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Enlarge / A selection of the Fitzwilliam Museum coins that were studied, including coins of Charlemagne and Offa. The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge Sometime around 660 CE, silver coinage replaced gold as the dominant form of currency in northwest…

As a recent example of what may ensue, Pitesky points to the repeated African swine fever outbreaks across various Asian countries in the past decade, which decimated the pig farming industry to the extent that pork was briefly usurped by…

It’s only been five months since released , but we may not have to wait long to see laptops and desktops with M4 chipsets. According to , Macs with M4 processors could start arriving later this year (which isn’t necessarily…

“Apparently, the critics who have tried so long to misuse the march in rights provision of the Bayh-Dole Act to impose price controls have given up on that ill-fated gambit only to try an even more desperate ploy.” On April…

A couple of weeks ago, Samsung released the One UI 6.1 update for the Galaxy S23 series and the Z Flip5 and Z Fold5 foldables, an update that will be remembered for bringing the new Galaxy AI functionality to the…

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a significant data exposure concerning nearly 300,000 taxi passengers in the UK and Ireland.  Jeremiah Fowler, in collaboration with vpnMentor, found a non-password-protected database containing personal details such as names, phone numbers and email addresses. These…

The Internet’s mega-platforms are slowly merging into a great blob of sameness, and even the hottest companies in the world are not immune from the trend. TikTok’s winning strategy to focus on short-form, vertical video has found fans amongst other…

Venture secondaries has exploded over the last couple of years. While some firms have used the increase in activity to build up their positions in their most promising portfolio companies, Airtree Ventures is taking advantage of the momentum a little…

Chasing the tale Silvia Leonetti and colleagues in the Netherlands, Italy, Austria, the US and Denmark don’t quite explain why dogs wag their tails, but they do explain that it is hard to explain. In a paper called “Why do…

is making it easier to go key-free with a system that can be retrofitted onto most existing deadbolts. You won’t need to replace existing hardware with the Yale Approach Lock with Wi-Fi. It’s an interior-only smart lock that Yale says…