This happened to me in 2018. We were chatting with an acquaintance about horse racing. I never showed an interest in that topic or visited the location. Just after 5 mins he left I received an ad from Instagram on Horse Racing competition which was happening in the same city.
My only assumption was Instagram/Facebook was somehow listening our conversation.
Were you friends with that acquaintance on fb/instagram? Were you on the same wifi/network?
If the answer to either of those two is "yes", and if your friend googled or liked/followed horse racing content on instagram/fb, then the algo can easily determine that indeed you might be interested in it and recommend it to you. Requires zero horse racing related searches on your own devices, just requires a person with a first degree connection to you doing those searches.
If the system knows that your close social link with some similar interests interacts (searching, reading, liking, following, chatting about online with others, etc.) a lot with a specific type of content, it is a pretty straightforward idea to suggest that specific type of content to you, even if you didn't interact with that type of content online yourself yet.
What's worse is that my wife and I were talking about particular states, then the spam calls we started to get had area codes from those states. Once is a coincidence. 5 times is a pattern.
Since we don't leave any apps open on our Android phones, we assume it's because Google was listening (their version of Siri is Bixby, which we use from time to time) then selling that information. It was probably a one-off, since this was only for a short window of time (2 weeks), but it was blatant.
I keep disabling Bixby permissions (x5 apps) and Android re-enables them on updates or whether I left some "allow to change system settings" checked, it's a huge information drainage.
HackerNews is my go to place for any type of tech question. Recently, I had RSI because of related sports injury. I learnt VIM shortcuts, bought Microsoft Egonomic keyboard and logi mouse based on suggestions here.
I am learning tones of stuff on technologies that I use daily.
I really wish I had like-minded friends in real life who are hackernews fans. Hit me up if anyone currently in or visits Dubai, UAE.
The temperature is too high for "organic molecules", between 2500C (4500F) when it is hot, to 1500C (2700F) when it's cold. (1500C is slightly hotter than the flame of a candle.)
Tungsten has a higher melting point, so perhaps there can be some live metal blobs of weird tungsten alloys, that have some internal parts that are not totally melted and can save some information. We have not seen nothing similar before, and as far as I know nobody expect to see something like that. It would be very very very very very very very very very weird, but I don't like to use the word "impossible".
There is a question I usually ask when I meet new colleagues and want to get to know them better: “If you had a crystal ball and it could answer a single question about the future, the past or the present. What would you ask?”
The most exciting answer I got so far was: “I would ask it to show me life on a another planet.” So cool to imagine...
