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Penguins carry forever chemicals in their feathers:
Sixteen different PFAS compounds have been discovered in the feathers of Antarctic penguins, demonstrating that the insidious spread of "forever chemicals" now reaches the most remote wildlife on Earth.
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30 July 2026.
Transparent CD player puts its spinning mechanics on display:
Most CD players are designed to hide the disc and its mechanisms inside a dark plastic box.
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03 August 2026.
Trump Spends The Weekend Fighting For The $1.776 Billion Slush Fund His Chosen Attorney General Swears Is Dead:
Sometimes it helps to just write out everything that happened leading up to a situation so we don’t lose sight of just how ridiculous it is.
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03 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 appoints new Associate Deans for research and education:
Cornell Tech has appointed two longtime faculty leaders to new academic leadership roles.
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31 July 2026.
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01 January 1970.
UK’s state investments agency hit by data breach:
Security lapse leaves sensitive information and contact details of 51 government officials exposed for 40 hoursThe public body in charge of the UK’s state investments has been pushed to improve its internal security after a data breach left “high-level management information” publicly accessible for nearly two days.
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03 August 2026.
Artists, writers and scientists urge UK government to save Jodrell Bank Observatory:
New Order and Simon Armitage among more than 100 signatories to criticise ‘foolish and shortsighted’ cutsMore than 100 artists, writers and scientists have called for the UK government to save the “world’s clearest eyes on the sky”, after funding for thenetwork of radio telescopes at Jodrell Bank Observatory was slashed.
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03 August 2026.
AI shopping searches surged 200% in one year - and it's a top priority for commerce leaders now:
Eighty-six percent of commerce leaders believe AI is raising the bar for customer expectations.
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03 August 2026.
Rhine falls to record low levels as drought strains Europe's rivers:
Low water levels in the Rhine, Danube and Po have curtailed the transport of goods and reduced electricity output.
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03 August 2026.
NVIDIA is about to spend $750 billion on AI. Critics are calling it a bubble:
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Bloomberg AI infrastructure reporter Dina Bass about concerns over circular financing in the AI sector.
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02 August 2026.
SpaceX’s Stock Lockup Is Expiring. Prepare for a Bumpy Ride.:
On Thursday, employees and other insiders at Elon Musk’s rocket company will be released from their first stock “lockup” and can start selling some of their shares.
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03 August 2026.
Let Me and a Food Scientist Sample the Abandoned Fish Sauce Terrorizing a Small…:
A long-abandoned fish sauce factory in St.
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03 August 2026.
Archaeologists Find Hundreds of Ancient Glyphs in the Amazon:
The geometric earthwork structures, carved into the ground with embankments and ditches, are in some cases more than 2,500 years old, researchers said.
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03 August 2026.
Video: Scientists watch orcas ram a sunfish so hard it explodes:
Marine biologists off of Baja California recorded one orca teeing up another to smash a sunfish into pieces.
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24 July 2026.
Let Me and a Food Scientist Sample the Abandoned Fish Sauce Terrorizing a Small…:
A long-abandoned fish sauce factory in St.
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03 August 2026.
As Reddit Stock Falls, CEO Questions Value of Google's AI Overviews:
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman criticized Google's AI Overviews for summarizing publishers' content without delivering the traffic benefits of traditional search, arguing that users increasingly value Reddit's human perspectives and firsthand experiences.
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03 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.
Scientists uncover big clue as to how Antarctica's mysterious Blood Falls came to be:
Brine that feeds the gruesome-looking Blood Falls in East Antarctica may have been emplaced when sea levels were higher than they are now, a new study says.
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03 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.
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