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Russian space nuke could render low-Earth orbit unusable for a year
The detonation of a Russian nuclear space weapon could render low-Earth orbit unusable for a year,...
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Tesla abandons quest for one-piece 'gigacasting'
AUSTIN, Texas — Tesla has backed away from an ambitious plan for innovations in gigacasting, its...
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How to Solve It (With Raycasting)
In 1945, mathematician George Pólya released the book “How to solve it”. It aims at helping...
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Full Body Scans for the People
U.S.WorldBusinessArtsLifestyleOpinionAudioGamesCookingWirecutterThe AthleticBernhard Warner undergoes a “Tissue Scan,” a procedure designed to assess microcirculation, or the blood...
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Another Boeing-Linked Whistleblower Has Died
Joshua Dean, a former quality auditor at Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems who had flagged safety concerns...
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Tesla Even Gives Up on Next-Gen Gigacasting: Report
Amid wider fears that Tesla is pivoting away from actually making cars to focus on artificial...
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20% of grocery store milk has traces of bird flu
The Food and Drug Administration reported late Thursday that about 20 percent of retail milk samples...
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PFAS increase likelihood of death by cardiovascular disease, study shows
For the first time, researchers have formally shown that exposure to toxic PFAS increases the likelihood...
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Go Module Bloat
For some of the software I write, I try to make occasional releases, and for the...
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The Stripper Index: An unorthodox recession measurement
Are we in a recession? Not officially, no, though 68% of experts agree that the American...
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Volcker's Announcement of Anti-Inflation Measures
In 1979, President Jimmy Carter nominated Federal Reserve Chairman G. William Miller as treasury secretary as...
