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Ukrainian drone strikes knock out 14% of Russian refining capacity - Pentagon

The loss of capacity led to a 20%-30% increase in domestic gasoline prices by mid-March and prompted a halt in exports to focus on domestic demand.

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Spiny legged 308-million-year-old arachnid discovered in the Mazon Creek locality https://phys.org/news/2024-05-spiny-legged-million-year-arachnid.html by University of Kansas https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2024/ancient-arachnid-from-1.jpg More than 300 million years ago, all sorts of arachnid...

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Peru classifies trans people as ‘mentally ill’ after government decree

Researchers develop world's smallest quantum light detector on a silicon chip https://phys.org/news/2024-05-world-smallest-quantum-detector-silicon.html by University of Bristol The silicon ePIC quantum chip, mounted on a printed circuit board for testing and similar to a motherboard inside a perso...

https://x.com/johnrhanger/status/1791800486187700716 Good morning with good news: France surges offshore wind, with 500 MW Fecamp fully operating & 496 MW Saint Brieuc more than half built. France also announced winner of 250 MW floating offshore auction, world's first commercial scale, at $93/M...

China’s Robotaxi Industry May 16, 2024 by Brian Wang https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2024/05/chinas-robotaxi-industry.html China’s goverment wants to be a global leader in emerging technologies and has identified robotaxi’s and autonomous driving as a key target. The top robotaxi and autonomous vehicl...

53 Stars Are Possible Dyson Spheres May 17, 2024 by Brian Wang Dyson spheres (aka Dyson Swarms) are hypothetical structures where civilizations build solar power satellite collection around a star. We currently generate about 50 megawatts from space based solar power out of a total of about 20 tera...

After 7-Year Hiatus, Western Digital Unveils 6TB 2.5-Inch Hard Drives After all this time, the company has added an additional terabyte to its external drives. By Josh Norem May 17, 2024 https://www.extremetech.com/computing/after-7-year-hiatus-wd-unveils-6tb-25-inch-hard-drives It's been a while si...

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The Barnsdall, Oklahoma tornado has had its winds increased to 180mph, based on damage to a well-built home SW of town. Additionally, a second fatality has been confirmed, along with 33 injuries. #OKwx

https://x.com/IAPolls2022/status/1791499020235350335 🇺🇲 NATIONAL POLL: @EchelonInsights 🟥 Trump 49% [+3] 🟦 Biden 46% [-3] — 🟥 Trump 43% [+3] 🟦 Biden 38% [-3] 🟨 RFK Jr 11% [-2] 🟩 Stein 3% [+1] 🟨 West 1% [-1] — Generic Ballot 🟥 GOP 49% [+3] 🟦 DEM 45%[-4] [+/- change vs April] 538 #22 (2.7/3.0) | 1,023...