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The world’s oldest known vertebrates had two pairs of eyes:
The earliest ancestors of all backboned animals, including humans, may have viewed the world with four eyes, not just two.
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17 February 2026.
Rugged beast of a phone packs thermal and night vision for field pros:
Chinese rugged phone maker Ulefone has equipped its new Armor 27T Pro+ model with an unusual party trick for a smartphone: a triple camera system that includes both thermal imaging and dedicated infrared night vision.
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19 February 2026.
It Looks Like The FBI Straight Up Lied To A Judge To Get Permission To Seize Georgia Voting Records:
Earlier this month, the FBI decided it was going to help Donald Trump steal back the election he’s claimed for half-a-decade was stolen from him.
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19 February 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.
Joe Halpern, ‘towering’ computer scientist and mentor, dies at 72:
Halpern was a trailblazing researcher in reasoning about knowledge and uncertainty, causality and multi-agent and distributed systems.
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17 February 2026.
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01 January 1970.
Digital blackface flourishes under Trump and AI: ‘The state is bending reality’:
From TikTok deepfakes to smears put out by the White House, fake videos modeled on Black archetypes are running rampant - putting Black users at riskLate last year, as a US government shutdown cut off the Snap benefits that low-income families rely on for groceries, videos on social media cast the fallout in frantic scenes.
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19 February 2026.
Inside voice: what can our thoughts reveal about the nature of consciousness?:
Scientists and philosophers studying the mind have discovered how little we know about our inner experiencesWhat was I thinking? This is not as easy or straightforward a question as I would have thought.
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19 February 2026.
Half of all cyberattacks start in your browser: 10 essential tips for staying safe:
New research finds that 48% of cyberattacks involve your web browser - and AI is only making matters worse.
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19 February 2026.
SpaceX rocket fireball linked to plume of polluting lithium:
A SpaceX Falcon 9 crashed to Earth last year.
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19 February 2026.
Michael Pollan says AI may 'think' — but it will never be conscious:
"Consciousness is under siege," says author Michael Pollan.
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19 February 2026.
West Virginia Sues Apple, Claiming It Allows Sharing of Child Sexual Abuse Material:
The state’s attorney general said in a lawsuit filed on Thursday that the company declined to use tools that recognize the material stored on iCloud.
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19 February 2026.
What could trigger a U.S. strike on Iran? #world:
What officials have said so far U.
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19 February 2026.
Lake Erie’s Storm Surges Become More Extreme:
Officials are designing new ways to protect the shorelines from sudden flooding and longer storm seasons.
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19 February 2026.
Baby chicks link certain sounds with shapes, just like humans do:
A surprising new study shows that baby chickens react the same way that humans do when tested for something called the "bouba-kiki effect," which has been linked to the emergence of language.
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19 February 2026.
What could trigger a U.S. strike on Iran? #world:
What officials have said so far U.
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19 February 2026.
LLM-Generated Passwords Look Strong but Crack in Hours, Researchers Find:
AI security firm Irregular has found that passwords generated by major large language models -- Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini -- appear complex but follow predictable patterns that make them crackable in hours, even on decades-old hardware.
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19 February 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.
Solar flares may be triggering earthquakes, controversial study claims:
Researchers have proposed that changes in Earth's ionosphere could trigger electrical forces that nudge fragile areas of the crust into creating an earthquake.
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19 February 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
