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01 January 1970.
Small, flat, rooftop satellite antennas could replace big, bulky, costly dishes:
"Ground Control to Major Tom," the evergreen lyrics to David Bowie’s 70s hit, Space Oddity.
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30 May 2026.
Knox County, TN Rolls Back ‘Roots’ Book Ban After Backlash:
It was just a week or so ago that we were talking about the absurd situation in Knox County, Tennessee, where local government used Tennessee’s book-banning laws to remove the book Roots from school libraries.
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30 May 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.
A&S seniors celebrate their extraordinary journeys:
As the class of 2026 graduates in Arts & Sciences, we celebrate their extraordinary journeys.
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29 May 2026.
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01 January 1970.
Americans echo Pope Leo’s concerns about AI: ‘It threatens workers, privacy and human life’:
Guardian readers in the US spoke of fears about unregulated AI in response to the pope’s encyclical warning about the risks of the technologyIn his first major papal text since assuming leadership of the Catholic church last year, Pope Leo issued a stark warning about the rise of artificial intelligence this week, denouncing the “culture of power” driving the AI age.
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30 May 2026.
Trial of multi-cancer blood test among 142,000 NHS patients fails to meet main aim:
Results presented at oncology conference in Chicago show Galleri test failed to reduce late-stage cancer diagnosesA blood test for more than 50 types of cancer that was billed as the holy grail of oncology has failed to achieve its main objective in a major clinical trial, according to data presented at the world’s largest cancer conference.
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30 May 2026.
I tried Microsoft's Windows 365 Cloud PC on MacOS, Android, and iOS - here's what it's like:
Who needs a Cloud PC, anyway? What's the experience like? How much does it really cost? I've got answers to all those questions.
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30 May 2026.
Exploding rocket casts doubts over Nasa's Moon plans:
Explosion of Blue Origin rocket is a setback for the company and for Nasa's Moon plans.
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29 May 2026.
DOJ charges Google staffer over Polymarket trades netting $1.2 million:
It's the second known case of the federal government filing criminal charges against someone who allegedly used insider information to make a large profit on a prediction market site.
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27 May 2026.
I Tried to Sell My House With A.I.:
Over five frantic days, I gambled my family’s life savings on a hunch that A.
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30 May 2026.
Locusts:
A collection of writings [explosion-scratch.
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30 May 2026.
A Hidden Treasure of Rare Snake Specimens:
In the foothills of the Ecuadorean Amazon, a 101-year-old farmer and a young scientist turned an amateur collection into a scientific survey of one of the most diverse snake habitats on Earth.
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30 May 2026.
Researchers say the Trump administration is finding new ways to punish science:
Even with federal grants largely restored, scientists say the Trump administration is still preventing those funds from reaching them.
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21 May 2026.
Locusts:
A collection of writings [explosion-scratch.
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30 May 2026.
US Aims to Give Cold War Plutonium to Startups For Nuclear Fuel:
The Trump administration is planning to provide Cold War-era plutonium from dismantled nuclear warheads to nuclear startups that want to convert it into reactor fuel, arguing it could help address a looming fuel shortage for advanced reactors.
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30 May 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.
New device could make processors run 1,000 times faster without additional waste heat — scientists say it could reduce data center energy demands:
A new device could allow computer processors to operate significantly faster, without generating waste heat.
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30 May 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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