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Study predicts when the last plants on Earth will die:
One day, far in the future, a leaf will turn brown and crumble to dust, representing the end of all plants on Earth.
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30 June 2026.
The long goodbye: BBC pulls the plug on long-wave radio (and TV is next):
After more than a century, an era comes to an end as the world's longest-running long-wave radio service shuts down.
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30 June 2026.
NFP Restores All The Content From Climate.gov That Trump Attempted To Disappear:
It’s no secret that Donald Trump has been waging an Orwellian war on knowledge and information for most of his second term thus far.
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30 June 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.
Digital research repository arXiv to start new chapter as nonprofit:
On July 1, the digital research respository arXiv, housed at Cornell Tech, will transition to an independent nonprofit, enabling faster technological development, expanded partnerships and long-term financial sustainability.
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29 June 2026.
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01 January 1970.
‘There’s this deep mystery of what, actually, is this thing?’: the philosopher inside Google DeepMind:
Since 2017, Iason Gabriel has worked at the tech giant, trying to anticipate – and think through – the impact of AI.
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30 June 2026.
Tiny Antarctic sea creature could be key to treating melanoma, researchers say:
Underwater expedition by Florida-based team supports possible therapeutic use of bacterial toxins from sea squirtsResearchers at a Florida university say bacterial toxins produced by tiny marine organisms they have studied in Antarctica could become an effective treatment for melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer.
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30 June 2026.
I always keep these 3 devices plugged into my power station - here's why:
Here's how to leverage your power station's capabilities when it's not during an emergency.
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30 June 2026.
Drinks could go up in price by 50p under new return scheme, industry says:
Shoppers could face higher drink prices and reduced choice under a new recycling scheme, industry leaders say.
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30 June 2026.
Red, white and glowing blue: Trump's push for new reactors reaches the finish line:
A program initiated by the Trump administration has allowed small companies to rush their testing of several new nuclear reactor designs.
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29 June 2026.
In San Francisco’s A.I. Era, Even $180,000 Tech Salaries Are No Longer Enough:
As OpenAI and Anthropic prepare to go public, tech workers making six figures are grousing that they cannot compete with the new A.
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30 June 2026.
Permanent standard time may improve health:
Stanford Medicine researchers modeled three time policies and found permanent standard time would create the lowest circadian burden for most people, with permanent daylight saving time also better than switching clocks twice a year.
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30 June 2026.
Turtles Are Really Weird Animals. Where Did They Come From?:
The origin of turtles has puzzled scientists.
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30 June 2026.
Critical fire weather complicates firefighting efforts in massive Utah wildfire:
Firefighters working on the nation's largest current wildfire, burning in southern Utah, are being challenged by historic weather conditions.
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27 June 2026.
Fade to Blue:
Naz Hamid reflects on redesigning his site as a way to interrogate taste, avoid AI-style “vibe-coded” design, and return to a blue-heavy visual language shaped by typography, print, grain, and older Weightshift iterations.
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30 June 2026.
Ford Rehires 'Gray Beard' Engineers After AI Falls Short:
Ford executives said they've hired 350 veteran engineers — some of them former employees — after AI and automated systems failed to deliver the desired quality, reports TechCrunch:
Bloomberg reports the company's chief operating officer Kumar Galhotra told journalists that Ford had been "relying more and more on automated quality systems" with disappointing results.
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30 June 2026.
With viral ‘Lego’ videos, Iran stakes claim as a propaganda power player:
Iran’s viral social media campaign has been slick, savvy, and accessible to a Western audience.
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20 May 2026.
Shadowy tendrils of ancient lava have scarred a dark volcano next to a 'skull' in the Sahara — Earth from space:
A 2019 astronaut photo shows off ancient lava flows that once oozed down the jet-black slopes of the Toussidé volcano in northwestern Chad.
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30 June 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
