Bringing the “functionally extinct” American chestnut back from the dead
Very few people alive today have seen the Appalachian forests as they existed a century ago. Even as state and national parks preserved ever more of...
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Unique structure of elephant whiskers give them built-in sensing “intelligence”
An elephant’s trunk is a marvelous thing, flexible enough to bend and stretch as it forages for food, but also stiff enough to grasp and maneuver...
Read moreOpenAI’s President Gave Millions to Trump. He Says It’s for Humanity
In an interview with WIRED, Greg Brockman says his political donations support OpenAI’s mission—even if some employees at the company disagree.
Read moreEufy’s midrange X10 Pro Omni robovac has fallen to its best-ever price
Spring doesn’t officially kick off until March 20th, but there’s something to be said about getting a head start on your spring cleaning. Lucky for you,...
Read more2026 Nissan Leaf review: The best budget EV on sale right now
Years before the Chevrolet Bolt or Tesla Model 3, the Nissan Leaf was a good-faith attempt by a major automaker to bring electric vehicles to the...
Read moreVS Code becomes multi-agent command center for developers
With its Visual Studio Code (VS Code) January 2026 release (v1.109), Microsoft is making the code editor “the home for multi-agent development,” introducing support for Anthropic...
Read moreUnderstanding Escape Analysis in Go – Explained with Example Code
In most languages, the stack and heap are two ways a program stores data in memory, managed by the language runtime. Each is optimized for different...
Read moreJeffrey Epstein might not have created /pol/, but he helped carry out its mission
The Epstein files have revealed more about the pedophile’s relationship to 4Chan. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images On October 24th, 2011, Jeffrey...
Read moreOur Favorite TV Is Still Almost Half Off
Best Buy continues to sell the TCL QM6K for a staggering discount.
Read moreAMD Video Decode Now Unified Between RadeonSI & RADV Vulkan Video
Merged today to Mesa 26.1-devel is unifying of the AMD video decode implementation between the RadeonSI Gallium3D and RADV Vulkan drivers…
Read moreOpenAI’s new Codex Spark model is built for speed
OpenAI’s new GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark model is a bit of a departure for the company’s family of Codex software development models: its focus is squarely on reducing latency....
Read moreHow to Build a Custom PDF Text Extractor with Node.js and TypeScript
Extracting text from PDFs sounds simple until you try to do it. And it can be even more challenging for JavaScript developers, with various libraries to...
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