OTD in 1942, @usairforce Lt. Col. James Doolittle led a surprise attack of 16 B-25 bombers on Japan. "Although the material damage inflicted by Doolittle’s raiders proved small ... , the effect of the air raid on the Japanese capital itself was enormous." www.history.navy.mil/brow…

"An Indiana woman is facing a narcotics charge after she called 911 to report purchasing an inferior batch of methamphetamine and say that she wanted to file charges against her drug dealer." While speaking with police, she handed them a bag of "bad" meth. www.thesmokinggun.com/doc…

One key to quantum networking is ensuring the transmission of information over long distances. A solution is to divide a network into small segments and link them with a system of quantum memory devices, each of which can receive and transmit quantum information. Now, a…

"Meatpackers are increasingly looking to robots for help," which "leave[s] less wasted meat on the bone and relieves workers from some of the industry’s most physically demanding jobs—allowing workers to be reassigned ... to food-quality inspection jobs." www.wsj.com/business/meet…

With a 5-day suspension without pay, "@NPR has formally punished Uri Berliner, the senior editor who publicly argued a week ago that the network had 'lost America's trust' by approaching news stories with a rigidly progressive mindset." —@davidfolkenflik www.npr.org/2024/04/16/12…