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This week the Department of Justice landed Apple with the lawsuit of the century, claiming the company operates a monopoly over its iPhone products and iOS business model that stifles competition and hurts its competitors. Amidst a myriad of strange claims, such as the idea that the dreadful Amazon Fire Phone failed because of Apple (and not because it was dreadful), a revisionist history of Apple’s iPod success has set tongues wagging on the internet. As part of an introduction to the Apple vs. United States lawsuit,…

On Petri Alanko’s website, where the ​​Bafta-nominated Finnish musician offers his services as a composer for video games and film, the artist and performer makes a bold claim: “No deadlines missed since 1990”. If you’re a creative of any flavour, you’re likely to read that with a mixture of awe, suspicion and incredulity. Deadlines are flexible, right? Right?“It’s not a boast, it’s a service promise, more or less,” laughs Alanko. “I’m really good at scheduling my own work, but I am very careful when dealing with someone…

The First Amphibian Known to Beg Its Mother for Milk Is More Bizarre than You Might ImagineSurprisingly, the young of limbless amphibians called ringed caecilians stimulate their mother by touch and sound to release a milklike substanceBy Tim VernimmenA ringed caecilian (Siphonops annulatus) mother with newborn babies. Caecilians are amphibians—like frogs, toads, salamanders and newts—but they look more like worms. They have no limbs and possess very rudimentary eyes, and many spend their entire life underground. This…

Donald Trump appeared to come out in defense of TikTok, the social media platform facing a potential ban by Congress, in a flurry of posts late Thursday on his social media platform Truth Social. The platform, it should be noted, experienced a widespread outage as the former president attempted to live-tweet President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech.Mourning the Loss of Addison Rae’s Debut Album | The Meme Machine“If you get rid of TikTok, Facebook and Zuckerschmuck will double their business. I don’t want Facebook,…

Sometimes, it’s nice to have a little mystery in life. We love watching films that leave us in suspense, and we’re often attracted to people who we want to learn more about. So if you’re looking for some images that might leave you intrigued, you’ve come to the right place, pandas.Below, you’ll find some of our favorite posts from the Images Out of Context X account. This page shares silly and somewhat confusing pics that might make you laugh without providing any background information. So enjoy scrolling through, and…

The question of whether Luc Besson has got his groove back is only going to annoy those who dispute any former groove-ownership. Besson himself might contend that box office success is in any case the sole criterion for assessing groove. At all events, this bizarre and macabre drama-thriller is watchable and Caleb Landry Jones gives an oddly engaging performance as Douglas Munrow, a wheelchair-using “Dogman”, questioned by police psychologist Evelyn (Jojo T Gibbs) after being arrested in full drag gear, smeared with…

Rice University researchers have discovered a novel 3D crystalline metal that locks electrons in place due to a unique interplay of quantum correlations and the material’s geometric structure. This discovery highlights the role of flat electronic bands in determining a material’s properties and sets the stage for further explorations into quantum materials with pyrochlore lattice structures. Credit: SciTechDaily.comNew research validates method for guided discovery of 3D flat-band materials.Scientists at Rice University…

Microsoft Corp. said it's investigating reports that its Copilot chatbot is generating responses that users have called bizarre, disturbing and, in some cases, harmful. Introduced last year as a way to weave artificial intelligence into a range of Microsoft products and services, Copilot told one user claiming to suffer from PTSD that it didn't “care if you live or die.” In another exchange, the bot accused a user of lying and said, “Please, don't contact me again.” Colin Fraser, a Vancouver-based data scientist, shared…

Josh Hartnett is being celebrated for his portrayal of Ernest Lawrence, garnering a Screen Actors Guild Award alongside his Oppenheimer cast members for the Ensemble in a Motion Picture. Now the actor is setting his sights on an intriguing new venture, a role he calls a “pivot” in M. Night Shyamalan’s upcoming movie Trap. The project finds him collaborating with the master of suspense on a role he promises to diverge sharply from his previous work, offering him a chance to delve into an array of complex, darker emotions…

If aliens ever visited Earth and you wanted to show them just how unique, diverse, and bizarre humankind can get, you should take them for a ride on the subway. There’s something special about public transport that brings out the strangeness in some folks.The Paris metro is no exception! The ‘Les Gens Dans Le Métro’ ('People in the Metro’) Instagram account documents the strangest sights that Parisians have seen on the subway. We’ve collected some of the funniest and oddest photos to share with you. Scroll down to…