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The world’s oldest known vertebrates had two pairs of eyes:
The earliest ancestors of all backboned animals, including humans, may have viewed the world with four eyes, not just two.
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17 February 2026.
Watch: Fury platform brings agentic AI to battlefield drones:
Watch as a team of drones destroys their target in a demonstration of Fury.
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20 February 2026.
Trump Wants An Airport Renamed After Him While His Company Trademarks Those Same Names:
Remember how Donald Trump was going to “drain the swamp” as president? The idea, spilling out from his first campaign for president, was that Washington was horribly corrupt, that politicians and unelected government stooges were making money from their positions of power, and that even politician’s families were in on the grift.
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20 February 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.
Joe Halpern, ‘towering’ computer scientist and mentor, dies at 72:
Halpern was a trailblazing researcher in reasoning about knowledge and uncertainty, causality and multi-agent and distributed systems.
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17 February 2026.
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Digital blackface flourishes under Trump and AI: ‘The state is bending reality’:
From TikTok deepfakes to smears put out by the White House, fake videos modeled on Black archetypes are running rampant - putting Black users at riskLate last year, as a US government shutdown cut off the Snap benefits that low-income families rely on for groceries, videos on social media cast the fallout in frantic scenes.
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20 February 2026.
Inside voice: what can our thoughts reveal about the nature of consciousness?:
Scientists and philosophers studying the mind have discovered how little we know about our inner experiencesWhat was I thinking? This is not as easy or straightforward a question as I would have thought.
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20 February 2026.
New to VPNs? Everything you need to know about virtual private networks in 2026:
Our step-by-step guide covers the many benefits, limited downsides, and everything else you need to know before embracing this popular privacy tool.
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20 February 2026.
Deer culling to be made easier to protect trees and crops:
The government unveils a long awaited 10-year deer management plan that will identify priority culling areas.
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19 February 2026.
NASA chief blasts Boeing, space agency for failed Starliner astronaut mission:
NASA's Jared Isaacman slammed Boeing for failures with its Starliner spacecraft, which was deemed unsafe to return its crew of two astronauts from the International Space Station.
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20 February 2026.
West Virginia Sues Apple, Claiming It Allows Sharing of Child Sexual Abuse Material:
The state’s attorney general said in a lawsuit filed on Thursday that the company declined to use tools that recognize the material stored on iCloud.
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20 February 2026.
Why is the U.S. massing forces near Iran? #world:
Military buildup and diplomatic pressure The United States has moved a large concentration of naval and air assets into the Middle East as diplomatic efforts with Tehran continue.
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20 February 2026.
Investigators Blame NASA and Boeing for Starliner Failures:
Technical and oversight problems left two astronauts aboard the International Space Station for months longer than had been expected.
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20 February 2026.
Baby chicks link certain sounds with shapes, just like humans do:
A surprising new study shows that baby chickens react the same way that humans do when tested for something called the "bouba-kiki effect," which has been linked to the emergence of language.
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19 February 2026.
Why is the U.S. massing forces near Iran? #world:
Military buildup and diplomatic pressure The United States has moved a large concentration of naval and air assets into the Middle East as diplomatic efforts with Tehran continue.
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20 February 2026.
Trump Directs US Government To Prepare Release of Files on Aliens and UFOs:
US President Donald Trump says he will direct US agencies, including the defence department, to "begin the process of identifying and releasing" government files on aliens and extraterrestrial life.
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20 February 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.
'There will be leadership accountability': Bungled Boeing Starliner mission put stranded NASA crew at risk, report says:
The 2024 Starliner mission, which left astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams stranded in space for nine months, has received NASA's worst mishap classification in a damning report.
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19 February 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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