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Man accidentally gains control of 7,000 robot vacuums

Sammy Azdoufal just wanted to steer his DJI Romo with a gaming controller. Read the full story on Popular Science:

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  1. @Nmethyltransferase

    March 3, 2026 at 11:41 am

    I’d just like to take this opportunity to come out as a robosexual.

  2. @allisonseamiller

    March 3, 2026 at 12:18 pm

    ANOTHER channel infected with Vertical Video Syndrome? (Google it if you’re not in the loop) I thought I’d finally unsubscribed from all of them but this virus keeps spreading. I hope you cure yourself of this affliction so I can resubscribe some day.

  3. @JohnDCrafton

    March 3, 2026 at 2:08 pm

    Not just a target for hackers, it’s also a target for Big Brother.

  4. @TheTrueBuster

    March 4, 2026 at 7:49 pm

    Yeah I bet all those fuckers who could afford a robot vacuum ain’t feeling so smug now eh?!

  5. @-lijosu-

    March 5, 2026 at 11:01 pm

    Without the AI propaganda, please. Guy used AI. Alright? Did he use python, too? C#? No one cares? Yeah, that’s what I thought.

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The Experiment That Tried to Weigh the Human Soul

It’s a little complicated to weigh a dying person on a hospital bed, but that didn’t deter Duncan MacDougall. In the early 20th century, MacDougall’s unique bed-scale detected that 21 grams left the human body at the moment of death. He had finally discovered it: the weigh of the human soul … or so he…

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It’s a little complicated to weigh a dying person on a hospital bed, but that didn’t deter Duncan MacDougall. In the early 20th century, MacDougall’s unique bed-scale detected that 21 grams left the human body at the moment of death.

He had finally discovered it: the weigh of the human soul … or so he thought.

Read more about the cultural legacy of MacDougall’s flawed but influential experiment:

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The Radioactive “Miracle Water” That Killed Its Believers

If you lived in the 1920s, you might have found a pamphlet advertising “the greatest therapeutic force known to mankind.” Radithor was a tiny bottle of clear, colorless water that claimed to cure acne, anemia, heart disease, poison ivy, impotence, asthma, and any other malady you could imagine. There was only one side effect: DEATH.…

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If you lived in the 1920s, you might have found a pamphlet advertising “the greatest therapeutic force known to mankind.” Radithor was a tiny bottle of clear, colorless water that claimed to cure acne, anemia, heart disease, poison ivy, impotence, asthma, and any other malady you could imagine.

There was only one side effect: DEATH.

So, why did 1920s Americans go gaga for radioactive water? Well, it’s complicated.

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Reported by: April White
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What’s Really Underneath This Massive, Noisy Siberian Crater?

In a remote area of the Siberian tundra, there’s a place that locals call ‘The Gateway to Hell.’ In the summer, its peaceful waterfall sounds are interrupted by the booms and crashes of falling earth. And while it‘s not actually a portal to another dimension, the Batagay Crater (technically a “megaslump”) is an unsettling mark…

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In a remote area of the Siberian tundra, there’s a place that locals call ‘The Gateway to Hell.’ In the summer, its peaceful waterfall sounds are interrupted by the booms and crashes of falling earth.

And while it‘s not actually a portal to another dimension, the Batagay Crater (technically a “megaslump”) is an unsettling mark of our changing world.

Read more about the crater here:

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Reported by Lauren Leffer
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Written and Produced by Matt Silverman

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