A man has turned to Facebook for answers after noticing that his neighbor's house was projected upside-down onto his bedroom wall. It's not a sight you expect to wake up to – for one, neighbors' houses are generally not upside-down, and rarely on the inside of your own house. So, sharing photos of the incident, Stefan Lægaard Andersen appealed for an explanation."I'm sure that some of you fine gentlemen and/or gentlewomen know the answer to this ginormous mystery, that has my head spinning," Andersen wrote in the post. "Last night, as I was tucking my daughter into bed in our new house, this mirror image of the neighbours house showed up as a projection of sorts on our bedroom wall. I have absolutely no idea, how this happened, but I am hoping some of you can help understand this mystery."The man's window was covered at the time.Image courtesy of Stefan Lægaard, Heraldic artistFurther confusing the situation, and offering the explanation, was the fact that the man's bedroom window was covered at the time. Although stopping most of the light getting through, people were quick to point out the explanation. "So, having the window blocked off like that effectively makes it a pinhole camera, or camera obscura," commenter John Tougas explained. "The light reflecting off the building comes through the window, which is acting like a lens, and projects onto the wall. Very early experiments in photography used similar arrangements."      Pinhole camera effects are fairly commonplace, though not usually as spectacular as the one witnessed by Andersen and his daughter. Gaps in the light between the leaves of trees can create the same effect. On ordinary days, when the sun is out, you will see projections in the shape of the sun on the floor. This can be particularly pleasing during an eclipse.     IFLScience is not responsible for content shared from external sites.A similar effect using "pinhead mirrors" means you can even turn disco balls into an eclipse-viewer. Which is pretty neat.

Meet the latest act of leftist hypocrisy: accusing social media platform X of sabotaging Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential bid while ignoring the months-long election interference by Google against former President Donald Trump. On Monday, Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) requested House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) launch an investigation into the Elon Musk-owned X platform, suggesting its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok was attacking  “free and fair” elections by tipping “the scales in favor of one political party”—implying Republicans.  But why the concern now? MRC researchers caught Google burying Trump’s presidential campaign website on numerous occasions over 328 days, while it only took Musk’s Grok to make a correction after 10 days. “Happy to see that Congressman Nadler is finally in agreement with the MRC that Big Tech censorship is a major problem, especially as it pertains to protecting democracy,” said MRC Free Speech America Director Michael Morris. “Instead of cherry picking pro-free speech platforms like X who make corrections quickly, Rep. Nadler should focus his ire on those Big Tech platforms that are doing an overwhelming amount of election-interfering censorship.”  Morris’s remarks referred to two MRC recent studies showing the 41 times Google interfered in elections, and 39 times Facebook interfered in elections, since 2008 is a good place to start. Nadler’s cynical call to action stems from claims that Grok committed the unforgivable sin of affirming Harris had missed the ballot deadlines in nine states. The error lasted just over a week, with X taking swift action following complaints from the Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon. In his five-page letter to Jordan, Nadler sounded the alarm (albeit unsuccessfully) about X’s “clear and imminent threat” to the 2024 presidential election. Of course, the so-called threat is that, for 10 days, an AI chatbot made an error despite openly warning users it might do so. Nadler’s hysteria stands in stark contrast to the left’s silence over Google’s nearly year-long interference in the 2024 presidential election by propping up the campaign website of the Biden-Harris campaign while burying those of Republican candidates, including former President Trump, now the presumptive nominee. MRC Free Speech America first unveiled evidence of such censorship on Aug. 22, 2023. Since then, MRC has published several reports about Trump and other Republicans' campaign websites being buried in Google’s search results. MRC conducted its most recent Google Search study, which drew similarly biased results, on July 15, 2024. That amounts to 328 days of continuous censorship. Speak about tipping the scale.  Nadler Press Secretary Daniel Rubin and Communications Director Matt Jansen did not immediately respond to MRC Free Speech America’s request for comment before publication. Minnesota Secretary of State Deputy Communications Director Cassondra Knudson did not offer detailed answers to MRC’s questions. Instead, she said, “Our office has not communicated with Rep. Nadler or the House Judiciary Committee on the letter.” Conservatives are under attack. Contact your representatives and demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency, clarity on hate speech and equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us using CensorTrack’s contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.

If you've been contemplating using GeForce Now to play World of Warcraft, now is finally the time to put thoughts into action. That's because Nvidia has just announced that over 25 of the top WoW mods from CurseForge are now available to use in-game via the service. Modding in World of Warcraft is very different from many other games due to it being a MMORPG, and one of the best MMORPGs at that. This means many of the mods that CurseForge offers are for streamlining the user interface or analysis tools so you can track specific details while raiding. Continue reading Nvidia brings World of Warcraft mods to GeForce Now MORE FROM PCGAMESN: GeForce RTX 4070 Super review, DLSS explained, Best graphics cards

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