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97 fascinating facts about the world to keep busy for a few minutes

There are many benefits to learning facts and building knowledge. Reading a list like this might even spark a midnight ...
Nature

Hello Equal Earth: what the UN’s new world map will change

A view of the world that has prevailed for around 450 years has been challenged. On 4 September, the United Nations General Assembly voted to phase out use of the Mercator map, a sixteenth-century ...
Ever After in the Woods

9 Sprawling Washington Flea & Antique Markets So Huge You’ll Need A Whole Weekend To Wander Them

Mariachi music, retro game consoles, hand-embroidered pillow shams, and a five-story maze of estate jewelry can all turn up ...

This man believes he has a solution to the high cost of skiing

Cache Valley resident Clint Richins says Utah families are being priced out of skiing and snowboarding. He believes a ...
IGN

In The Wandering Earth: The Last Full Moon, You Must Get Rid of The Moon

The Sun is going to consume the Earth. Before humanity can fly the planet away, it has to get rid of the Moon. Author Liu Cixin loves big existential catastrophes. The same fine fellow who casually ...
Mashable

Astronomer proposes jaw-dropping reason why we don't have a super-Earth

A hypothetical super-Earth, Dev Dilek, spirals into the young sun in this artist's rendering. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Ralf Crawford illustration Why our solar system missed out on having a ...
ZDNet

iPhone Duo is more proof that Microsoft’s brilliant ideas make great Apple products

Microsoft spent more than a decade trying to build the perfect foldable phone device and failed. Apple just delivered on that vision with the iPhone Duo. It's one more episode in a long-running series ...
Yahoo Finance

Harena Rare Earths secures US$5M DFC funding as Madagascar project advances toward production

Harena Rare Earths Executive Chairman Ivan Murphy joined Steve Darling from Proactive to discuss a major financing milestone for the company's flagship rare earths project in Madagascar, announcing ...
Engadget

Microsoft will hold a Windows and Surface event on October 7

Microsoft is hosting an event in San Francisco on October 7 on "how local AI will shape the next chapter of the PC." Coming only a few months after NVIDIA announced its first system-on-a-chip for ...
The Verge

Microsoft announces Windows and Surface event for October 7th

Get ready for a ‘conversation on how local AI will shape the next chapter of the PC.’ Get ready for a ‘conversation on how local AI will shape the next chapter of the PC.’ is a senior correspondent ...
Independent Journal Review

Pacific Rim

Using massive piloted robots to combat the alien threat, earth's survivors take the fight to the invading alien force lurking in the depths of the Pacific Ocean. Nearly defenseless in the face of the ...
Omaha

Nebraska rare earth project enters potential deal with world's largest defense contractor

NioCorp hopes to start a rare earth mining project in Elk Creek "up and going in 2026." The potential Elk Creek rare earth minerals mine is one step closer to operation, with developer NioCorp ...