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Super Magdrive rocket thrusters run on heavy metal:
The most abundant metal known to man is iron.
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05 October 2024.
Google's twisted new Gboard: A double-sided infinite keyboard:
Google Japan has released the newest version of the Gboard, a unique double-sided keyboard that’s based on the Möbius strip, integral to math, science, and popular culture.
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07 October 2024.
Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt:
This week, both top spots on the insightful side were taken by similar comments from That One Guy.
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06 October 2024.
LimeWire AI Studio Review 2023: Details, Pricing & Features:
In the rapidly advancing landscape of AI technology and innovation, LimeWire emerges as a unique platform in the realm of generative AI tools.
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12 December 2023.
Breaking Through Barriers to Reach New Heights at Cornell Tech: Noor EL-Hawwat:
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04 October 2024.
Flatpack coffins and robot dogs: patents applications show UK inventions of 2023:
Other submissions included a vertical grand piano, smart goalie gloves and cheese made of potatoesA robot dog that does the vacuuming, a flatpack coffin and a cross between a cookie and a cake were among the things that UK-based inventors thought up last year.
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07 October 2024.
Wanted: expedition botanist to follow in Darwin’s footsteps and look for plants:
If you have a sense of adventure and know your squills from your spurges, Cambridge University Botanic Garden may have the job for youWith the promise of travel, adventure and the chance to follow in the footsteps of Charles Darwin, applications have opened for what might be the best job in the natural world: an expedition botanist to go on plant-collecting adventures for Cambridge University Botanic Garden.
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07 October 2024.
Amazon Prime Day deals live: We found 160+ of the best deals ahead of October's Big Deal Days:
October Prime Day kicks off tomorrow, but our deal-hunting experts have found the best early Prime Day deals live now on TVs, laptops, phones, kitchen appliances, and more.
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07 October 2024.
Northern Lights possible as solar storms gather:
The largest solar flare since 2017 has been spotted erupting from the Sun’s surface.
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04 October 2024.
Stunning photos of a vast e-waste dumping ground — and those who make a living off it:
Three photojournalists have created an in-depth report on electronic waste — its negative and .
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05 October 2024.
Cerebras Files Prospectus for I.P.O.:
The Silicon Valley company would be among the first A.
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06 October 2024.
Bond traders buckle up for ‘no landing’ after jobs surprise:
Bond traders buckle up for ‘no landing’ after jobs surprise Yahoo FinanceView Full Coverage on Google News.
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07 October 2024.
Amazon Prime Day deals live: We found 160+ of the best deals ahead of October's Big Deal Days:
October Prime Day kicks off tomorrow, but our deal-hunting experts have found the best early Prime Day deals live now on TVs, laptops, phones, kitchen appliances, and more.
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07 October 2024.
9 of the Most Celebrated Awards in Science Outside of Nobel Prizes:
The Nobel Foundation offers prizes in only three disciplines, but other awards have been created to honor scientists in different fields.
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06 October 2024.
How do scientists study lightning? With a spy plane and some big storms:
Lightning: It happens all the time, and yet the exact details of how it's made has long eluded scientists.
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04 October 2024.
Mining giant Rio Tinto in talks to buy U.S. lithium producer Arcadium:
Mining giant Rio Tinto in talks to buy U.
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07 October 2024.
Insecure Robot Vacuums From Chinese Company Deebot Collect Photos and Audio to Train Their AI:
Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shared this report from Australia's public broadcaster ABC:
Ecovacs robot vacuums, which have been found to suffer from critical cybersecurity flaws, are collecting photos, videos and voice recordings — taken inside customers' houses — to train the company's AI models.
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07 October 2024.
Georgia leads toward a nuclear future with its first operating reactor:
Georgia Power Co. announced one of its two new reactors reached self-sustaining nuclear fission on Monday.
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07 March 2023.
Stunning video shows sharks devouring sea urchins, spines and all:
Sharks easily consumed large, spiky sea urchins – sometimes in just a few gulps.
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06 October 2024.
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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