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Bloomberg
Strategy Says It May Sell Up to $1.25 Billion of Bitcoin - Bloomberg.com

Michael Saylor’s Strategy Inc. unveiled a sweeping overhaul of the financing model underpinning its Bitcoin strategy, giving itself broader powers to sell the cryptocurrency, buy back securities and preserve liquidity as it adapts to mounting pressure on the …

Hackaday
It’s Linux, On A Sega Megadrive - Hackaday

If you were in the market for a games console in 1990, the chances are that the object of your desire was either a Super Nintendo with its 16-bit 6502 derivative, or the Sega Megadrive, sold as the…

Space Daily
We assumed humpback whales had to reach warm tropical waters before giving birth, but a 2025 UNSW-led study found newborn calves as far south as Tasmania — around 1,500 kilometres beyond the accepted calving zone — suggesting some mothers giv - Space Daily

For decades, the clean version of humpback whale migration was easy to describe. The whales fed in cold, productive southern waters, then travelled north to warmer tropical and subtropical waters where mating, birth and early maternal care were assumed to bel…

Tech, Health & Opinion

Techpowerup.com
PS6 Hardware Cost Estimated at $900+ - TechPowerUp

The upcoming Sony PlayStation 6 is slated to launch sometime in 2028, and with recent reports claiming that the ongoing RAM crisis likely won't end or ease up much before then, concerns are mounting about the price of next-gen gaming consoles.

Space Daily
Neuroscientists long believed you are born with all the neurons you will ever have — in 2025, researchers found newly formed neurons in the brains of adults as old as 78, overturning decades of settled thinking - Space Daily

For most of the twentieth century, the rule seemed simple. You are born with all the neurons you will ever have, and the adult brain makes no new ones. In July 2025, a team at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden reported finding the cells that give rise to ne…

KTLA Los Angeles
California-developed brain implant helps man with ALS communicate - KTLA

A California-developed brain implant has enabled a man who lost the ability to speak to communicate independently, browse the internet and work from home for nearly two years, a breakthrough researchers say could transform life for people with severe paralysi…

Space Daily
Sister Mary, a Catholic nun who belonged to the School Sisters of Notre Dame and died at 101 with her memory and reasoning fully intact, was one of 678 nuns enrolled in a 30-year study of brain aging by the American researcher David Snowdon — and her - Space Daily

Sister Mary should not, by any reasonable interpretation of late-20th-century Alzheimer’s neuropathology, have been able to teach seventh and eighth grades for 42 years, to continue part-time teaching work until age 84, and to perform “remarkably well” on Sno…

Space Daily
In an ancient Martian river channel, Perseverance drilled into a mudstone called Cheyava Falls and found tiny “leopard spot” minerals tangled with organic carbon — patterns that, on Earth, can be left behind when microbes consume organic matter, though sci - Space Daily

A drilled rock core from an ancient Martian river channel has given Perseverance scientists one of the mission’s most interesting and difficult findings: a mudstone sample where organic carbon sits alongside small mineral patterns that, on Earth, can be assoc…

Space Daily
Complex life may have started before Earth had much oxygen at all. A University of Bristol-led Nature study found that the ancient archaeal lineage behind all plants, animals and fungi began developing complex cellular machinery in anoxic oceans almost 2.9 - Space Daily

Complex life is usually told as an oxygen story. First Earth changed, then life became more complicated: oxygen rose, cells gained new energy options, and the long route toward plants, animals and fungi opened up. A University of Bristol-led Nature study make…

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