A webuchet, perhaps?

Law enforcement seized 32 phones, 48 laptops and hard discs, and 33 SIM cards and froze several bank accounts amid the raid of the 76 locations, according to CBI.

So... After raiding 76 locations, they only got 32 phones? Like... they only found one phone in every two places that they raided? And they only got 48 laptops? Those are the kind of numbers that I would expect for one single location.

It kind of sounds like 75 of the locations were tipped off by corrupt local officials in advance.

Jewel spiders!

Alternate source without the paywall:

https://phys.org/news/2026-02-magic-atomic-nuclei-unusually-stable.html

For what it's worth: I counted about 85 or 86 "clicks" in 10 seconds. It's a loud click followed by a quieter click, like as if it's oscillating towards and away from you. The sound of the click itself is loudest at about 2.6 khz - whether that is simply the sound of friction, or some sort of electrical phenomenon, I don't know.

The fuzzy area at the bottom half of the spectrogram is the dull roar of distant wind. The clicks themselves show up as spikes, and the intense colors on the right are from where the voice starts speaking. The dark band above 10K is just the data lost from audio compression.

The American Red Cross has a pretty good app for finding, scheduling, and preparing for a donation:

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Additional info for the lazy: the name of the company is "Gravy Analytics", hence the name "Gravy Scanner" for this app. It's a large data broker, and they don't bother with pesky little details like "informed consent".

Anyway, they got hacked a month ago, and the hackers threatened to publicly release all the data.

https://slrpnk.net/post/17048112

I'm an audio editor / producer for a family-friendly radio drama program, and we made a story on his life a few years ago. The dude really was awesome, it was one of my favorite stories to work on.

It's not free to listen to (unless you happen to catch it on the radio when that episode happens to be airing), but you can listen to a 30-second snippet here. (It's the first story on the album, "From Slave to Hero".)

I can't imagine why they changed the name... (/s)

Looks like it should be available in the US in mid- to late 2024.

My understanding is that "the speed of light in a vacuum" isn't really about light itself, but rather about the speed limit of cause and effect, or "information", in our universe. Light just happens to move at that maximum speed.

In quantum mechanics, even if you can have an entangled pair (separated by long distance) collapse instantaneously, that system still couldn't be used for instantaneous communication that exceeds the speed of light in a vacuum. (At least, that is what I have previously understood.)

I read all three articles, and didn't find an answer to this question:

When they say "quantum teleportation of information" - The speed of that teleportation itself is still limited to C, right?

You can kinda sorta get close using EQ, but if you really want to do it right, you'll need to get into impulse responses.

If you want a really simple, really expensive option with all the bells and whistles, then check out Speakerphone by AudioEase.

If you are on a budget, or prefer the DIY approach, you will first need a convolution reverb plug-in. It will take a recording of an impulse response (which sounds like a starter pistol), and then apply that reverb to the sounds that you wanted to apply to. If you need a free option, Reaper has a plug-in called ReaVerb that is free, and I think they have a version of that plug-in that works with other DAWs as well.

Then you'll need to search for an impulse response of a radio, and use that.

Optionally, if you really want it to sound like it's being played in a bar, find another impulse response that gives an impression of the room - what you think the bar should sound like.

You can layer them, so it sounds like it's being played from a radio, in the environment of a bar. And when done right, it will be absolutely impossible to tell whether was the real thing or simulated through plugins.

It's imperative I get it in their original unedited sound file form and in MP3 as .wav is too big and .ogg could crash certain programs like Vegas Pro.

I always hate it when somebody asks for help on a site like StackOverflow, and some smartass pipes up with "Why are you even trying that, why don't you try ___ instead?"

I don't want to be that guy. But I am very, very curious about why it is so imperative that you obtain the actual original audio files. Why would similar sounds not suffice?

For context, I am an audio editor / producer / sound designer / Foley artist, and I've run into that same problem, of old sound libraries not existing anymore, and have had to find, or create, my own alternatives. So I do know the struggle, but I don't know your particular situation.

Most likely, that means you're clean. On mine, the output is just a white screen with a list of the affected apps... Clicking on one of them takes me to that app's settings.

It does that one thing, with no explanations or instructions, so it wouldn't surprise me to learn that it doesn't show a message to indicate that nothing was found.

Wow. As sometime who literally makes sound effects for a living, I'm going to have to remember this one. That was a neat effect.

To be clear, it's not that they shoot laser beams from their feathers as some sort of mating ritual or defense mechanism (which, honestly, is probably how I would have used my own laser feathers, if I had them), but that there are strikingly identical nano structures that can reflect back a little bit of laser light, under laboratory conditions:

After staining the feathers with a common dye and pumping them with soft pulses of light, they used laboratory instruments to detect beams of yellow-green laser light that were too faint to see with the naked eye. They emerged from the feathers’ eyespots, at two distinct wavelengths.

Requirements:

About 300GB clear disk space for the entire planet. Probably an SSD unless you like pain, suffering and watching the slow creep of old age...

Lol, no kidding!

From what I understood of the article, it's not just the size (which you can get from merging previous black holes), but the combination of size, speed, and angle that are raising eyebrows.

Smash two random black holes together, and the odds are, they're spinning at different random angles. Do that a bunch of times, and unless their angles all happened to be lined up just right, the the resulting spin will be a lot slower than the maximum speed a black hole of that size can spin. But these were spinning at 80% and 90% of their max speed.

Okay, so maybe they were both "normal sized" black holes that gobbled up a lot of matter around a galactic nucleus? That might work, except then you'd expect them to both be spinning in the same direction - but they weren't.

So, none of the scientists' predictions are really matching what they actually observed. Maybe it was one of those things, maybe those models are off a bit, or maybe there's another model to explain these kinds of black holes that we just haven't thought of yet.

I recently produced a radio drama on what life was life before we had child labor laws, and how they came about. If you're interested, it's called "Florence Kelley, The Children's Champion."

I think, sometimes there are emotions that "need" to be acknowledged for what they are. When we attempt to ignore them, it only creates an emotional dissonance.

Like, if we are struggling with depression, and our emotional "background music" is a sad song in a minor key, but we try to fight it by playing happy music in a major key... Maybe one song can drown out the other, and become the new background? But more likely, we'll just end up with dissonance. The happy song we are trying to listen to will just make us feel uncomfortable as a result.

But if we listen to a sad song instead, it can resonate with, harmonize with, the emotional "background music" playing in our subconscious. The emotion itself wants to be heard and acknowledged, and by listening to a song that the emotion can synchronize with, we can help resolve the emotions as the song itself resolves.

(There's limits to that, of course - for most things, healing happens gradually in layers, so it's not like one song solves all problems, or anything like that.)

On the flip side, there was one time I was in a casual group setting, there was a big crowd of people all having various conversations, and I started playing a musical instrument softly in the background. I noticed that the song had a rather big impact on the emotional current of the group as a whole, people started speaking with a little more energy, a little more pep, a little more happiness... and when the song ended, that emotional zest faded away from the group as well.

So, context is important.

...you don't see the advantage in avoiding open heart surgery to replace an embedded medical device?