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Mega Millions tickets will climb to $5, but officials promise better odds

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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The cost of buying a Mega Millions jackpot dream will soon...
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The cost of buying a Mega Millions jackpot dream will soon more than double, but lottery officials said they’re confident players won’t mind paying more after changes that will lead to larger prizes and more frequent winners.Lottery officials announced Monday that it will cost $5 to play Mega...

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A Changing Climate Is Scorching the Amazon, the World's Biggest River

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You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.As a punishing drought dries up stretches of the Amazon River, Brazil is resorting to dredging to try to keep food, medicine and people flowing along the watery superhighway.A ...
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Stupendously Large: How big can black holes get?

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Nasa GoddardAstronomers are spotting a new class of giant black holes that dwarf even the supermassive...
Nasa GoddardAstronomers are spotting a new class of giant black holes that dwarf even the supermassive ones found at the centre of galaxies. Could there be some even more monstrous lurking out there in the darkness of space?At the centre of our galaxy lives a gargantuan black hole. It is as wide as our Sun but milli...
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FTX creditors will make money on bankruptcy: $1.19 for every dollar

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A Delaware bankruptcy judge approved FTX's reorganization plan almost two years after the crypto exchange spiraled...
A Delaware bankruptcy judge approved FTX's reorganization plan almost two years after the crypto exchange spiraled into bankruptcy.The company says it has collected between $14.7 billion and $16.5 billion worth of property that it plans to distribute to creditors.According to the court-approved plan, 98% of FTX's cr...

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Ask HN: Can you recommend a PCB designer?

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Video Surveillance with YOLO+llava

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American Water, the largest water utility in US, is targeted by a cyberattack

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OpenBSD 7.6 released

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James Webb Space Telescope deciphers the origins of Pluto's icy moon Charon

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Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have detected carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have detected carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the frozen surface of Pluto's largest moon, Charon. Detecting these molecules could tell scientists how Charon and other icy bodies at the solar system's edge were born.Since its discovery in 1978, Charon h...
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What happens to all of 23andMe's genetic DNA data?

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Last month, Chenedy Wiles finally got around to it. The 27-year-old traveling nurse spit into a...
Last month, Chenedy Wiles finally got around to it. The 27-year-old traveling nurse spit into a tube and mailed it to 23andMe, where the genetic testing company’s lab examined her DNA and generated a glimpse of her ancestry. “One of the reasons I decided to get the test is that as an African American, it’s very comm...
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The Wobbly Table Theorem

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Japan's Cat Island won't survive much longer

tokyoweekender.com

It’s an island without accommodation, shops, cafés or even any vending machines. Located a 30-minute ferry...
It’s an island without accommodation, shops, cafés or even any vending machines. Located a 30-minute ferry ride off the coast of Ozu city in Ehime Prefecture, it’s also a tricky place to get to. Yet despite all of this, Aoshima — commonly referred to as Cat Island — has become a popular tourist spot down the years. ...
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An illustrated proof of the CAP theorem

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The CAP Theorem is a fundamental theorem in distributed systems that states any distributed system can...
The CAP Theorem is a fundamental theorem in distributed systems that states any distributed system can have at most two of the following three properties. Consistency Availability Partition tolerance This guide will summarize Gilbert and Lynch's specification and proof of the CAP Theorem with pictures! What is the C...
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Possible housing crisis solution? New kind of public housing for all incomes

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A few miles outside Washington, D.C., a large dirt and gravel lot dotted with construction equipment...
A few miles outside Washington, D.C., a large dirt and gravel lot dotted with construction equipment was the site of a recent celebration. Local housing officials lined up in hardhats, each holding a shovel decorated with a brightly colored bow. “Beautiful, beautiful,” a photographer said as he clicked away. It mark...
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Hurricane Milton explodes into a powerful Cat 5 storm as it heads for Florida

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Hurricane Milton went from barely hurricane strength to a dangerous Category 5 storm in less than...
Hurricane Milton went from barely hurricane strength to a dangerous Category 5 storm in less than 24 hours as it headed across the Gulf of Mexico toward Florida. As its wind speed increased, Milton became one of the most rapidly intensifying storms on record. And with 180 mph sustained winds on Oct. 7, 2024, and ver...

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MoneyGram says hacker stole customers' personal information and transaction data

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After a Decade, Scientists Unveil Fly Brain in Detail

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IPv6 Secure Neighbor Discovery

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IPv6 network protocol extension This article includes a list of references, related reading, or external links,...
IPv6 network protocol extension This article includes a list of references, related reading, or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. Please help improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (January 2011) (Learn how and when to remove this message) The Secu...
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Programming and poetry (not Python's tool)

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Some thoughts on how programming’s unlikely relations to poetry, and some implications of those relations I...
Some thoughts on how programming’s unlikely relations to poetry, and some implications of those relations I don’t have much time recently to work on articles about programming (especially considering my typical article length); but I have some previously written content to share. This article was drafted as a Twitte...
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Komodo: A tool to build and deploy software across many servers

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Alan Kay 80s 2h 40M OOP Talk Remastered [video]

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Deadhorse UFO Incident: NORAD Logs Reveal Insights into Object's Countermeasures

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Liberation Times Opinion & InsightWritten by Geoff Cruickshank B.IT, M.IEEE - 7 October 2024 Thanks to...
Liberation Times Opinion & InsightWritten by Geoff Cruickshank B.IT, M.IEEE - 7 October 2024 Thanks to a FOIA release from the Canadian Government in September 2024, we may now have a glimpse of the extraordinary countermeasures deployed by UAPs against NORAD command and control facilities during the intercept and s...
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Why I Never Buy Cutting-Edge Smartphones or PCs

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Cutting-edge gadgets have hidden costs beyond hardware, subsidizing future features in more affordable models. New devices...
Cutting-edge gadgets have hidden costs beyond hardware, subsidizing future features in more affordable models. New devices quickly lose their superiority, making the premium paid for cutting-edge tech often unjustifiable. Mid-range devices can offer more value and specialized features, reducing the need for costly c...
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The prediction platform Metaculus is open source now

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