Smithsonian Magazine

The World’s First Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects Wants Its Collection to Shrink, Not Grow

More than 250 looted objects are on display in UNESCO's Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects. UNESCO To raise awareness of the illicit trafficking of cultural heritage artifacts, from ...
Space.com

Interstellar visitors like comet 3I/ATLAS are the most common objects in the Milky Way: 'There's almost always one within the solar system'

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Objects such as 'Oumuamua, Borisov and recently 3I/ATLAS have opened our eyes to the reality that ...
Live Science

NASA confirms that mysterious object shooting through the solar system is an 'interstellar visitor' — and it has a new name

Experts have confirmed that the mysterious object hurtling towards us, previously dubbed A11pl3Z, is an "interstellar object." The cosmic interloper, officially named 3I/ATLAS, is only the third of ...
InfoQ

Java 25 Integrates Compact Object Headers with JEP 519

Java 25 integrates Compact Object Headers as a product feature through JEP 519, offering developers a potential 30% CPU reduction and significant memory savings without requiring any code changes. The ...
TheServerSide

Java array size, length and loop examples

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Here are the most important concepts developers must know when they size Java arrays and deal ...
TheServerSide

User input and Java's JOptionPane example

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The best way to teach the concept of Java user input to new software developers is to show them ...
Smithsonian Magazine

This Is the Oldest Human-Made Object in the Smithsonian Collections

Roughly two million years old, this tool, known as the Kanjera stone, was part of a new Stone Age technology that helped make better-fed, smarter hominins. On the Homa Peninsula in southwestern Kenya, ...
New York Post

Retired NYPD detective saw drone drop strange glowing object over Staten Island: ‘It was no toy’

A drone dropped a mysterious, glowing object over a Staten Island neighborhood — and the NYPD took the matter seriously enough to do four flybys over the area, according to a retired NYPD detective ...
Time

What Getting 105 Blood Tests From a Health Startup Taught Me

The last time I went to the doctor, I lived in a different zip code, belonged to a different body-weight category, and was rounding out a different decade. I never consciously swore off health care, ...