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5/9/2023
10 : 14
Numlock News: May 9, 2023 • Dinosaurs, Rodeos, Bounties
By Walt Hickey Crab Traps A new paper describes a project where shrimpers in Mississippi are paid a bounty of $5 for every derelict and abandoned crab trap they can remove from the waters. This ghost
5/8/2023
10 : 4
Numlock News: May 8, 2023 • Pizza Wars, Tequila, Fraudulent Cows
By Walt Hickey Welcome back! Hooked On A Feeling Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 made $114 million domestically, a hair under expectations, but more than made up for in the higher-than-anticipated
5/5/2023
10 : 14
Numlock News: May 5, 2023 • Counterfeits, Guardians, Robusta
By Walt Hickey Have a great weekend! Stud There is colossal industry built around the demonstration, extraction and sale of the genetic material of horses, a behemoth that hosts occasional promotional
5/4/2023
10 : 6
Numlock News: May 4, 2023 • Vultures, Rats, Ticketmaster
By Walt Hickey SB 829 A new bill introduced in California would ban exclusive contracting in the ticketing industry, a direct attack on Ticketmaster. Those clauses are in the contracts between the
5/3/2023
10 : 14
Numlock News: May 3, 2023 • Private Jets, Reality TV, Spider Sculpture
By Walt Hickey Arachnophilia If you are in the market for a 10-foot-tall, more than 18-foot-across colossal metal spider that will cost millions of dollars, have I got some good news for you, as Spider
5/2/2023
10 : 14
Numlock News: May 2, 2023 • Hippos, Chegg, Germany
By Walt Hickey Homework One of the most immediate uses for large language models has been for students who want to just crank out workable answers for homework assignments they don't want to do.
5/1/2023
10 : 14
Numlock News: May 1, 2023 • Voyager, Dust, Mario
By Walt Hickey Welcome back! Super The Super Mario Bros. Movie made another $40 million domestically in its fourth weekend of release, and given the $490 million it's made in North America and the
4/28/2023
10 : 15
Numlock News: April 28, 2023 • Kestrels, Quebec, Olives
By Walt Hickey A huge, huge thank you to everyone who preordered my new book yesterday, it's so exciting and the response was overwhelming. Save those receipts, because the publisher is prepping a
4/27/2023
10 : 5
Numlock News: April 27, 2023 • Storms, Titans, Rockets
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4/26/2023
10 : 14
Numlock News: April 26, 2023 • IKEA, Moondust, Manga
By Walt Hickey Vertical Farms A Freight Farm is a self-contained farm concept where local produce is grown in 40-foot containers with a self-contained growing system. It's ideal for remote areas
4/25/2023
10 : 16
Numlock News: April 25, 2023 • Slam Dunk, Nostalgia, Pseudonyms
By Walt Hickey Slam Dunk The First Slam Dunk is an anime film from Toei Animation adapting a classic manga that's now the second film from Japan to make a killing in China recently, an increasingly
4/24/2023
10 : 4
Numlock News: April 24, 2023 • Dragon, Peaches, Brazilians
By Walt Hickey Welcome back! Box Office The Super Mario Bros. Movie made another $58.23 million at the domestic box office in its third week of release, bringing its global cume all the way to $871
4/21/2023
10 : 4
Numlock News: April 21, 2023 • South Park, Oakland, I Can't Believe It's Not Butter
By Walt Hickey RIP But I'm Different A new survey found that Americans think that AI is certainly going to have a major impact on workers, sure, but no of course it's obviously not going to
4/20/2023
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Numlock News: April 20, 2023 • Hyraxes, Iceberg, Khartoum
By Walt Hickey Wildebeest An audit found that a former fiscal officer for Vinton Township, Ohio, stole hundreds of thousands of dollars in municipal funds, including spending $4116.30 on a wildebeest
4/19/2023
10 : 4
Numlock News: April 19, 2023 • Archery, Curses, Cognac
By Walt Hickey Popcorn Hershey has diversified beyond chocolate and into salty snacks, which now is a $1.2 billion business for the company and accounts for 10 percent of sales. Hershey wants to get up
4/19/2023
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Numlock News: April 12, 2023 • Logjams, F1, TripAdvisor
By Walt Hickey Corporate Intrigue EVE Online is an MMORPG video game set in an interstellar future with an intricate economy fueling massive fleets of warships in a constant ebb and flow of battle on
4/19/2023
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Numlock News: April 13, 2023 • Influencers, Chess, Concessions
By Walt Hickey Beer Beer is a big seller for baseball clubs, with estimates ranging from $2 million to $8 million worth of beer sold per stadium. Major League Baseball's off-season changes to rules
4/19/2023
6 : 25
Numlock News: April 14, 2023 • Dimes, Counterfeits, Vikings
By Walt Hickey Have an excellent weekend! Blazing Saddles A truck full of roughly $750000 worth of dimes in a Walmart parking lot was broken into Thursday in northeast Philadelphia, and investigators
4/19/2023
5 : 44
Numlock News: April 17, 2023 • Vampires, Bullfighters, Mavericks
By Walt Hickey Welcome back! Mavs The Dallas Mavericks have been fined $750000 for insufficiently playing the sport of basketball, specifically an incident on April 7 where the team lost to the Chicago
4/19/2023
5 : 25
Numlock News: April 18, 2023 • Akiya, Hibernation, Tides
By Walt Hickey Birds Sega, a video game company built on an iconic animal mascot with an attitude, has purchased Rovio, a video game company built on iconic animal mascots with attitudes, for €706