Professor Murder Rides the Subway is a forgotten slice of dance punk perfection

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Professor Murder Rides the Subway is a forgotten slice of dance punk perfection

I recently dug out my CDs and started reripping them all. I've found a few forgotten gems in there, but few hit harder for me than the beautifully concise Professor Murder Rides the Subway EP. There was a period of time in the mid-aughts in NYC where it seemed like every indie band wanted you […]

The Verge · August 30, 2026

Hugging Face’s new robot is an adorable rollerskating duck

Hugging Face's Pollen Robotics has launched its second cute AI robot, the Microduck, a one-eyed biped standing just under 10 inches tall. It's available to preorder now for $399 in cream, graphite, lavender, and sky blue, and Pollen Robotics says it plans to start shipping the little robot "before Christmas 2026." Video demos of the […]

Tech Aug 27, 2026

Plaud is launching AI earbuds

Plaud has introduced a new AI wearable that's designed to record, transcribe, and summarize your conversations, only this time it looks like earbuds instead of a pin. The Plaud One Explorer Edition can be worn like traditional earbuds or used through its standalone charging case, and the case includes built-in 4G to upload and process […]

Tech Aug 27, 2026

Adobe is adding more AI to Photoshop

Adobe is rolling out an AI-heavy update for Photoshop that includes a new "optional" interface dedicated to its AI tools. Launching in beta, the "AI Assisted Editor" view will show all of Photoshop's AI features in a single toolbar, including its prompt-based image editor, background remover, an AI image extender, and more. There are also […]

Tech Aug 27, 2026

Sleep score court is in session

Your honor, We all know that the woman who sits before you is tired. Just look at the circles under her eyes. The novelty Pride and Prejudice T-shirt and Muji sweatpants that pass for pajamas. The unkempt, banana clip hairstyle that says "I really did wake up like this." But she's doing her best. And […]

Tech Aug 27, 2026

Samsung’s Galaxy S26 FE pairs last year’s hardware with last month’s software

The Fan Edition phones are rarely Samsung's most exciting launches of the year, but the new Galaxy S26 FE feels especially familiar. Hardware-wise, little has changed since the S25 FE launched 12 months ago, and the upgrades have mostly come in the form of software tricks which themselves were already seen on this year's previous […]

Tech Aug 27, 2026

Of course Samsung made a 1,100Hz gaming monitor

Samsung announced its upcoming lineup of Odyssey gaming monitors today at Gamescom, and says that several will feature "world-first innovations" across display speeds and design. This includes the 27-inch Odyssey G6 it initially unveiled in December, which now features a 1,100Hz refresh rate, alongside new OLED Odyssey G9, G8, and G7 updates for 2027. The […]

Tech Aug 27, 2026

Xiaomi’s new Redmi phone lasts for three days on a single charge

The 9,210mAh dual-cell battery in the new Redmi Note 17 Pro Max is the biggest that Xiaomi has fit in any phone it's sold in Europe - and remarkably, in some other markets the phone comes with an even larger 10,000mAh single-cell design. As you can probably guess, this is a silicon-carbon battery either way, […]

Learning Aug 27, 2026

How to Tell If Your Search Console Impressions Came From a Human or a Machine

Your Search Console report says a page earned 3,068 impressions on the first page of Google over 90 days. But it earned zero clicks in that same time period. The usual reading is that the page has a c

Marketing & SEO Aug 27, 2026

Google confirms deploying goto URL redirects to search results links

Google said it deploys technical measures against evolving forms of abuse and this is one of those.

Security Aug 26, 2026

FBI Disrupts China-Linked QTFY Infrastructure Used to Steal Data From U.S. Organizations

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced the disruption of two hacking platforms named QScan and QTRouter operated by Chinese threat actors to target critical infrastructure and other sensitive networks in the country. The activity has been attributed to a Chinese state-sponsored group known as QTFY, employed by Nanjing Xinjiuwei Network Technology Company (南京鑫玖维网络科技有限公司).&

Learning Aug 26, 2026

whereBinary(): Case-Sensitive MySQL Queries in Laravel

Laravel 13.27 adds whereBinary() to the query builder for byte-exact, case-sensitive comparisons on MySQL and MariaDB without dropping into whereRaw().

Learning Aug 26, 2026

Build a Market Time Machine: Replay Trading Sessions with Python and WebSockets

Historical market data usually arrives as a completed dataset. That's convenient for analysis, but very different from the way trading software experiences a live market. In production, events arrive

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