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Pints meet prop bets: Polymarket’s “Situation Room” pop-up bar in DC
29 March 2026 @ 11:35 am
Why did a leading prediction market feel the need for an in-person bar in DC?
Polygraphs have major flaws. Are there better options?
29 March 2026 @ 11:01 am
Research proceeds on alternatives, but some doubt whether true lie detection is possible.
Explanation for why we don't see two-foot-long dragonflies anymore fails
28 March 2026 @ 12:30 pm
Breathing capacity could have compensated for lower atmospheric oxygen.
Causality optional? Testing the "indefinite causal order" superposition
28 March 2026 @ 12:00 pm
A quantum experiment shows that we can formally test if the order of events matters.
How new fishing tech can reduce bycatch of turtles and other creatures
28 March 2026 @ 11:15 am
Specially equipped nets can help save some species, while allowing fisherman to still catch others.
Playing Wolfenstein 3D with one hand in 2026
27 March 2026 @ 10:09 pm
Over three decades later, this historical curiosity has more than a few rough edges
With new plugins feature, OpenAI officially takes Codex beyond coding
27 March 2026 @ 9:53 pm
Things are moving fast, and competitors have offered something similar for a while.
Outbreak linked to raw cheese grows; 9 cases total, one with kidney failure
27 March 2026 @ 9:43 pm
Raw Farm denies link to illnesses while patients keep identifying its products.
Judge irate as defendant joins by Zoom while driving—then lies about it
27 March 2026 @ 9:10 pm
"Let me see the driver!"
AV1’s open, royalty-free promise in question as Dolby sues Snapchat over codec
27 March 2026 @ 8:31 pm
Big Tech declaring AV1 royalty-free “doesn't mean that it is."