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Mount Etna may be like no other volcano on Earth:
Europe's most active volcano, Mount Etna, has always been a geological puzzle.
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26 July 2026.
Generative Bionics' smart robot skin prevents collisions:
Humanoids and humans are increasingly sharing factory floors, but one is made of metal and the other of flesh and bones, a mismatch that rarely ends well for us in a collision.
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27 July 2026.
Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt:
This week, both top comments on the insightful side come in response to our post about the attempted murder charges that were dropped after bystander recordings exposed the lies of ICE officers.
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26 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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Honor Magic V6 review: sleek foldable phone lacking a bit of polish:
Super-premium Android has top performance, long battery life and good cameras, but is let down by softwareHonor’s svelte Android phone-tablet has been given a glow-up for its sixth version, offering a great alternative to Samsung for a fancy foldable with a red suede-like back framed in gold.
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27 July 2026.
‘It’s not rocket science’: a day in the life of a Nasa behavioral health scientist:
Dr Suzanne Bell helps astronauts perform in a high-stress environment.
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27 July 2026.
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 vs. Z Flip 8: How Samsung's two new foldables compare:
Samsung's new foldables are impressive, but how different are they really, by the specs? Let's compare.
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27 July 2026.
Macron calls crisis meeting as wildfires threaten Bordeaux and heatwave looms:
Blazes are about 15km from Bordeaux, but the city's mayor says there are no plans to evacuate.
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27 July 2026.
Sony says it will stop producing physical discs for PlayStation games:
Sony's Playstation games once ran solely on discs.
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26 July 2026.
Silicon Valley Splits Over Closing the Borders to Chinese A.I.:
Anthropic and OpenAI are clashing with the rest of the tech industry over whether “open-source” models from China should be freely available or restricted.
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27 July 2026.
I wanted a clock that never needed setting. Things escalated.:
A Raspberry Pi, an Adafruit 7-segment display, a 3D-printed case, and some vibe coding turned a simple always-correct clock idea into a fully networked bedroom project with systemd, HomeKit control, and automated deployment.
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27 July 2026.
‘OnlyMarms’: Marmots Are on OnlyFans to Raise Money for Research:
A team of scientists uploaded videos of the squirrel-like rodents in the wild on the adult-content site OnlyFans to raise money amid government budget cuts.
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27 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.
I wanted a clock that never needed setting. Things escalated.:
A Raspberry Pi, an Adafruit 7-segment display, a 3D-printed case, and some vibe coding turned a simple always-correct clock idea into a fully networked bedroom project with systemd, HomeKit control, and automated deployment.
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27 July 2026.
A New Middle Class of Content Creators Is Quietly Quitting the 9-to-5:
"The rise of TikTok, Instagram Reels and Amazon storefronts has created a new kind of white-collar exit strategy," reports Bloomberg.
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27 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.
2 meteor showers peak on the same night this week — how to get the best views, despite a near-full moon:
The Delta Aquariids peak on July 30-31, kicking off "meteor season," though bright moonlight will likely limit views.
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26 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.
Longer term weather forecast
