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01 January 1970.
Review: Gorgeous triple-laser projector takes home cinema to the Max:
A beautiful box of smart-entertainment goodness turned up at my door last year from Valerion, following a successful Kickstarter and subsequent consumer launch.
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22 June 2026.
Stop Killing Games Legislation Rejected By EU:
Well, this is very disappointing.
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23 June 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.
Undergrads’ weed-killing robot wins top prize:
A team of Cornell students bested the competition with their invention: an autonomous robot that kills weeds with electricity.
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22 June 2026.
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01 January 1970.
AI models capable of devastating attacks on governments and business months away, rare Five Eyes statement warns:
Signal agencies in Australia, the US, the UK, New Zealand and Canada sound alarm after Trump blocks foreign nationals from Anthropic’s Fable AI modelPowerful AI models capable of devastating new cyber attacks on governments and businesses are mere months away, intelligence agencies for the Five Eyes have warned in a rare joint statement, urging leaders to “act now”.
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23 June 2026.
‘Slug sleuth’ farmers in England help develop prediction tool to cut back on pesticide use:
Maps created as part of Defra-funded Slimers project allowed test growers to halve amount of slug pellets usedFarmers believe they have a new weapon in their age-old battle against the slugs that destroy their crops: modern technology.
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23 June 2026.
This 4TB Samsung external SSD is the last one you'll ever need - and it's 32% off:
This tiny rubberized SSD offers 4TB of external storage with blazing-fast transfer speeds.
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23 June 2026.
Seabed damaged by fishing showing signs of recovery:
Campaigners say improvements to the area trashed by illegal dredging show that marine protection works.
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22 June 2026.
AI and tech are trying to influence the midterm elections:
The massive spending and heated rhetoric in midterm races reflect the AI industry's political fault lines and competing visions of what the future should look like.
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22 June 2026.
Tech Workers Maxed Out Their A.I. Use. Now They’re Trying to Minimize It.:
Artificial intelligence is expensive to use, many companies discovered.
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23 June 2026.
My Mathematical Regression:
A look back at an old Project Euler solution that uses a simple combinatorics pattern instead of code to solve the lattice-path problem, and the strange mix of pride and embarrassment that comes with rediscovering past work.
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23 June 2026.
California Needs Water and Clean Power. It Might Have a Fix for Both.:
A pilot program is building solar panels over irrigation canals to generate electricity.
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23 June 2026.
Is a transparent fish the future of brain science? This center is betting on it:
One of the world's leading brain research centers is shifting away from fruit flies and toward a tiny, transparent fish.
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16 June 2026.
In praise of memcached:
https://jchri.st/blog/in-praise-of-memcached/ [jchri.
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23 June 2026.
GM Installs Robots At Flagship EV Factory After Laying Off 1,300 Workers:
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Dozens of new robot arms have been installed at General Motors' flagship electric vehicle factory in Detroit -- even as 1,300 workers remain out of work following what was supposed to be a temporary layoff.
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23 June 2026.
With viral ‘Lego’ videos, Iran stakes claim as a propaganda power player:
Iran’s viral social media campaign has been slick, savvy, and accessible to a Western audience.
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20 May 2026.
One underlying cause of inflammatory bowel disease pinpointed in new study:
Autoantibodies may be disabling one of the body's anti-inflammatory brakes in some IBD patients, a new study finds.
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22 June 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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