Discovery Of An Alien World With A Strange, Tilted Orbit Puzzles Astronomers

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Again, perfectly fine to admit, no one is judging you for hodling a handful of ETH (full disclosure: The author of this newsletter has 10 ETH, bought low years ago. Humblebrag.) Luckily, the upcoming Merge could help slash the blockchain’s impact on the climate. [The Verge]( /style [Startup Invents A Robe That’s Basically Like Wearing The Softest Blanket Ever | The Fascination]( [STARTUP INVENTS A ROBE THAT’S BASICALLY LIKE WEARING THE SOFTEST BLANKET EVER]( The coming autumn and winter months mean one thing: Sweater weather. Sunday Citizen, a company dedicated to comfort, invented the perfect lazy Sunday morning, coffee-in-one-hand-and-a-book-in-the-other robe: The waffle robe. They engineered it from the same material as their famously soft bedding, so it’s like you never actually got out of bed, which is, to be honest, what all we want every single morning. 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[The Fascination]( /cosmos [Discovery Of An Alien World With Strange, Tilted Orbit Puzzles Astronomers | Space.com]( [DISCOVERY OF AN ALIEN WORLD WITH STRANGE, TILTED ORBIT PUZZLES ASTRONOMERS]( From the article, because they can explain it better than we ever could: “The orbit of an exoplanet [GJ 896Ab] around a star in a binary star system has been portrayed in three dimensions for the first time. The planet orbits its star at a different angle to the plane of the orbit of the two stars, and the misalignment could offer clues as to how planets form in binary systems.” Crazy, right? [Space.com]( /posted [@hugh.mcgrory on Instagram]( [@hugh.mcgrory]( /ai [Company Develops AI To Help Real Estate Investors Find Killer Rental Properties | PC Magazine]( [COMPANY DEVELOPS AI TO HELP REAL ESTATE INVESTORS FIND KILLER RENTAL PROPERTIES]( Ever had that problem where you want to invest your money in real estate but don’t know where to start? Some say flip houses but others say if you want to build equity in your properties with a continuous stream of income, rental homes are the way to go. Great, but how can one find good houses and condos to rent out? A startup has developed an AI to help confused investors do just that. 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