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Hydro panels technology ’sucks’ liquid out of the air, providing drinking water for remote NSW town
AI-driven 0-day detection is here
Agentic AI is the top strategic technology trend for 2025, #4 is Postquantum Cryptography (data protection that resists quantum computing decryption risks), #5 is Ambient Invisible Intelligence (enabled by ultra-low-cost smart tags and sensors that deliver large-scale affordable tracking and sensing)
Research has shown an association between agreeableness and sweet taste preferences
Scientists found a clear link between red meat and cancer
Nobody knows when kissing emerged among humans. But the practice of plopping one’s mouth on another human, whether in friendship or love, is not universal; which suggests culture, rather than instinct, may be at play. […] “Grooming consists of picking through the fur/hair of others to remove parasites, dead skin, and debris” […] as we lost our fur, and spent less time grooming each other, we may have retained some vestigial remnant of the ritual. One of these remnants is what Lameira terms the “groomer’s final kiss”. Although combing through a partner’s fur to remove detritus and parasites would have become less necessary, each grooming session would have included – or ended with – the latching of the lips onto the groomee’s body to extract stubborn detritus.
Jaywalking legalized in New York City
Viral ’subway surfing’ trend has led to deaths of six youths in New York
Las Vegas Ruined this man entire life
When Does Instagram Decide a Nipple Becomes Female? — For the past two years an algorithmic artist who goes by Ada Ada Ada has been testing the boundaries of human and automated moderation systems on various social media platforms by documenting her own transition.
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