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The Human Cost of AI Slop
Late one evening, while scrolling through r/Futurology, I realized something felt off. Posts looked polished but strangely hollow—grand headlines about “new discoveries” that didn’t link to real studies, comment sections filled with generic praise or oddly phrased rebuttals. It was all surface. That’s when I stumbled upon a thread titled “AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit
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Google’s Quiet Comeback in the AI Race
It’s not every day that Geoffrey Hinton—the man widely credited as a founding father of deep learning—leans into prediction. But when he recently suggested that Google overtaking OpenAI might be closer than people think, ears across the tech world perked up. His comment wasn’t boastful or nostalgic; it carried the quiet authority of someone who
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The Eruption Behind the Black Death
For centuries, historians have blamed trade routes and infected fleas for spreading the bubonic plague across medieval Europe. But what if a volcanic eruption Black Death connection played a deeper role—setting off environmental changes that made the continent ripe for catastrophe? Recent interdisciplinary research suggests this may be exactly what happened. By linking ice-core data
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Viral Cloning Hack Shakes the Rare Plant Market
It started as a casual upload—a YouTuber in their garage showing viewers how to replicate a prized variegated houseplant using a surprisingly simple lab setup. Within days, the video had millions of views and comments from hobbyists around the world trying it for themselves. The result? The rare plant market, once defined by scarcity and
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Are Short Videos Changing How We Think?
Late at night, millions of us find ourselves in the same loop—scrolling through clips that last barely longer than a breath. A dog skateboards across a plaza; a stranger explains an obscure fact; someone lip-syncs an old TV quote with impossible precision. It’s hypnotic, even comforting. But researchers are starting to ask a pressing question
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Getting Started in DIY the Right Way
Every great maker starts somewhere. The getting started DIY journey usually begins with curiosity—how does that shelf hold up, how do you fix a leaky faucet, or could you build that desk yourself? For many beginners, the hardest part isn’t the work itself but knowing where to begin. The online DIY community has built spaces,
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Inside OpenAI’s “Code Red” Moment
When reports surfaced that Sam Altman had declared an OpenAI code red to his employees, it sounded almost cinematic — the kind of phrase you’d expect in a crisis room, not a tech company boardroom. But in the world of artificial intelligence, urgency often hides behind calm presentations and clean product launches. The “code red,”
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The Tiny Miners Changing How We Get Rare Earths
Every smartphone, wind turbine, and electric car depends on rare earth elements. They’re the quiet backbone of modern technology, yet the process of mining them is anything but quiet. Open-pit mines scar landscapes, chemical runoff poisons rivers, and entire communities are left breathing dust. The contradiction is hard to ignore: clean tech built on dirty
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Sugars on Asteroid Bennu and the Search for Life
When NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft brought home samples from Asteroid Bennu, most people expected dust, rock, maybe a few carbon compounds. What scientists found instead—sugars like ribose, lyxose, and glycose—was far more startling. These are not just random molecules. They are the same types of sugars that form the backbone of RNA, the molecule that carries