"It turned out that at 7am every morning the occupant would switch on their old TV which would, in-turn, knock out broadband for the entire village."(filed under: televisiontechnologyinternetmysteries)
"We reviewed published research about COVID, and used it to make rough estimates about the risk level of various activities in microCOVIDs. 1 microCOVID is a one-in-a-million chance of getting COVID."(filed under: virusesmathsdeath)
"[The] system can detect a smartphone’s location to within about 20 feet. [...] That means a phone in a tree outside Whole Foods’ door would get the delivery offer even before drivers sitting in their cars just a block away."(filed under: phonestreeshackingworkillusions)
"But after only a month they had reached the limit for the number of items allowed in one place, a technical restriction to keep Second Life running smoothly. One player offered to take away the rubbish in his rocket."(filed under: gameslitter)
"Each week's show would begin with a dramatized version of some inexplicable event. [The] sketch would end and the moderator would challenge each of the week's four panelists [...] to devise on the spot a set of circumstances that would make sense of the scene."(filed under: radiopuzzles)
"One study from 2016 examined genetic data shared alongside 3,597 published papers and found that roughly one-fifth had been affected by Excel errors."(filed under: geneticssoftwaremutation)
"It’s fun to speculate and to join seemingly disparate ideas, especially when the creators encourage and reward this behaviour. It’s less helpful when conspiracy theorists “yes, and…” each other into shooting up a pizza parlour or burning down 5G cell towers."(filed under: argsdelusions)
"I can't make the suit out, whatever it is. It didn't even look like a card that time. I don't know what color it is now or whether it's a spade or heart. I'm not even sure now what a spade looks like! My God!"(filed under: cardsmutationdelusionspsychology)
"This demo lets you record a file using the internal microphone of your Android device and an artificial neural network will tell you the most probable bird species present in your recording."(filed under: birdssound)