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Floating Solar Panels

Floating solar panels placed on reservoirs around the world could generate enough energy to power thousands of cities, according to a study published last week in the journal Nature Sustainability.Called floating photovoltaic systems, or “floatovoltaics,” these solar arrays function the same way as panels on land, capturing sunlight to generate electricity. They sit on a…

Windows 11 Snipping Tool privacy bug exposes cropped image content

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A severe privacy flaw named ‘acropalypse’ has also been found to affect the Windows Snipping Tool, allowing people to partially recover content that was edited out of an image.Last week, security researchers David Buchanan and Simon Aarons discovered that a bug in Google Pixel’s Markup Tool caused the original image data to be retained even…

RNA molecule uracil found in asteroid Ryugu samples

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Researchers have analyzed samples of the asteroid Ryugu collected by the Japanese Space Agency’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft and found uracil, one of the informational units that make up RNA, the molecules that contain the instructions for how to build and operate living organisms. Nicotinic acid, also known as Vitamin B3 or niacin, which is an important…

Netanyahu softens judicial overhaul but showdown looms

Netanyahu softens judicial overhaul but showdown looms

STORY: Facing mounting mass protests inside of Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said he would soften his controversial judicial overhaul plan. But the changes failed to satisfy an opposition that has organized a campaign against the government over the proposed reforms.The plan would give the government more control of the appointment of judges…

Young Witch In the 90s

My altar in the Navy early 90s

I forgot I was going to scan these photos that I showed a long time ago. These are pictures of my altar from when I was in the Navy. I had very little space, so I had to make due, and I did a lot of effective work and learned a lot of important lessons…

Testing this new Facebook album retrieval thingy.

Pancakes

If this works, there should be photos of pancakes here: “A giant stack of flapjacks that I made.” From Pancakes. Posted by Nicole Tanit Nefertaueret Lasher on 11/10/2012 (8 items) With butter and syrup. The giant stack. The giant stack. The giant stack top view. The giant stack and maple syrup. The giant stack and…