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A Fossil Capybara Tooth Suggests the Atacama Desert Was Once Surprisingly Wet (gizmodo.com)

2026-09-18 | tags: atacama desert, capybara, fossil tooth

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Numerous Deaths Reported at Burning Man (futurism.com)

2026-09-09 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: burning man, black rock city, nevada desert

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Desert Ant Labs: local, fast models that run on device (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-09 | by Paul Veugen | get Apple Mac mini M4 → | tags: desert ant labs, on-device ai, whisper

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Crimson Desert's free 20-minute playable game demo streams through Twitch, no download required (techspot.com)

2026-09-02 | by Daniel Sims | get Xbox wireless controller → | tags: crimson desert, twitch, cloud streaming

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Crimson Desert's free 20-minute demo streams through Twitch, with no download or installation required (techspot.com)

2026-09-02 | by Daniel Sims | get Xbox Wireless Controller → | tags: crimson desert, twitch, cloud streaming

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Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-30 | by Marko Drobnjakovic | get Raindrip automatic drip irrigation kit → | tags: danube river, hungary, climate change

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Evidence of Ancient Sharks Found Buried in the Egyptian Desert (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-25 | get fossil shark teeth dig kit → | tags: ancient sharks, egyptian desert, fossilized teeth

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I survived two years as prime minister in a hit new game - then my cabinet deserted me (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-08-15 | by Watch Our Pick Of Standout Clips Across The Bbc | tags: no 10, brewis, boris johnson

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Modder adds Radeon RX 9070 XT eGPU to Steam Machine, runs Crimson Desert at over 100 FPS on High — moves boot drive to USB-C port, leverages M.2 to OCuLink adaptor and eGPU dock (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-11 | by Mark Tyson | tags: radeon rx 9070 xt, steam machine, oculink

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Save A Lot has closed dozens of stores in 2026: See a list of doomed grocery locations across 13 states (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: save a lot, grocery deserts, supermarket chain

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Deserts face unprecedented flash flooding (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-28 | by Li | tags: desert flooding, nature.com, internet explorer

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Bananas sprout in Rayleigh Garden UK after 15 years (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-19 | by Henry Godfrey-Evans | tags: rayleigh, maricopa county, heat deaths

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People Lucky Enough to Have 70mm IMAX ‘Odyssey’ Tickets Now Get an Extra Bonus (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-16 | tags: imax, denis villeneuve, dune

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Lost city discovered beneath Egypt's desert with ancient church (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-06 | by Xantha Leatham | tags: ancient, archaeologists, byzantine

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Egypt Is Building a New Nile (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-03 | by Ian Parkin | tags: agricultural, delta, desert

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Prime Day brings record price cut on the Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones 2nd Gen (androidauthority.com)

2026-06-23 | get Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones → | tags: bose, quietcomfort ultra headphones, bluetooth 5.4

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AMD brings official FSR 4.1 support to RX 7000 series GPUs — INT8 model now available in 300+ games, RDNA 3 APUs also getting FSR 4.1 soon (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-22 | by Hassam Nasir | get AMD Radeon RX 7000 Series → | tags: amd, fsr 4.1, rx 7000 series

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Meet ERNEST, NASA’s Next-Generation Rover Designed to Be Faster and Tougher (gizmodo.com)

2026-06-19 | get NASA Rover Model Kit → | tags: nasa, ernest, rover

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Scientists Building World’s Most Powerful Radio Telescope Deep in the Nevada Desert (futurism.com)

2026-06-19 | by Victor Tangermann | get SETI Institute Radio Telescope → | tags: caltech, deep synoptic array, radio telescope

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Around a fifth of Steam Next Fest demos have a generative AI disclosure (engadget.com)

2026-06-16 | by Anna Washenko | get AI Art Generator Kit → | tags: steam next fest, steamdb, valve

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Project Jupiter AI data center build raises concerns about water usage in rural New Mexico desert — Oracle calls water usage 'negligible' for 11 million gallon one-time fill (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-16 | by Bruno Ferreira | get Water Usage Monitoring System → | tags: oracle, project jupiter, dona ana county

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The Mother of All Deep Space Radio Telescopes Is Going Up in the Nevada Desert (gizmodo.com)

2026-06-15 | get Deep Space Radio Telescope Kit → | tags: caltech, deep synoptic array, radio telescope

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Abu Fanous (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-14 | tags: abu fanous, arabian desert, min min light

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Scientists Find Chunk of Lost Planet in Desert (futurism.com)

2026-06-06 | by Victor Tangermann | get Mars Meteorite Sample → | tags: bell, formed, planets

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I found a seashell in the middle of the desert (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-29 | get Desert Seashell Collectible → | tags: paleontology, limestone, fossil

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I found ultra-pure quantum crystals in an abandoned mine in the Atacama desert (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-17 | get Quantum Crystal Display Kit → | tags: quantum crystals, atacama desert, abandoned mine

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I Found Ultra-Pure Quantum Crystals in an Abandoned Mine in the Atacama Desert (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-17 | get Quantum Crystal Display Kit → | tags: quantum crystals, atacama desert, abandoned mine

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Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition is coming to Mac this month (9to5mac.com)

2026-05-15 | by Ryan Christoffel | get Age of Empires II Mac Edition → | tags: age of empires, macos, steam

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The day the Pintupi Nine entered the modern world (2014) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-13 | get Pintupi Nine Documentary DVD → | tags: pintupi nine, yukultji, gibson desert

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The day the Pintupi Nine entered the modern world (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-13 | get Pintupi Nine Documentary DVD → | tags: pintupi nine, yukultji, gibson desert