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Why do you get so emotional on planes?

Octopuses have blue blood, no bones and three hearts. 🐙.

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You have to break a code to get a cocktail at this spy-themed bar.

Amazing: Doctors transplanted an ear from this man’s arm to his head.

(Plant-e)

Echolocation is like a smartphone for dolphins; they use it to navigate, and they can’t live without it. 🐬.

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The as it hunts submarines.

The US Navy’s new drone warship can drive itself as it hunts submarines.

Don’t assume they were reinfected.

Has developed a new method to play out the consequences of its code.

The context: Like any software company, the tech giant needs to test its product any time it pushes updates. But the sorts of debugging methods that normal-size companies use aren’t really enough when you’ve got 2.5 billion users. Such methods usually focus on checking how a single user might experience the platform and whether the software responds to those individual users’ actions as expected. In contrast, as many as 25% of Facebook’s major issues emerge only when users begin interacting with one another. It can be difficult to see how the introduction of a feature or updates to a privacy setting might play out across billions of user interactions.

SimCity: In response, Facebook built a scaled-down version of its platform to simulate user behavior. Called WW, it helps engineers identify and fix the undesired consequences of new updates before they’re deployed. It also automatically recommends changes that can be made to the platform to improve the community experience.