When she wrecked her mountain bike deep in the woods, Leigh Fazzina was too far from any real humans to scream for help—and too far from a cell phone tower to call 911. But she did have enough of a cell signal to tweet her emergency. Within minutes, the ambulance arrived. Go, Internet, go! (Via Naseem Miller)
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In 1971 two campers recorded what a Navy linguist calls a nonhuman language in the Sierra Nevadas
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Video shows a rain curtain splitting a street into two worlds
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Did anybody expect Microsoft to drop Visual Studio Pro 2026 lifetime licenses for $35?
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