Slovakia to Revive Aluminum Plant That Was Once a Top Producer — Slovakia is set to revive primary aluminum production at a plant that was once one of Europe’s biggest producers of the metal.
How to sparkle in conversation with strangers — In the face of loneliness, many people are turning to AI chatbots for companionship – but research shows it can’t replace human connection. Columnist David Robson explores how beneficial it can be to talk to strangers, with evidence
The Sideload 033: You (probably) can't buy the best smartphone cameras — Will welcomes Phandroid Editor-in-Chief Nick Gray to the show to discuss his time with Oppo and Vivo's latest envious flagships.
Venezuela Struggles with Earthquake Rescue Efforts as Death Toll Nears 1,000 — Bloomberg News Andean Bureau Reporter Andreina Itriago is on Bloomberg This Weekend explaining concerns that the official casualty figures in Venezuela after the earthquake are likely underreported,…
Someone Stole a Banana Duct-Taped to the Wall of a French Museum. One of Its Twins Fetched More Than $6 Million at Auction — This isn't the first time the fruit at the center of the infamous "Comedian" art piece has been stolen or eaten
Can Printed 'Skin' Heal Burns and Prevent Scars? — Inks created with a patient’s own cells may one day help the body regrow tissues
Google hits 50% IPv6 | APNIC Blog — IPv6 has reached a major milestone, with around half of Google’s users now accessing its services over IPv6.
El Niño has started and the weather could get weird — Global weather agencies have declared that El Niño has begun, and models show it is more likely than not to be a "super" El Niño. The climate pattern boosts extreme weather around the world, and could lead to record temperatur
Periodic Table – Royal Society of Chemistry — Interactive periodic table with element scarcity (SRI), discovery dates, melting and boiling points, group, block and period information.
Keep an eye out for tonight's Strawberry Moon — The Strawberry Moon is set to rise in UK skies tonight, marking the first full Moon of the summer season. It will reach its peak in the early hours of Tuesday, 30 June, according to the Royal Observatory Greenwich.
Deals: TCL Android tablets from $150, Z Fold 7 $500+ off, Lenovo Legion 5i OLED laptop $550 off, Android Auto units, more — Alongside the ongoing pre-order deals on the new Google Fitbit Air, today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break is headlined by some affordable...
Update on Ocean Observatories Initiative — The U.S. National Science Foundation appreciates the concerns raised by the range of stakeholders that have informed us they rely on data from the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI). Effective…
‘Toy Story 5’ Shows Hollywood Is Still Not Releasing Enough Kids Movies — Box Office: Pixar's 'Toy Story 5' had the biggest opening of the year so far with $312 million globally and $160 million domestic.
The Man Who Created a Written Language for the Cherokee Did It So Efficiently and Elegantly, His Peers Thought It Was Magic — Sequoyah’s syllabary faced suspicion initially, but after a demonstration, his version of “talking leaves” was widely embraced. And then the word spread
A biologist mapped how octopuses taste with their arms, and the neural wiring is nothing like what anyone expected.
arxiv has a section where researchers post papers before peer review... spent an hour reading abstracts about whether octopuses dream. the methodology questions alone are worth it.
Walmart's new 4K Google TV stick is the Chromecast replacement I needed [Gallery] — Walmart is in the process of launching its new Google TV streamer lineup and, while I’m pretty intrigued by the...
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You Can Soon Build the Sagrada Família Out of 12,060 Legos. Here's Why the Famed Basilica Is an Architectural Marvel — Pioneering architect Antoni Gaudí’s plans for the basilica were ambitious and complex, drawing on creative geometric forms and ancient inspiration, which is one
Fen Cottage at Wicken Fen granted Grade II listed status — Historic England says the cottage is "a rare record" of how people depended on their surroundings.
How Alpha Particles Can Break Computer Chips — In the 1970s, Intel couldn't work out what was damaging the DRAM on their microchips. The cause turned out to be the ceramic that the chip was encased in. It was secretly flipping 1s to 0s. But how?
Math, Physics, and Engineering Applets — Physics and math applets galore.
CSDA Selects Eight Commercial Satellite Data Providers for On-Ramp 2 Contract Awards - NASA Science — Eight commercial data providers received contracts to provide a range of data in support of NASA’s Earth science priorities.
Hubble Glimpses Merging Galaxy Clusters - NASA Science — This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features a galaxy cluster, called CL0016+1609 or MACS J0018.5+1626.
Foldable iPhone 'Ultra' Rumored to Launch in Just Two Colors — Apple's first foldable iPhone, expected to be called the "iPhone Ultra," is shaping up to launch with a noticeably restrained selection of colors, according to multiple leakers, with sources pointing to as few as two
New Scientist recommends an excellent look at the future of work — Sarah O'Connor's We Are Not Machines explores how we are contorting ourselves to fit AI into our working lives – and what to do about it, finds Tom Knowles
This Rare, Intricate Brooch Represents the Roman Empire's Long, Disjointed Attempt to Conquer Scotland — The "miniature masterpiece" will go on display during an upcoming exhibition focused on the legacy Rome left in the highlands the empire dubbed Caledonia
I'm building a parallel internet, and it's called The Thinnernet — Since 2020, I've taken on a Steve Jobs alter-ego (on a very, very part time basis, and often for humor purposes ). The firs...
CUDA Proves Nvidia Is a Software Company — There’s a deep, forbidding moat that surrounds Nvidia—and it has nothing to do with hardware.
Venmo's biggest makeover in years comes at a very interesting time | TechCrunch — The timing is notable. PayPal, which owns Venmo, is restructuring to spin Venmo off as a standalone business unit — a move widely seen as laying the groundwork for a potential sale. Stripe has repor
Signs of Thaw in the Bering Sea - NASA Science — Drifting sea ice fragments near Alaska’s Saint Lawrence and Nunivak islands and colorful water around the Yukon Delta heralded the approach of the summer solstice.
Belugas Can Recognize Themselves in Mirrors, Joining a Short List of Nonhuman Species That Show Signs of Self-Awareness — The researchers hope that this new understanding of cognition in the toothed whales will increase human empathy and concern for the animals, leading to more e
The iPad was on Tailscale — In which many suspects are interrogated, and the case is closed on two bugs that are harmless apart and invisible together.
Steam Summer Sale 2026 arrives: 10 hot video game deals — Do you like Star Wars? We have good news.
All the bugs they found — Last year I wrote a small WASM runtime in Go. How many security vulnerabilities do you think AI agents found in it?
'Don't swim' at 12 of 14 river bathing sites, as more locations announced — Too much bacteria linked to faeces found at almost all England's designated river bathing sites
Oceana – We are Protecting the World's Oceans. — Working to protect and restore our oceans, Oceana is the largest international advocacy organization dedicated solely to ocean conservation. Learn more and get involved.
Researcher tracked 50 years of dog breed popularity data and found the top 10 flipped completely, Golden Retrievers used to be nowhere, now they're inescapable.
Warsh Signals Inflation Progress | Open Interest 7/1/2026 — Get a jump start on the US trading day with Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Open Interest." Fed Chair Kevin Warsh takes center stage in Sintra with fresh signals on inflation and price stability, while the ECB weighs the…
Reclaiming Our Digital Selves: HCCF’s Vision for a Human-Centered Top-Level Domain – Human-Centered Computing Foundation
Lost books by ancient philosophers recovered from 'unreadable' scrolls — Scrolls from the Roman library of Herculaneum that were carbonised by a volcanic eruption have been read in their entirety for the first time, thanks to scans and AI software
Moon-Venus Conjunction - NASA — The Moon and Venus, center, are seen in conjunction above the Washington Monument, Monday, May 18, 2026, as viewed from the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters
Women’s better memories may delay Alzheimer’s diagnosis by years — Women appear cognitively normal for almost three years longer than men after their brains start to develop Alzheimer’s disease, making it harder to diagnose and preventing early treatment
Sawing a Dam in Half (on Purpose) — A primer on alkali-silica reactions in concrete and one of the more interesting ways we manage it. 🌌Get Nebula using my link for 50% off an annual subscription: https://go.nebula.tv/Practical-Engineering 🏙️Watch Beyond the Bleachers: https://
Theodore Roosevelt Survived an Assassination Attempt Because a Speech Tucked Inside His Pocket Slowed the Bullet. He Insisted on Delivering His Remarks Anyway — "I am very much uninterested in whether I am shot or not," he told an audience in Milwaukee. Newly discovered documents
High-Speed Hair-Plucking Machine in Macro Slow Mo - The Slow Mo Guys — Gav films Dan epilate himself, which surprisingly you can monetize on YouTube. Enjoy slightly too detailed shots of hairs being blasted out of their follicle holes. Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/theslo
Shakespeare Referenced Dozens of Bird Species in His Work. This Artist Has Made It Her Mission to Paint Them All — Missy Dunaway’s colorful illustrations combine natural history, folklore and literature to depict the Bard’s birds
NASA’s Fermi Glimpses Power Source of Supercharged Supernovae - NASA Science — An international team studying data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope concludes the mission detected a rare, unusually luminous supernova. The researchers say it likely received its power-up
Australia to double maximum penalty for platforms in breach of social media ban — Children under the age of 16 have been prevented from 10 key social media platforms in Australia since December 2025.
Korea's biggest manufacturers back Config, the TSMC of robot data | TechCrunch — Samsung, Hyundai and LG just bet on the startup that wants to be robotics' data backbone.
NASA to Preview Katalyst Mission to Boost Swift Spacecraft’s Orbit - NASA — NASA will host an audio-only media teleconference at 11 a.m. EDT, Wednesday, June 17, to preview the Katalyst Space mission to boost the orbit of NASA’s Neil
Typhoon Jangmi - NASA Science — The sprawling storm promised to deliver torrential rain across a wide swath of southern Japan.
Worlds hardest jigsaw vs. puzzle machine (all white) — Keep exploring at https://brilliant.org/stuffmadehere. Get started for free, and hurry—the first 200 people get 20% off an annual premium subscription. If you're looking for a workstation check out Puget Systems. They rock: h
Google Chrome's Next Update Will Mark the End of Popular Ad Blockers - Slashdot — Google is removing Chrome's last remaining workarounds for Manifest V2 extensions, effectively ending support for legacy ad blockers such as the original uBlock Origin. 9to5Google reports:…
GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension — GitHub has confirmed that roughly 3,800 internal repositories were breached after one of its employees installed a malicious VS Code extension.
How becoming a dad changes men’s brains — Fathers show changes in some of the same brain areas as mothers, but the effect of parenthood on dads isn’t nearly as well studied
Pakistani strikes kill dozens of Afghan villagers — Afghan villagers inspected destroyed homes after overnight Pakistani strikes targeting Taliban-allied fighters.
SNB Intervened to Halt Rush for Franc at Iran War Outbreak — The Swiss National Bank sold francs in the first quarter, intervening to stop the currency’s surge when the US and Israel started to attack Iran.
In the Early Days of Machine Learning, Massive Computers Said George Harrison Was a Woman. A.I. Has Come a Long Way — A Cornell professor designed a room-size network of sensors that represented a single neuron. He claimed it would grow wiser as it gained experience, and it has n
Dog breed selector that actually asks useful questions instead of 'do you like big dogs' — helped me understand why I kept adopting the wrong one..