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How melting ice sheets are adding more time to your day:
The Earth’s rotation has never been perfectly stable; the spin has changed significantly throughout history.
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18 April 2026.
Fearless rugged tablet packs projector, night vision and huge battery:
Aside from being tough as nails, rugged gadgets typically prioritize long battery life, but increasingly, newer models have been adding in specialized tools for fieldwork.
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19 April 2026.
Game Jam Winner Spotlight: Lilac Song:
We’re past the halfway point in our series of spotlight posts looking at the winners of our eighth annual public domain game jam, Gaming Like It’s 1930! We’ve already covered the Best Adaptation, Best Deep Cut, and Best Visuals winners, and this week we’re looking at the winner of Best Remix: Lilac Song by Autumn […].
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18 April 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.
Making AI safer for victims of intimate partner violence:
Conversational AI tools denied blunt requests for harmful content by researchers posing as intimate partner abusers, but these guardrails were easily circumvented, a new Cornell Tech study has found.
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16 April 2026.
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01 January 1970.
Finance leaders warn over Mythos as UK banks prepare to use powerful Anthropic AI tool:
Release of new Claude model, so far limited to US firms, will expand to British institutions in coming daysBritish banks will be given access in the next week to a powerful AI tool that was deemed too dangerous to be released to the public, as a series of senior finance figures warned over its impact.
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19 April 2026.
Red hair gene favoured by natural selection over last 10,000 years, study finds:
Scientists who analysed nearly 16,000 ancient remains suggest red hair and fair skin is favoured for vitamin D productionPeople with red hair who have put up with teasing or “fiery” stereotypes may be pleased to learn that they appear to be winners from an evolutionary perspective.
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19 April 2026.
After testing this HP laptop, I get why its 'boring' design is adored by business users:
HP's ZBook 8 G1i eschews a breezy build and marathon battery for a traditional business workstation approach.
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19 April 2026.
Artemis II crew: 'We left as friends - we came back as best friends':
The four crew members gave their first press conference since they splashed down nearly a week ago, and emphasised hope and unity.
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16 April 2026.
New data show TikTok engagement as a key indicator of long-term box office success:
New data shows opening weekend matters less as TikTok buzz drives long-term box office.
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18 April 2026.
White House and Anthropic Hold ‘Productive’ Meeting, Aiming for a Compromise:
Friday’s meeting at the White House followed the introduction of Anthropic’s powerful new artificial intelligence model, Mythos, which U.
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18 April 2026.
Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind:
From before their babies are born, men undergo serious hormonal changes that can powerfully influence their behaviour – with consequences for their child's wellbeing.
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19 April 2026.
How Female Anglerfish Evolved to Have It All:
The deep-sea fish ended up with glowing lures not just to snag meals, but also to attract mates, a new study finds.
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19 April 2026.
In the brain, objects seen and imagined follow the same neural path:
New evidence finds that sight and imagination rely on the same neurons and use the same neural code.
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14 April 2026.
Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind:
From before their babies are born, men undergo serious hormonal changes that can powerfully influence their behaviour – with consequences for their child's wellbeing.
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19 April 2026.
Remembering Zip Drives - the Trendy Storage Technology of the 1990s:
Back in the 1990s, floppy disks "had a mere capacity of 1.
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19 April 2026.
China’s humanoid robots are gaining ground – but they’re not there yet:
The U.S. and China are racing to build humanoid robots capable of performing many daily tasks – but the complexity of home and business environments makes that challenging.
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29 August 2025.
$3 million prize goes to duo whose research led to first sickle cell CRISPR therapy:
Dr. Swee Lay Thein and Dr.
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19 April 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.
Longer term weather forecast
