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We’re evolving too slowly for the world we’ve built, according to science:
As our evolution slows and industrialization and technology accelerates, a growing body of research suggests that human biology is struggling to keep pace.
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20 November 2025.
The easy-to-clean modular tumbler to replace all tumblers?:
Are you one of those coffee/tea consumers who loathe washing your drink containers so much that a) you leave them piled up to get moldy, and b) in a reverse sustainability move, you purchase new ones because of the hassle of not being able to clean every stained crevice?Continue ReadingCategory: Good Thinking, TechnologyTags: Water Bottle, Modular, Kickstarter.
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19 November 2025.
How Trademark Ruined Colorado-Style Pizza:
You’ve heard of New York style, Chicago deep dish, Detroit square pans.
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19 November 2025.
Top 10 AI Tools That Will Transform Your Content Creation in 2025:
Looking to level up your content creation game in 2025? You're in the right place! The digital landscape has evolved dramatically, and AI tools have become essential for creators who want to stay ahead of the curve.
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02 January 2025.
Cornell Tech launches pre-college Summer Innovation Intensives for future tech leaders:
The three-week program is designed to give students a head start on college-level learning while tackling real-world challenges through technology.
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19 November 2025.
Cloudflare outage causes error messages across the internet:
US company that defends millions of websites against malicious attacks says it believes issue ‘is now resolved’Explainer: What is Cloudflare?A key piece of the internet’s usually hidden infrastructure suffered a global outage on Tuesday, causing error messages to flash up across websites.
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20 November 2025.
Neanderthals and early humans ‘likely to have kissed’, say scientists:
Study from University of Oxford looks into evolutionary origins of kissing and its role in relations between speciesFrom Galápagos albatrosses to polar bears, chimpanzees to orangutans, certain species appear to kiss.
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20 November 2025.
This free Windows app turns your laptop screen into a ring light - how to try it:
Inspired by the Mac's Edge Light feature, this new Windows app can make you look brighter on your next video call.
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20 November 2025.
First kiss dates back 21 million years, say scientists:
A new study looks at how the mouth-on-mouth smooch came into being, and concludes that Neanderthals also kissed.
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19 November 2025.
Cloudflare outage exposes reliance on a handful of Internet companies:
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Betsy Cooper, a cybersecurity expert at the Aspen Institute, about this week's major Internet outage and the world's reliance on a handful of web services companies.
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19 November 2025.
Improved mapping system ends farm mislabeling, protecting coffee and cacao trade:
A new system could overhaul maps that misclassify hundreds of thousands of smallholder coffee and cacao farmers as working in forests.
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20 November 2025.
How Trump and Nvidia’s C.E.O. Became Partners on the International Stage:
Over the last 10 months, President Trump has become close with Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s chief executive, as the company’s chips have become a tool in trade and peace talks.
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20 November 2025.
CICC to absorb 2 smaller rivals to create US$140 billion brokerage:
China International Capital Corp (CICC) plans to absorb two smaller brokerages to create a new entity worth 1 trillion yuan (US$140 billion) in assets, as a state-led consolidation gathers pace to meet Beijing’s goal of creating investment banks that can compete with the likes of Goldman….
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20 November 2025.
NASA Releases Images of Comet 3I/ATLAS Passing by Mars:
With the government reopened, the space agency at last released pictures captured by a fleet of government spacecraft of an object that came from beyond our solar system.
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20 November 2025.
Study finds human ancestors made tools continuously for 300,000 years:
Ailsa Chang speaks with David Braun, an archeologist, about his team's discovery of a site in Kenya that suggests human ancestors built tools continuously much earlier than previously thought.
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17 November 2025.
Blue Jays Insider Denies $16 Million Raisel Iglesias Report:
The early offseason reports indicate the Toronto Blue Jays are in the market for a high-leverage reliever.
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20 November 2025.
In the AI Race, Chinese Talent Still Drives American Research:
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: When Mark Zuckerberg, Meta's chief executive, unveiled the company's Superintelligence Lab in June, he named 11 artificial intelligence researchers who were joining his ambitious effort to build a machine more powerful than the human brain.
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20 November 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.
Human trash is 'kick-starting' the domestication of city-dwelling raccoons, study suggests:
Raccoons that live near humans had shorter snouts than rural raccoons, a trait that tends to arise in the early stages of domestication.
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19 November 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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