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Google says its upcoming data center will cool itself without water:
Among the many problems posed by the rapid proliferation of data centers around the world is the strain on local water supplies.
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25 February 2026.
Simple attachment lets your camera mine the skies for lightning:
Storm chasing, a branch of photography that requires tenacity and perseverance in order to capture lightning strikes, was something I gave all of 20 minutes to before losing interest.
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22 March 2026.
Announcing The Winners Of The 8th Annual Public Domain Game Jam:
It’s finally time! Once again it took us a little while to get through all the entries this year, but we’ve now selected the winners in the latest installment of our public domain game jam, Gaming Like It’s 1930! As usual, we’ve got winners in six categories.
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21 March 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.
Alum Gilles Brassard receives Turing Award, highest CS honor:
Gilles Brassard, Ph.D.
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19 March 2026.
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01 January 1970.
Thousands of people are selling their identities to train AI – but at what cost?:
Gig AI trainers worldwide are selling moments of their lives, including calls and texts, to AI companies for quick cashOne morning last year, Jacobus Louw set out on his daily neighborhood walk to feed the seagulls he finds along the way.
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22 March 2026.
‘I’ve seen the devil’: Brazil’s UFO capital marks 30 years since ‘alien encounter’:
Sightings in Varginha in 1996 have been dismissed as hoax, but saga continues to draw people from around worldThe skies over this far-flung coffee-growing hub went charcoal black, the heavens opened and one of Brazil’s greatest mysteries was born.
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22 March 2026.
After getting hit by multiple data breaches, I gave DeleteMe a try - here's how it's paid off:
Services like DeleteMe scan the internet for exposed personal information and work to remove it.
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22 March 2026.
Nasa's Artemis Moon rocket rolls back to pad for possible April launch:
Nasa is preparing a mission to send astronauts around the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years.
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20 March 2026.
10 tried-and-true methods to stay off your phone, according to our readers:
We asked our audience to share the creative ways they limit their own phone use.
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20 March 2026.
More! More! More! Tech Workers Max Out Their A.I. Use.:
At a number of companies, employees compete on leaderboards to show how much A.
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22 March 2026.
Why did Trump issue the Hormuz ultimatum? #world:
What happened on the Hormuz ultimatum President Donald Trump announced a 48 hour ultimatum to Iran tied to the Strait of Hormuz, warning that if the waterway isn’t fully reopened for shipping, the U.
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22 March 2026.
New Spider Mimics ‘The Last of Us’ Zombie Fungus Cordyceps:
A newly discovered species of spider in the Ecuadorean Amazon mimics a pathogen, known as a zombie fungus, to protect itself.
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21 March 2026.
These roaches form exclusive long-term relationships after eating each other's wings:
Salganea taiwanensis, a kind of wood-feeding cockroach, may engage in what's known as pair bonding, a new study finds.
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18 March 2026.
Why did Trump issue the Hormuz ultimatum? #world:
What happened on the Hormuz ultimatum President Donald Trump announced a 48 hour ultimatum to Iran tied to the Strait of Hormuz, warning that if the waterway isn’t fully reopened for shipping, the U.
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22 March 2026.
US Cable TV Industry Faces 'Dramatic Collapse' as Local Operators Shut Down - or Become ISPs:
America's cable TV industry "is undergoing its most dramatic collapse in history," reports Cord Cutters News, "with operators large and small waving the white flag on traditional TV service and pointing their customers toward streaming platforms instead.
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22 March 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.
Rare star spotted in its original galaxy could answer a key question about the ingredients of life: Space photo of the week:
The ancient and rare star PicII-503 is helping astronomers understand how carbon became so abundant in the universe.
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22 March 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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