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'Sweating' paint keeps buildings cool even in hot and humid cities:
A new kind of paint might be the key to cooling homes in humid climes like Singapore.
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23 June 2025.
Futuristic starchitect-designed city will rise out of the Arabian desert:
Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has been commissioned to design an entire new city in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
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24 June 2025.
Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt:
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is MrWilson with a comment about ICE arresting Brad Lander: Republicans keep saying no one is above the law, but they keep referring only to other people and not themselves.
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22 June 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.
Faculty-led startup is using AI to reimagine software reliability:
Cornell Tech Assistant Professor Raaz Dwivedi has co-founded Traversal, a startup emerging from stealth this week with a mission: to transform how modern software systems detect and resolve outages using artificial intelligence.
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20 June 2025.
Internet users advised to change passwords after 16bn logins exposed:
Hacked credentials could give cybercriminals access to Facebook, Meta and Google accounts among othersWhat to do if your email account is stolen – and how to stop it happening againInternet users have been told to change their passwords and upgrade their digital security after researchers claimed to have revealed the scale of sensitive information – 16bn login records – potentially available to cybercriminals.
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23 June 2025.
‘You don’t brag about wiping out 60‑70,000 people’: the men who dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki:
This summer will mark 80 years since the attacks stunned the world.
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23 June 2025.
The best website builders of 2025: Expert tested and reviewed:
I tested the best subscription-based website builders, which help you create your site with features like AI site building, 24/7 customer support, SSL certificates, and more.
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23 June 2025.
King's Midwinter message to Antarctic researchers:
King Charles is the first monarch to take part in the annual BBC broadcast, which sends a morale-raising message to scientists on remote research bases.
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21 June 2025.
What happened to VR and the metaverse?:
Virtual reality was once promised to be the future of not only video games, but social media.
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19 June 2025.
Student discovers widespread microplastic pollution in Appalachian streams and fish:
When West Virginia University biology undergraduate student Isabella Tuzzio tested fish from central Appalachian streams, her research revealed microplastics in every fish she sampled.
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22 June 2025.
Europe’s Growing Fear: How Trump Might Use U.S. Tech Dominance Against It:
To comply with a Trump executive order, Microsoft recently helped suspend the email account of an International Criminal Court prosecutor in the Netherlands who was investigating Israel for war crimes.
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22 June 2025.
Iran tensions make thermal coal a winner against pricier LNG:
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23 June 2025.
The best website builders of 2025: Expert tested and reviewed:
I tested the best subscription-based website builders, which help you create your site with features like AI site building, 24/7 customer support, SSL certificates, and more.
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23 June 2025.
Vera Rubin’s Legacy Lives On in a Troubled Scientific Landscape:
A powerful new telescope will usher in a new era of cosmic discovery, but in a political climate vastly different from when it was named for a once overlooked female astronomer.
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22 June 2025.
Researchers gave psychedelic drugs to clergy across religions. It made some switch careers:
What happens when you give psychedelic drugs to two dozen clergy from various faith traditions? Academic researchers did just that, and published the surprising results this month.
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21 June 2025.
A US judge let an age-discrimination claim, focused on an application-screening algorithm, proceed as a collective action against HR software company Workday:
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23 June 2025.
RedMonk Ranks Top Programming Languages Over Time - and Considers Ditching Its 'Stack Overflow' Metric:
The developer-focused analyst firm RedMonk releases twice-a-year rankings of programming language popularity.
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23 June 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.
There's a 'ghost' plume lurking beneath the Middle East — and it might explain how India wound up where it is today:
Researchers have discovered an unusual plume of magma beneath Oman that may have changed the course of the Indian tectonic plate between 25 million and 40 million years ago.
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22 June 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.
Longer term weather forecast
