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Sinkholes saved these endangered trees – then trapped them there:
Large sinkholes in nature have traditionally been viewed as a win for biodiversity, protecting plants that would be exposed to environmental stress above ground.
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24 July 2026.
RGB laser projector beams wall-filling 4K imagery from just inches away:
The appeal of an ultra-short-throw projector is pretty simple: you can get a huge image from a cabinet or sideboard nestled right up against a wall – without being troubled by ceiling mounts, long cable runs, or hardware sitting somewhere behind the couch.
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24 July 2026.
Daily Deal: The Complete Raspberry Pi And Alexa A-Z Bundle:
Learn Raspberry Pi and start building Amazon Alexa projects with The Complete Raspberry Pi and Alexa A-Z Bundle.
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24 July 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.
For the birds: Parakeet co-designs its own perch:
Doctoral student, and her bird, co-designed NomadicPerch, a felted wearable that temporarily turns a hand into a mobile perch.
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23 July 2026.
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Space datacenters proposed by Musk and Bezos ‘catastrophic’ for planet, experts warn:
New US petition demands review of plans from tech companies amid fears of environmental destructionSpace datacenters proposed by SpaceX, Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin and others would release staggering levels of pollution that would probably alter the Earth’s atmosphere and be “catastrophic” for the planet, space industry experts and environmental groups warn in a new petition demanding a review of their impacts.
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24 July 2026.
Nutrients in our food are declining. Can regenerative agriculture save it?:
Approach focuses on rebuilding soil health, increasing biodiversity and restoring natural ecosystemsFor the last few decades, the nutrient content of our crops has been declining.
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24 July 2026.
Claude Opus 5 arrives with near Fable performance at half the price:
Anthropic's latest Claude upgrade targets developers and enterprises with stronger coding, better reasoning efficiency, prompt-cache-friendly tool changes, and near-Fable performance at Opus pricing.
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24 July 2026.
'Buck Moon' set to light up sky:
July's full Moon is set to be a special one - Sophia Herod explains why.
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24 July 2026.
A town renamed its festival 'AI Love Irondale Day.' Then came the comments:
The online outcry over the renaming of a summer festival illustrates the unease over the data center boom in the South.
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23 July 2026.
Meta Launches New Facebook Marketplace App Called Seller:
Seller is part of the Silicon Valley company’s strategy to innovate on its original social network.
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24 July 2026.
Em dashes are amazing:
An enthusiastic defense of the em dash as a flexible, expressive punctuation mark for clarifications, asides, dramatic pauses, and smoother sentence flow.
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24 July 2026.
Can This New Enzyme Turn Back the Clock in Bodily Tissues?:
In a recent study, scientists devised a way of reversing the buildup of compounds that lead to some age-related diseases.
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24 July 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.
Em dashes are amazing:
An enthusiastic defense of the em dash as a flexible, expressive punctuation mark for clarifications, asides, dramatic pauses, and smoother sentence flow.
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24 July 2026.
John C. Dvorak, an Early and Influential Technology Journalist, Dies At 80:
Longtime Slashdot reader sandbagger shares the passing of John C.
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24 July 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.
'Much more violent than predicted': A chunk of the universe's missing matter was powerfully hurled out of galaxies:
The total amount of ordinary matter in our universe adds up to roughly one-tenth of what's expected.
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24 July 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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