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Tiny dental nanobots generate heat to deep clean the teeth:
The buildup of bacteria deep in our teeth can cause infections in difficult-to-reach areas, and scientists at the Indian Institute of Science have developed a set of tiny cleaning robots they believe are up to the task.
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17 May 2022.
Teenage Engineering goes update crazy for field version of iconic OP-1 synth:
Last month, Sweden's Teenage Engineering launched the first in a new line of portable audio products, the gorgeous but expensive TX-6 mixer.
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16 May 2022.
Conde Nast Threatens Pub In The UK For Existing In Town Called Vogue:
Conde Nast has shown itself to be heavy-handed in the past when it comes to IP laws.
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17 May 2022.
Trump Plans To Restrict His Use Of Twitter To Benefit Truth Social:
The former president has agreed to a partial six-hour delay in using other social media sites in a bid to prioritize his fledgling app, according to a new federal securities filing.
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16 May 2022.
Squad Solar City Car is a Micro EV That Can Be Driven Without a License in Some EU Countries:
Forget electric scooters, the Squad Solar City Car is here, and it doesn’t even require a license to drive in some EU countries.
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17 May 2022.
What is Blockchain: Everything You Need to Know (2022):
If you want to pay online, you need to register an account and provide credit card information.
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18 April 2022.
Space, The Boring Frontier:
Suppose you randomly go 1 million miles somewhere away from our Sun.
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28 December 2021.
$7.6bn of ‘stablecoin’ tether redeemed since start of crypto crisis:
Figures suggest company has paid out more than total cash on hand, as terra backers prepare relaunchDigital investors have withdrawn savings in the “stablecoin” tether worth $7.
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17 May 2022.
New US lab to create versions of atoms never recorded on Earth:
By studying isotopes scientists hope to gain insight into how elements within exploding stars came to beFrom carbon to uranium, oxygen to iron, chemical elements are the building blocks of the world around us and the wider universe.
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17 May 2022.
Tableau adds automated, plain-language explanations to dashboards:
With the new Data Stories feature, Tableau users shouldn't have to spend time repeatedly explaining the dashboards they've built.
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17 May 2022.
Full lunar eclipse creates rare super blood Moon:
Its hue was created by sunlight being projected through the Earth's atmosphere onto the Moon.
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16 May 2022.
How to Order Your Free At-Home Covid-19 Tests:
The US government is sending 8 more at-home tests to every household.
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16 May 2022.
In Silicon Valley, startups are laying off staff as investors pull back from big tech:
In the startup world, investors are pulling back, companies are laying off employees and IPOs are being delayed.
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16 May 2022.
Seeing through the fog: Pinpointing young stars and their protoplanetary disks:
Imagine walking through a dense, hazy fog in the middle of the night, seeing patches of light from cars and towns shimmering in the distance.
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16 May 2022.
After Buffalo Shooting Video Spreads, Social Platforms Face Questions:
Gunmen say they are influenced by online screeds and broadcasts of past shootings.
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17 May 2022.
Defenders of Ukrainian steel mill declare mission complete after fighters evacuated to Russia-controlled areas:
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the evacuation to separatist-controlled territory was done to save the lives of the fighters who endured weeks of Russian assaults.
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17 May 2022.
Alibaba Cloud opens third data centre in Germany:
Frankfurt facility will support the Chinese tech giant's customers across Europe, offering various cloud services including artificial intelligence and database.
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17 May 2022.
What’s Down the Road for Silicon?:
Meet the new materials overpowering the electric economy.
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17 May 2022.
Missouri scientists work to save lake sturgeon by electronically tracking them:
With a decreasing population of lake sturgeon, nine states have listed the species as endangered.
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16 May 2022.
Defenders of Ukrainian steel mill declare mission complete after fighters evacuated to Russia-controlled areas:
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the evacuation to separatist-controlled territory was done to save the lives of the fighters who endured weeks of Russian assaults.
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17 May 2022.
New Study Lays Out Hidden Backstory Behind Deadly Pacific Northwest Heatwave:
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Phys.
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17 May 2022.
Google diversifies its translation service, adds 24 languages:
This week Google added 24 languages to its translation service, including South American, African, and South Asian languages not commonly found on popular tech products.
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13 May 2022.
Nuzzling T. rexes and grappling sauropods: Dinosaurs on 'Prehistoric Planet' will astonish you:
"Prehistoric Planet" on Apple TV+ presents dinosaurs as we've never seen them before by pairing wildlife filmmakers and David Attenborough narration with Hollywood visual effects.
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16 May 2022.
Meet the scientist at the center of the covid lab leak controversy:
On a foggy morning in early February last year, dozens of journalists from around the world gathered outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
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09 February 2022.
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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