Colombia on Friday gave the green light for exports of dried cannabis for medical and other industries, as the Andean country took another step to develop its marijuana industry, where progress has been slow despite high potential.

A small enhancement to Datasette this week: I’ve added support for proxying via Unix domain sockets. This started out as a feature request from Aslak Raanes: #1388: Serve using UNIX …

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New CDC data go against a pervasive narrative.

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The process of manufacturing gallium-doped solar panels was under a patent until last year. It’s only now that this method has started to pick up steam.

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It’s an extraordinary step — and one that regulators didn’t take during the last drought

The CEO of NSO Group, whose spyware tools have reportedly been used to target journalists and activists, says that people who aren't criminals shouldn't be afraid of being surveilled.

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Secretive US start-up Form Energy finally reveals the chemistry of its revolutionary long-duration battery — which it says will store energy at one tenth the cost of lithium-ion

LeVar Burton’s quest to become the new host of “Jeopardy!”

Wealth is easy to measure but hard to value.

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