Technology IBM will soon launch a 53-qubit quantum computerTechCrunch - Frederic LardinoisIBM continues to push its quantum computing efforts forward and today announced that it will soon make a 53-qubit quantum computer available to clients of its IBM Q Network. The new system, which is scheduled
Mushrooms Viking berserkers may have used henbane to induce trance-like stateArs Technica - Jennifer Ouellette Ethnobotanist argues the plant is a better fit than hallucinogenic mushrooms. The legendary Viking warriors known as berserkers were renowned for …
Mobile Technology Vintage Prototype Macintosh Portable M5120 Shown Off in New PhotosMacRumors - Juli CloverIt's always interesting to get a look back at Apple's past, especially when it comes to prototype devices that were never actually released to the public, so we thought we'd share some photos of a restored
Soviet Union A Peek Into the Soviet Computer RevolutionGizmodo One of the largest and coolest collections of Soviet computers in the world resides in an apartment complex in Mariupol, Ukraine. Dmitriy Cherepanov …
Gaming Truck Carrying Gaming Dice Spills Onto Highway, Rolls A Perfect 756,000Kotaku - Mike Fahey On Friday, September 13, a truck bound for the Georgia-based tabletop and video game company Trivium Studios took a turn too sharply, spilling …
Smoking The American Brainwaitbutwhy.com This is Chapter 6 in a series. If you’re new to the series, visit the series home page for the full table of contents. In Chapter 5 we became acquainted …
Play buttonKnives New Knives Out trailer pits Daniel Craig against an obnoxious, dysfunctional familyThe Verge - Julia AlexanderThere’s nothing better than a whodunnit story based on a totally dysfunctional family full of obnoxious people — except maybe a whodunnit involving a Southern accent-touting Daniel Craig as he tries to
Wildlife How Long Before These Salmon Are Gone? ‘Maybe 20 Years’The New York Times - Jim RobbinsThis article has been revised to reflect the following correction: An earlier version of this article misattributed the source of a plan to kill sea lions along the Columbia River. The plan was proposed
Play buttonApple The 10 Apple Arcade launch games you have to playThe Verge - Andrew WebsterLet’s just get this out of the way: if you’re at all interested in high-quality mobile games and you own an iOS device, Apple Arcade is a no-brainer. The subscription service launches tomorrow for $4.99
Driving Ironically, Too Many Video Streaming Choices May Drive Users Back To Piracytechdirt.com - Karl Bode To be very clear the rise in streaming video competitors is a very good thing. It's providing users with more choice, lower prices, and better …
Remote Working The Body Shoplogicmag.io An unusual cafe recently opened in central Tokyo. White plastic robots took orders from customers and brought them coffee. They glided slowly from …
Mobile Technology A space elevator is possible with today’s technology, researchers say (we just need to dangle it off the moon)MIT Technology Review - Emerging Technology from the arXiv Space elevators would dramatically reduce the cost of reaching space but have never been technologically feasible. Until now. Perhaps the biggest …
The Brain A Famous Argument Against Free Will Has Been DebunkedThe Atlantic - Bahar GholipourFor decades, a landmark brain study fed speculation about whether we control our own actions. It seems to have made a classic mistake. The death of free will began with thousands of finger taps. In 1964,
Technology Policy Millions of Americans’ Medical Images and Data Are Available on the Internet. Anyone Can Take a Peek.propublica.org - ProPublica Hundreds of computer servers worldwide that store patient X-rays and MRIs are so insecure that anyone with a web browser or a few lines of computer …
Business The Awkward but Essential Art of Office ChitchatThe New York Times - Lindsay ManneringEvery day around the world, an estimated three billion people go to work and 2.9 billion of them avoid making small talk with their co-workers once they get there. Their avoidance strategies vary. Some
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoDementia What multilingual nuns can tell us about dementiasciencedaily.com - University of Waterloo A strong ability in languages may help reduce the risk of developing dementia, says a new study. The research examined the health outcomes of 325 …
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Human Interest What The Inventories Of Various Emergency Services Look Like Over The World (30 Pics)boredpanda.com - Mindaugas Balčiauskas Have you ever heard of the term 'knolling?' I hadn't, but it is apparently one of the hottest Instagram trends out there right now, and even …
Humanity Dead Bodies Keep Moving For More Than a Year After Death, Forensic Scientist FindsScienceAlert - Michelle Starr According to new research, the dead may not always rest in peace... quite literally. For more than a year after death, corpses move around …
Fossils Paleontologists Are Trying to Understand Why the Fossil Record Is Mostly MalesAtlas Obscura - Sabrina Imbler For ancient mammalian megafauna—from brown bears to bison and more—death was something of a boy’s club. At least that’s what you might conclude from …
Autos Drivers may choose electric car alert sounds, US proposal saysRoadshow - by Sean SzymkowskiBy 2020, quiet cars must emit a noise to alert others to their presence, but drivers may be able to choose the noise. After lengthy delays, in 2018 the US finalized regulations for electric cars and other
New York City Why Are American Homes So Big?The Atlantic - Joe PinskerThe U.S. is in the top tier of house sizes internationally—and it’s not just because of McMansions. America is a place defined by bigness. It is infamous, both within its borders and abroad, for the size
Chess Why chess wrecks the bodies of grandmastersboingboing.net - Clive Thompson TIL that the physical rigors of competitive chess are so hard that grandmasters have begun to train like soccer players. The exertions of chess are …
Air Travel What it was like to fly the baddest airplane the world has ever knownArs Technica - Eric Berger “The X-15 was the most demanding airplane I’ve ever flown." The X-15 was not the first rocket-powered aircraft, but it is probably the best one ever …
Honda Dear Honda, this adorable electric car needs to come to the USArs Technica - Jonathan M. Gitlin This battery electric hatchback was the best thing at the Frankfurt auto show. Volkswagen provided three nights in a hotel and air travel from …
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