When people form memories of the World Cup, it’s matches like this that do it. France once again won comprehensively, and against decent opposition, but the quality of their attacking play, and the sheer beauty of their goals, were difficult to fully appreciate in the moment. It’s the sort of...
‘Happy vowel’ is a key indicator of social class in Manchester accents, study finds
Final vowel in words such as happy, baby and chilly varies clearly by social class across the city Pronunciation of the “happy vowel” is one of the key indicators of social class in Mancunian accents, researchers have found. A sociolinguistic study, led by Lancaster University, found that the final vowel...
The video game industry just told lawmakers Minecraft and Call of Duty private servers are illegal piracy
California's Protect Our Games Act, which would have required publishers to provide remedies when ending support for paid online games, stalled in the state Senate after falling just three votes short of a majority. The bill's leading supporter, Stop Killing Games, quickly seized on an opposing lobbyist's claim that private......
This retro enthusiast forced Windows 11 to run on a Core 2 Quad Q6600 and AGP graphics
Can Windows 11 run on a 2003 motherboard, an AGP GPU (for those not old enough, that's the slot that predates PCI Express) with no official drivers, and a slightly newer CPU rocking four 65nm cores? A retro-hardware enthusiast named Omores recently proved that it can, even as Microsoft would......
Cargo thieves are now stealing millions in data center hardware, not just GPUs and consoles
Law enforcement officials in Illinois recently recovered two trailers carrying an estimated $1.3 million worth of data center equipment at a truck yard in the Chicago metro area. Investigators with the Cook County Sheriff's Office opened their investigation after being tipped off on June 18 about a trailer holding roughly......
License plate cameras are scanning 20 billion vehicles a month, cities are starting to push back
Flock Safety is squarely at the center of that debate. The Atlanta-based company has rapidly expanded by selling automated license plate readers to police departments, neighborhood groups, and private organizations. Its cameras, often mounted inconspicuously on poles, capture images of passing vehicles and convert them into searchable data points. The......
A Jefferson for every era, from Lincoln to Trump, and the contradictions that endure
Jon Meacham is among many historians reflecting on the complex legacy of Thomas Jefferson
Parents charged with murder in death of 7-year-old son who weighed 255 pounds
Prosecutors in Michigan say the parents of a 7-year-old boy who weighed 255 pounds when he died have been charged with murder
Thousands of immigrants got scammed by an attorney exploiting humanitarian visas, lawsuits say
An attorney in Washington state promised “miracles” to tens of thousands of immigrants seeking legal status
Trump’s fixation on voting has had mixed results. He still has ways to affect November’s elections
President Donald Trump has tried many ways to tighten his grip on U.S. elections, from signing executive orders to pushing restrictive legislation in Congress