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OpenAI walled off AI agents on the same computer, but they talked anyway: one changed data in the CPU cache and the other timed how fast it loaded.
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People hoping to see mummies at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow, Scotland, were instead treated to a small sign that said, "We have removed human remains from this display as a mark of respect." The museum had removed the remains of an ancient Egyptian priest, a
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Local Wikipedia shows Wikipedia articles about things within a half-hour walk of any address, like Golden, Colorado's Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum.
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At Kurokawa Onsen, a Japanese village of hot-spring baths, a round calico cat waits at a sweets shop door for its Churu treat.
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When I was in Japan earlier this month, one of my travel companions introduced me to the wonderful world of Umaibo, a puffed corn snack that you can buy in all convenience stores throughout Japan. I wasn't expecting them to be so much fun to eat, but after trying one, I could not
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London's Victorian Era Exhibition in 1897 featured a wide variety of modern innovations, the weirdest of which was a lamppost that doubled as a vending machine, dispensing coffee, cocoa, milk, tea, and a concoction called "fluid beef." Called the Pluto Lamp, this monstrous hybrid
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I'm on the constant lookout for the tiniest umbrella available. On my recent trip to Japan, I found the smallest one yet at the fantastic Hands store in Fukuoka. It weighs just 65 grams and measures 8 inches long and about 1.5 inches in diameter when collapsed. — Read the rest T
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In 1986, the New Republic held a reader competition to submit the most boring headline ever. The idea for the contest was inspired by a New York Times column from April of that year, headlined, "Worthwhile Canadian Initiative." The New Republic said of the headline, "Each word ta
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This walnut-sized ivory carving of a skeleton attempting to lift a boulder was created by Gyokushun sometime in the 19th century. The British Museum holds it, and Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks donated it after using his large inheritance to buy thousands of objects and give them