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China successfully recovers 57-tonne rocket in ocean landing test [video] (youtube.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | youtube.com | frontpage

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The Death of the Middle-Class Musician (thewalrus.ca)

3 months ago | pseudolus | thewalrus.ca | best

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Are we doing enough to save Earth from a devastating asteroid strike? (theguardian.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | theguardian.com | newest

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Microsoft's own AI chip delayed six months in major setback (tomshardware.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | tomshardware.com | newest

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Photographer Captures the Terrifying Things Humans Have Done to the Planet (petapixel.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | petapixel.com | frontpage

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Paddling the Dramatic 'Grand Canyon of Canada' (bbc.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | bbc.com | newest

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OpenAI's Unreleased AGI Paper Could Complicate Microsoft Negotiations (wired.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | wired.com | newest

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When Did Nature Burst into Vivid Color? (quantamagazine.org)

3 months ago | pseudolus | quantamagazine.org | newest

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Thorium - A long-abandoned US nuclear technology is making a comeback in China (technologyreview.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | technologyreview.com | frontpage

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Supreme Court overturns 5th Circuit ruling that upended Universal Service Fund (arstechnica.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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Back in black: Microsoft Blue Screen of Death is going dark (theregister.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | theregister.com | newest

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'Microbial Noah's Ark' ramps up to save Earth's invisible life forms (phys.org)

3 months ago | pseudolus | phys.org | newest

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Melania Trump releases audiobook version of her memoir. Narrated by an AI voice (usatoday.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | usatoday.com | newest

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[dupe] AI Improves at Improving Itself Using an Evolutionary Trick (ieee.org)

3 months ago | pseudolus | ieee.org | frontpage

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Japanese company using mee-AI-ow to detect stressed cats (theregister.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | theregister.com | newest

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U.S. will stop funding global vaccine group over 'vaccine safety' issues (npr.org)

3 months ago | pseudolus | npr.org | frontpage

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The Résumé is dying, and AI is holding the smoking gun (arstechnica.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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UK may require Google give alternative search options-rank results more fairly (techcrunch.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | techcrunch.com | newest

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The History of Advice Columns Is a History of Eavesdropping and Judging (newyorker.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | newyorker.com | newest

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Newborns have elevated levels of a biomarker for Alzheimer's (medicalxpress.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | medicalxpress.com | frontpage

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Giant asteroid could crash into moon in 2032, firing debris towards Earth (theguardian.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | theguardian.com | newest

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Sailing the fjords like the Vikings yields unexpected insights (arstechnica.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | arstechnica.com | best

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Unexpected mineral in a Ryugu grain challenges paradigm of nature of asteroids (phys.org)

3 months ago | pseudolus | phys.org | newest

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Rubin observatory unveils first images taken with its giant mirror and camera (science.org)

3 months ago | pseudolus | science.org | newest

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What's Happening to Reading? (newyorker.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | newyorker.com | newest

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Is Mathematics Mostly Chaos or Mostly Order? (quantamagazine.org)

3 months ago | pseudolus | quantamagazine.org | newest

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How OCD came to haunt American life (harpers.org)

3 months ago | pseudolus | harpers.org | newest

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Astronomers locate universe's 'missing' matter in the largest cosmic structures (space.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | space.com | frontpage

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Calorie restriction can help animals live longer. What about humans? (technologyreview.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | technologyreview.com | newest

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The Man Who Invented the Modern Zoo Tested Out His Ideas on People First (smithsonianmag.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | smithsonianmag.com | newest

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The New 80% Rule in Culture (honest-broker.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | honest-broker.com | frontpage

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A popular manga predicted catastrophe – and Japanese tourism took a hit (washingtonpost.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | washingtonpost.com | newest

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Unpacking the bias of large language models (news.mit.edu)

3 months ago | pseudolus | mit.edu | newest

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Cognitive tests in infancy offer insight into intelligence at age 30 and beyond (medicalxpress.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | medicalxpress.com | newest

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Chinese AI Companies Dodge Chip Curbs by Flying Suitcases of Hard Drives Abroad (wsj.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | wsj.com | newest

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When Midcentury New York Spoke, Sound Archivist Listened–and Recorded Every Word (smithsonianmag.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | smithsonianmag.com | newest

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XAI is facing a lawsuit for operating over 400MW of gas turbines without permits (techcrunch.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | techcrunch.com | frontpage

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Size matters: Sharks follow two-thirds scaling law, proving theory (phys.org)

3 months ago | pseudolus | phys.org | newest

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The Catch in Catching Cancer Early (newyorker.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | newyorker.com | newest

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A New Obesity Pill May Burn Fat Without Suppressing Appetite (wired.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | wired.com | newest

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When AIs bargain, a less advanced agent could cost you (technologyreview.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | technologyreview.com | newest

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The Ecosystem Dynamics That Can Make or Break an Invasion (quantamagazine.org)

3 months ago | pseudolus | quantamagazine.org | newest

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Cannabis use could double risk of heart deaths, study suggests (theguardian.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | theguardian.com | frontpage

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The Real, Significant Threat of Shadow AI (acm.org)

3 months ago | pseudolus | acm.org | newest

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Rules, Not Renewables, Might Explain the Iberian Blackout (ieee.org)

3 months ago | pseudolus | ieee.org | frontpage

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Finland warms up the world's largest sand battery, the economics look appealing (techcrunch.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | techcrunch.com | best

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Semi-heavy water ice detected around young sunlike star for first time (phys.org)

3 months ago | pseudolus | phys.org | newest

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Flight Recorder (wikipedia.org)

3 months ago | pseudolus | wikipedia.org | newest

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Facial recognition error sees woman accused of theft (bbc.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | bbc.com | frontpage

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New model helps to figure out which distant planets may host life (space.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | space.com | newest

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Is gravity just entropy rising? Long-shot idea gets another look (quantamagazine.org)

3 months ago | pseudolus | quantamagazine.org | best

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Companies may soon pay a fee for their rockets to share the skies with airplanes (arstechnica.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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The Intelligence Curse (intelligence-curse.ai)

3 months ago | pseudolus | intelligence-curse.ai | newest

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Big Stay paying off: Quitting to job-switch is worse for wage growth (businessinsider.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | businessinsider.com | newest

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Despite arrests, online monkey torture rings keep on torturing (arstechnica.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | arstechnica.com | newest

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The Many Sides of Erik Satie (mitpress.mit.edu)

3 months ago | pseudolus | mit.edu | newest

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Radio pulses detected coming from ice in Antarctica (phys.org)

3 months ago | pseudolus | phys.org | frontpage

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Tech billionaires are making a risky bet with humanity's future (technologyreview.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | technologyreview.com | frontpage

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How to draft a will to avoid becoming an AI ghost–it's not easy (arstechnica.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | arstechnica.com | newest

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Environmental Computing as a Branch of Science (acm.org)

3 months ago | pseudolus | acm.org | newest

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Asteroid Defense: The Real-World Impact of NASA's Dart Mission (ieee.org)

3 months ago | pseudolus | ieee.org | newest

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A Son, a Scientist, and the Secret of Bioluminescence (thewalrus.ca)

3 months ago | pseudolus | thewalrus.ca | newest

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Google rejects app store age verification for online content (techxplore.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | techxplore.com | frontpage

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A new problem that only quantum computing can solve (phys.org)

3 months ago | pseudolus | phys.org | newest

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British passenger in seat 11A survives India plane crash, reports say (bbc.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | bbc.com | newest

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Indian police trying to 'read minds' of suspects, neuroscientists' objections (science.org)

3 months ago | pseudolus | science.org | newest

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Pentagon Has Been Pushing Americans to Believe in UFOs for Decades, New Report (gizmodo.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | gizmodo.com | best

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Humanity has captured our first look at the Sun's South Pole (theregister.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | theregister.com | frontpage

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A California dairy tried to capture its methane, and it worked (phys.org)

3 months ago | pseudolus | phys.org | frontpage

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When do girls fall behind in maths? Gigantic study pinpoints the moment (nature.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | nature.com | frontpage

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World Bank Ends Its Ban on Funding Nuclear Power Projects (nytimes.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | nytimes.com | frontpage

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Brian Wilson, Beach Boys Co-Founder, Dies at 82 (variety.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | variety.com | newest

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Trump administration's whole-government AI plans leaked on GitHub (theregister.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | theregister.com | newest

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Epic Effort to Ground Physics in Math Opens Up the Secrets of Time (quantamagazine.org)

3 months ago | pseudolus | quantamagazine.org | newest

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Trump guts digital ID rules, claims they help 'illegal aliens' commit fraud (theregister.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | theregister.com | newest

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Brain deploys different reasoning strategies to tackle challenging mental tasks (medicalxpress.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | medicalxpress.com | newest

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Our languages have more in common than you might think (washingtonpost.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | washingtonpost.com | newest

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The fertility fallacy: Five things you didn't know about global fertility rates (unfpa.org)

3 months ago | pseudolus | unfpa.org | frontpage

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Reenchanted World: On finding mystery in the digital age – Karl Ove Knausgaard (harpers.org)

3 months ago | pseudolus | harpers.org | newest

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Urban living expands musical tastes but reduces shared preferences, study finds (phys.org)

3 months ago | pseudolus | phys.org | frontpage

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Can your walking speed reveal your brain's rate of ageing? (bbc.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | bbc.com | newest

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Privacy Victory - Judge Grants Preliminary Injunction in OPM/Doge Lawsuit (eff.org)

3 months ago | pseudolus | eff.org | newest

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Drug deaths plummet among young Americans as fentanyl carnage eases (npr.org)

3 months ago | pseudolus | npr.org | newest

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Google battling 'fox infestation' on roof of £1B London office (theguardian.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Alibaba, Tencent Freeze Al Tools During High-Stakes China Exam (bloomberg.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | bloomberg.com | newest

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Robotaxis burn in Los Angeles in backlash to immigration raids (arstechnica.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | arstechnica.com | newest

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The Dangers of Consolidating All Government Information (eff.org)

3 months ago | pseudolus | eff.org | frontpage

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Dubious statistical results are becoming less common in psychology (science.org)

3 months ago | pseudolus | science.org | newest

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Schneier tries to rip the rose-colored AI glasses from the eyes of Congress (theregister.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | theregister.com | newest

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Riding high in Germany on the world's oldest suspended railway (theguardian.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | theguardian.com | best

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America's infatuation with boy geniuses and 'Great Men' is ruining us (theguardian.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | theguardian.com | newest

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If you thought the first nuclear weapons age was scary, buckle up (washingtonpost.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | washingtonpost.com | newest

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BYD's Five-Minute Charging Puts China in the Lead for EVs (ieee.org)

3 months ago | pseudolus | ieee.org | frontpage

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Canadian universities grapple with evaluating students amid AI cheating fears (cbc.ca)

3 months ago | pseudolus | cbc.ca | newest

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Apple Is on Defense at WWDC (theverge.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | theverge.com | frontpage

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A Japanese lander crashed on the Moon after losing track of its location (arstechnica.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | arstechnica.com | newest

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Astronomers thought Milky Way doomed to crash into Andromeda. Now not so sure (phys.org)

3 months ago | pseudolus | phys.org | newest

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A simple comma is going to cost Apple billions in Europe (cafetechinenglish.substack.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | substack.com | frontpage

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2026 Volvo EX60 Debuts New Seatbelt Design That Adapts to You (caranddriver.com)

3 months ago | pseudolus | caranddriver.com | newest

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The startling rise of disability in America (2013) (npr.org)

3 months ago | pseudolus | npr.org | frontpage