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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.
World's tiniest QR code is 'smaller than most bacteria':
For those of us who weren't paying attention, over the last few years, scientists around the world have been one-upping each other in a bid to create the smallest QR code that can be reliably read.
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20 February 2026.
Department Of Education Forced To Back Off Illegal Plan To Be Racist, Sexist Assholes:
One recurring theme of this era: folks who actually choose to stand up to this bumbling kakistocracy of hateful failsons usually tend to win if they stick together.
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20 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.
Mind launches inquiry into AI and mental health after Guardian investigation:
Exclusive: England and Wales charity to examine safeguards after Guardian exposed ‘very dangerous’ advice on Google AI Overviews‘Very dangerous’: a Mind mental health expert on Google’s AI summariesMind is launching a significant inquiry into artificial intelligence and mental health after a Guardian investigation exposed how Google’s AI Overviews gave people “very dangerous” medical advice.
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20 February 2026.
Mystery of snowman-shaped space objects cracked:
Research adds weight to theory Arrokoth’s two lobes produced by gravitational collapse – and reveals processIt is the most distant and primitive object ever visited by a spacecraft from Earth: now researchers say they have fresh insights into how the ultra-red, 4bn-year-old body known as Arrokoth came to have its distinctive snowman-like shape.
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20 February 2026.
How to change your DNS service on a Windows PC or Mac - and why you should:
Switching to a different DNS provider than your ISP can offer faster performance and better security.
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20 February 2026.
Deer culling to be made easier to protect trees and crops:
The government unveils a long awaited 10-year deer management plan that will identify priority culling areas.
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19 February 2026.
NASA chief blasts Boeing, space agency for failed Starliner astronaut mission:
NASA's Jared Isaacman slammed Boeing for failures with its Starliner spacecraft, which was deemed unsafe to return its crew of two astronauts from the International Space Station.
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20 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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20 February 2026.
Why is the US threatening strikes on Iran? #world:
What officials have done and why it matters The U.
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20 February 2026.
NASA Conducts Successful Launchpad Tests of the Massive Artemis Rocket:
The next moon mission, carrying four astronauts, could launch as soon as early March.
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20 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.
Why is the US threatening strikes on Iran? #world:
What officials have done and why it matters The U.
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20 February 2026.
US Supreme Court Rejects Trump's Global Tariffs:
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down on Friday President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs that he pursued under a law meant for use in national emergencies, rejecting one of his most contentious assertions of his authority in a ruling with major implications for the global economy.
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20 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.
New tech allows parents to 'score' IVF embryos for desirable traits — and it's in desperate need of regulation:
Companies now offer polygenic embryo selection to prospective parents undergoing IVF.
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20 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.
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