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Armed with traffic cones, protesters are immobilizing driverless cars (www.npr.org)

Self-driving cars have flooded San Francisco's streets, and not everyone is happy. Street activists have been using a low-tech solution to incapacitate the vehicles.

Pasta with vegan bolognese sauce (with mushrooms and walnut) (lemmy.world)

Okay, perhaps not the most visually impressive meal ever. But it sure was delicious....

Bhutan cuts daily tourist fee by half to lure more visitors (www.reuters.com)

KATHMANDU, Aug 26 (Reuters) - The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan is to halve the $200 daily fee it charges tourists in an effort to boost a sector still struggling to recover a year after the end of COVID-19 restrictions....

britbong brexit life (sh.itjust.works)

95% of Yellowknife has now been evacuated due to N.W.T. wildfires (www.cbc.ca)

Northwest Territories officials said on Friday evening that more than 19,000 people have fled from Yellowknife due to wildfires and urged those who remain to also leave as soon as possible....

The Xbox 360 Store is closing next year | VGC (www.videogameschronicle.com)

Are you doing your part? (lemmus.org)

Am I doing my part?

Reversing Alzheimer’s: Stem Cell Therapy Shows Promise (scitechdaily.com)

Russia says it will halt foreign currency purchases and launch a digital ruble to keep the currency from spiraling further (finance.yahoo.com)

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Rogue AI bot is giving recipes for human flesh and chlorine gas (interestingengineering.com)

Rogue AI bot is giving recipes for human flesh and chlorine gas::undefined

European scientists make it official. July was the hottest month on record by far (apnews.com)

Now that July’s sizzling numbers are all in, the European climate monitoring organization made it official: July 2023 was Earth’s hottest month on record by a wide margin.

A list of recent hostile moves by #Google's #Chrome team (Jeff Fortin T. (@[email protected])) (mastodon.social)

A list of recent hostile moves by #Google's #Chrome team;...

ChromeOS is splitting the browser from the OS, getting more Linux-y (arstechnica.com)

Splitting the Web (ploum.net)

Scientists Create New Material Five Times Lighter and Four Times Stronger Than Steel (scitechdaily.com)

Scientists Create New Material Five Times Lighter and Four Times Stronger Than Steel::Researchers have developed a highly robust material with an extremely low density by constructing a structure using DNA and subsequently coating it in glass. Materials possessing both strength and lightness have the potential to enhance...

Oil major BP posts 70% drop in second-quarter profit, raises dividend by 10% (www.cnbc.com)

Oil major BP on Tuesday reported a nearly 70% year-on-year drop in second-quarter profits on the back of weaker fossil fuel prices, echoing a trend observed across the energy industry.

African Union chair: Putin's grain offer not enough, Ukraine ceasefire needed (www.reuters.com)

The chair of the African Union, Azali Assoumani, said on Friday that proposals by Russian President Vladimir Putin to provide grain to Africa were not sufficient, and that a ceasefire in Ukraine was needed.

Do you need something? (pixelfed.social)

Android 4.4 KitKat is truly dead, loses Play Services support (arstechnica.com)

Russian fighter jet damages US Reaper drone with flare over Syria: Officials (abcnews.go.com)

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Scientists observe world's 1st repairing metal (www.livescience.com)

“Of course, there are lots of industries whose product engineers would love to translate this finding into intentional engineering approaches to create metals that automatically heal themselves in our structural applications,” lead-author Brad Boyce, a materials scientist at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New...

Does The Kentucky Attorney General Go To Work? An Investigation. (www.huffpost.com)

An open records request shows Daniel Cameron hasn’t used his key fob to get into the state Capitol for the last three years. His office won’t say why.