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Pentagon demonstrates U.S. potential to quickly deploy nuclear power via airlift

Posted by coatta on Saturday February 21, 2026 @06:34PM
from the npr.org dept.

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/21/nx-s1-5721761/us-military-airlifts-small-reactor

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'Mini retirement': Tech professionals in their 20s sail across the Pacific

Posted by coatta on Friday July 25, 2025 @06:49PM
from the cnn.com dept.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/25/travel/mini-retirement-career-break-sail-trip

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Happy 20th Anniversary, Gmail. I'm Sorry I'm Leaving You

Posted by coatta on Monday April 15, 2024 @11:18PM
from the nytimes.com dept.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/07/opinion/gmail-email-digital-shame.html

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Glow-in-the-Dark Flowers Are Coming This Spring: Meet the Firefly Petunia

Posted by coatta on Saturday February 17, 2024 @09:07PM
from the bhg.com dept.

https://www.bhg.com/glowing-firefly-petunia-8563534

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Loss of Epigenetic Regulation Drives Aging in Mice

Posted by coatta on Friday January 13, 2023 @01:24PM
from the technologynetworks.com dept.

https://www.technologynetworks.com/genomics/news/loss-of-epigenetic-regulation-drives-aging-in-mice-369123

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‘Friending Bias’ study: how lower-income children rise up the economic ladder

Posted by coatta on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @09:58AM
from the nytimes.com dept.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/01/briefing/economic-ladder-rich-poor-americans.html

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Jumping robot leaps to record heights

Posted by coatta on Thursday April 28, 2022 @08:08AM
from the nature.com dept.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01196-y

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A gripping yarn: inside the Knitting.com drama

Posted by coatta on Thursday March 03, 2022 @06:01AM
from the inputmag.com dept.

https://www.inputmag.com/culture/knitting-com-ecomcrew-business-vs-community

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First edition of the Chevy Silverado EV sold out in 12 minutes

Posted by coatta on Thursday January 06, 2022 @04:31PM
from the engadget.com dept.

https://www.engadget.com/chevrolet-silverado-ev-rst-first-edition-sold-out-gm-185219736.html

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First-of-Its-Kind Wearable Glucose Monitoring Device – No Needles Required

Posted by coatta on Saturday November 06, 2021 @08:11AM
from the scitechdaily.com dept.

https://scitechdaily.com/first-of-its-kind-wearable-glucose-monitoring-device-no-needles-required/

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Know Labs unveils glucose monitor that swaps fingersticks for RF sensors

Posted by coatta on Thursday September 23, 2021 @07:32PM
from the fiercebiotech.com dept.

https://www.fiercebiotech.com/medtech/know-labs-unveils-pocket-sized-glucose-monitor-swaps-fingersticks-for-radiofrequency

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How Two Online Poker Stars Traded the High-Roller Life for Restaurants

Posted by coatta on Monday September 21, 2020 @08:39PM
from the washingtonian.com dept.

https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/08/30/the-wild-story-of-two-online-poker-stars-who-traded-the-high-roller-life-for-the-unglamorous-world-of-restaurants/

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Hagfish slime expands by 10,000 times in a fraction of a second

Posted by coatta on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @04:41PM
from the theatlantic.com dept.

https://www.theatlantic.com/article/581002/

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Swedish teenagers created a proto-internet in 1982 by exploiting a phone glitch

Posted by coatta on Thursday January 03, 2019 @05:56AM
from the medium.com dept.

https://medium.com/s/love-hate/how-a-phone-glitch-sparked-a-teenage-riot-eb785c39bd01

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Google to spend $1B to establish new campus in New York

Posted by coatta on Monday December 17, 2018 @07:31AM
from the reuters.com dept.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-new-york-property-google/google-to-spend-1-billion-to-establish-new-campus-in-new-york-idUSKBN1OG136

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Comcast rejected by small town, residents vote for municipal fiber instead

Posted by coatta on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @09:18AM
from the arstechnica.com dept.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/12/comcast-rejected-by-small-town-residents-vote-for-municipal-fiber-instead

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Deep Learning Can Correct Photos Taken in Almost Complete Darkness

Posted by coatta on Saturday May 12, 2018 @11:02AM
from the gizmodo.com dept.

https://gizmodo.com/deep-learning-can-now-flawlessly-correct-photos-taken-i-1825919192

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Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency may make rocket fuel with robot intestines

Posted by coatta on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @05:43AM
from the spectrum.ieee.org dept.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/space-robots/watch-this-robotic-intestine-puke-rocket-fuel

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Knitting machines power up with computer-generated patterns for 3D shapes

Posted by coatta on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @06:11AM
from the techcrunch.com dept.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/31/knitting-machines-power-up-with-computer-generated-patterns-for-3d-shapes/

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Aviv Ovadya Worried About an “Information Apocalypse”

Posted by coatta on Thursday February 15, 2018 @02:24PM
from the buzzfeed.com dept.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/the-terrifying-future-of-fake-news

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Lessons from the Epic Rise and Fall of the Facebook of the 1990s

Posted by coatta on Sunday June 18, 2017 @12:30PM
from the fastcompany.com dept.

https://www.fastcompany.com/40419606/lessons-from-the-epic-rise-fall-of-the-facebook-of-the-1990s

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Ancient Egyptian Stories Will Be Published in English for the First Time

Posted by coatta on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @06:50PM
from the smithsonianmag.com dept.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancient-egyptian-stories-will-be-published-english-first-time-180960244/?no-ist

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The Nasty Battles Over Solidcore, Washington’s Hottest Gym

Posted by coatta on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @05:04PM
from the washingtonian.com dept.

https://www.washingtonian.com/2016/11/27/anne-mahlum-solidcore-nasty-legal-battles/

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Face-Recognition App Correctly Identifies 70% of St. Petersburg Metro Passengers

Posted by coatta on Thursday July 28, 2016 @11:20AM
from the 1843magazine.com dept.

https://www.1843magazine.com/technology/facing-realities

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Edward Snowden Blasts Russia for DNC Hack

Posted by coatta on Monday July 25, 2016 @04:56PM
from the foreignpolicy.com dept.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/07/25/noted-hacker-edward-snowden-has-some-thoughts-on-the-dnc-hack/

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The Fake Factory That Pumped Out Real Money

Posted by coatta on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @11:42AM
from the bloomberg.com dept.

http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-fake-biofuel-factory/

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Mining Platinum from the Road

Posted by coatta on Monday May 30, 2016 @10:49AM
from the youtube.com dept.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5GPWJPLcHg

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FCC rules you can get cable through Apple, Google, Amazon, and Android

Posted by coatta on Saturday February 20, 2016 @04:43AM
from the mashable.com dept.

http://mashable.com/2016/02/18/fcc-set-top-box/#4TRzrwsNhPqD

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Russian designers create robotic roach to aid search-and-rescue and espionage

Posted by coatta on Friday December 11, 2015 @07:51AM
from the foreignpolicy.com dept.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/12/10/innovations-why-is-moscow-developing-an-army-of-automated-insects-robot-roach-russia/

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