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This bridge goes through the water and not over it, The Netherlands (lemmy.world)

Big oil quietly walks back on climate pledges as global heat records tumble (www.theguardian.com)

Leading energy companies are intent on pushing the world in the opposite direction, expanding fossil fuel production and insisting that there is no alternative. It is evidence that they are motivated not by record warming, but by record profits, experts say.

Age Reversal Breakthrough: Harvard/MIT Discovery Could Enable Whole-Body Rejuvenation (scitechdaily.com)

Age Reversal Breakthrough: Harvard/MIT Discovery Could Enable Whole-Body Rejuvenation::In a pioneering study, researchers from Harvard Medical School, University of Maine, and MIT have introduced a chemical method for reversing cellular aging. This revolutionary approach offers a potential alternative to gene therapy for age...

YSK: Imperial units are based on the metric system (en.wikipedia.org)

“Standards for the exact length of an inch have varied in the past, but since the adoption of the international yard during the 1950s and 1960s the inch has been based on the metric system and defined as exactly 25.4 mm.”

GDPR

Drive we are so privacy focused here. What is to prevent myself or anybody out there, from starting to report individual instances of GDPR and CCPA....

ELI5: Why are Lemmy users freaking out over threads?

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Do you think Android will one day become so restrictive that sideloading (installing apps outside of Playstore) will become extremely limited, or completely banned?

As Twitter flounders, Mastodon refreshes its official app for Android users (techcrunch.com)

Awnings: a simple cooling tech we apparently forgot about (www.youtube.com)

South Korea to mass produce lasers that can take out drones at $1.50 a hit (www.cnn.com)

South Korea is beginning the mass production of a low-cost laser weapon that has successfully shot down small drones during testing, the country’s key arms agency said Thursday....

Tesla’s Share of U.S. Electric Car Market Falls Below 50% (archive.ph)

A new report estimates that the company led by Elon Musk accounted for just under half of all battery-powered vehicles sold in the second quarter of the year.

Average CSS

I am not allowed to credit the site that has this disaster. Its owner said “Nobody should see that”

Texas woman arrested for allegedly attempting to drown 3-year-old Palestinian Muslim child in possible hate crime (www.nbcnews.com)

YouTube is dedicated to making itself worse; destroys SponsorBlock with ad injection changes (www.youtube.com)

Child Advocates Back Surgeon General's Call for Tobacco-Like Warnings on Social Media (www.commondreams.org)

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New breakthrough may let us charge smartphones in 60 seconds (bgr.com)

What if charging your phone took less time than brushing your teeth? A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences could very well hold the key to a next-gen charger capable of recharging your phone in just 60 seconds....

Steve with GN Considering Linux (www.youtube.com)

@26:07 he says as a business he’s considering Linux on his computers because of Windows privacy violations. It’s great to hear someone with such a wide audience talking about using Linux.

Pope Francis is gearing up for the first millennial saint, a web developer known as 'God's influencer' (ca.news.yahoo.com)

Carlo Acutis, a teenage website developer, was attributed a second miracle by Pope Francis, advancing his path to becoming the first millennial saint.