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Figma files for an (A)IPO with prospectus that mentions AI 150+ times

Warns investors its codebase is harder to maintain as it bakes in brainboxes

Web design tools developer Figma on Tuesday filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to propose an initial public offering of company shares.…

Osaka Pizza Hut

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Osaka Pizza Hut

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Seymour Britchky

"You will note, upon inspection of the menus, that the lobsters served here are identified either as medium or large. When you receive your 'medium' lobster, you will understand at once why nothing could be found to fit the bill of 'small'. This lobster must have been caught with a mosquito net, for he could have slipped the bars of any trap. But when you put on your reading glasses and commence to eat, your dismay is instantly magnified, for what you are not getting enough of is a perfectly broiled lobster, the meat so rich it seems buttery, its flavor vivid enough to make you heady."

For two all-too-brief decades, self-appointed restaurant critic Seymour Britchky made it his mission to capture it all in shockingly astute, hilarious, quotable prose before disappearing in his own right to become one of the city's best-fed (and, essentially, forgotten) ghosts. ... Britchky's people are in it for his acid tongue and gimlet eye—the way he etched a menu, a moment, a space, a feeling, an era in dining when not every plate was Instagram-ready, every interaction Yelp-able to the world. For him, every meal was personal, every review a master class in the art of food writing.
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Glenmorangie announced as Official Whisky of Formula 1

Glenmorangie has been named as the Official Whisky of Formula 1, with Hollywood icon Harrison Ford helping reveal the partnership ahead of the British Grand Prix this weekend.

How Alonso triumphed amid Nurburgring havoc

As our countdown of F1's 25 greatest races continues, Anna Francis recalls the 2007 European Grand Prix at the Nurburgring, an event that featured everything from a backmarker leading on their debut, a dramatic Turn 1 pile-up courtesy of treacherous rain and a thrilling late-race duel that sparked quite the fallout after the chequered flag.

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The Sahara

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The Sahara

American Beauty

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American Beauty

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Found Photo

handwritten on back of photograph, "Long Beach from Signal Hill, 1930"

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Tech Hobbyist Destroys 51 MicroSD Cards To Build Ultimate Performance Database

Tech enthusiast Matt Cole has created a comprehensive MicroSD card testing database, writing over 18 petabytes of data across nearly 200 cards since July 2023. Cole's "Great MicroSD Card Survey" uses eight machines running 70 card readers around the clock, writing 101 terabytes daily to test authenticity, performance, and endurance.

The 15,000-word report covering over 200 different cards reveals significant quality disparities. Name-brand cards purchased from Amazon performed markedly better than identical models from AliExpress, while cards with "fake flash" -- inflated capacity ratings -- performed significantly worse than authentic storage. Sandisk and Kingston cards averaged 4,634 and 3,555 read/write cycles before first error, respectively, while Lenovo cards averaged just 291 cycles. Some off-brand cards failed after only 27 cycles. Cole tested 51 cards to complete destruction during the endurance testing phase.

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