‘The great mass of waters killed many thousands’: how earthquakes and tsunamis shook ancient Greece and Rome
The Greek poet Crinagoras of Mytilene (1st century BC–1st century AD) once addressed a little poem…
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Insights from the State of Dev 2025 Survey
The State of Devs 2025 survey results have been released! While the survey doesn’t directly address…
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Scientists could be accidentally damaging fossils with a method we thought was safe
Fossils are invaluable archives of the past. They preserve details about living things from a few…
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The southern hemisphere is full of birds found nowhere else on Earth. Their importance has been overlooked
The snow petrel, a strikingly white bird with black eyes and a black bill, is one…
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How do you stop an AI model turning Nazi? What the Grok drama reveals about AI training
Grok, the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot embedded in X (formerly Twitter) and built by Elon Musk’s…
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Teeth record the hidden history of your childhood climate and diet
The climate we live in affects our lives in profound ways: hot summers, cold winters, dry…
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Why These Black Americans Are Choosing To Live Abroad
The Black Expat Experience: Finding Freedom and Community Abroad Living and traveling in Europe as a…
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Rare wooden tools from Stone Age China reveal plant-based lifestyle of ancient lakeside humans
Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years…
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The ultimate guide to naming your online store
What’s in a name? More than you might think. The name of your online store is…
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Employee Spotlight: Ivan P. – A Journey to the World of Web Hosting
Hey there, and welcome to our Employee Spotlight series! Here, we introduce you to the incredible…
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Jaws at 50: how a single movie changed our perception of white sharks forever
It’s been 50 years since Steven Spielberg’s movie Jaws first cast a terrifying shadow across our…
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2-million-year-old pitted teeth from our ancient relatives reveal secrets about human evolution
The enamel that forms the outer layer of our teeth might seem like an unlikely place…
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Antarctica has a huge, completely hidden mountain range. New data reveals its birth over 500 million years ago
Have you ever imagined what Antarctica looks like beneath its thick blanket of ice? Hidden below…
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How Woo’s support team uses AI to improve the customer experience
“AI will deflect our customers.” Everyone who is in the support industry has either heard a…
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Twinkling star reveals the shocking secrets of turbulent plasma in our cosmic neighbourhood
With the most powerful radio telescope in the southern hemisphere, we have observed a twinkling star…
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Employee Spotlight: Dayana – Our Support Firecracker
Summer is here, and the excitement is building up at FastComet, just like the anticipation for…
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Tools like Apple’s photo Clean Up are yet another nail in the coffin for being able to trust our eyes
You may have seen ads by Apple promoting its new Clean Up feature that can be…
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43-year-old living abroad pays $650 a month in rent and never plans to return to the U.S.
Living abroad, especially in an exotic locale, is a dream for many. Imagine experiencing vibrant cultures,…
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The 2024 WooCommerce holiday gift guide
For the past three years, we’ve curated a gift guide to feature some awesome Woo stores,…
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Exploring the Smartproxy eCommerce Maturity Index
Getting ahead in the ecommerce landscape isn’t easy, particularly as online trends continue to evolve. It…
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Malawi’s TNM selects Canonical’s Charmed OpenStack to help lead virtualisation charge
10 November 2020 – Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, today announced that its Charmed OpenStack, an…
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Want to See a More Diverse WordPress Contributor Community? So Do We.
The mission of WordPress is to democratize publishing: to make it possible for anyone — no…
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Celebrating Pride Month with WordPress.com
Happy Pride Month! My favorite parts about celebrating this month are the stories shared from LGBTQ+…
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Field Notes: CMS Africa Summit
Automatticians, the people who build WordPress.com, participate in events and projects around the world every day….
