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'Phantom earthquakes' can haunt your brain long after tremors stop:
Some time around February 2025, after experiencing a handful of tremors at home in my Taipei apartment (tremors, mind you, that locals wouldn't blink an eye at), I began feeling quakes that weren't there – especially when still, in bed, at night.
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17 August 2026.
Your own personal poison-snooper as a wearable skin patch:
An alcoholic drink will give you a buzz, but if someone laced it with something dangerous, a new poison-snooping patch will buzz your skin to warn you.
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17 August 2026.
Another California Court Has Now Broken Media Advertising, So The Copia Institute Asked Another California Appeals Court To Fix It:
A few years ago a California appeals court produced the unfortunate Liapes v.
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17 August 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.
Cornell Tech’s new faculty are changing how AI learns, reasons, solves problems:
Six new faculty members will join Cornell Tech during the coming year, bringing expertise in AI, machine learning, programming languages, and operations research.
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17 August 2026.
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Sainsbury’s store pauses AI scanning after false shoplifting accusation:
Supermarket chain says ‘human error’, not its Facewatch technology, to blame for ejecting a customerSainsbury’s has paused the use of AI face scanning in one of its stores after a customer was wrongly identified as a shoplifter and ejected from the shop.
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18 August 2026.
Block export of ‘national treasure’ UK fossils, says MP:
Sale of one of UK’s top collections overseas prompts call new rules to help keep items in countryOne of UK’s best fossil collections sold in ‘loss to the nation’An MP has called on ministers to change export controls so that significant fossils can be classed as national treasures after one of the UK’s best collections, unearthed on Dorset beaches, was sold overseas.
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18 August 2026.
Stop paying for smartphone storage you don't need - here's a better approach:
How to stop wasting money on storage: Think in dollars, not gigabytes.
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18 August 2026.
Watch: Flash flood sweeps vehicle away in Hawaii after Hurricane Lala:
Tropical storm warnings remain for some of the state's islands, as the storm is due to progress west.
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17 August 2026.
Meta heads to court in a landmark trial about kids and social media addiction:
Four states are suing the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, alleging that the platforms were designed to hook kids and that Meta hid the mental health risks.
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17 August 2026.
AI Slop Is Everywhere. Spotify, LinkedIn and Others Have Had Enough.:
Spotify, LinkedIn and others are trying to dig out of a digital sewage heap full of low-quality content made with artificial intelligence.
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18 August 2026.
The Lonely Men at the End of the World:
Photographs of Chilean Patagonian puesteros—solitary ranch hands who spend weeks or months at a time in isolated cabins—reveal the harsh beauty of their landscape and the precarity of their work.
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18 August 2026.
Jaguars Are Ready to Come Back. The Border Wall Might Stop Them.:
A lone male roves the Arizona mountains, and a female has been spotted just across the border in Mexico.
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18 August 2026.
Sticky or slippery? Snails can change their slime to meet the moment:
Snails are slimy. But there's more to it than meets the eye.
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09 August 2026.
The Scientist Who Lived with Dozens of Children from the South Pacific:
Carleton Gajdusek won the Nobel Prize for his work on kuru in Papua New Guinea, but he also brought dozens of children from the region to live with him in the United States.
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17 August 2026.
Supreme Court Rejects Verizon Bid For $47 Million Refund of FCC Fine:
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Supreme Court today rejected Verizon's attempt to get a $47 million refund from the Federal Communications Commission.
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18 August 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.
Do you think social media bans will protect children?:
Australia recently passed a law banning social media for children and younger teens, and other countries may follow suit.
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17 August 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
