- newAstronomers may have detected an exomoon
Astronomers using the Very Large Telescope in Chile have found evidence of a moon-sized companion far beyond our own solar system, which might be the first exomoon to be detected (though it wouldn't be the first time we've been here). — Read the re…
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- newDesign proposals for European banknotes
The European Central Bank is preparing to issue cash with a "new look" and has published its Future euro banknote design proposals: "Designers from all over Europe have reimagined how they may look like, and one of their proposals is to become the ne…
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- newThis $20 PDF editor keeps your files off the cloud and on your device (MSRP $50)
TL;DR: Tackle PDFs with ease forever with an IndyPDF Editor and Converter lifetime subscription, on sale now for just $19.99 (MSRP $49.99).If you have subscription fatigue, here's a deal for an app you pay for once and get to enjoy for life. —…
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- newBritain's £36 million peanut farm harvested less than it planted
In 1946, with Britain still on wartime rationing and short of cooking fat, Clement Attlee's government approved a plan to plant peanuts across 3 million acres of Tanganyika, a stretch of bush roughly the size of Yorkshire, and turn the crop into marg…
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- newA chemist invented a fake Frenchman to justify capital L for liters
The International System of Units capitalizes a unit's symbol only when the unit is named for a person, which leaves the liter with a lowercase l that is easy to mistake for a capital I or the numeral 1. In 1978 Kenneth Woolner of the University of W…
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- newWhat if the whole planet ran on a single clock?
Every so often someone proposes to abolish time zones entirely and put the whole planet on a single clock. It would be the same time everywhere at once: when it reads 08:00 in London, it reads 08:00 in New York and Beijing too — even though New Yor…
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- newFor centuries people have watched glowing orbs drift through storms
For centuries, people have reported glowing balls of light during thunderstorms — spheres from pea-sized to several meters across that drift through the air for seconds at a time, far longer than a lightning flash, before vanishing or bursting with…
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- newTo ace a hacking test, AI broke out and hacked a real company
OpenAI runs a test where it switches off its models' safety brakes and dares them to break into things, to see how dangerous they're getting. Last week the models took it too literally. According to the New York Times, two OpenAI models escaped their…
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- newCoyote vs. ACME returns from tax writeoff hell with new trailer
It doesn't happen often, but sometimes, cold corporate tax writeoffs that deny the tireless work of creatives an audience just so some executive can make a down payment on another yacht have happy endings! Warner Bros. is famous for this to the point…
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- newElon Musk tries out the some-of-my-best-friends defense
Asked whether he was racist, Elon Musk cited his partner, children and racially diverse executives. The next question went less smoothly.The post Elon Musk tries out the some-of-my-best-friends defense appeared first on Boing Boing.
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