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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.
World’s most efficient RC drone flies 3.5 hours on a single charge:
Most drone engineers pick a lane.
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27 February 2026.
2 Months Into 2026 We Are Over Half 2025’s Total Count Of Measles Cases:
Measles. Yes, yes, I know you’re sick of hearing about it.
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27 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.
Hackathon winners combat ear infections, parasites and animal overpopulation:
Products to fight ear infections in dogs, a parasite in cattle and animal population control challenges won top honors at the Feb.
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24 February 2026.
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Burger King cooks up AI chatbot to spot if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’:
OpenAI-powered assistant will help to ‘understand overall service patterns’, company says, as move sparks backlashFrom hospitality workers to retail employees, the exaggerated “customer service voice”, often mocked in internet memes as wildly different from someone’s real voice, has long been a cultural trope.
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27 February 2026.
Vegetarians have ‘substantially lower risk’ of five types of cancer:
Study shows lower risk for multiple myeloma as well as pancreatic, prostate, breast and kidney cancersVegetarians have a substantially lower risk of five types of cancer, a landmark study on the role of diet has revealed.
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27 February 2026.
Is this $170 Oura Ring alternative with no subscription fees legit? My verdict after weeks of wear:
Renpho's Lynx smart ring is budget-friendly, but is it worth it? I tested one for weeks to truly know.
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27 February 2026.
Waitrose to suspend mackerel sales due to overfishing concerns:
The supermarket chain says it will stop sourcing fresh, chilled and frozen mackerel by 29 April.
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27 February 2026.
What to know about the showdown between AI company Anthropic and the Pentagon:
NPR speaks with Maria Curi, an AI tech policy reporter at Axios, about the showdown between Anthropic and the Department of Defense.
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27 February 2026.
They Helped Women Fight Online Abuse. They Were Barred From the U.S.:
The founders of HateAid, a German human-rights group that helps victims of online attacks, were accused by the Trump administration of being part of a “global censorship-industrial complex.
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27 February 2026.
Why did Pakistan declare 'open war'? #world:
Escalation along the Pakistan–Afghanistan frontier A sharp military escalation followed a series of cross‑border attacks that Islamabad blamed on armed elements inside Afghanistan.
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27 February 2026.
What Your DNA Reveals About the Sex Life of Neanderthals:
Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome.
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27 February 2026.
When a horse whinnies, there's more than meets the ear:
A new study finds that horse whinnies are made of both a high and a low frequency, generated by different parts of the vocal tract.
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25 February 2026.
Why did Pakistan declare 'open war'? #world:
Escalation along the Pakistan–Afghanistan frontier A sharp military escalation followed a series of cross‑border attacks that Islamabad blamed on armed elements inside Afghanistan.
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27 February 2026.
Moon's Ancient Magnetic Field May Have Flickered On and Off:
sciencehabit quotes a report from Science Magazine: For decades, planetary scientists have pored over a mystery hidden within the Moon rocks retrieved by Apollo astronauts in the 1960s and '70s.
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27 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.
Science history: Carbon-14 is discovered, opening a window into past civilizations — Feb. 27, 1940:
Martin Kamen and Samuel Ruben's discovery of the radioactive isotope carbon-14 in 1940 helped usher in a new era of dating artifacts from past civilizations.
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27 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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