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Bees and hummingbirds aren't just buzzing – they're sipping trace booze

Alcohol turns up in most floral nectar, meaning pollinators are drinking tiny cocktails without ever getting drunk Bees and hummingbirds are effectively day-drinking on the job because their lunch is...

Long odds and unseen differences

“The odds of winning the lottery are the same whether you buy a ticket or not.” This seems nonsensical at first. Obviously, there are lottery winners. Therefore, the odds aren’t...

Rare Classic Jetpac Gets New Modern Windows Remake

A new Jetpac game has been developed for modern Windows thanks to Sinclair Spectrum fan Richard Langford, who runs Langford Productions. The new version has many new features that change...

Secrets Unraveled at Fernly

Inspector Raglan confirms Charles Kent’s alibi, shifting focus back to Fernly. Poirot reveals Flora lied about seeing her uncle and was actually stealing money from his room. Under pressure, Flora...

Soviet CDs And CD Players Existed, And They Were Strange

Until the fall of the Soviet Union around 1990 you’d be forgiven as a proud Soviet citizen for thinking that the USSR’s technology was on par with the decadent West....

"Path to Victory"

This article is based on reflections from co-leading the Sydney AI Safety Fellowship. This post is primarily focused on AI safety, but I expect the lessons to be more generally...

The TechBeat: RemotiveLabs and Vayavya Labs move ADAS validation into the full vehicle E/E architecture (3/29/2026)

How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what's trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set...

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Wjechałem do DZIELNIC STRACHU Salwadoru

Ubezpiecz furkę: https://bonus.mubi.pl/id-motobieda-0326-04 - Regulamin akcji promocyjnej dostępny u organizatora Kup koszulkę: https://motobieda.pl/kategoria-produktu/ciuchy/ Moje wyprawy na IG: instagram.com/motobieda/ Program przeznaczony dla widzów powyżej 16. roku życia. Film Bartka, o którym...

Neuralingo Language Learning

slowly inch your way to mastery: try, fail, learn, get good Discussion | Link

Blippo+ is a campy FMV transmission from another world

Turn on, tune in, drop out, and become a retro couch potato.

Play a .WAV Instead of Typing Line After Line Into Vintage Microcomputer

[Casey Bralla] got his hands on a Rockwell AIM 65 microcomputer, a fantastic example of vintage computing from the late 70s. It sports a full QWERTY keyboard, and a twenty...

Deus Ex: Invisible War's audio director says 'there was room for improvement,' but remains proud of the team's work

"It wasn't this '90s cyberpunk Johnny Mnemonic cheese fest that everybody reveled in at that time."

Seeker

A few days ago, the Day One journal app gave me a prompt: what is the one word that would describe you. That made me think hard. I was thrown...

Watch Electricity Slosh: Visualizing Impedance Matching

It’s one thing to learn about transmission lines in theory, and quite another to watch a voltage pulse bounce off an open connector. [Alpha Phoenix] bridges the gap between knowledge...

Resident Evil Requiem patch adds photo mode, and apparently 'Character expressions in some cutscenes have been adjusted to better convey emotion'

Some bugs have been fixed too.

Smart Money Turns to the Plumbing of Reality

Investors are shifting from digital growth stories to industrial water, waste, and infrastructure assets built on resilience and steady cash flow.

The 2019 Intel Mac Pro’s Unfortunate Timing

Stephen Hackett, at 512 Pixels: I’ve thought a lot about the bad timing Jones mentions. Had Apple stuck to the original timeline, and killed off the 2013 Mac Pro in...

Bad News: Iran’s Military Isn’t Dead Yet

Iran’s Military Isn’t Destroyed Yet and Could Still Damage  Without a clear regime change in Iran, thousands of hopeful Iranians are likely to be massively disappointed. While much of Iran’s...

Apple Should Set and Enforce Some Basic Standards for Custom Video Players on tvOS

While I’m bitching about Netflix’s craptacular new video player on Apple TV, let me quote from a piece I wrote two years ago (also complaining about Netflix’s tvOS app): Turns...