

To get internet access in your home, you need both a modem and a router. They aren’t interchangeable, and they serve two very different functions. If you think of your home as an island, the modem is the port where the big cargo ships come in from the world wide web, and the router is

An assailant attacked an elderly man Wednesday afternoon outside his California home over a pro-U.S. and Trump-themed political display, his wife alleged. Kerry Sheron was allegedly attacked shortly after 2 p.m. in Escondido, according to CBS 8. The Escondido Police Department (EPD) responded and discovered him seriously hurt and lying in the street. Sheron was

It’s been 17 years since I sat in on the iconic weekly search quality meeting in the Ouagadougou conference room at Google’s Mountain View campus. That Thursday morning, around three dozen engineers, product managers, and executives sat at a table or sprawled on the floor to discuss why certain search queries or categories didn’t yield

Photograph: Luke Larsen With just a few screws and a power cable to snake through the stand, setup was a straightforward process. The adjustments to the monitor tilt, height, and rotation happen with one dubious handle, and it’s not nearly as intuitive as I’d have liked. For something that would need to be frequently adjusted

Humans are animals that measure things. Call us Homo mensura. We have a compulsion to quantify, and for millennia we’ve been inventing new ways to go about it. For anything you can think of, there’s a device to measure it—from sphygmomanometers to spectrophotofluorometers. And of course nowhere is this more true than in science. Well

Review: Valve Steam Controller (2026) Without the context of Valve’s Steam Machine (which is still MIA), this controller can’t fully dazzle players yet. Photograph: Matt Kamen Fantastic build quality. Incredibly accurate TMR thumbsticks. Highly customizable inputs. Included puck is a marvel for charging and connectivity. Can’t use with PC games outside of Steam. Gyroscope tricky