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The extraordinary engineering that builds nature's only straight tusk:
The narwhal's defining feature – its continuously growing tusk – is the only straight structure of its kind seen in nature.
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18 August 2026.
USA finally gets the modular smartphone owners can repair themselves:
As right-to-repair rules spread and buyers grow weary of sealed, disposable slabs, a handful of companies are betting that people will pay for a device they can actually open up and keep going for years.
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23 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.
At Cornell Bowers, faculty do AI and now staff do too:
“We Do AI” was the first educational series at Cornell to provide staff across an entire college with advanced training in how to use AI effectively in their daily workflows.
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19 August 2026.
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01 January 1970.
‘We are hitting a different chapter’: OpenAI leader warns of threat of ‘persistent’ AI cyber-attacks:
Chris Lehane tells Guardian of need to implement new safety standards as critics say AI firms acting ‘recklessly’A senior leader at OpenAI has said people should prepare to defend against “ongoing, persistent” cyber-attacks from AIs, as cutting-edge artificial intelligence models gain advanced capabilities to plan and launch offensives.
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24 August 2026.
Ebola day 100: why this outbreak could become the deadliest in history – video explainer:
More than 2,000 people have died from Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since the first case of this epidemic was recorded in May.
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24 August 2026.
How to turn your TV in a computer monitor in 3 easy steps - and for free:
Breathe new life into an old TV by setting it up as a monitor for your Mac, Windows, or Linux laptop with gear you may already have around the house.
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24 August 2026.
France links sharp rise in drownings to heatwaves:
A government minister says people have been taking risks by going into the water, with 301 deaths since 19 June.
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23 August 2026.
Have dating apps lost their luster? Data shows a decline in users:
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to social scientist Kathryn Coduto of Boston University about a decline in the use of dating apps.
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23 August 2026.
How Big Tech Captured American Schools:
Companies like Google and Microsoft have used their money, their might and their massive reach to influence nearly every step of the education supply chain.
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24 August 2026.
Why Sal Khan’t: On Learning by Making but Teaching by Telling:
Two pieces crossed my feed recently, both about Sal Khan and the AI tutoring revolution that wasn’t.
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23 August 2026.
Wildfires Are Turning Forests in the American West Into Shrubland:
Towering woodlands in the West are being permanently replaced by tracts of spiky shrubs.
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23 August 2026.
This high-speed star is whipping around the black hole in the middle of our galaxy:
Researchers have identified a speed demon at the heart of the Milky Way.
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19 August 2026.
Why Sal Khan’t: On Learning by Making but Teaching by Telling:
Two pieces crossed my feed recently, both about Sal Khan and the AI tutoring revolution that wasn’t.
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23 August 2026.
The Global Race To Make a Practical Quantum Computer Just Took a Big Leap Forward:
It's "radically different from other quantum computers" reports Phys.
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24 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.
Why is AI going on a hacking spree?:
AI models are finding software flaws, carrying out cyberattacks during security tests and reaching systems they weren't supposed to access.
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23 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
