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Samsung’s new rebooted Galaxy arrives this week with one job: it just needs to not break. I’d already spent thousands of words breaking down the ins and outs of the product the first time around. This round, on the other hand, was more about making sure everything worked. My Galaxy Fold display is damaged after a day | TechCrunch

HTTP/3, the next major iteration of the HTTP protocol, is getting a big boost today with support added in Cloudflare, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox. Cloudflare, Google Chrome, and Firefox add HTTP/3 support | ZDNet

Entombed: An archaeological examination of an Atari 2600 game

“Philosophy begins in wonder,” Socrates tells us in Plato's dialogue Theaetetus — in that “dizzy,” vertiginous experience one undergoes when considering questions one simply does not know the answer to: what can I know? What should I do? What can I hope for? Are there really tables, or jus So you married a Hegelian | The Outline

The news: According to a report in the Financial Times, a team of researchers from Google led by John Martinis have demonstrated quantum supremacy for the first time. Google researchers have reportedly achieved “quantum supremacy” - MIT Techn

A powerful disaster-inducing geomagnetic storm is an inevitability in the near future, likely causing blackouts, satellite failures, and more. New Studies Warn of Cataclysmic Solar Superstorms - Scientific American

This summer, battle lines were drawn over a simple math problem: 8 ÷ 2(2 + 2) = ? If you divide 8 by 2 first, you get 16, but if you multiply 2 by (2 + 2) first, you get 1. So, which answer is right? The conflict grew so heated that it made the pages of The New York Times. The Math Behind a Faster Multiplication Algorithm | Quanta Magazine

If you’ve ever flown cross-country in a window seat, chances are, the bright lights at night have caught your eye. From above, the world tells its own story—as concentrated pockets of bright light keep the world’s economy thriving. Ranked: The Megaregions Driving the Global Economy

Biologists have slowly made progress in understanding how cells and other living things implement negative feedback control systems. Finding the answers meant looking at the problem through an engineer’s eyes. Math Reveals the Secrets of Cells’ Feedback Circuitry | Quanta Magazine

In the early 1970s, people studying general relativity, our modern theory of gravity, noticed rough similarities between the properties of black holes and the laws of thermodynamics. Craig Callender: Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? | Quanta Magazine

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EXCLUSIVE The president’s communications with the foreign leader included a “promise” regarded as so troubling that it prompted an intelligence official to file the formal complaint, the officials said. The children of Donor H898 - The Washington Post

What is this? A collaborative effort to name every color in the RGB/web space. Why does it matter? Humans benefit from a nomenclature for animals, plants, insects, etc so why not colors? Describing the world around us is what we do. No color left unnamed - ColorNames.org

Annika Reinhold says that she likes playing with animals (she has two cats) and “doing unconventional things that no one has done before.” When the chance came up to teach rats to play hide-and-seek, she was a natural candidate. Scientists Taught Rats to Play Hide-and-Seek - The Atlantic

German auto giant Volkswagen Group has sparked a lot of speculation lately about either a possible merger or an all-out competition with Tesla. A few weeks ago, anonymous sources told German media that Volkswagen’s CEO Herbert Diess was interested in buying a stake in Tesla. Volkswagen CEO Gives Final Answer on Rumors About Acquiring Tesla | Observe

In a major first, scientists have detected water vapor and possibly even liquid water clouds that rain on a strange exoplanet that lies in the habitable zone of its host star about 110 light-years from Earth. Discovery! Water Vapor — and Likely Clouds, Rain, Too — Found on Strange Al

The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that it no longer considers measles to be eradicated in the UK. Albania, the Czech Republic, and Greece have also lost their measles-free status. The anti-vax movement is reversing decades of scientific progress — Quartz

Hard-boiled eggs are one of those kitchen staples I always have in the fridge. The Best Hard-Boiled Egg Method | Kitchn

Google Developers Blog: Enabling developers and organizations to use differ

Matthew Shifrin first discovered Legos when he thrust his hands deep inside a crate crammed full of the tiny brick toys. His babysitter, Lilya Finkel, had spotted the discarded box on the side of the road and helped Shifrin, who is blind, haul it inside the car. Lego just released audio and Braille instructions - The Washington Post

It seems like everything in the grocery store is labeled "super." We dove into which foods are actually proven, by science, to be good for you and which ones are all hype. Food marketers know that if they call their product a superfood, it’s sure to sell. Take quinoa, for example. The Definitive Superfood Ranking | Outside Online

The presence of fat-laden cells in the lung could assist with diagnosis and understanding the cause of the disease. (Salt Lake City) – Doctors have identified previously unrecognized characteristic of the vaping-related respiratory illness that has been emerging in clusters across the U. First Marker for Mysterious Vaping Illness Identified | University of Utah

Tesla’s battery research partner has released a new paper on a battery cell that could last over 1 million miles, which they say is going to be particularly useful in ‘robot taxis’ – something that Tesla wants to bring to market. Tesla battery researcher unveils new cell that could last 1 million miles i

The rock-eating, sulfur-breathing microbes have scientists wondering what other strange creatures dwell deep below Earth's surface. Something odd is stirring in the depths of Canada's Kidd Mine. Strange life-forms found deep in a mine point to vast 'underground Galapago

Browser-level native lazy-loading is finally here! Support for natively lazy-loading images and iframes is coming to the web! This video shows a demo of the feature: Native lazy-loading for the web  |  web.dev