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Litter of 5 bear cubs spotted in Connecticut for the first time
16 April 2026 @ 9:03 pm
About 1,000 to 1,200 black bears call the Nutmeg State home.
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Saturn’s largest moon could see 10-foot waves from a tiny breeze
16 April 2026 @ 6:28 pm
Surf's up, Titan.
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The Pinter countertop home brewing machine can now automatically make super popular Lagunitas beer at home
16 April 2026 @ 5:44 pm
Pinter's brew-and-tap appliance cuts out most of what makes home brewing hard. The company's new Lagunitas collaboration puts a real craft recipe into that simplified system.
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Robots can’t replace guide dogs
16 April 2026 @ 5:08 pm
Man’s best friend shares an ‘invisible care world’ with humans that AI can’t beat—yet.
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De’Longhi’s PrimaDonna Aromatic is a super-automatic espresso machine that learns about you and your beans
16 April 2026 @ 3:08 pm
The clever Bean Adapt system built into this $2,500 machine allows it to automatically craft perfect coffee drinks with whatever beans you feed it.
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It’s a bird! It’s a head! No, it’s a mummified foot.
16 April 2026 @ 3:03 pm
CT scans help a museum examine mummified remains that were sitting in its collections for half a century.
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Yes, your lobster dinner probably died an excruciating death
16 April 2026 @ 2:14 pm
Pain killers seem to work on lobsters, so being boiled alive may be just as gruesome as it sounds.
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Fake banknotes mocked a US president. And are now worth thousands.
16 April 2026 @ 1:00 pm
The rare ‘Great Loco Foco Juggernaut’ is basically an 1837 meme bashing Andrew Jackson.
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Dolby Atmos and the (sound) objects of my affection: How Cadillac, AKG, and Maroon 5 helped me enter my spatial-audio era
16 April 2026 @ 11:45 am
Here’s a 360-degree view of 365-plus days that converted me into a true believer in the future of immersive object-based music from vehicles to venues.
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Shakespeare’s long-lost London home is finally found
15 April 2026 @ 11:01 pm
In the past 100 years, the spot has been an architecture firm, carpet wholesaler, and more.
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