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[flagged] Everything Hikers Know About Lightning Safety Is Wrong (backpacker.com)

3 days ago | Stratoscope | backpacker.com | frontpage

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This 'treasure' rewrote California history. It was an elaborate hoax. (2021) (sfgate.com)

4 days ago | Stratoscope | sfgate.com | newest

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Cicadas are coming, bringing mysteries that fungus scientists hope to study (washingtonpost.com)

4 days ago | Stratoscope | washingtonpost.com | newest

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The Legacy of the Datapoint 2200 Microcomputer (ieee.org)

a week ago | Stratoscope | ieee.org | newest

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Ingenuity has a last gift for humanity, but we'll have to go to Mars to get it (livescience.com)

a week ago | Stratoscope | livescience.com | frontpage

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Mid-level Nvidia employee gets $62M in stock options; another lost it all (tomshardware.com)

a week ago | Stratoscope | tomshardware.com | best

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Amazon virtually kills efforts to develop Alexa Skills (arstechnica.com)

2 weeks ago | Stratoscope | arstechnica.com | best

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Someday, Earth Will Have a Final Total Solar Eclipse (nytimes.com)

2 weeks ago | Stratoscope | nytimes.com | newest

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An image of Calif.'s Point Reyes National Seashore launched Pixar to stardom (sfgate.com)

2 weeks ago | Stratoscope | sfgate.com | newest

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Cash-strapped Argentines queue for eyeball scans (yahoo.com)

2 weeks ago | Stratoscope | yahoo.com | newest

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Why are kids being forced to eat lunch in silence? (theguardian.com)

2 weeks ago | Stratoscope | theguardian.com | best

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How Hertz's bet on Teslas went horribly sideways (businesstimes.com.sg)

3 weeks ago | Stratoscope | businesstimes.com.sg | newest

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The Rise and Fall of 3M's Floppy Disk (2023) (ieee.org)

3 weeks ago | Stratoscope | ieee.org | best

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Entire town is hidden in giant 750ft deep cave and residents refuse to move (the-sun.com)

3 weeks ago | Stratoscope | the-sun.com | frontpage

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Retrotechtacular: The IBM 7070 (hackaday.com)

3 weeks ago | Stratoscope | hackaday.com | newest

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The roller ship was not an effective way to cross the high seas (hackaday.com)

3 weeks ago | Stratoscope | hackaday.com | best

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Santa Cruz del Islote, where more than 800 people live on a 2.4-acre island (dailymail.co.uk)

a month ago | Stratoscope | dailymail.co.uk | newest

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The gas mask-wearing ultramarathoner circling the Salton Sea (theguardian.com)

a month ago | Stratoscope | theguardian.com | newest

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While Earth enjoys an eclipse, a NASA probe is ready to 'touch the sun' (washingtonpost.com)

a month ago | Stratoscope | washingtonpost.com | newest

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How the Lunar Rover Batteries Worked–and Nearly Failed–On the Moon (motor1.com)

a month ago | Stratoscope | motor1.com | newest

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Google's newest office has AI designers toiling in a Wi-Fi desert (reuters.com)

a month ago | Stratoscope | reuters.com | newest

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The architect of SF's cable cars once built a California 'railway in the clouds' (sfgate.com)

a month ago | Stratoscope | sfgate.com | newest

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How the supply chain is impacted when the main route between CA and NV closes (komonews.com)

a month ago | Stratoscope | komonews.com | frontpage

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Bob Heil, K9EID, Silent Key (arrl.org)

a month ago | Stratoscope | arrl.org | best

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AI Is Taking Water from the Desert (msn.com)

a month ago | Stratoscope | msn.com | newest

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It's no accident: These automotive safety features flopped (arstechnica.com)

a month ago | Stratoscope | arstechnica.com | newest

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Let the Engineers Lead: America Needs Boeing to Be Great (forbes.com/sites/gautammukunda)

2 months ago | Stratoscope | forbes.com | newest

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Hack Your Way to the Superior Euro Headlights NHTSA Doesn't Want You to Have (jalopnik.com)

2 months ago | Stratoscope | jalopnik.com | best

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The Return of Pa'ashi: Colonial Unknowing and California's Tulare Lake (umn.edu)

2 months ago | Stratoscope | umn.edu | newest

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Tech billionaires' push to reshape San Francisco politics: 'a hostile takeover' (theguardian.com)

2 months ago | Stratoscope | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Longtime cobbler posts meticulous shoe repair videos, becomes sensation (washingtonpost.com)

2 months ago | Stratoscope | washingtonpost.com | newest

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The first amateur radio station on the moon (arrl.org)

2 months ago | Stratoscope | arrl.org | best

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'Stupid,' 'shameful:' Tech workers on Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's rant (missionlocal.org)

2 months ago | Stratoscope | missionlocal.org | best

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NASA to 'wiggle' broken Ingenuity Mars helicopter's blades to analyze damage (space.com)

2 months ago | Stratoscope | space.com | newest

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The Indiglo button let there be light (theverge.com)

2 months ago | Stratoscope | theverge.com | newest

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Japanese government bids sayonara to the 3.5" floppy disk (theregister.com)

3 months ago | Stratoscope | theregister.com | frontpage

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Why power naps might be good for our health (bbc.com)

3 months ago | Stratoscope | bbc.com | frontpage

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Nube: Mysterious, Nearly Invisible Dwarf Galaxy Challenges Dark Matter Model (spacechatter.com)

3 months ago | Stratoscope | spacechatter.com | newest

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Mozilla thinks Apple, Google, Microsoft should play fair (theregister.com)

3 months ago | Stratoscope | theregister.com | best

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Proposed CA Bill Would Electronically Restrict Cars from Going over Speed Limit (abc7.com)

3 months ago | Stratoscope | abc7.com | newest

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Tech in Plain Sight: Windshield Frit (hackaday.com)

3 months ago | Stratoscope | hackaday.com | newest

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The rise and fall of the standard user interface (theregister.com)

3 months ago | Stratoscope | theregister.com | frontpage

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HP CEO Says They Brick Printers That Use Third-Party Ink Because of Hackers (wired.com)

3 months ago | Stratoscope | wired.com | newest

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The Bay Area 'diet cult' that fell apart over a chicken pot pie (sfgate.com)

3 months ago | Stratoscope | sfgate.com | newest

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Draining reservoir after urination event shows tenuous grasp of science (2014) (arstechnica.com)

3 months ago | Stratoscope | arstechnica.com | newest

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The 'Millennium Camera' Will Capture Arizona's Landscape for 1000 Years (petapixel.com)

3 months ago | Stratoscope | petapixel.com | newest

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It was the Bay Area's very first bridge. Now it's abandoned in plain sight. (sfgate.com)

3 months ago | Stratoscope | sfgate.com | frontpage

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Federal Killjoys Tell States to Stop Putting Jokes in Highway Signage (jalopnik.com)

3 months ago | Stratoscope | jalopnik.com | best

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Why there's a highway sign in kilometers on the Bay Area's Interstate 580 (sfgate.com)

3 months ago | Stratoscope | sfgate.com | frontpage

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Congress approves resolution against Biden EV charger plans (politico.com)

3 months ago | Stratoscope | politico.com | newest

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Redwood City reels from rising office vacancies amid work-from-home shift (rwcpulse.com)

3 months ago | Stratoscope | rwcpulse.com | newest

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iPhone survives 16,000-foot drop after Alaska Airlines panel blows out in flight (bgr.com)

3 months ago | Stratoscope | bgr.com | newest

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Cats Filled the Prison. Then the Inmates Fell in Love. (nytimes.com)

3 months ago | Stratoscope | nytimes.com | newest

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NASA's Parker mission poised for solar 'landing' in 2024 (france24.com)

3 months ago | Stratoscope | france24.com | newest

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There's a Relic Runway from America's Failed Supersonic Future in the Everglades (jalopnik.com)

3 months ago | Stratoscope | jalopnik.com | newest

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New images of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io (npr.org)

3 months ago | Stratoscope | npr.org | newest

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Watch sand defy gravity and flow uphill thanks to "negative friction" (arstechnica.com)

4 months ago | Stratoscope | arstechnica.com | newest

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When a postdoc in my lab committed fraud, I had to face my own culpability (science.org)

4 months ago | Stratoscope | science.org | best

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Welcome to the Extinction Capital of the World (vox.com)

4 months ago | Stratoscope | vox.com | newest

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Atlassian swears by remote work, but not if you're in the wrong time zone (fortune.com)

4 months ago | Stratoscope | fortune.com | newest

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A Gingerbread ESP32 Dev Board (hackster.io)

4 months ago | Stratoscope | hackster.io | newest

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Figma called employees from holiday PTO to town hall to say Adobe deal was dead (fortune.com)

4 months ago | Stratoscope | fortune.com | newest

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The stones in the Menga dolmen reveal a great engineering feat of the Neolithic (nature.com)

4 months ago | Stratoscope | nature.com | newest

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Rite Aid faces 5-year facial recognition ban (axios.com)

4 months ago | Stratoscope | axios.com | newest

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Surge in number of 'extremely productive' authors concerns scientists (nature.com)

4 months ago | Stratoscope | nature.com | newest

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Mercedes gets approval for turquoise automated driving lights (jalopnik.com)

4 months ago | Stratoscope | jalopnik.com | best

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The nation's capital, built on water, struggles to keep from drowning (washingtonpost.com)

4 months ago | Stratoscope | washingtonpost.com | frontpage

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Hyundai Motor to take $219M hit on sale of Russian plant (reuters.com)

4 months ago | Stratoscope | reuters.com | newest

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TSA self-screening is the next big step for airport security (washingtonpost.com)

4 months ago | Stratoscope | washingtonpost.com | newest

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Flaco the Famous New York City Owl Has Become a Peeping Tom (wsj.com)

4 months ago | Stratoscope | wsj.com | newest

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Cats play fetch longer, with more retrievals, when they initiate the game (arstechnica.com)

4 months ago | Stratoscope | arstechnica.com | newest

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Sweeping Cruise layoffs hit 535 California workers, mostly in San Francisco (sfgate.com)

4 months ago | Stratoscope | sfgate.com | newest

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The "Trolley Problem" Doesn't Work for Self-Driving Cars (ieee.org)

4 months ago | Stratoscope | ieee.org | newest

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Why Leaders Find It So Hard to Accept Remote Work (psychologytoday.com)

4 months ago | Stratoscope | psychologytoday.com | newest

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Levee Breach Creates New Tidal Marshland in San Francisco Bay (abc7news.com)

4 months ago | Stratoscope | abc7news.com | newest

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Why Is a Tsunami in the Northwest Missing from FEMA's Risk Analysis? (politico.com)

4 months ago | Stratoscope | politico.com | frontpage

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[dupe] Trains were designed to break down after third-party repairs, hackers find (arstechnica.com)

4 months ago | Stratoscope | arstechnica.com | best

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San Francisco's viral 'couch coyote' prefers Sam Altman's mansion (kron4.com)

4 months ago | Stratoscope | kron4.com | newest

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How Harold Lloyd Filmed Safety Last! (silentlocations.com)

4 months ago | Stratoscope | silentlocations.com | newest

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Hyundai and Kia Develop Shape Memory Alloy Integrated Snow Chain Technology (hyundainews.com)

4 months ago | Stratoscope | hyundainews.com | newest

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The ingenious "fifth wheel" parallel parking tool that never hit it big (hagerty.com)

4 months ago | Stratoscope | hagerty.com | newest

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The Hybrid-Car Dilemma (theatlantic.com)

4 months ago | Stratoscope | theatlantic.com | frontpage

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ISS astronauts find tomato that was lost for 8 months (space.com)

4 months ago | Stratoscope | space.com | newest

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Where are all the robot trucks? (theverge.com)

4 months ago | Stratoscope | theverge.com | newest

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A Single Board Computer, with Vacuum Tubes (hackaday.com)

4 months ago | Stratoscope | hackaday.com | frontpage

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Fermentation technology as a driver of human brain expansion (nature.com)

4 months ago | Stratoscope | nature.com | newest

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Could dinosaurs have shaped ageing in present-day mammals? (wiley.com)

4 months ago | Stratoscope | wiley.com | newest

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'Leaning tower' in Italy on 'high alert' for collapse (cnn.com)

4 months ago | Stratoscope | cnn.com | newest

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Montana's ban on TikTok blocked by judge who says it's unconstitutional (apnews.com)

4 months ago | Stratoscope | apnews.com | newest

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NASA Orbiter Snaps Views of Mars Horizon (nasa.gov)

5 months ago | Stratoscope | nasa.gov | newest

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Federal Law Requires a Choice: Marijuana or a Gun? (nytimes.com)

5 months ago | Stratoscope | nytimes.com | newest

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Should cars have built-in speed limits? Some think it's time (nbcnews.com)

5 months ago | Stratoscope | nbcnews.com | newest

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Saudi Arabia's grand plan to 'hook' poor countries on oil (theguardian.com)

5 months ago | Stratoscope | theguardian.com | newest

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Owners Keep Zombie Malls Alive Even When Towns Want to Pull the Plug (wsj.com)

5 months ago | Stratoscope | wsj.com | frontpage

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The Light L16 Camera Delivered Too Little, Too Late, for Too Much Money (petapixel.com)

5 months ago | Stratoscope | petapixel.com | newest

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Korean Smartphones Have Mandatory Shutter Sounds, 8 in 10 Want It Muted (petapixel.com)

5 months ago | Stratoscope | petapixel.com | frontpage

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Bosses thought they won the return-to-office wars, now facing legal battles (fortune.com)

5 months ago | Stratoscope | fortune.com | newest

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This Louisiana Town Runs Largely on Traffic Fines. The Mayor Is Your Judge. (propublica.org)

5 months ago | Stratoscope | propublica.org | best

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NASA May Pay $1B to Destroy the International Space Station. Here's Why (scientificamerican.com)

5 months ago | Stratoscope | scientificamerican.com | frontpage

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The U.S. has a plan to store carbon dioxide under the nation's forests (npr.org)

5 months ago | Stratoscope | npr.org | frontpage