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‘I took it down one little house at a time’: Trucker who spent decades building tiny replica of New York City | art

‘I took it down one little house at a time’: Trucker who spent decades building tiny replica of New York City | art

🔥 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art,New York,US news,Art and design,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: IIn 2003, Joe McCain built a scale model of a bridge out of popsicle sticks. He wanted it to look like a "hybrid" of the Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Williamsburg Bridges. Soon after, McCain, who grew up in Middle Village, Queens, moved his family to a small town upstate, more than 160 miles from the city. McCain loaded his bridge onto the moving truck. Didn't make the trip.“It was destroyed, and I felt kind of upset,” said McCain, now…
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Ring kills herd safety deal after Super Bowl ad uproar

Ring kills herd safety deal after Super Bowl ad uproar

🚀 Explore this must-read post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Security,Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks,Security / National Security,Security / Privacy,Security / Security News,Security Roundup 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Widespread protests in Iran have exposed Tehran's brutal tactics on the streets, where state authorities have killed thousands of protesters since early January, and extreme measures to block access to the global internet.As it has done repeatedly in the past, the Iranian regime cut off the country's population from the global Internet during the recent anti-government uprising. But it also blocked access to the country's intranet, known as the National Information Network,…
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Tony Pulis column: ‘I had to put everyone on edge’ – How can managers influence the game?

Tony Pulis column: ‘I had to put everyone on edge’ – How can managers influence the game?

🚀 Explore this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: After a full week of working on each player - and going deep into each individual's understanding of their role on the team and how it will impact everything if they don't execute it - I will then begin to identify ways in which we can hurt the opposition.Obviously free kicks are now synonymous with how teams do it successfully, but that was the case before me and it's the same now that I've retired.In addition to attacking set pieces, defending them was another thing…
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How many registers does an x86-64 CPU have?

How many registers does an x86-64 CPU have?

🔥 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: How many registers does an x86-64 CPU have? Programming, philosophy, pedaling. Nov 30, 2020     Tags: programming, x86     This post is at least a year old. x86 is back in the general programmer discourse, in part thanks to Apple’s M1 and Rosetta 2. As such, I figured I’d do yet another x86-64 post. Just like the last one, I’m going to cover a facet of the x86-64 ISA that sets it apart as unusually complex among modern ISAs: the number and diversity…
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‘Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong hole’: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty – and Reform | Tracey Emin

‘Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong hole’: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty – and Reform | Tracey Emin

🚀 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Tracey Emin,Art,Art and design,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: There is a long buildup before I get to see Tracey Emin – her two cats, Teacup and Pancake, preceding her like a pair of slinky sentries as she walks into the white-painted basement kitchen of her huge Georgian house in Margate. The lengthy overture is because – though I’ve been invited for noon – Emin is a magnificently late riser. Her average working day, her studio manager Harry tells me, runs from about 6pm to 3am. And so, while…
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2026 Winter Olympics: Lucas Pinheiro Clutches wins first Brazilian medal with giant slalom gold

2026 Winter Olympics: Lucas Pinheiro Clutches wins first Brazilian medal with giant slalom gold

💥 Explore this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Lucas Pinheiro made the clutches of history for Brazil by winning his country's first Winter Olympic medal with gold in the giant slalom.Born in Oslo to a Norwegian father and a Brazilian mother, Pinheiro Braaten won World Cup medals for the country of his birth before announcing his surprise retirement in 2023 after losing “the joy of living.”Exactly a year later, having regained his love of skating, he returned to the sport wearing the green and yellow of Brazil, wanting to honor his heritage on…
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How to choose the right gaming laptop (2026): What you need to know

How to choose the right gaming laptop (2026): What you need to know

✨ Explore this must-read post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Gear,Gear / Buying Guides,Gear / How To and Advice,Gear / Products / Computers,Gear / Products / Gaming,GLHF 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Used gaming laptops To be clear. It was strong but thick and unwieldy. These days, you have options. There are gaming laptops that prioritize performance at all costs, and others that focus on thinness, cost, or design. Heck, there are also gaming tablets and 2-in-1s.This breadth of choice means that choosing a gaming laptop in 2026 is no easy feat. While choosing any option from our guides to the…
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T20 World Cup: England beat Scotland to get campaign back on track

T20 World Cup: England beat Scotland to get campaign back on track

🚀 Read this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Although Scotland's score always looked 20 points under par, England were unsettled at one point.They took three wickets in the powerplay, including Archer having the dangerous George Muncy and number three Brandon McMullen miss in a spirited opening spell from three overs, but Purrington made an impressive save.Purrington, a good slow bowler, was particularly aggressive against the English spinners. He hit Rashid for four and a six in the second over and was the aggressor in a 71-run partnership with Tom Bruce.At 113-3 in the…
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Fix the iOS Keyboard

🔥 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Deadline: end of WWDC 2026. The exact dates haven't been announced yet and this timer is based on the estimated schedule (June 9–13). I'll update it when Apple confirms the dates. They have until the conference ends. The iOS keyboard has been broken since at least iOS 17 and it's somehow only gotten worse. iOS 26 has been my breaking point. Autocorrect is nearly useless and often hostile, that part I'm used to. But now the correctly tapped letters aren't even registering correctly. This isn't just…
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