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Peacock Feathers Can Be Lasers(2025-07-31 05:00:05)

sciencehabit shares a report from Science.org: Peacocks have a secret hidden in their brightly colored tail feathers: tiny reflective structures that can amplify light into a laser beam. After dyeing the feathers and energizing them with an external light source, researchers discovered they emitted ...
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Google Tool Misused To Scrub Tech CEO's Shady Past From Search(2025-07-31 00:00:35)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Google is fond of saying its mission is to "organize the world's information," but who gets to decide what information is worthy of organization? A San Francisco tech CEO has spent the past several years attempting to remove unflattering informa...
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Scammers Unleash Flood of Slick Online Gaming Sites(2025-07-30 20:00:14)

Brian Krebs writes via KrebsOnSecurity: Fraudsters are flooding Discord and other social media platforms with ads for hundreds of polished online gaming and wagering websites that lure people with free credits and eventually abscond with any cryptocurrency funds deposited by players. Here's a closer...
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India Launches NASA-ISRO Satellite To Track Climate Threats From Space(2025-07-30 15:00:10)

India launched the $1.5 billion NISAR radar imaging satellite on Wednesday from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, marking the first joint mission between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation. The satellite uses dual radar frequencies -- NASA's L-band and ISRO's S-band -- to detect Earth sur...
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Google Execs Say Employees Have To 'Be More AI-Savvy'(2025-07-30 10:00:08)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Google executives are pushing employees to act with more urgency in their use of artificial intelligence as the company looks for ways to cut costs. That was the message at an all-hands meeting last week, featuring CEO Sundar Pichai and Brian Saluzzo, w...
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