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Is an e-reader case as dangerous as a Glock 19?Last month, Louisville, Kentucky-based creator Luke The Maker showed off a bizarre, 3D-printed, pistol-shaped case design for the popular minimalist Xteink X4 e-reader. The X4 lies vertically atop the plastic gun’s slide, with a cutout on the side to access its buttons. Though the frame was digitally modeled after a real gun, this “case” can’t shoot bullets. Squeezing the trigger does nothing at all. He calls his contraption the “Gundle.”In a post showing off the wacky accessory, Luke (whose last name is Blackford) can be seen flipping through Cormac McCarthy’s Blood…

Devout Big Brother superfan and Unlocked cohost Jerry O’Connell has a lot of opinions about Rome Seymour and Lyric Medeiros’ romance following the pickleball coach’s recent eviction. “These two were together for hours, and they were already dropping love bombs,” O’Connell, 52, exclusively tells Us ahead of the new episode of Big Brother: Unlocked on Friday, July 24. “This guy was dropping an L-bomb. I think 12 hours into their relationship.” In addition to Rome and Lyric quickly developing strong feelings for each other, O’Connell was enthralled by the couple’s intimate conversations — and cuddles — that took place on…

The management of Confluence University of Science and Technology (CUSTECH), Osara, in Kogi State, has expelled two students for alleged involvement in gay practice. In a statement issued on Friday, the university’s Information and Public Relations Unit confirmed that expulsion letters had been sent to the affected students. The letters were signed by the Deputy Registrar (Academics), Eli Gbadafu. According to the statement, the disciplinary actions were taken in accordance with the provisions of the Students’ Handbook, Second Edition (as amended in 2025). The affected students were identified as Onumoko Hamza (Biology Education) and Abdulazeez Eneji (Mining Engineering). “The disciplinary…

India’s Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned on Saturday after mass youth-led protests demanded his ouster in anger over a string of irregularities in potentially life-changing exams. Thousands of young people gathered in the capital and in other parts of the country this week, under the banner of the social media-driven Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), demanding an overhaul of the education system and Pradhan’s resignation. “I am pained to see the events of the past 10 days. This is not a matter of personal prestige for me,” Pradhan said in a statement posted on social media platform X. “I have sent…

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 137, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, happy phone season, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.)This week, I’ve been reading about Google Zero and armored cars for rich people, watching a lot of That’s a Bad Idea videos now that YouTube knows my love for Curry Barker, testing the new 2Do redesign for my tasks, watching this excellent doc about the legendary designer Susan Kare, obsessing over every sound on the Jauffre’s Sounds TikTok, sending myself lockscreen…

Jennifer Lopez is celebrating her 57th birthday with some words of wisdom. Taking to Instagram on Friday, July 24, the “Love Don’t Cost a Thing” singer commemorated her special day by posting a video of herself riding in a car with the windows down as the sun shined on her and the wind gently blew across her hair. JLo chose a reading of Theodore Roosevelt’s poignant 1910 speech, “The Man in the Arena” as the audio to accompany the post. “It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where…

Vice President under Olusegun Obasanjo (1999 -2007), Atiku Abubakar, has alleged that the former President is covertly supporting his relative ahead of the 2027 presidential election. Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), has challenged Obasanjo to come out in the open and declare his preferred candidate openly to ensure transparency. Abubakar’s challenge follows Mr Obasanjo’s recent claim that the former VP provided the late House of Representatives Speaker, Ghali Na’Abba, with ₦5 million to initiate impeachment proceedings against him during their tenure. In a statement released Friday by his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank…

A midnight fire triggered by a power surge damaged two room-and-parlour self-contained apartments in a residential building opposite Metropolitan Square, off Asa-Dam Road, Ilorin, Kwara State. The Kwara State Fire Service disclosed this in a statement issued on Saturday by its Public Relations Officer, Hassan Adekunle, a copy of which was obtained by our correspondent in Ilorin. The PRO said the prompt intervention of firefighters prevented the blaze from spreading to other apartments and an adjoining building. According to him, “The agency received a distress call at about 2:27 a.m. Firefighters arrived at the scene at 2:35 a.m. and brought…

Taylor Frankie Paul is insisting there’s no reason she should stop posting on social media amid her ongoing legal issues. In an Instagram post shared on Friday, July 24, the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star, 32, clapped back at criticism. The post featured a green screen background of a city on fire while Taylor fixed her hair. “My life plus people outraged I’m still online,” one piece of text overlaying the clip read. She then added, “Me: how I do my claw clip.” To accompany the video, Taylor used audio from an unknown user’s social media video, where the…

Fresh details of the operational blueprint allegedly developed by military officers accused of plotting to overthrow President Bola Tinubu’s administration last year have emerged. These include how they assigned targets to individual operatives, adopted coded language, filtered dates for the planned strike, and mapped out logistics for the operation. The new details also include the alleged conspirators’ transition plan. Confidential documents running into over 7,400 pages, containing statements made by several suspects to investigators, bank records, secret notes, documentary evidence of the alleged conspirators’ secret conversations, and other exhibits assembled by investigators. These documents showed that the alleged conspiracy centred…