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Japan Is So Desperate to Increase Its Birth Rate That Tokyo Is Trying Out a New Idea: Free Daycare
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Japan has been grappling with its demographic statistics with a sense of urgency, particularly regarding its declining birth rate. In 2023, the country...
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Florida Is Debuting a New Material for Building Roads. There’s Just One Problem: It’s Radioactive
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A Florida company is giving new meaning to the popular “reduce, reuse, and recycle.” Specifically, it wants to reuse the byproduct produced during phosphate...
on Dec 27
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Texas Prevents People From Owning More Than 6 Dildos. Now Lawmakers Want to Ban Sex Toys at Walmart
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Texas is the land where regulation is always second, or so they say. However, it’s also a state where politicians have chosen to regulate oddly specific...
on Dec 12
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Despite global efforts, greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise. What will we do if all else fails? Can we reverse the damage if temperatures exceed the 2.7...
on Nov 19
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Chipmakers Are Starting to Flee China. Their Destination Is the Next Great Semiconductor Hub
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The pressure from the U.S. and its allies on Chinese semiconductor manufacturers is prompting a relatively predictable shift: Some chipmakers are starting to...
on Nov 15
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Google Saw This Couple’s Website as Competition and Buried It. It Cost the Company $2.5 Billion
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In June 2006, husband and wife Adam and Shivaun Raff excitedly launched Foundem, a price comparison service designed to help users compare prices for products...
on Nov 13
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Amazon Planned to Connect Its New Data Center to a Nuclear Power Plant. Regulators Had Other Plans
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In March, Amazon purchased a large data center in a remote town in Pennsylvania, primarily because it was located next to a nuclear power plant. However, the...
on Nov 11
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Your Black Plastic Sushi Tray May Contain Banned Flame Retardants, New Study Says
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Common items made with black plastic in our daily lives, from sushi containers to spatulas, may be exposing us to high levels of flame retardants that can...
on Nov 11
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One of China’s Best-Kept Secrets, Revealed: This Is the New J-35A Fighter, a Rival to America's F-35
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On Tuesday, China officially unveiled its new state-of-the-art fighter aircraft, the Shenyang J-35A. The fighter shows design similarities to the U.S. F-35,...
on Nov 11
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Farmers Sound the Alarm About the Future of Potato Chips in America
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There are few symbols that are more representative of America than the potato chip. It’s a glorious and crunchy, albeit not very healthy, snack that’s a...
on Nov 5
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A 15-second sample is all it takes for the voice generator developed by OpenAI to clone a voice. It’s not the only system of its kind, but it shows what an AI...
on Oct 17
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Identifying what SpaceX CEO Elon Musk can’t live without is pretty easy. All you need to do is go over to X, the social media platform he owns formerly known...
on Oct 17
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Disney is facing a lawsuit over its use of a digital replica of Peter Cushing in the 2016 movie Rogue One. The actor had been deceased for several years, but...
on Sep 21
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When NASA decided to crash its DART—which stands for Double Asteroid Redirection Test—spacecraft into the Dimorphos asteroid two years ago, it had one clear...
on Aug 29
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Initially, many saw paper straws as a solution to the plastic straw problem, but they have their own set of issues. They break down easily, making them...
on Aug 23
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A Serious Vulnerability Is Affecting AMD Processors. Not All of Them Will Receive a Patch to Fix It
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AMD has confirmed that a serious vulnerability called “Sinkclose” is affecting the processors it’s sold since 2006, which include both consumer CPUs and data...
on Aug 13
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It's Not a Joke: Mayonnaise Is Helping Scientists Solve One of the Challenges of Nuclear Fusion
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I didn’t expect mayonnaise to be used in this way. In fact, it kind of sounds like a joke, but it’s not. This delicious condiment is helping researchers at...
on Aug 12
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Boeing is likely counting the days until the end of 2024, but it still has several months to go. Now, NASA inspectors have added a new report to its list of...
on Aug 11
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Nicolás Maduro Intensifies His Battle Against Elon Musk and Orders 10-Day Ban on X in Venezuela
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After holding elections with very disputed results, Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro has decided to target social media platforms, particularly X, managed...
on Aug 9
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The issue with flying taxis is that most of them are simply modified helicopters. For instance, the vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft from Applied...
on Aug 7
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Physicists Don’t Know Exactly What Time Is. However, They Suspect That It’s an Illusion
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“Space and time are so fundamental that we can talk about them without ever identifying with the utmost precision what they really are. We could compare space...
on Jul 6
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A Study Finds That Helping Your Coworkers Is Counterproductive, Unless They Specifically Ask
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I have the best coworkers in the world. When I see someone that needs help, I’m the kind of person who readily offers to help them solve their problem....
on Jun 26
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27 years ago, Nintendo almost revolutionized digital games with Nintendo Power, a flash memory for SNES and Game Boy consoles
on Jun 26
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All the Data on Earth Can Fit in a Cup Full of DNA. This Is MIT’s Jurassic Park-Inspired Project
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DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is the molecule of life. While there are other essential molecules for life as we know it, DNA holds a special significance...
on Jun 26
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Retro devices, like old game consoles and CD players, bring joy to people who are nostalgic. They allow them to revisit the past in today’s ever-changing tech...
on Jun 25
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The ‘Compact’ Version of Stable Diffusion 3 Is Here. And It’s Generating Monstrous Human Bodies
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Stable Diffusion is Midjourney’s great rival in AI image generators, mainly because it allows anyone to use it on their PC and power it with all kinds of...
on Jun 25