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People tend to have one of two reactions to tarantulas: a sharp, primal terror that author David Foster Wallace described as “the howling fantods,” or the kind of attachment more commonly associated with kittens and puppies. People are just not indifferent to tarantulas....

The U.S. Postal Service on Thursday said it needs to shave more costs from its operations to get into better financial shape. To do that, the postal agency wants to overhaul its delivery logistics, resulting in some customers likely seeing a slowdown in their mail delivery.

Brain-computer interfaces are a groundbreaking technology that can help paralyzed people regain functions they’ve lost, like moving a hand. These devices record signals from the brain and decipher the user’s intended action, bypassing damaged or degraded nerves that would normally transmit those brain signals to control...

My GF recently said I can install Linux on her laptop. Then I saw Windows broke dual boot systems....

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A transgender woman from Australia has won a discrimination case against a women-only social media app, after she was denied access on the basis of being male....

The head of Israel’s security agency, Shin Bet, has warned the country’s leaders that Jewish terrorism in the West Bank is out of control and has become a serious threat to national security....

The principal’s action was the result of a new state law that had gone into effect just months earlier, heightening penalties for students who make threats at school. Passed after a former student shot and killed six people at The Covenant School in Nashville, the law requires students to be expelled for at least a year if...

The study indicates that human aging happens in two accelerated bursts, at ages 44 and 60. Most molecules studied showed non-linear changes at these ages. These changes are associated with reduced ability to metabolize caffeine and alcohol, muscle injuries, fat accumulation, and increased susceptibility to cardiovascular...

Kronan said cucumbers have sold out in stores across Iceland. The sales picked up so quickly that the store did not have time to prepare, said Gudrun Adalsteinsdottir, the company’s chief executive. “We are, just literally, eating it up,” joked Gudny Ljosba Hreinsdottir, 29, who runs Wake Up Reykjavik, an Icelandic tourism...

NASA said Thursday it will decide this weekend whether Boeing’s new capsule is safe enough to return two astronauts from the International Space Station, where they’ve been waiting since June....

Pyongyang, August 23 (KCNA) – The chief of the Foreign News Section of the Department of Press and Information of the DPRK Foreign Ministry on Thursday issued a press statement “To definitely keep military balance is prerequisite for peace and stability”, which said:...

Italian rescuers brought ashore the body of the final missing person who was on a superyacht that sunk off the coast of Sicily....