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

6 months ago | Stratoscope | petapixel.com | newest

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

6 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)

6 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)

6 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)

6 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)

6 months ago | Stratoscope | npr.org | frontpage

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Astronauts dropped a toolbag on an ISS spacewalk; you can see it with binoculars (space.com)

6 months ago | Stratoscope | space.com | newest

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How to Copy Uncopyable Texts on Windows (howtogeek.com)

6 months ago | Stratoscope | howtogeek.com | best

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Finding Argoland: Reconstructing a microcontinental archipelago (sciencedirect.com)

6 months ago | Stratoscope | sciencedirect.com | newest

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WeWork files for bankruptcy after grappling with $2.9B in long-term debt (theguardian.com)

6 months ago | Stratoscope | theguardian.com | newest

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The Adventure Radio Protocol (qrper.com)

6 months ago | Stratoscope | qrper.com | frontpage

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Guiding Light: Why Google's Hand-Built Autonomous "Firefly" Mattered (motortrend.com)

6 months ago | Stratoscope | motortrend.com | newest

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Microsoft accused of damaging Guardian's reputation with AI-generated poll (theguardian.com)

6 months ago | Stratoscope | theguardian.com | newest

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A Giant Leap for the Leap Second. Is Humankind Ready? (nytimes.com)

6 months ago | Stratoscope | nytimes.com | newest

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Ken Mattingly, astronaut scrubbed from Apollo 13, has died (nytimes.com)

6 months ago | Stratoscope | nytimes.com | best

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Bronica: A Japanese Rice Farmer Tried to Give Hasselblad a Run for Its Money (petapixel.com)

6 months ago | Stratoscope | petapixel.com | frontpage

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Anomalies Deep Inside Earth Are Wreckage of Crashed World, Scientists Propose (vice.com)

6 months ago | Stratoscope | vice.com | frontpage

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FCC wants to bolster amateur radio (radioworld.com)

7 months ago | Stratoscope | radioworld.com | best

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Centuries-Old Law Requires British Bridge Workers Hang Hay Bales from Worksites (jalopnik.com)

7 months ago | Stratoscope | jalopnik.com | newest

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A little-known pollution rule keeps the air dirty for millions of Americans (theguardian.com)

7 months ago | Stratoscope | theguardian.com | best

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Why Uncontacted Tribes Want to Stay Uncontacted (msn.com)

7 months ago | Stratoscope | msn.com | newest

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Researchers use AI to read word on ancient scroll burned by Vesuvius (theguardian.com)

7 months ago | Stratoscope | theguardian.com | newest

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Kia 2024 VIN Decoding Guide [pdf] (dot.gov)

7 months ago | Stratoscope | dot.gov | newest

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The White House replica mansion on top of a Bangalore skyscraper (dailymail.co.uk)

7 months ago | Stratoscope | dailymail.co.uk | newest

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Bosses want people back in the office, but employees are ‘coffee badging’ (cnbc.com)

7 months ago | Stratoscope | cnbc.com | newest

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It seemed like a good idea at the time: 9 car designs that went nowhere (arstechnica.com)

7 months ago | Stratoscope | arstechnica.com | newest

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NASA got its first asteroid sample – with help from Queen guitarist Brian May (washingtonpost.com)

7 months ago | Stratoscope | washingtonpost.com | newest

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This SF warehouse is a graveyard for Silicon Valley’s corporate furniture (sfgate.com)

7 months ago | Stratoscope | sfgate.com | frontpage

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A Pricing Change Led to a Revolt by Unity’s Video Game Developers (nytimes.com)

7 months ago | Stratoscope | nytimes.com | newest

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The Baghdad Battery (slashgear.com)

8 months ago | Stratoscope | slashgear.com | newest

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Unity exec tells Ars he’s on a mission to earn back developer trust (arstechnica.com)

8 months ago | Stratoscope | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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What's happening to the old Fry's Electronics sites in Silicon Valley? (bizjournals.com)

8 months ago | Stratoscope | bizjournals.com | frontpage

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106.5 FM: the prison radio station giving Texas men on death row a voice (theguardian.com)

8 months ago | Stratoscope | theguardian.com | newest

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Abandoned Apollo 17 lunar lander module is causing tremors on the moon (accuweather.com)

8 months ago | Stratoscope | accuweather.com | newest

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Microsoft will stop accepting new third-party print drivers in Windows (arstechnica.com)

8 months ago | Stratoscope | arstechnica.com | newest

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EV Batteries Will Get Better Even Without a Major Breakthrough (motortrend.com)

8 months ago | Stratoscope | motortrend.com | newest

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Electric cars have a road trip problem, even for the secretary of energy (npr.org)

8 months ago | Stratoscope | npr.org | frontpage

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Toyota Shut Down 14 Factories Due to 'Insufficient Disk Space' (tomshardware.com)

8 months ago | Stratoscope | tomshardware.com | newest

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China's ancient water pipe networks show no evidence of a centralized authority (phys.org)

8 months ago | Stratoscope | phys.org | best

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Privacy Not Included: Cars (foundation.mozilla.org)

8 months ago | Stratoscope | mozilla.org | frontpage

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Abandoned and little-known airfields (airfields-freeman.com)

9 months ago | Stratoscope | airfields-freeman.com | best

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This Palo Alto park is home to the world's most famous donkey (sfgate.com)

9 months ago | Stratoscope | sfgate.com | newest

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What saved the ‘miracle house’ in Lahaina? (civilbeat.org)

9 months ago | Stratoscope | civilbeat.org | best

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Earliest ceramic drainage system and hydro-sociality in monsoonal East Asia (nature.com)

9 months ago | Stratoscope | nature.com | newest

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The ‘dead zone’ workers killing management’s attempts to return to 9 to 5 grind (fortune.com)

9 months ago | Stratoscope | fortune.com | newest

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Closing down an icon: will Arecibo Observatory ever do science again? (nature.com)

9 months ago | Stratoscope | nature.com | newest

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How Spam Is Made (mashed.com)

9 months ago | Stratoscope | mashed.com | newest

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Using ‘recycled plastic’ in construction materials may not be a great idea (grist.org)

9 months ago | Stratoscope | grist.org | frontpage

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California just opened the floodgates for self-driving cars (washingtonpost.com)

9 months ago | Stratoscope | washingtonpost.com | newest

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Destroyed Lahaina was once Hawaiian Kingdom’s capital, global trade hub (washingtonpost.com)

9 months ago | Stratoscope | washingtonpost.com | newest

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Hydrogen-powered planes almost ready for takeoff (arstechnica.com)

9 months ago | Stratoscope | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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Titan Submersible Simulation Gets More Realistic (engineering.com)

9 months ago | Stratoscope | engineering.com | newest

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Solar flare knocks out radio across US (metro.co.uk)

9 months ago | Stratoscope | metro.co.uk | newest

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Panama Canal draught restrictions spark liner surcharges (gcaptain.com)

9 months ago | Stratoscope | gcaptain.com | best

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How can you tell remote work is over? Zoom ordered employees back to the office (theguardian.com)

9 months ago | Stratoscope | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Ham Radio Enthusiasts vs. High-Frequency Traders: A Battle for the Airwaves (wsj.com)

9 months ago | Stratoscope | wsj.com | newest

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Bill Gates competed with his colleagues to sleep as little as possible (fortune.com)

9 months ago | Stratoscope | fortune.com | frontpage

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X user “super pissed” that Musk ordered takeover of his music account (arstechnica.com)

9 months ago | Stratoscope | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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The treacherous remains of the loneliest spot in San Francisco, Mile Rocks (sfgate.com)

9 months ago | Stratoscope | sfgate.com | newest

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Fed-up Torvalds suggests disabling AMD’s 'stupid' performance-killing fTPM RNG (theregister.com)

9 months ago | Stratoscope | theregister.com | frontpage

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Calif. home in danger of sliding into the sea is for sale at a deep discount (sfgate.com)

9 months ago | Stratoscope | sfgate.com | newest

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Search for Voyager 2 after NASA accidentally sends wrong command (theguardian.com)

9 months ago | Stratoscope | theguardian.com | newest

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Utopia to blight: Surviving in Henry Ford’s lost jungle town (washingtonpost.com)

10 months ago | Stratoscope | washingtonpost.com | newest

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Sorry, Elon: Our smartphones are already ‘everything apps’ (fastcompany.com)

10 months ago | Stratoscope | fastcompany.com | frontpage

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Remembering Marine World, the Bay Area's most controversial theme park (sfgate.com)

10 months ago | Stratoscope | sfgate.com | newest

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Scientists hit with massive bills after speaking at COVID-19 ‘webinars’ (science.org)

10 months ago | Stratoscope | science.org | best

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Tension Is Rising Around Remote Work (hbr.org)

10 months ago | Stratoscope | hbr.org | frontpage

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Giant telecom company that once almost bought Apple is on the brink of failure (fortune.com)

10 months ago | Stratoscope | fortune.com | frontpage

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The Maverick Design Choices That May Have Doomed Titan (nytimes.com)

10 months ago | Stratoscope | nytimes.com | newest

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The Downfall of a $2B SoftBank-Backed Smart Window Company (forbes.com/sites/davidjeans)

10 months ago | Stratoscope | forbes.com | newest

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Netflix Made Removing Green Screens Easier by Turning Actors Bright Purple (gizmodo.com)

10 months ago | Stratoscope | gizmodo.com | newest

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What the Duck? Rubber Birds Left on Jeeps Baffle the Nation (wsj.com)

10 months ago | Stratoscope | wsj.com | frontpage

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The Ain Dubai, the world’s largest broken Ferris wheel (washingtonpost.com)

10 months ago | Stratoscope | washingtonpost.com | frontpage

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People on the Hawaii island of Nihoa ‘disappeared.’ Here’s why. (sfgate.com)

10 months ago | Stratoscope | sfgate.com | newest

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Nonprofit Wants to Catapult Material from Incoming Asteroids to Protect Earth (gizmodo.com)

10 months ago | Stratoscope | gizmodo.com | newest

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AMAs are the latest casualty in Reddit’s API war (arstechnica.com)

10 months ago | Stratoscope | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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Facing extinction, Tuvalu considers the digital clone of a country (theguardian.com)

10 months ago | Stratoscope | theguardian.com | frontpage

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California tribe calls for preservation of Tulare Lake (latimes.com)

10 months ago | Stratoscope | latimes.com | frontpage

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The forced return to the office is the definition of insanity (fortune.com)

11 months ago | Stratoscope | fortune.com | best

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A Vast Lake Has Captivated California Where Farms Stood a Year Ago (nytimes.com)

11 months ago | Stratoscope | nytimes.com | newest

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The dangers of tea drinking in nineteenth century Ireland (jstor.org)

11 months ago | Stratoscope | jstor.org | best

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Reddit threatened protesting moderators: Subreddits ‘cannot remain closed’ (9to5mac.com)

11 months ago | Stratoscope | 9to5mac.com | frontpage

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A crowd of people gathered to see a crack of light in San Francisco's Noe Valley (sfgate.com)

11 months ago | Stratoscope | sfgate.com | newest

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Old Navy to Nordstrom: Half of Retailers Fleeing Downtown San Francisco (nypost.com)

11 months ago | Stratoscope | nypost.com | newest

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The Apollo moon landing was real, but NASA's quarantine procedure was not (livescience.com)

11 months ago | Stratoscope | livescience.com | newest

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Coastal biomedical labs are bleeding horseshoe crabs with little accountability (npr.org)

11 months ago | Stratoscope | npr.org | newest

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PG says remote work did work initially, but leaders have now changed their minds (fortune.com)

11 months ago | Stratoscope | fortune.com | newest

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Centerline: The Surprising History of Lane Markings [2019 video] (youtube.com)

11 months ago | Stratoscope | youtube.com | newest

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Google uses in-person office attendance as part of employee performance reviews (fortune.com)

11 months ago | Stratoscope | fortune.com | best

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Reddit announces plan to lay off 90 workers as subreddits plan mass protest (sfgate.com)

11 months ago | Stratoscope | sfgate.com | best

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Is eating local produce better for the planet? (theguardian.com)

11 months ago | Stratoscope | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Apple CEO Tim Cook panned for not wearing ‘Vision Pro’ during reveal event (nypost.com)

11 months ago | Stratoscope | nypost.com | newest

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Bay Area-founded pizza startup Zume reportedly shuts down after raising $445M (sfgate.com)

11 months ago | Stratoscope | sfgate.com | newest

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The CIA mixed LSD and sex at this San Francisco brothel (sfgate.com)

11 months ago | Stratoscope | sfgate.com | newest

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8-year-old boy upends 100 years of science regarding insects and plants (thebrighterside.news)

11 months ago | Stratoscope | thebrighterside.news | frontpage

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CEOs booted at California tech company that furloughed all 900 employees (sfgate.com)

11 months ago | Stratoscope | sfgate.com | best

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Mel Kaye – CV (melsloop.com)

11 months ago | Stratoscope | melsloop.com | frontpage

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Why Do Animals Keep Evolving into Crabs? (livescience.com)

11 months ago | Stratoscope | livescience.com | newest

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This is How NASA Wanted to Rescue Space Shuttle Astronauts (universetoday.com)

11 months ago | Stratoscope | universetoday.com | newest

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Microsoft will end support for Cortana on Windows later this year (theverge.com)

11 months ago | Stratoscope | theverge.com | newest