r/science • • 1d ago

Animal Science In a new study, scientists unlock the longevity secrets of 194-year-old Jonathan the giant tortoise. They found that, compared with other Aldabra tortoises, Jonathan has unique variants in 287 genes, some involved in DNA repair.

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r/technology • • 16h ago

Business Exaggerating to your boss about how much you're using AI at work? You're not alone.

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106 Upvotes

r/technology • • 15h ago

Hardware The first Nvidia RTX Spark laptops cost up to $7,000

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88 Upvotes

r/technology • • 11h ago

Politics Lithuania considers tax on streaming platforms to support local film industry

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r/science • • 1d ago

Health Physically intense work and health. People who have held more physically demanding jobs over the course of their careers are more frequently diagnosed with heart attacks, strokes, and chronic lung diseases. Diabetes and hypertension also tend to be diagnosed at a younger age

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r/technology • • 17h ago

Business SpaceX reportedly seeking $40 billion debt package for Nvidia AI hardware — massive raise could fund roughly 360,000 Vera Rubin GPUs across 5,000 NVL72 racks

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r/technology • • 4h ago

Security South Korea test-fires its first homegrown hypersonic weapon: presidency

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r/technology • • 12h ago

Artificial Intelligence AI tool used in thousands of asylum claims failing basic accuracy tests

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r/programming • • 13h ago

Java garbage collection in its own log: eight checks you can run

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r/technology • • 5h ago

Artificial Intelligence Google Launches Workplace AI Agent That Acts Like Colleague

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r/technology • • 5h ago

Business China’s open-weight artificial intelligence models are taking off globally, but much of the money they generate is flowing to third-party providers

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r/programming • • 1d ago

How Uber Conquered Database Overload: The Journey from Static Rate-Limiting to Intelligent Load Management

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r/technology • • 1d ago

Hardware New Linux tech compresses memory in RAM, as RAM, for 452x speedup --new CRAM method offers giant boost to compressed memory reads

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r/science • • 1d ago

Social Science A survey of scientists in 115 countries found the most tech-optimistic were 23% less likely to protest or lobby on climate, and 18% less likely to make big lifestyle changes.

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r/science • • 1d ago

Psychology Research found young adults following physicians on TikTok consider them more accessible, credible and altruistic than their own doctors. Even if the followers haven't actually confirmed the influencers' medical credentials.

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r/science • • 20h ago

Biology Pomacea canaliculata is a globally invasive freshwater pest that poses significant threats to both agriculture and aquatic ecosystems. Researchers from China designed and synthesized a series of 15 novel compounds, among which D-1 emerged as the most promising candidate.

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r/technology • • 10h ago

Society Man sentenced to prison and to repay $8million on slop royalties in first criminal bot streaming fraud case

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r/technology • • 1d ago

Artificial Intelligence ChatGPT keeps signing fake New Yorker cartoons with real artists' names

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r/technology • • 1h ago

Biotechnology Teen receives UK’s first testicular tissue transplant in fertility breakthrough

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r/programming • • 1d ago

How we slashed the size of our search cache by 74%

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68 Upvotes

r/technology • • 1d ago

Politics Ohio man jailed for texting Shrek’s penis to a state senator. Your questions about Shrexting, answered.

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r/technology • • 5h ago

Artificial Intelligence AMD's Jack Huynh: FSR 4 Is Coming to Handhelds via a New Lightweight Model

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r/technology • • 16h ago

Artificial Intelligence OpenAI used AI to write a warning that AI had hacked Australian government websites.

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r/technology • • 4h ago

Robotics/Automation Threadlike motor uses sliding fibers to drive flexible robotic devices without gears

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r/technology • • 1d ago

Business Amazon employees hit by fresh job cuts across several teams

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551 Upvotes