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Lockheed Martin offers to rescue Mars mission from budget death:
NASA"s beleaguered Mars Sample Return mission may get a reprieve from an unexpected source.
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07 July 2025.
Human-made lightning harnessed to produce clean ammonia from air:
We currently use a lot of ammonia to produce fertilizer, refrigerants, and other chemicals, and unfortunately rely heavily on an energy-intensive process developed in the 19th century – the Haber-Bosch process – to make it in large quantities.
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07 July 2025.
This Week In Techdirt History: June 29th – July 5th:
Five Years Ago This week in 2020… remember Parler? The uncensored free speech social media platform? Well, it was changing its tune and starting to ban users as it embarked on a speedrun of the content moderation learning curve (and we also noted some striking clauses in its terms of service).
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05 July 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.
Researchers create 3D interactive digital room from simple video:
Researchers at the Cornell Ann S.
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30 June 2025.
Elon Musk’s ‘America’ party could focus on a few pivotal congressional seats:
Billionaire says his new political party could try to turn attainable House and Senate seats to decide major issuesThe new US political party that Elon Musk has boasted about bankrolling could initially focus on a handful of attainable House and Senate seats while striving to be the decisive vote on major issues amid the thin margins in Congress.
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06 July 2025.
Iron age settlement found in Gloucestershire after detectorist unearths Roman swords:
When Glen Manning discovered two cavalry swords, a later dig revealed two distinct chapters of British historyIt began with an extraordinary piece of fortune: a metal detectorist on only his second expedition coming upon two very rare cavalry swords on the brink of being lost for ever.
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06 July 2025.
The iPad I recommend to most users is under $300 in every color at Amazon:
You can get Apple's brand-new and amazingly capable iPad 11th generation for $299 right now.
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06 July 2025.
Tiny creatures gorge, get fat, and help fight global warming:
Scientists find out how the epic deep sea migration of a tiny animal is storing planet-warming carbon.
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04 July 2025.
How this long-lost Chinese typewriter from the 1940s changed modern computing:
The concepts in the MingKwai typewriter underlie how Chinese, Japanese and Korean are typed today.
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05 July 2025.
Father-daughter bonding may help female baboons live longer:
Besides humans, very few mammals receive care from their fathers.
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05 July 2025.
Microsoft to Lay Off About 9,000 Employees:
The reductions followed cuts of about 6,000 positions last quarter, and were indicative of a tightening job market at big technology companies.
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06 July 2025.
China restricts EU imports of medical devices:
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06 July 2025.
The iPad I recommend to most users is under $300 in every color at Amazon:
You can get Apple's brand-new and amazingly capable iPad 11th generation for $299 right now.
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06 July 2025.
Antarctica Faces Tense Future as U.S. Science Budget Shrinks:
The continent is dedicated to research and cooperation, but proposed funding cuts in the Trump administration and actions by other world powers may alter the environment.
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06 July 2025.
Could the Milky Way be headed for a collision?:
The Andromeda galaxy lies just beyond (.
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02 July 2025.
Welcome to Silicon Valley's winner-take-all era:
100 million-dollar pay packages aren't just for the Shohei Ohtanis and Cristiano Ronaldos of the world anymore.
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06 July 2025.
Tesla Launches Solar-Powered 'Oasis' Supercharger Station: 30-Acre Solar Farm, 39 MWh of Off-Grid Batteries:
"Tesla has launched its new Oasis Supercharger," reports Electrek, "the long-promised EV charging station of the future, with a solar farm and off-grid batteries.
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06 July 2025.
Georgia leads toward a nuclear future with its first operating reactor:
Georgia Power Co. announced one of its two new reactors reached self-sustaining nuclear fission on Monday.
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07 March 2023.
Japanese quail: The bird with weird sperm foam, a post-sex strut and a spot in space history:
Male Japanese quails produce a strange seminal foam that appears to enhance the chances of successfully fertilizing an egg.
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05 July 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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