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Apple rebuilt Siri from the ground up, cranked up the dial on AI integration, and added new parental control features for parents at its World Wide Developer’s Conference keynote.
77 headless skeletons found in a field date back 7,000 years
The carefully arranged Neolithic remains show signs of skillful skull removal.
That Costco 200-foot, inflatable lazy river is AI slop
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12 endangered piping plover chicks hatch in Michigan and Wisconsin
The tiny shorebirds are continuing to rebound in the heartland.
Students discover long-lost Roman villa under high school gym
Cavour Scientific High School is less than 1,000 feet from the Colosseum.
Sturgeon sex creates thundering noise in New York
On this episode of Sex and the Sturgeon, 800-pound fish thrash their tails.
Fact or myth? Ticks can drop out of trees like paratroopers.
Tick season is in full swing, so it’s time for some myth busting.
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