Historical Tech Tree - an interactive visualization of technological history from 3 million years ago to today

A debate has erupted in Denmark over the fate of a mermaid statue that is to be removed from public view after being decried as “ugly and pornographic” and “a man’s hot dream of what a woman should look like”

Plastic production has increased more than 200 times since 1950 and hits health at every stage from extraction to disposal, says review in the Lancet

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Steam is dealing with spam. Valve’s platform has been flooded with games stolen from itch.io

“Without the Champions League, nothing would be normal,”

Curious about the current status of your beloved programming languages, frameworks, or tools?

I built a tool that assigns a "Deaditude Score" to various technologies, utilizing data from GitHub activity, Stack Overflow trends, Job offer, Reddit discussions and other sources

Research from the University of Portsmouth suggests that bras offering excessive bounce reduction may come with hidden consequences for spinal health

ProSiebenSat.1 has lined up defence advisers, including Morgan Stanley, after receiving a takeover bid from its largest investor MFE-MediaForEurope, the TV group controlled by Italy's Berlusconi family

images that correspond so well to the style of the films suggests that the AI model has been trained with the films from Studio Ghibli. The question now arises as to whether OpenAI was allowed to use the films for training

From spit to bankruptcy: the rise and fall of 23andMe

European universities offer ‘scientific asylum’ to US researchers fleeing Trump’s cuts

Academics from US hoping to escape funding freezes and ideological impositions are being actively recruited

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What all this says is that simple decisions are best made by careful conscious thought. But for complicated decisions, the best choices may result from “deliberation without paying attention,” that is letting the thinking be done by the unconscious mind

Brake pad dust can be more toxic than exhaust emissions, study says

Research shows move to electric vehicles may not be enough to enable pollution from cars to be eradicated

Examples of wasted potential:

Sarah: Built a fusion reactor at 16. Now? Debugging fintech payment systems.

James: 3D-printed prosthetic limbs for A-levels. Today? Writing credit risk reports.

Alex: Developed AI drone swarms for disaster relief at 18. Graduated with top honours from Imperial. His job? Tweaking a single button's ergonomics on home appliances.

These aren't outliers. They're a generation of engineering prodigies whose talents are being squandered.

This isn't just wage disparity. It's misallocation of human capital on a national scale.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT search tool may be open to manipulation using hidden content, and can return malicious code from websites it searches, a Guardian investigation has found

"Between 2009 and 2012, iPhones had a built-in "Send to YouTube" button in the Photos app. Many of these uploads kept their default IMG_XXXX filenames, creating a time capsule of raw, unedited moments from random lives.

Inspired by Ben Wallace, I made a bot that crawled YouTube and found 5 million of these videos! Watch them below, ordered randomly."