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Our Slack is dead. Long live Zulip
It’s officially official. I just turned off our last Slack integration. We’re no longer announcing new...
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Cosmos-482 descent craft re-entry prediction
On 10 May, an uncontrolled reentry will take place of the so-called Cosmos-482 descent craft, a...
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Stratolaunch Successfully Completes Reusable Hypersonic Flight and Recovery
MOJAVE, CA – May 05, 2025 – Stratolaunch is pleased to announce the successful completion of...
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Six Days in the Dark
On Tuesday, April 29th, 2025, a major storm system rolled through the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania region and...
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Fighting Unwanted Notifications with Machine Learning in Chrome
Notifications in Chrome are a useful feature to keep up with updates from your favorite sites....
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Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, and the Computer (2009)
16-bit Intel 8088 chipwith an Apple Macintosh you can’t run Radio Shack programs in its disc...
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Some novelists are becoming video game writers – and vice-versa
I’ve been working in games for a little more than 15 years, and the main thing...
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Google agrees to pay $1.4B data privacy settlement to Texas
Google agreed to pay nearly $1.4 billion to the state of Texas to settle allegations of...
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Using Git-upload-pack for a simpler CI integration
One of the early decisions we made in Screenshotbot was to not have read-access to your...
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Social drinking also a well-worn path to alcohol use disorder
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — When picturing a “typical” alcoholic, people tend to imagine a person drinking at...
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Reading "business" books is a waste of time
Most popular business books are written for emotional appeal, not intellectual rigor.They turn simplified stories into...
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Era of U.S. dollar may be winding down
It looks like the end of an era for the U.S. dollar. In his new book...
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Before the Undo Command, There Was the Electric Eraser
I’m fascinated with the early 20th-century zeal for electrifying everyday things. Hand tools, toasters, hot combs—they...
