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- A meteor exploded off the coast of Boston
May 31, 01:44 PM
- I stopped using OpenClaw — this is the better agent that the mainstream hasn’t caught up to yet
May 31, 01:30 PM
- Toy Story 2 was nearly erased from existence when someone at Pixar accidentally ran a delete command on the film’s master files, wiping out roughly 90 percent of the project — and the only reason the production survived was that Galyn Susman, a technical director on maternity leave, had a working copy on a computer at her house.
May 31, 01:04 PM
- LTO tape stores data for $5 per terabyte — here’s why you can’t buy it
May 31, 01:00 PM
- Suzanne Simard sealed paper birch and Douglas fir seedlings inside plastic bags, fed them carbon-14 and carbon-13 dioxide, and nine days later found carbon had crossed between species through fungal threads in the British Columbia soil beneath her boots
May 31, 12:50 PM
- A Japanese man named Jiroemon Kimura, who lived to 116, was born in 1897 when Queen Victoria still ruled and died in 2013, meaning a single human life personally overlapped with the invention of the airplane, the atomic bomb, the internet, and Instagram
May 31, 12:48 PM
- The Voyager 1 spacecraft launched in 1977 is now over 15 billion miles from Earth, and a radio signal from NASA takes more than 22 hours to reach it, meaning every command is really an instruction for where the probe will be by tomorrow
May 31, 12:45 PM
- The Hollywood sign originally read HOLLYWOODLAND when it was built in 1923 as a real estate advertisement for a housing development, and it was only meant to stand for 18 months, but nobody ever got around to taking it down and the city eventually adopted it as a landmark
May 31, 12:44 PM
- User-replaceable batteries are coming back in a big way
May 31, 12:00 PM
- In the small hours of 2 September 1859, a telegraph operator in Portland, Maine disconnected his batteries because they were throwing sparks, and then discovered he could still send a clean message to Boston using nothing but the current the aurora was pushing through the wire above his head.
May 31, 11:46 AM
- In 1992, a container ship leaving Hong Kong lost 28,800 plastic bath toys overboard in the North Pacific, and oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer spent the next two decades tracking yellow ducks and blue turtles as they washed up in Alaska, Maine, and eventually the coast of Scotland, quietly rewriting the textbook map of ocean currents.
May 31, 11:14 AM
- Pairing Obsidian and Claude was the best thing that happened to my note-taking
May 31, 11:01 AM
- Ebike Display Uses Reflective LCD
May 31, 11:00 AM
- The Mercedes CLA offers great EV specs for an average price
May 31, 11:00 AM
- In 1942, Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr and avant-garde composer George Antheil received US Patent 2,292,387 for a frequency-hopping radio system synchronised by a perforated paper roll borrowed from a player piano, a technique the Navy filed away as unworkable and which now underpins every Wi-Fi router, Bluetooth earbud, and GPS receiver on Earth.
May 31, 10:32 AM
- I didn’t realize this hidden folder was taking up 60GB of space
May 31, 10:00 AM
- How Turkey Hacked the Hair Transplant Industry
May 31, 09:00 AM
- In 1859 a storm on the Sun struck the Earth so hard that telegraph wires threw sparks and operators were shocked at their desks, and scientists warn the same event today would knock out power grids across entire continents.
May 31, 08:41 AM
- Modern Graphics Via DisplayLink For Your ISA-Era PC
May 31, 08:00 AM
- Almost all of the world’s internet traffic does not travel by satellite but through fibre-optic cables lying on the ocean floor, a hidden web of wires crossing the deepest parts of the sea to connect the continents.
May 31, 07:05 AM
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