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World's largest digital camera snaps new world beyond Pluto:
Space was so much simpler when I was a kid.
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29 October 2026.
Harvard smartphone app guides the blind faster, with fewer collisions:
If you have standard human vision (even if assisted by glasses), chances are you’re adept at finding things, people, and paths to them.
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01 November 2026.
This Week In Techdirt History: October 25th – 31st:
This Week in 2016 This Week in 2011 This Week in 2006.
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31 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.
Hundreds of students attend new startup career fair:
The expo brought together companies in fields from robotics to defense to health tech to food.
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30 October 2026.
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01 January 1970.
North Korea is likely culprit behind $6.3bn crypto hack, ‘largest heist in history’:
Binance exchange says it will cover customer losses as it scrambles to freeze affected assets, with about $3bn located so farQ&A: How big a deal is the $6.
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01 November 2026.
Perfume bottle and child’s necklace among treasures found in Pompeii wardrobe:
Archaeologists uncover jewellery, cosmetics and coins in cabinet sealed since eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD79Fragments of personal objects, from makeup tools and a perfume bottle to coins and a child’s necklace, have been found tucked away in a wooden wardrobe sealed off for almost 2,000 years in the ruins of Pompeii.
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01 November 2026.
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01 January 1970.
Spill from vandalised home oil tank kills 13 birds:
A number of birds are also injured after the spill from the oil tank earlier this week.
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01 November 2026.
Wild West crypto: Staggering Binance heist exposes sector fragility:
A massive cyber heist of crypto exchange Binance is exposing some of the fragilities of the sector and reinforcing perceptions of the industry as a financial Wild West, critics warn.
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31 October 2026.
How Binance’s $6.3 Billion Hack Went Down:
A war room. A global conference call.
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01 November 2026.
A 1580 Map Shows Why Data Visualization Is Never Neutral:
Nearly 450 years ago, an unnamed Ñudzahui painter mapped his community’s history and land claims for a Spanish king — on his own terms.
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01 November 2026.
A Meteorite Found in the Sahara Is a 4.1-Billion-Year-Old Piece of Mars:
Minerals in the space rock provide hints about the early history of the red planet, when water was flowing on the surface.
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01 November 2026.
This surprising mammal fossil is giving scientists something to chew on:
It's likely you've already chewed and swallowed some tasty morsel today.
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07 October 2026.
A 1580 Map Shows Why Data Visualization Is Never Neutral:
Nearly 450 years ago, an unnamed Ñudzahui painter mapped his community’s history and land claims for a Spanish king — on his own terms.
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01 November 2026.
America's Clocks Are Still Falling Back Tonight Despite Trump's Daylight Saving Push:
Clocks "fall back" one hour tonight to end Daylight Saving Time — though many Americans want to end the twice-yearly clock change, reports Axios.
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01 November 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.
Astronomers may have been wrong about what ended the 'Cosmic Dark Age':
How did the universe transition from an impenetrable fog of hydrogen into the bright and starlit cosmos we see today? Astronomers think they're onto the answer.
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31 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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