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World’s Largest Gun Aims to Shoot Satellites Into Space

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World’s Largest Gun Aims to Shoot Satellites Into Space

The world’s largest gun belongs to Longshot Space, which plans to go even bigger in the hopes of harnessing its technology to shoot satellites into space instead of using rockets.

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Latest PISA survey reveals 4 in 10 Mexican students do not meet basic level in science, math and reading

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Latest PISA survey reveals 4 in 10 Mexican students do not meet basic level in science, math and reading

The latest edition of an OECD-conducted global education evaluation reveals a disturbing decline in the skills of Mexican students: four in 10 15-year-olds are scoring below the basic level in science, mathematics and reading. The test…

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The White House removed its border-wall Tetris clone

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The White House removed its border-wall Tetris clone

The game, 'Build the Wall,' filtered classic block-stacking mechanics through the Trump administration's immigration policies.

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How I Built a Spaced-Repetition Widget With SwiftUI and WidgetKit

How I Built a Spaced-Repetition Widget With SwiftUI and WidgetKit

A “word of the day” widget is easy to describe: choose a word, render it, update tomorrow. That was not enough for Slovo , a one-minute Russian learning app, and its central product idea is that a glance can become a recall attempt. If the…

OpenAI claims to have solved maths problem that stumped humans for decades

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OpenAI claims to have solved maths problem that stumped humans for decades

Company behind ChatGPT says 10,000 of its AI systems cracked the Navier-Stokes problem in 88 hours OpenAI claims to have solved a major mathematics problem that has stumped humans for nearly a century after spending millions of dollars on…

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Building Dogear Taught Me to Validate Before I Ship

Building Dogear Taught Me to Validate Before I Ship

Two weeks ago, I did something brave and slightly foolish: I announced my iOS app, Dogear, on Twitter/X. I hit “post” with all the confidence of someone who’d just shipped a product into the world. Then I watched the replies roll in. The…

AI solves one of math’s hardest problems in 88 hours, says OpenAI

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AI solves one of math’s hardest problems in 88 hours, says OpenAI

OpenAI said Tuesday that one of its unreleased artificial intelligence models had solved the Navier-Stokes problem, one of the world’s most difficult mathematical puzzles, after just 88 hours of work involving 10,000 AI agents and millions…

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GOG brings back "big box" PC games, one printable template at a time

GOG brings back "big box" PC games, one printable template at a time

Those who remember PC gaming in the days before Steam may have fond memories of the "big box" packaging that made those games stand out as shelf eye candy and sought-after in-home collectibles . Today, PC gaming platform GOG is hoping to…

Syrian social affairs minister, a Christian woman, urges equality in constitution

Times of Israel

Syrian social affairs minister, a Christian woman, urges equality in constitution

Hind Kabawat, in Rome for meeting with pope, tells AFP new regime must do more to show it's 'inclusive' in order to stem emigration by religious minorities The post Syrian social affairs minister, a Christian woman, urges equality in…

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Cockroach Milk, How to Blow Your Nose, and Mosquito Printers: The Ig Nobels of 2026

Wired

Cockroach Milk, How to Blow Your Nose, and Mosquito Printers: The Ig Nobels of 2026

Every year, the prizes recognize the weirdest research that often raises some very serious scientific questions.

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Why this month's Microsoft patch release is a doozy

Why this month's Microsoft patch release is a doozy

Microsoft’s patch for September is a doozy, with a record number of roughly 972 vulnerabilities fixed and 112 of them meeting the high critical-severity threshold. It was only two months ago that Microsoft patched a then-record 570…

Hackers are stealing Claude tokens from subscribers

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