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Your pet dog, even the chihuahua, may still carry wolf genes:
Most pet dogs carry a little wolf inside them; tiny snippets of wolf DNA that slipped into dog genomes after domestication.
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10 December 2025.
Move over, biomimicry – bio-derived robotic hand uses lobster shells for fingers:
If you’re going to kill animals for food, don’t waste their parts – that’s just rude.
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09 December 2025.
How ICE’s Plan To Monitor Social Media Threatens Not Just Privacy, But Civic Participation:
When most people think about immigration enforcement, they picture border crossings and airport checkpoints.
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09 December 2025.
What is Blockchain: Everything You Need to Know (2025):
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24 November 2025.
From greener AI to richer 3D worlds: 23 papers debuted at NeurIPS conference:
Contributions unveiled tools for analyzing environmental and health interventions, matching images to architectural plans, and generating realistic 3D scenes with unprecedented efficiency.
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09 December 2025.
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Australia’s world-first social media ban begins as millions of children and teens lose access to accounts:
Accounts held by users under 16 must be removed on apps that include TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube, Snapchat, Reddit, Kick, Twitch and Threads under banHow is Australia’s social media ban affecting you and your family?The social media ban explained: everything you need to knowAustralia has enacted a world-first ban on social media for users aged under 16, causing millions of children and teenagers to lose access to their accounts.
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10 December 2025.
England health officials identify newly evolved variant of mpox:
Virus caught by person who travelled to Asia combines more severe form of mpox with less virulent typeHealth officials have identified a new variant of mpox in England after a person who recently travelled to Asia was tested for the virus.
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10 December 2025.
How to clear your Google search cache on Android (and why it makes such a big difference):
If you care about privacy, regularly clearing your Google search cache on Android is a must.
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10 December 2025.
UN environment report 'hijacked' by US and others over fossil fuels, top scientist says:
The US and other governments derailed an agreement on a global environment study, its co-chair says.
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09 December 2025.
ICEBlock app sues Trump administration for censorship and 'unlawful threats':
The app lets people anonymously share the locations of immigration agents but Apple removed it from its app store under pressure from the Trump administration.
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08 December 2025.
Why the A.I. Boom Is Unlike the Dot-Com Boom:
Silicon Valley is again betting everything on a new technology.
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10 December 2025.
EU launches antitrust probe into Google’s AI search tools:
Even as Big Tech and American tech elites criticize how the European Union is implementing rules to regulate tech and AI on the continent, the bloc isn’t letting competition concerns slide.
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10 December 2025.
All 187,460 Miles of Road That Led to Rome, Mapped:
A digital atlas of ancient Rome’s highways and byways reveals a road network that was more extensive than thought.
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10 December 2025.
This High Arctic rhino may change what we know about ancient animal migrations:
A 23-million-year-old rhinoceros fossil is reshaping scientists' understanding of mammal evolution.
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04 December 2025.
Silver Hits $60 For The First Time—Here’s Why Prices Are Outpacing Gold:
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Silver prices rose to a record high Tuesday, surpassing the $60 milestone for the first time as the precious metal has outpaced gold this year amid a global supply squeeze and another expected interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve.
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10 December 2025.
OpenAI Joins the Linux Foundation's New Agentic AI Foundation:
OpenAI, alongside Anthropic and Block, have launched the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation, describing it as a neutral home for standards as agentic systems move into real production.
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10 December 2025.
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.
This bright star will soon die in a nuclear explosion — and could be visible in Earth's daytime skies:
The bright binary star system V Sagittae will flare up multiple times before finally going supernova within the next 100 years.
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09 December 2025.
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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