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How NASA Nearly Lost the Voyager 2 Spacecraft Forever
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Simple ballpoint pen can write custom LEDs
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Apple Pay reportedly coming to Chile this month after long delay
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Secret Invasion has no credits scene, so Marvel wasted another big opportunity
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Updating our Sony WF-1000XM5 review
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How plant biology research could inform COVID-19 treatments
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That time an Air Force sergeant spotted pulsars months before astronomers
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I use Steam every day, and I couldn’t live without these 6 hidden features
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Why is Twitter called X now? Here’s everything you need to know
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Why is Twitter called X now?
Twitter is now called X, and it's been a messy rebrand. We're here to catch you up on why the rebrand happened and what it means......»»
This Summer"s Record-Breaking Heat Waves Would Not Have Happened without Climate Change
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Study finds climate change fingerprints on July heat waves in Europe, China and America
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Something amazing happened to U.S. smartphones on July 11
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Linux could be 3% of global desktops. What happened to Windows?
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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1’s ending, explained
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China is pumping out carbon emissions as if COVID never happened. That"s bad news for the climate crisis
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Twitter spooked by Threads, threatens to sue Meta for hiring employees after Musk fired everyone
ICYMI, Elon Musk spent $44 billion in 2022 to buy Twitter and fired most of the company. A lot has happened since then, to say the least. Now Twitter is threatening to sue Meta for supposedly hiring employees that Musk fired and building a competiti.....»»