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    Researchers 3D print a wormhole… for sound waves

    Your post made me picture a cubical office building with 8 smaller offices inside, make the outside walls out of something like this and have the tubing run through the space between offices. You'd need to construct the "wormhole" out of a transparent substance or have no windows but that...
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    Researchers 3D print a wormhole… for sound waves

    All cats on the internet are Schrödinger's cat. Secret history lesson: Schrödinger actually tried to do the experiment but forgot about it. The cat was never actualized as alive or dead and instead lives on in a sort of half life as a repeated meme! Seriously though, interesting article. I...
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    Netflix’s anime announcement frenzy, capped off by live-action Cowboy Bebop

    I will check it out when it arrives but i'm not expecting it to be Cowboy Bebop. I can't see how they would be able to get the feel of the original in a live action show. Not to mention as already stated, they probably won't even let Spike smoke, and the huge question of where it would take...
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    Lawyer suing e-scooter companies calls user agreements “draconian”

    Not sure how this works. Are car companies responsible for the deaths caused by cars which are functioning as intended but driven by idiots? How is that different from this?
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    Pinball FX3 self-censors classic pinball art for lower ESRB rating

    I don't really care about this, I enjoyed this game years ago but have no experience with the originals or opinion on the authenticity of it. Honestly though, these changes are a bit absurd considering what kids are exposed to everyday anyways. Do they really think kids are going to see a...
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    Telltale Games begins wave of layoffs, cancels Stranger Things game

    Shame, loved The Wolf Among Us and the Borderlands Games. Never played the others.
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    Quantum observers with knowledge of quantum mechanics break reality

    That's funny the SMBC that came to mind for me was the one with the rainbow...
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    Quantum observers with knowledge of quantum mechanics break reality

    Based on my minimal understanding I've always wanted to think that 1 is true: As you scale up from those scales which quantum mechanics applies to, the cumulative effects of quantum mechanics forms itself into a sort of fuzzy nothingness that cancels itself out such that it has no significant...
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    Google wants to get rid of URLs, but doesn’t know what to use instead

    Its turtles all the way down. You authenticate the connection to the intended URL. You authenticate the authentication to the intended URL... Trust in a digital world is not an easy thing to accomplish and the assholes operating in bad faith just make it that much worse.
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    Report: Google courting developers for coming game-streaming service

    Lag may be an issue, and certainly competitive gamers are unlikely to switch over, but I think this sort of gaming will become more popular. When I was younger I had no problems buying every console and stacking them up under the TV, Whenever something came out I had the option of playing it...
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    Ars on your lunch break, week 3: Mary Lou Jepsen and peering into the brain

    Is that a housefly in the front right side of the image, or is it just my pareidolia playing up?
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    What is Fallout 76? Bethesda’s pre-E3 tease has few answers

    Honestly apart from Fallout Tactics I have enjoyed every entry to the series. sure some more than others but the people that expect each new entry to be bigger and better and more amazing are not being realistic. Fallout was amazing for the time, and I still love to replay it every 5-6 years...
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    Attackers can send sounds to DDoS video recorders and PCs

    Until they can do it through a window with something that cannot be heard ten blocks away it's interesting but not really that big a deal. After all if they can put a speaker that loud that close to the computer the bigger question is how they got that access.
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    Goes off-road, carries big loads: The Bollinger B1 electric truck

    The concept is great and I like the looks, but I don't expect to be replacing my Rubicon anytime soon. Like it says in the article this would work great for someone working a farm or living outside a city where snow removal is not a thing. Unfortunately I don't expect the battery life to be good...
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    SpaceX has test fired its Falcon Heavy rocket

    I'd like to think that the car will be hooked up to an array of solar panels so that the stereo will never stop playing. One day far in the future, someone will board a derelict rocket and have a brief moment of cognitive dissonance and wonder about what was going through our heads to launch a...
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    Tom Price is out

    How, exactly, is it possible to pay for a seat in a private plane you chartered? Just curious...
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    History vs. chance in the evolution of steroid signaling

    Saying that these other possibilities are equally or potentially better receptors seems like a bit of oversimplification. They are studying it in isolation. How would they be able to find out what other effects the differently folded protein would result in? I'm not saying they are wrong, just...
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    A telemarketer called my elevator

    So what would have happened if someone had actually needed to use the emergency phone? Maybe this is how telemarketers are brought down. Some pour soul gets trapped in an elevator and ends up dead because a robo-caller was tying up the line needed to get help, and then they get sued out of...