2025-08-02
Google Has Quietly Been Detecting Earthquakes by Sensing Rumbling in Android Phones For Years
Google has for years been harnessing the power of its Android smartphones to detect and measure tens of thousands of earthquakes — and now, the company is admitting to a...
Optimizing Pair Programming for All: Understanding Gender-Specific Behaviors
Discover how understanding gender-specific behaviors in pair programming—from compliance variations to communication styles and help-seeking—can inform educators to create more effective and inclusive learning environments.
Ana Marie Cox on the Shaky Foundation of Substack as a Business
Ana Marie Cox, who knows a thing or two about indie publishing and journalism, on her AMC All the Time blog about a month ago: My take is more dire,...
Pair Programming: Boosting Programming's "Cool Factor" for Young Learners
A study reveals pair programming significantly boosts positive attitudes towards coding, with specific insights into how task design and role preference vary across all-female and all-male pairs.
I fought a bear with an umbrella in this new soulslike MMO that plays like Genshin Impact with way better combat
Where Winds Meet doesn't offer a huge challenge, but it's still pretty fun.
New IVF Startup Claims It Can Predict an Embryo's IQ
The 21st century has seen startups rise from a relatively niche business approach to a multi-trillion dollar phenomenon. Between 2021 and 2023, startups generated an estimated $7.6 trillion in global...
Road Rash GameBoy Color Prototypes
More GameBoy Color Prototypes for you, with two for Road Rash which was released in 2000 by Electronic Arts. These two builds are from the 7th and 10th August, around...
Test your tabletop gaming knowledge with our diabolical Dungeons & Dragons quiz
The Trivia Goblin attacks—roll for initiative!
Reality in C : Philosophical Programming
Explore intrinsic reality, hyperreality, and metareality through a unique C code prime-checking allegory. Delve into Baudrillard's ideas on simulation, truth, and perception.
The Observer Effect for belief measurement
Published on August 2, 2025 1:57 PM GMTThe lottery questionAlice comes to Bob and asks: "What is the probability that I've won the lottery?" Bob's first intuition (his actual prior...
Substack Sends Notification Promoting Nazi Blog
Ashley Belanger, writing for Ars Technica: After Substack shocked an unknown number of users by sending a push notification on Monday to check out a Nazi blog featuring a swastika...
Women Take Peptide Injections at "Age Reversal" Event, End Up Leaving in Ambulances
Two women, who attended the "Revolution Against Aging and Death Festival" in Las Vegas, received peptide injections from an unlicensed physician specializing in "age reversal" therapies. As ProPublica reports, not...
How to Create an AI Product Strategy: The AI Strategic Lens Framework
The AI era is not about adding features. It’s about building compounding moats. A proven AI product strategy framework with examples.
One of the Biggest Sources of Microplastics Will Make You Mad as Hell
Microplastics are so pervasive that they're now found in our bloodstreams [link], bones [link], and — according to one alarming study — even our brains in enough quantities to make...
Scientists Detect Unprecedented Energy ‘Tidal Wave’ from the Sun
The afterlife of Puerto Rico’s Arecibo telescope continues with the detection of a powerful “tidal wave” from the Sun.
C64 Games memories Strangeloop
In this video I take a look at Commodore 64 "Strangeloop". A game from very early in the C64 history, which uses dynamic chars and a nice scrolling message, quite...
Surprise! Random Cans of Celsius Energy Drink Actually Contain Vodka After Factory Accident, Company Admits
Bottlenecked The next time you need an energy boost, you might end up getting tipsy instead. In a recall notice, the Food and Drug Administration is warning that some 12-packs...
Many prediction markets would be better off as batched auctions
Published on August 2, 2025 12:04 PM GMTAll prediction market platforms trade continuously, which is the same mechanism the stock market uses. Buy and sell limit orders can be posted...
Scientists Find Evidence That Memories in Brain Are Physically Moving Around
[how's title sit with you given that the initial 'representation drift' paper was published in 2013?] Anyone who makes a habit of losing their keys has a new excuse: you...
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