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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.
Retro boombox plays cassettes, CDs, and Bluetooth audio at 270 W:
Bumpboxx has been in the party speaker business for over a decade, with a number of models styled like 'ghetto blasters' that you can carry on your shoulder all old-school like.
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24 March 2026.
ALPR Tech Now Preventing Parents From Enrolling Their Kids In School:
All the people who have always brushed off concerns about surveillance tech, please come get your kids.
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24 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.
Protect men and boys from manosphere influencers, Labour MPs tell Ofcom:
Exclusive: Group says measures to curb harmful content will also help to tackle violence against women and girlsMen and boys need as much protection as women and girls from harmful influencers and “the worst parts of the internet”, a group of MPs have told Ofcom as they called for the regulator to give specific guidance to online platforms.
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24 March 2026.
Extra 11 minutes’ sleep each night can reduce heart attack risk, study finds:
Researchers detail ‘surprisingly large’ cardiovascular health benefits of small shifts in behaviourSleeping for 11 minutes more each night, doing 4.
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24 March 2026.
Microsoft may finally remove its frustrating Windows 11 setup requirement:
A Microsoft VP just hinted at a change Windows 11 users have wanted for years.
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24 March 2026.
Decline in migratory fish populations prompts fight for protection:
The UN assessment of the state of migratory freshwater fish revealed an 81% decline in the last 50 years.
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24 March 2026.
Trump administration to pay French company $1B to drop U.S. offshore wind leases:
TotalEnergies has agreed to what's essentially a refund of its leases for projects off the coasts of North Carolina and New York, and will invest the money in fossil fuel projects instead, the Department of Interior announced.
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23 March 2026.
Arm Holdings, in Break From Past, Will Sell Its Own Computer Chips:
For years, the company sold chip designs to other companies.
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24 March 2026.
How are ICE and TSA affecting airport lines? #world:
Airport security chaos escalates as DHS agents fill gaps Multiple U.
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24 March 2026.
NASA Adds Moon Base and Nuclear-Powered Mars Spacecraft to Road Map:
The agency’s leader said the plans and timelines for the coming decade aimed to make Americans “start believing again” in the mission of space exploration.
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24 March 2026.
Humans and animals find the same sounds 'beautiful':
Charles Darwin theorized that a sound, smell or color that's attractive to one species can be preferred by others too.
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23 March 2026.
How are ICE and TSA affecting airport lines? #world:
Airport security chaos escalates as DHS agents fill gaps Multiple U.
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24 March 2026.
Anthropic's Claude Can Now Use Your Computer To Finish Tasks:
Anthropic is testing a new Claude feature that lets users send a request from their phone and have the AI carry it out directly on their computer, such as opening apps, using a browser, or editing files.
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24 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.
Cannonball-size meteorite crashes through roof of Texas home as multiple 'fireballs' rain down on the US:
A suspected space rock, around the size of a cantaloupe, was found in the bedroom of a Houston home after crashing through the building's roof.
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24 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.
Longer term weather forecast
