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01 January 1970.
Vibrating pillow sleeve warns deaf sleepers of burglars and fires:
A research team supervised by Assoc.
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03 May 2026.
Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt:
This week, n00bdragon takes both top spots in the insightful side.
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03 May 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.
Entrepreneurial students win awards for summer work on their startups:
Thirty student startups received Human Spirit, Beck Fellows and Cane Entrepreneurial Scholars awards this summer from Entrepreneurship at Cornell, funding that will allow students to work on their startups rather than take traditional summer positions.
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01 May 2026.
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01 January 1970.
Pentagon inks deals with seven AI companies for classified military work:
OpenAI, Google, Nvidia and others agreed to ‘any lawful use’ of their tech.
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04 May 2026.
‘The happiest time of life is as you get older’: can positive thinking help you age better?:
Doing more trips around the sun does not mean inevitable decline, new research suggests – and having a optimistic outlook can even bring improvementsGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailBy most standards, Prof Velandai Srikanth is at the peak of his career.
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04 May 2026.
I tracked 3,000 steps on my Apple Watch, Google Pixel, and Oura Ring - this one was most accurate:
Just how reliable is that smartwatch or smart ring? I tested three of the most popular health trackers to find out.
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04 May 2026.
Is this the real face of Anne Boleyn?:
A computer science team believes they have discovered a previously unknown sketch of King Henry VIII's second wife - but not everyone is convinced.
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01 May 2026.
AI robot tech bros dogs run wild in Berlin gallery:
In Germany, robotic AI dogs with the faces of tech's most powerful men are on the loose — courtesy of American artist Beeple.
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03 May 2026.
Why So Many People Already Own Shares of Elon Musk’s SpaceX:
Even before the rocket company holds a major initial public offering, many people own stock in it through so-called special purpose vehicles.
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04 May 2026.
The Hidden Costs of Great Abstractions:
A reflection on how abstraction in computing can make systems easier to use while reducing understanding, judgment, and quality.
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04 May 2026.
A Long, Strange Trip: How the G.O.P. Came to Embrace Psychedelic Drugs:
For decades, conservatives were adamantly opposed to the use of drugs like psilocybin and LSD.
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04 May 2026.
A real-life Kraken stalked the seas of the late Cretaceous:
Researchers discovered evidence of enormous Kraken-like creatures who hunted in the seas some 100 million years ago, competing with large apex predators.
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24 April 2026.
The Hidden Costs of Great Abstractions:
A reflection on how abstraction in computing can make systems easier to use while reducing understanding, judgment, and quality.
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04 May 2026.
Roblox Blames Age-Verification Rollout for Lowered Growth. Stock Tumbles 22%:
Age verification became mandatory for chat access on Roblox in January — and Friday morning Quartz reported it's apparently impacted the company's financials:
Roblox cut its full-year 2026 bookings forecast by roughly $900 million at the midpoint on Thursday, blaming stronger-than-expected headwinds from its mandatory age-verification rollout on an audience that skews heavily toward children and teenagers.
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04 May 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.
'Sacrifice zones' around critical mineral mines are rife with pollution, child workers and birth defects:
The race to mine critical minerals for AI and clean energy is creating 'sacrifice zones' that harm water and health of world's poor.
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03 May 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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