Articles by whycome
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Modern jet engine turbines: each blade a single crystal (2015) (americanscientist.org)

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NBA player among 30 arrested for gambling scheme that included X-ray poker table (theguardian.com)

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Flashed face distortion effect - (optical illusion) [video] (youtube.com)

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Back to the Future came out 40 years ago: A hacker's look at the gear (hackaday.com)

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Vegetative Electron Microscopy (theconversation.com)

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Unsecured penguin caused helicopter crash in South Africa (bbc.com)

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Daydreaming again: Google shows new AR glasses, VR headset at Ted (axios.com)

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Why is it Alexa, not Alex? A century of hard-coded sexism in tech (2022) (cbc.ca)

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Metaphysic, who de-aged Tom Hanks in 'Here,' acquired by DNEG's AI arm Brahma (variety.com)

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Korea tightens rules for carrying lithium batteries on flights starting March 1 (koreatimes.co.kr)

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Air Canada cancels return flights claiming missed first flight despite proof (cbc.ca)

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Global Trends 2025 (2008) [pdf] (dni.gov)

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Sony's Beyond Sports on How 'The Simpsons' Funday Football Came to Be (techradar.com)

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Instagram Basic Display API will be deprecated on Dec 4 2024 (facebook.com)

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Months Before Ethiopian 737 Crash, Boeing Turned Aside Carrier's Questions (nytimes.com)

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Metal detectorist who found and sold buried treasure to be jailed for 14 years (theguardian.com)

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NASA Boeing Starliner – Uncrewed Re-Entry and Landing – Livestream 10:50pm EDT [video] (youtube.com)

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Hugo awards reveal thousands spent on fraudulent votes to help one writer win (theguardian.com)

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Discovered June 16th, large asteroid to pass between Earth and moon on Saturday (cbc.ca)

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New inspection tool set to be used at Tour de France to combat motor doping (road.cc)

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Ask HN: Can I take photographs of the eclipse with my smartphone?

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'Reggaeton Be Gone': This homemade machine silences neighbours' music using AI (euronews.com)

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Black Uber Eats driver banned after "continued mismatches" by facial-recognition (bbc.com)

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Ford hasn't shipped the F-150 Lightning since Feb 9 due to undisclosed issue (arstechnica.com)

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Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi delivering the first of 100k EVs ordered (reuters.com)

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New York Times now requires login to see Wordle stats (nytimes.com)

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Facial recognition error message on vending machine sparks concern at university (ctvnews.ca)

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[flagged] Alabama executes Kenneth Smith using untested method of nitrogen gas (theguardian.com)

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Alabama to try new nitrogen gas execution method on January 25 (theguardian.com)

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Computer Says No (wikipedia.org)

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The rise of the 2 point conversion in American Football (nytimes.com)

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A list of the features being removed from Google Assistant (androidauthority.com)

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Space shuttle Endeavour gets new out-of-this-world display (youtube.com)

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In 2008, the CIA and NIC released their predictions for the world in 2025 [pdf] (dni.gov)

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Peecycling: Upcycling urine as a safe agricultural fertilizer (umich.edu)

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Mr Bates vs. the Post Office (theguardian.com)

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Post Office workers wrongly accused of stealing still awaiting payouts (theguardian.com)

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Create a Personal Voice on Your iPhone, iPad, or Mac (support.apple.com)

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Sir Humphry Davy’s unpublished poetry found in notebooks (theguardian.com)

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As Hyperloop One shuts down, we need to admit it was never meant to be built (x.com)

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Woman acquitted after genetic evidence suggests children died of natural causes (theguardian.com)

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BC Supreme Court bars man from calling himself an 'engineer' (cbc.ca)

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Wernher von Braun and the Nazis (pbs.org)

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Pentium floating-point division bug (1994) (wikipedia.org)

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NASA detects 'heartbeat' signal from Voyager 2 after losing contact (theguardian.com)

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The Early History of Human Excreta (jstor.org)

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Live: UFO/UAP Congressional Hearings (theguardian.com)