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World’s most powerful hypergravity machine is 1,900X stronger than Earth:
China has eclipsed its own – and the US – record, building a monster underground hypergravity centrifuge that can model scenarios with 1,900 times the real-world gravitational force of Earth, bending space and time with unprecedented power.
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08 January 2026.
Samsung aims for ultimate flexibility with latest canister projector:
Back in 2022, Samsung released a cool-looking portable projector aimed directly at Gen Z and millennials.
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07 January 2026.
Dear Hilton: Lose My Number:
For those who wish to tell Hilton what they think of them, here is a model letter.
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08 January 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.
Who should get paid when AI learns from creative work?:
A new paper co-authored by Cornell law professor Frank Pasquale argues that the current copyright system is ill-equipped to handle a world in which machines learn from, and compete with, human creativity at unprecedented scale.
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22 December 2025.
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01 January 1970.
Commons women and equalities committee to stop using X amid AI-altered images row:
Exclusive: Move follows outcry over use of Grok to digitally remove clothing from images of women and childrenUK politics live – latest updatesThe Commons women and equalities committee has decided to stop using X after the social media site’s AI tool began generating thousands of digitally altered images of women and children with their clothes removed.
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08 January 2026.
‘We were sitting with our calculator saying “we can afford that!”’ Joy for families as cystic fibrosis drug prices fall within reach:
The cost of medication was too high for thousands of CF sufferers around the world.
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08 January 2026.
The 5 most advanced smart glasses we tried so far at CES - that truly impressed us:
What's more futuristic and innovative than technology you wear on your face? These are our top picks at this year's show so far.
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08 January 2026.
Rare Iron Age war trumpet and boar standard found:
The discoveries are "extraordinarily rare", say the archaeologists who helped find them.
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07 January 2026.
At CES, the world's biggest tech companies hope to make a splash:
At this year's CES convention in Las Vegas, the world's biggest consumer technology companies are hoping to make a splash, showcasing new chips, robots and AI-enabled devices.
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07 January 2026.
Anthropic Said to Be in Talks to Raise Funding at a $350 Billion Valuation:
The artificial intelligence start-up, which competes with OpenAI, is aiming to raise around $10 billion amid talk of a potential initial public offering.
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08 January 2026.
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani defends tenant official facing backlash for 'white supremacy' posts:
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08 January 2026.
Scientists Discover Oldest Poison, on 60,000-Year-Old Arrows:
Residues on arrow tips found in South Africa hint at how far back in history humans have been using poison for survival.
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08 January 2026.
Sick young ants send out a 'kill me' scent to prevent deadly epidemics:
Young, infected Lasius neglectus ants will send out an altruistic "kill me" signal to worker ants, a new study finds, as part of a strategy to keep deadly pathogens from spreading through the colony.
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07 January 2026.
Google and chatbot maker Character to settle lawsuit alleging chatbot pushed teen to suicide:
Google, chatbot maker Character to settle suit alleging bot pushed teen to suicide
Google and Character Technologies have agreed to settle a lawsuit from a Florida mother who claimed a chatbot pushed her son to kill himself
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.
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08 January 2026.
How Bright Headlights Escaped Regulation:
Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Autoblog: .
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08 January 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.
New US food pyramid recommends very high protein diet, beef tallow as healthy fat option, and full-fat dairy:
The federal government has released new dietary guidelines, introducing an emphasis on consuming meat and dairy and avoiding highly processed foods.
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07 January 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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