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Quantum computer chip crams more info into less volume – by vibrating:
Quantum computing has always struggled to achieve the necessary division of labor between processing and memory.
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23 September 2026.
Did Germany really come close to making an atomic bomb?:
In the final weeks of the Second World War, a team of Germany’s most gifted scientists threw itself into a last-ditch effort to make an atomic weapon.
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06 October 2026.
In-N-Out Stares Down A Gift Horse & Then Shoots It Dead Over Trademark:
There’s looking a gift horse in the mouth, and then there’s deciding to shoot that gift horse in the face repeatedly for no good reason.
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07 October 2026.
How I Get Free Traffic from ChatGPT in 2025 (AIO vs SEO):
Three weeks ago, I tested something that completely changed how I think about organic traffic.
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04 December 2025.
Jackson selected for Kluge Chair in Technology and Society:
As a Kluge Chair, Jackson is invited to conduct research using the collections at the Library of Congress and to interact with congressional members and staff.
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01 October 2026.
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01 January 1970.
Scientists who put faith in technology less likely to take climate action:
‘Techno-optimism’ may lead to reliance on unproven solutions at expense of societal changes neededScientists who believe technology will largely solve the problems caused by the climate crisis are less likely to engage in civic action on the issue, according to a study.
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07 October 2026.
The generation raised on sugar rations – and what their health reveals 70 years later:
From blood pressure to ageing, research suggests the first 1,000 days of sugar exposure could leave a decades-long mark on healthThey were born into a Britain still recovering from the hardships of war.
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07 October 2026.
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01 January 1970.
Rainmakers: The drones used to seed clouds:
Cloud seeding is gaining attention as countries look to boost rainfall - will drones help?.
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07 October 2026.
Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey's new Pentagon roles raise ethics worries:
Musk's company, SpaceX, and Luckey's company Anduril, could potentially benefit from recommendations made in the study about future autonomous weapon systems.
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06 October 2026.
Inside Binance Founder Changpeng Zhao’s Life After Prison:
Changpeng Zhao, jailed in the United States for a financial crime and pardoned by President Trump, is now living a gilded life in the United Arab Emirates.
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07 October 2026.
‘It could knock a whole street down’: the art of defusing a second world war bomb:
A long read on two unexploded Second World War bombs discovered the same day in Devon, and the bomb-disposal specialists who worked to assess and neutralize them.
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07 October 2026.
OpenAI Releases Findings on 377 Math Problems, Further Roiling Field:
After a previous solution angered mathematicians, the company characterized the new release as being more responsive to concerns about A.
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07 October 2026.
This year's MacArthur Fellows include researchers who fuse science and justice:
The MacArthur Foundation has just announced its latest batch of 20 fellows.
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29 September 2026.
‘It could knock a whole street down’: the art of defusing a second world war bomb:
A long read on two unexploded Second World War bombs discovered the same day in Devon, and the bomb-disposal specialists who worked to assess and neutralize them.
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07 October 2026.
Google Enters Massive 3.6-GW Power Deal With Constellation Energy:
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Google has contracted for 3,590 megawatts of power from Constellation Energy on the largest US power grid, with new nuclear energy accounting for about a quarter of that supply, the companies said on Tuesday.
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07 October 2026.
With viral ‘Lego’ videos, Iran stakes claim as a propaganda power player:
Iran’s viral social media campaign has been slick, savvy, and accessible to a Western audience.
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20 May 2026.
Earth is in the firing line of a strange new type of cosmic object, astronomers say:
Astronomers may have discovered the first known microblazar, a long-theorized object firing a powerful beam of particles directly at Earth.
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06 October 2026.
Some of the tech in my workday
Best programming language?
The PYPL PopularitY of Programming Language Index is created by analyzing how often language tutorials are searched on Google.
The TIOBE Programming Community index measures popularity based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses, third party vendors and search engine activity.
w3techs analyses page content to determine the technology used, and also uses publicly available information from sources such as Alexa, Google, Microsoft and ipinfo.io.
While Java and Python top the popularity charts, more than 80% of all websites run on PHP.
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