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The poop emoji hides a deeper truth about physics, study reveals:
Why does the "poop emoji" look the way it does? Physics has the answer: as most animals defecate downward, each new coil falls a shorter distance, naturally forming the familiar tapered swirl.
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06 July 2026.
Splittable 20-in-1 multi-wrench carries like a pack of gum:
One of the main issues with multitools is that while they sport a host of tools, many of them are often too small to do their job effectively.
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06 July 2026.
Bricks & Minifigs Claims It Wants To Make Mansell Whole. It’s Still Suing Him For RICO.:
At some point in a PR crisis, someone decides the solution is to hire a crisis communications person.
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06 July 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.
Inside baseball: AI-enabled enforcement tech takes time, testing:
Training artificial intelligence to enforce even seemingly straightforward rules – like balls and strikes in Major League Baseball – is a messy, dynamic process that takes time and careful evaluation of the technology.
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06 July 2026.
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Revealed: landmark Scottish AI project has no prospect of meeting renewables promise:
Exclusive: Government and developers privately acknowledged Lanarkshire datacentre site had power provision ‘issue’‘It’s smoke and mirrors’: hope turns to fear in Scottish village chosen for AI datacentreWhat are Britain’s AI growth zones and are the plans feasible or ‘complete bunk’?A landmark AI development billed as delivering jobs and prosperity has misrepresented its plans to channel a nuclear reactor’s worth of power to a site in rural Scotland, a Guardian investigation has found.
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07 July 2026.
Sitting for more than 30 minutes at a time linked to higher risk of cancer death:
Study suggests even light activity such as ironing could reduce health risks linked to prolonged sedentary behaviourSitting for longer than half an hour at a time each day raises the risk of dying from cancer, a study suggests.
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07 July 2026.
How I deleted hundreds of old photos on my Android in seconds with the Sponge app - for free:
Clearing out your excess photos and videos is now just a swipe away with an easy-to-use app called Sponge.
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07 July 2026.
Will this heatwave feel as hot and sticky as the last one?:
The UK's next heatwave is here, but will it feel as hot and sticky as the last one?.
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06 July 2026.
Supreme Court lets Texas restrict minors' access to app stores for the time being:
Texas' App Store Accountability Act requires minors to have their parents' permission to download most apps.
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06 July 2026.
Why A.I. Distillation Has Become a Hot Topic in the Race with China:
U.S. companies complain that competitors in China are unfairly copying their A.
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07 July 2026.
First use of precision editing to study human embryo development reveals role of master…:
Scientists have, for the first time, used an extremely precise genome editing technique called base editing to study gene function in human embryos.
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06 July 2026.
Research Universities Are Admitting Fewer Ph.D.s, a Bad Sign for Science:
Some of the nation’s top research universities are shrinking doctoral programs because of uncertain federal funding.
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06 July 2026.
Critical fire weather complicates firefighting efforts in massive Utah wildfire:
Firefighters working on the nation's largest current wildfire, burning in southern Utah, are being challenged by historic weather conditions.
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27 June 2026.
First use of precision editing to study human embryo development reveals role of master…:
Scientists have, for the first time, used an extremely precise genome editing technique called base editing to study gene function in human embryos.
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06 July 2026.
Small AI Models Gain Traction Around the World:
locater16 shares a report from IEEE Spectrum: One morning in 2019, Adebayo Alonge was in a Cape Town hotel room, preparing to demonstrate his startup's AI answer to a serious problem in African health care: counterfeit medication, which kills thousands of people across the continent every year.
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07 July 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.
Scientists just created the most lifelike cell ever made in a lab — here's what it could accomplish:
SpudCell is a new cell-like platform that can feed, grow and divide like a normal cell — but it's not yet a perfect re-creation of the real thing.
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06 July 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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