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You can now make fish-free omega-3s from whisky waste:
Omega-3 fatty acids sourced from wild-caught fish stocks are valued for their studied health benefits such as healthy skin, joints, heart and brain function along with enhanced immunity, but this has resulted in a reduction in fish stocks globally.
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23 January 2026.
Review: $99 mic offers quality and simplicity well beyond its price:
If you've thought about upgrading your audio hardware beyond your phone, the Maono PD200W mic makes a strong case for it.
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24 January 2026.
Techdirt 2025: The Stats:
Every year, a little after New Years, I do a post about the previous year of Techdirt traffic and comments.
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24 January 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.
Designing the future: a Q&A with Harald Haraldsson:
Through rapid prototyping and creative experimentation, Harald and his students explore how emerging technologies can reshape the way we interact with both digital and physical environments.
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21 January 2026.
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01 January 1970.
Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries, study suggests:
Exclusive: German research into responses to health queries raises fresh questions about summaries seen by 2bn people a month• How the ‘confident authority’ of AI Overviews is putting public health at riskGoogle’s search feature AI Overviews cites YouTube more than any medical website when answering queries about health conditions, according to research that raises fresh questions about a tool seen by 2 billion people each month.
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24 January 2026.
‘Manosphere’ influencers pushing testosterone tests are convincing healthy young men there is something wrong with them, study finds:
Researcher points to ‘medicalisation of masculinity’ after investigating how men’s health is being monetised online“If you’re not waking up in the morning with a boner, there’s a large possibility that you have low testosterone levels,” an influencer on TikTok with more than 100,000 followers warns his viewers.
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24 January 2026.
Your car's USB port is seriously underrated: 5 creative ways I'm using mine:
You're missing out if you're not using your car's USB port for these functionalities.
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24 January 2026.
Hundreds of illegal waste tips operating in England - including 11 'super sites':
A BBC investigation uncovers how criminals are operating huge illegal rubbish tips across the country.
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23 January 2026.
Gladys West, mathematician whose work paved the way for GPS, dies at 95:
A self-described "little farm girl" in the Jim Crow Era, Gladys West's complex and pioneering work for the U.
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23 January 2026.
TikTok Strikes Deal to Create New U.S. Entity and Loosen App’s Ties to China:
The Chinese parent company of the popular video app said a group of non-Chinese investors would create an American TikTok to avoid a federal ban.
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24 January 2026.
Five Ways People Are Using Claude Code:
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24 January 2026.
Sonic Booms and Seismic Waves Can Reveal Where Space Junk Crash-Lands:
The sensors used to listen for earthquakes could help protect people from the hazards created by falling spacecraft.
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24 January 2026.
The risks of AI in schools outweigh the benefits, report says:
A new report warns that AI poses a serious threat to children's cognitive development and emotional well-being.
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14 January 2026.
Recalls 162,000 Tundra Vehicles in U.S:
Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corp.
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24 January 2026.
US Insurer 'Lemonade' Cuts Rates 50% for Drivers Using Tesla's 'Full Self-Driving' Software:
An anonymous reader shared this report from Reuters:
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24 January 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.
2,500 years ago, people in Bulgaria ate dog meat at feasts and as a delicacy, archaeological study finds:
A study of dog bones across several Iron Age sites in Bulgaria has shown that people ate dog meat.
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24 January 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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