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A monkey ate the wrong squirrel – and started an outbreak:
In January 2023, researchers at the Helmholtz Institute for One Health in Germany noticed that an infant monkey known as a sooty mangabey had developed reddish skin lesions across its forehead, chest, and legs.
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15 April 2026.
A swivel display disguises this gaming handheld as a media player:
Anbernic makes a wide range of portable gaming consoles whose designs leave nothing to the imagination, with the usual arrays of controller buttons alongside or below a display.
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14 April 2026.
War As A Pretext: Gulf States Are Tightening The Screws On Speech—Again:
War does not only reshape borders.
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15 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.
‘Moonshot’ project aims to restore trust in the digital public sphere:
Researchers have received a seed grant for $250,000 and a chance at a $10 million award to support a project aimed at using artificial intelligence to establish a foundation for trustworthy AI-mediated communication across online platforms.
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15 April 2026.
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01 January 1970.
‘Misogyny with a marketing budget’: UK AI firm accused of sexist advert:
Narwhal Labs ad for ‘AI employee’ contains strapline: ‘She outworks everyone.
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16 April 2026.
Sperm whales’ communication closely parallels human language, study finds:
Analysis shows whales’ coda vocalizations are ‘highly complex’ and remarkably similar to our ownWe 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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16 April 2026.
Don't fall for the 'Vivid' TV trap when shopping - how I get the most color accurate setup:
Does your TV have an overly bright, overly saturated picture? Your settings might be set for the store, not your living room.
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16 April 2026.
Butterfly numbers are dropping but here are five species you may see more of:
A warming climate has helped some to flourish, researchers say, but the outlook is troubling.
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14 April 2026.
Millions of people are pretending to be AI chatbots — for fun:
Websites like youraislopbores.
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14 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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16 April 2026.
My Internet Is Reliably Unreliable. Is God the Same Way?:
A pastor reflects on a home internet outage that predictably hits during a weekly livestreamed sermon, then uses Psalm 12 to argue that God’s reliability is steadier than the broken systems and “backup plans” people rely on when evil feels immediate.
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16 April 2026.
In Defense of Dumb Dogs:
Your pet is (probably) not a genius, and that’s OK.
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16 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.
Where did the MP3s come from?:
MP3 players were widespread in the early 2000s, but a lot of the music on them likely came from piracy.
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16 April 2026.
Boston Dynamics' Robot Dog Can Now Read Gauges, Spot Spills, and Reason:
Boston Dynamics has integrated Google DeepMind into its robotic dog Spot, giving it more autonomous reasoning for industrial inspections like spotting spills and reading gauges.
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16 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.
'Something's missing': Most thorough-ever study of the cosmos proves we still can't explain how the universe is expanding:
A comprehensive new study combines decades of research to reveal that we're missing an essential component in our understanding of how the universe works.
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15 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.
Longer term weather forecast
