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Asteroid-mining microbes extract metal from rocks in space:
Humanity may be one step closer to space-mining and cosmic self-sustainability, thanks to a secret, tiny weapon: microbes.
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17 April 2026.
Forget scrubbing in the sink – this is a full-on shoe-washer and dryer:
Washing shoes by hand is one of those chores that feels almost punishing: it takes time, effort, patience, and it’s not even that efficient.
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16 April 2026.
Rockstar On Latest Potential Hack & Information Leak: Meh, We Don’t Care:
Several years ago, Rockstar Games suffered an intrusion into its corporate network.
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17 April 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.
Making AI safer for victims of intimate partner violence:
Conversational AI tools denied blunt requests for harmful content by researchers posing as intimate partner abusers, but these guardrails were easily circumvented, a new Cornell Tech study has found.
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16 April 2026.
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Starmer tells social media firms: ‘Things can’t go on like this’:
PM demands real world changes in Downing Street meeting with senior figures from Meta, TikTok, Google and XKeir Starmer has told social media bosses “things can’t go on like this” in a meeting about internet safety at Downing Street.
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17 April 2026.
Effect of ‘gamechanger’ Alzheimer’s drugs ‘trivial’, review concludes:
Data assessed from 17 clinical trials of anti-amyloid drugs found no ‘meaningful effect’ on cognitive declineDrugs that have been hailed as a gamechanger for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease make no noticeable difference to patients, according to an extensive review.
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17 April 2026.
I traded my Sonos Era 300 for Denon's new home speaker - and see no reason to go back:
The Denon Home 400 is a worthy competitor to Sonos' Era 300, with upgraded hardware, software, and a fresh look.
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17 April 2026.
Why cheap power could matter more than clean power in the push for net zero:
The question of how important making our electricity clean is to going green is coming under increasing scrutiny.
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15 April 2026.
A Polymarket trader made $300,000 betting on Biden's pardons, a new analysis shows:
In the final hours of President Biden's term, an anonymous prediction market trader placed lucrative bets on who would be pardoned even as the odds were nearly zero.
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16 April 2026.
What Is ‘Jagged Intelligence’ and How Can It Reframe the AI Debate?:
A.I. has always been compared to human intelligence, but that may not be the right way to think about it.
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17 April 2026.
One in five soil-dependent species face extinction:
A new Conservation International and IUCN study warns that one in five assessed soil-dependent species are threatened with extinction, with land-use change and soil chemistry shifts among the main drivers.
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16 April 2026.
Artemis II Crew Discusses NASA Moon Mission and Next Steps:
The four astronauts spoke at a news conference Thursday afternoon at Johnson Space Center in Houston about their journey around the moon and back to Earth.
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17 April 2026.
In the brain, objects seen and imagined follow the same neural path:
New evidence finds that sight and imagination rely on the same neurons and use the same neural code.
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14 April 2026.
One in five soil-dependent species face extinction:
A new Conservation International and IUCN study warns that one in five assessed soil-dependent species are threatened with extinction, with land-use change and soil chemistry shifts among the main drivers.
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16 April 2026.
Sperm Whales' Communication Closely Parallels Human Language, Study Finds:
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: We may appear to have little in common with sperm whales – enormous, ocean-dwelling animals that last shared a common ancestor with humans more than 90 million years ago.
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17 April 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.
2 supermassive black holes may collide 100 years from now — and Earth would feel it:
In a galaxy 500 million light-years away, two supermassive black holes could merge, spreading gravitational waves across the universe.
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16 April 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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