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Ancient coffins clinging to cliffs are no longer a mystery:
High on the sheer limestone cliffs in southwest China, ancient wooden coffins remain wedged into rock faces hundreds of feet above the ground.
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28 December 2025.
Mosquitoes' stabby suckers may find use in high-res 3D printers:
In order to 3D-print really intricate items, you need a really fine print nozzle.
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27 December 2025.
This Week In Techdirt History: December 21st – 27th:
Five Years Ago This week in 2020, Congress sold out to Hollywood yet again by sneaking the CASE Act and a felony streaming bill into the funding omnibus, with the former introducing absolutely insane damages especially when compared to COVID stimulus money.
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27 December 2025.
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.
Who should get paid when AI learns from creative work?:
A new paper co-authored by Cornell law professor Frank Pasquale argues that the current copyright system is ill-equipped to handle a world in which machines learn from, and compete with, human creativity at unprecedented scale.
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22 December 2025.
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‘Undermines free speech’: Labour MP hits back at US government over visa ban on UK campaigners:
Chi Onwurah speaks out after Marco Rubio accused five Europeans, including two Britons, of ‘seeking to suppress American viewpoints they oppose’ A senior Labour MP has accused the Trump administration of undermining free speech after Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, announced sanctions against two British anti-disinformation campaigners.
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26 December 2025.
Pig organ transplants could one day be superior to human ones, says expert:
Surgeon leading xenotransplantation trial aimed at solving shortage of human organs says edits can lessen risk of rejectionA leading surgeon behind a clinical trial of transplanting pig kidneys into living humans has said they could one day be superior to those from human donors.
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26 December 2025.
Your Samsung phone has a secret Wi-Fi menu that can solve most internet problems - how to access:
If you love Samsung's feature-packed software, this OneUI tool is your next rabbit hole to explore.
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28 December 2025.
Government waters down inheritance tax plan for farms:
The government has now said it will lift the intended threshold from £1m to £2.
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23 December 2025.
The year in AI and culture:
From the advent of AI actress Tilly Norwood to major music labels making deals with AI companies, 2025 has been a watershed year for AI and culture.
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28 December 2025.
A Father and Son’s $108 Billion Hostile Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery:
Larry and David Ellison didn’t always have a close relationship.
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28 December 2025.
Company in Denver hopes to help home buyers purchase houses for as little as $5:
What if you could buy a house in Colorado for just $5? A new company is working to make that a reality, starting with a home in Denver.
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28 December 2025.
Twins’ Peaks: The Gilbertson Brothers Want to Rewrite Your Country’s Map:
Two brothers, both mechanical engineers, are climbing many of the world’s tall peaks to prove they have been measured incorrectly.
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28 December 2025.
In the snow, these salamanders get supercool:
Blue spotted salamanders have been seen walking across snow and new research suggests how they get by in the cold.
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24 December 2025.
Company in Denver hopes to help home buyers purchase houses for as little as $5:
What if you could buy a house in Colorado for just $5? A new company is working to make that a reality, starting with a home in Denver.
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28 December 2025.
Is Dark Energy Weakening?:
An anonymous reader shared this report from the BBC:
There is growing controversy over recent evidence suggesting that a mysterious force known as dark energy might be changing in a way that challenges our current understanding of time and space.
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28 December 2025.
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.
Stunning array of 400 rings in a 'reflection' nebula solves a 30-year-old star-formation mystery — Space photo of the week:
The discovery is the first direct observational confirmation of a theory for how young stars feed on, and then explosively expel, surrounding material.
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28 December 2025.
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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