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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

The World’s Wealthiest Family Gets $4 Million Richer Every Hour From left: Jim Walton, Alice Walton, Jim's wife Lynne McNabb Walton, Rob Walton's wife Melani Lowman Walton and Rob Walton. Photograph: Rick T. Wilking / Stringer The 25 wealthiest dynasties on the planet control $1. The World’s Wealthiest Family Makes $4 Million Every Hour

The Feynman Lectures on Physics

AUSTIN, Texas — Boosting academic success does not have to derive from new teachers or curriculum; it can also come from changing students’ attitudes about their abilities through a short online intervention, according to the latest findings from the National Study of Learning Mindsets published A Growth Mindset Intervention Can Change Students' Grades if School Culture

How several former vegans and vegetarians across the country came to see meat as their calling. At Western Daughters Butcher Shoppe in Denver, Kate Kavanaugh trimmed the sinew from a deep-red hunk of beef the size of a bed pillow. The Vegetarians Who Turned Into Butchers - The New York Times

Psychopath. The word conjures up the image of a cold-blooded killer, or perhaps a fiendishly clever but heartless egoist. There’s Ted Bundy, who in the 1970s abducted women, killed them, and had sex with their decomposing bodies. You have more in common with a psychopath than you realise | Aeon Essays

Nodes is your thinking space for exploring ideas with code on the web, powered by JavaScript and NPM. What if programming was about ideas not semicolons? Compose, abstract, generalise. Start from top down or bottom up and refine as you go. With Nodes programming feels like sketching on canvas. Nodes is a new way to create with code

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Coffee and the cosmos at large both approach thermal equilibrium. Pour milk in coffee, and the eddies and tendrils of white soon fade to brown. In half an hour, the drink cools to room temperature. Left for days, the liquid evaporates. The Universal Law That Aims Time’s Arrow | Quanta Magazine

A paper posted online this month has settled a nearly 30-year-old conjecture about the structure of the fundamental building blocks of computer circuits. Mathematician Solves Computer Science Conjecture in Two Pages | Quanta Maga

For the first time, researchers have teleported a qutrit, a tripartite unit of quantum information. "Qutrit" Experiments Are a First in Quantum Teleportation - Scientific Amer

For Fast Company‘s inaugural Best Workplaces for Innovators list, we set out to find companies that empower all employees—not just top executives, scientists, or coders—to create new products, improve operations, and take risks. The 50 best workplaces for innovators

As of June 30, 2019, Backblaze had 110,640 spinning hard drives in our ever-expanding cloud storage ecosystem. Of that number, there were 1,980 boot drives and 108,660 data drives. Hard Drive Reliability in 2019: Failure Rates of 108,461 Drives

The visual below shows the locations of 20% of the photos that were taken on January 25th, 2018 by Planet's satellites (the white circles) which are continuously circling the Earth. The desktop version shows 100% of the photos. Planet | Imaging the entire Earth, every day

Our vision is to improve the efficiency of all cooling systems by harnessing an untapped renewable resource: the sky. Our vision is to improve the efficiency of all cooling systems by harnessing an untapped renewable resource: the sky. SkyCool Systems: The future of cooling

Adults are really good at paying attention only to what you tell them to – but children don’t ignore anything. That difference can actually help children do better than adults in some learning situations, a new study suggests. Warning to adults: Children notice everything

Today, members of the millennial generation are ages 23 to 38. These ought to be prime years of careers taking off and starting families, before joints really begin to ache. Millennial loneliness poll: 22 percent say they have “no friends” - Vox

It’s difficult to measure and quantify what good management actually looks like. But there’s new data that can help. So much depends upon managers. For example, a Gallup study found that at least 70% of the variance in employee engagement scores is driven by who the boss is. What Great Managers Do Daily

What goes through the head of a U.S. president? That is a question that both voters and leaders alike would love to know the answer to. Mapped: The Countries With the Highest Housing Bubble Risks

In a controversial first, a team of researchers have been creating embryos that are part human and part monkey, reports the Spanish daily El País. Scientists are making human-monkey hybrids in China - MIT Technology Review

Earlier this week, while waiting to board an early morning flight from San Francisco to Portland, Oregon, I found myself stranded in Terminal 2, hungry and parched. My search for sustenance led me to a breakfast bar, where I procured a bagel and a small beverage. The total? $11. Why is airport food so expensive?

Nvidia has unveiled some really clever new augmented reality visualization technology that may be key to creating glasses that can actually match human’s visual acuity. Nvidia's Killer AR Tech Doubles Hololens 2's Field of View | Tom's Guide

Updated at 4:05 p.m. ET For the first time, doctors in the U.S. have used the powerful gene-editing technique CRISPR to try to treat a patient with a genetic disorder. CRISPR Gene-Editing Tool: 1st Patient With Genetic Disorder Treated In U.S.

It is absolutely the stuff of science fiction: a contact lens that zooms on your command. But scientists at the University of California San Diego have gone ahead and made it a reality. They've created a contact lens, controlled by eye movements, that can zoom in if you blink twice. Scientists create contact lenses that zoom when you blink twice - CNET

OUR STAFF are our most important asset. Many managers have intoned this mantra over the years but plenty of employees have probably thought to themselves that, deep down, executives place a higher value on the machines on the factory floor or cash in the bank. Employee happiness and business success are linked - Bartleby

Google today launched Chrome 76 for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS. The release includes Adobe Flash blocked by default, Incognito mode detection disabled, multiple PWA improvements, and more developer features. Chrome 76 arrives with Flash blocked by default, detecting Incognito mode d