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Article on the Tiki-themed location that opened in 1992 and closed in 2020. Because 2020.
And apparently the Fry's grocery chain was founded by the same family - they got into electronics after the grocery chain was bought by Kroger!

Early brain-machine interface: "BrainGate...nearly 100 hair-thin electrodes implanted a millimetre deep into part of the motor cortex of his brain that controls movement." Converted to mouse cursor movements, enabling a paralyzed patient to do things like control his TV or a prosthetic hand.

"Across 840 miles, California’s coast is home to over 1700 species. Twenty-five million people live along that same coastline. Do you know how your ocean neighbors are doing?"

OS opened, hackathon, launching a foundation

Time lapse video of the November 2012 solar eclipse, showing the moon's shadow sweeping across the sky.

"This Russian Family Lived Alone in the Siberian Wilderness for 40 Years, Unaware of World War II or the Moon Landing
In 1978, Soviet geologists stumbled upon a family of five in the taiga. They had been cut off from almost all human contact since fleeing religious persecution in 1936"

2014: "We can’t choose a world where the US gets to spy and the Chinese don’t. We get to choose a world where everyone can spy, or a world where no one can spy."
And here we are 11 years later with people in governments *still* insisting on trying it. Even after Salt Typhoon. (Also, the “towers” referred to in the title are apparently not physical towers so much as interception devices that mimic a cell tower on the network. It’s imprecise language that has propagated through just about every article on the topic.)

“when has the entertainment industry ever proposed something good for consumers or the internet?”
-- still a good question 10 years later.

"I don't want to be your enemy. I don't want you to be my enemy. Can we talk? Please? We're at a crossroads in our nation. No matter what happens now, we can never go back to the way things were before. But it's not too late to make a future together that's better, not worse. Please, I am begging "