Rob Beschizza

Lena McDonald’s Darkhollow Academy—you can surely guess the genre—suddenly stops being a novel and becomes something else partway through chapter 3. Ash’s scales darken as his fire magic heats the air around us. I’ve rewritten the passage to align more […]

Suffolk woman Jo Bentley found a spherical egg—a one in a billion rarity worth hundreds of pounds. “I thought perhaps I should have checked before boiling it,” she told BBC News Suffolk. “If something good can come out of finding

The Fujifilm X Half is a compact camera with a 32mm-equivalent fixed F2.8 lens and a portrait-oriented “half-frame” 18MP sensor. It only outputs JPEGs, but has all of Fujifilm’s fabulous film simulations and various nods to the classic film-shooting experience

The Miracle Aligner published a bardcore cover of Lorde’s Royals that goes the extra mile, or should I say gān þā ofer mīl: the lyrics are in Old English. A big thanks to Sluggard for carrying this video with all

Don’t assume that the new thing is better for the environment than the old thing. This caution comes courtesy of Seagate, a company with a rich history in the old thing, and a study it commissioned, The Decarbonizing Data Report.

U.S. Senator Tom Cotton (R—Arkansas) introduced a bill that would require manufacturers of high-end graphics processors (i.e. Nvidia, but also AMD, Intel and Apple) to include geotracking technology in them. This would allow the government to track them at all

You know what God hates? Chess. Afghanistan’s Ministry of Promotion of Virtue has banned the game due to “religious considerations,” and officials from the Ministry of Sports there confirmed that they have suspended chess activities. The Ministry of Promotion of

Send people a text demanding money, get paid! But one scam will soon be less profitable, assuming Google nails the implementation of its new block on “unpaid toll” messages in Android. It willstart rolling out on Tuesday and is just

If you were hoping to wear a Gundam at Cannes—or nothing at all—know that such shenanigans will no longer be tolerated at the film industry’s fanciest festival. The Hollywood Reporter noticed an update in the official charter prohibiting nudity and

Live on the U.S. coastline? The 2024 “report card” tracking sea levels is in line with previous projections, confirming that the sea is coming for your beach house—unless it’s in Alaska. Overall, most locations continue a trend of accelerating sea