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Terence Tao explains 6 essential mathematical concepts [video]

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Professor Murder Rides the Subway is a forgotten slice of dance punk perfection

I recently dug out my CDs and started reripping them all. I've found a few forgotten gems in there, but few hit harder for me than the beautifully concise Professor Murder Rides the Subway EP. There w

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Cores in space: The core memory module from a 1980 Spacelab computer

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Enormous 12TB Steam leak includes abandoned Half-Life 2: Episode 3 assets

Over 12 terabytes of data, containing builds of every game uploaded to Steam between 2003 and 2013, has been leaked. We don't know everything in the archives yet because of its massive size. But peopl

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Liux’s Big microcar bets on sustainability to take on Chinese rivals

The Liux Big microcar is made in Spain. The startup thinks it can compete in a crowded market with its tiny electric car built around sustainability.

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Cheap GPS jammers are filling the world with navigation dead zones

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Musk’s faster path to more gas turbines comes with pollution problem

Elon Musk says a secretive new SpaceX foundry will let him cast his own turbine blades and get gas power online 18 months faster than anyone else — but it's a bet on a fuel source that's already trigg

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The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches to study dark matter and dark energy

After funding struggles and a name change, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has been successfully launched. It will now make a three-month, one-million-mile journey to its orbit at the second Sun

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TechCrunch Mobility: The hidden human cost of robotaxis

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.

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Texas Governor Abbott blocks funding for more Flock cameras

As backlash grows over Flock's AI surveillance cameras, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has frozen state spending on them. The move came just ahead of the publication of a Texas Tribune investigation that

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Caterpillar is bringing to AI deployment what it learned from automating mining

Caterpillar has spent decades putting autonomous machines to work at remote mining sites. It's now bringing that experience to AI deployment.

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What Wallet Popups Don’t Tell You: A Developer-Friendly Guide to Web3 Permissions

A polished “Connect Wallet” button can make a Web3 app feel simple. One click, one popup, one confirmation. But the popup is only the final step of a much larger decision. Behind that small window m

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Building an x402-aware crawler in Go: what Cloudflare's Monetization Gateway means for web scraping

57% of internet traffic today is AI and web scraping bots — up from just 20% in 2021. For site owners, this has meant a frustrating binary: block bots using services like Cloudflare or Akamai and risk

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My test report printed "0/96, 0% pass rate". The truth was my account was out of credit

Something you can do right now Open any script you have that prints a score — an eval, a CI check, an audit tool, a health check — and ask it one question: If the infrastructure fails (ou

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When to Index a Table: A Practical Guide for Analysts

By Michael Nocito, data analyst · Published August 8, 2026 By the end of this page you can tell whether a query is reading your whole table or jumping straight to what it needs, add an index that cha

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Funnel Conversion in SQL, and the Step That Shows 100%

By Michael Nocito, data analyst · Published August 8, 2026 By the end of this page you can turn a table of events into a funnel in one query, work out what fraction of people get from each step to th

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SQL Date Functions: How to Group by Month Without Losing One

By Michael Nocito, data analyst · Published August 8, 2026 By the end of this page you can summarise any table by month in one line, pull the year, month or weekday out of a date, filter a period wit

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Feature detection lies: two things I learned shipping on WebMCP

I spent eight days building a parliamentary-procedure engine on WebMCP — the emerging standard that lets a web page hand an AI agent a typed tool list through document.modelContext. The idea is one s

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Cohort Retention Analysis in SQL, Step by Step

By Michael Nocito, data analyst · Published August 8, 2026 By the end of this page you can put every customer into the month they arrived, measure how many of each arrival group come back in each lat

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Chess.com launched a poker site and is planning even more classic games

Chess.com has done one thing, and one thing very well, for almost 20 years, but now it's going beyond its domain name. The biggest name in online chess quietly launched its first companion site in bet

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