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Teens are using AI frequently in their daily lives, and many parents aren’t aware, survey finds
Parents are often caught off guard by what their teens are doing in daily life — and when it comes to AI, the "perception gap" might be larger than they thought, according to a Pew...
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Saturn’s rings may have formed after a huge collision with Titan
The story of Saturn, its rings and moons, may have started with its largest moon, Titan. A collision between...
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Texas Is About To Overtake California In Battery Storage – Slashdot
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U.S. battery storage installations hit a record 57.6 GWh in 2025, and Texas is now poised to surpass California as the nationâ(TM)s largest storage market in 2026. Electrek reports: According to the US Energy Storage Market Outlook...
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Orbital space race heats up in Arctic north
We are visiting the Esrange Space Centre near the city of Kiruna, run by the Swedish Space Corporation (SSC Space), where more than 600 rockets have launched since the 1960s, mostly sub-orbital rockets used for scientific research, or to...
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The US Had a Big Battery Boom Last Year
The US added a record-breaking amount of energy storage in 2025, according to a new solar industry report published Monday. The growth of battery storage across the US is a rare success story for clean energy during the renewables-hostile...
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It’s your perception of sleep that’s making you feel tired all day
If you slipped under the covers at 2am, knowing your alarm was set for 6am, how do you think...
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The Age Verification Trap
Social media is going the way of alcohol, gambling, and other social sins: societies are deciding it’s no longer kids’ stuff. Lawmakers point to compulsive use, exposure to harmful content, and mounting concerns about adolescent mental health. So, many...
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Why our brains tune things out and how to overcome it when you need to
Recently, I was scrolling TikTok when my brain failed me. I watched a video of Donald Trump berating CNN...
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Bill Gurley says that right now, the worst thing you can do for your career is play it safe | TechCrunch
For nearly three decades, Bill Gurley has been among of the most influential voices in Silicon Valley — a general partner at Benchmark whose early bets on companies like Uber, Zillow, and Stitch Fix helped define what modern venture...
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China’s brain-computer interface industry is racing ahead | TechCrunch
While Elon Musk’s Neuralink likes to say it’s “pioneering” brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), China’s BCI industry is already quietly moving from research to scale.A new wave of startups is racing to commercialize both implantable and noninvasive BCIs, backed by stronger...