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Tomb feathers from wild parrots reveal extensive ancient trade route:
Parrot feathers found at a thousand-year-old burial tomb in Peru provide new evidence for an expansive live bird trade network across the Andes Mountains that pre-dates the Inca Empire, a new study suggests.
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21 April 2026.
Camera-equipped AI earbuds tell you what you're looking at:
Earbuds are small, which is great for comfort, but their tininess is a serious limitation for actually doing things other than letting you hear and talk.
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21 April 2026.
Kash Patel’s Defamation Suit Against The Atlantic Is Designed To Generate Headlines, Not Win In Court:
There are defamation lawsuits designed to win, and then there are defamation lawsuits designed to generate headlines for your fans on social media, punish journalists, and maybe — if you’re lucky — force a settlement or intimidate future reporting.
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21 April 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.
Making AI safer for victims of intimate partner violence:
Conversational AI tools denied blunt requests for harmful content by researchers posing as intimate partner abusers, but these guardrails were easily circumvented, a new Cornell Tech study has found.
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16 April 2026.
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Palantir manifesto described as ‘ramblings of a supervillain’ amid UK contract fears:
Alarm caused by posts of Alex Karp, tech firm’s CEO, championing US military dominance and of AI weaponsThe US spy tech company Palantir published a manifesto extolling the benefits of American power and implying some cultures are inferior to others – in what MPs have called “a parody of a RoboCop film” and “the ramblings of a supervillain”.
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22 April 2026.
‘Is it life? We can’t tell’: Nasa’s Curiosity rover finds organic molecules on Mars:
Scientists think they are looking at chemical building blocks of life preserved for 3.
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22 April 2026.
LG G6 vs. LG G5: I compared the latest OLED TV models, and it's a surprisingly tough choice:
Between the latest LG G6 OLED and last year's G5, here are the key differences to consider before you upgrade.
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22 April 2026.
Electricity bills targeted in planned shakeup to energy pricing:
The war in the Middle East has brought renewed attention to Britain's vulnerability to energy price shocks.
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21 April 2026.
What having a product guy as Apple's CEO might mean for the company:
Apple's next CEO has been responsible for developing the hardware for many products.
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21 April 2026.
SpaceX Strikes Deal With Cursor for $60 Billion:
The potential acquisition comes as Elon Musk’s rocket and satellite maker, which has been emphasizing artificial intelligence, is preparing to go public.
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22 April 2026.
UK EVs are now cheaper than petrol cars, thanks to Chinese competition:
UK buyers are seeing average EV prices dip below petrol cars, driven by low-cost Chinese models, discounts, and the country’s EV grant.
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22 April 2026.
Sightings of Meteors Surge, and Scientists Aren’t Sure Why:
The frequency of fireballs in our planet’s skies seemed to grow in recent months.
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22 April 2026.
Instead of civil war, a naked mole rat colony changed queens peacefully:
These matriarchal rodents often have bloody succession wars to replace their queen.
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21 April 2026.
UK EVs are now cheaper than petrol cars, thanks to Chinese competition:
UK buyers are seeing average EV prices dip below petrol cars, driven by low-cost Chinese models, discounts, and the country’s EV grant.
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22 April 2026.
Florida Launches Criminal Investigation Into ChatGPT Over School Shooting:
Florida's attorney general has launched a criminal investigation into OpenAI over allegations that the accused gunman in a shooting at Florida State University last year used ChatGPT to help plan the attack.
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22 April 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.
NASA shuts off another Voyager 1 instrument as humanity's most distant spacecraft prepares for risky 'Big Bang' maneuver to save power:
After nearly 50 years in space, the two Voyager spacecraft are very low on nuclear power.
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21 April 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.
Longer term weather forecast
