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More layoffs have hit the federal government, this time at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the United States’ main weather forecaster and the world’s premier research agency for the seas and the skies. CBS News reports that 880 employees were cut across NOAA, about 7 percent of the workforce, including earth scientists, meteorologists, computer […]
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In an extraordinary scene, Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Donald Trump shouted at each other in the Oval Office. Read more ›
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Gygax Jr., who continued his father Gary Gygax's legacy through a host of TTRPG endeavors, passed away last night. Read more ›
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The Google co-founder says 60-hours a week is the productivity sweet spot for AI engineers. Read more ›
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Consumer behaviour analysis shows decisions happen in community spaces outside stores. Consideration moments matter more than transactions. Successful APAC marketing requires cultural relevance not overwhelming digital noise. “We’re not goldfish. We have attention when we want to have attention.” With this declaration at DMWF Asia, Sukanya (Su) Das Gupta, Blis APAC’s senior insights manager, addressed... Read more » Read more ›
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The Trump administration fired hundreds of NOAA employees. Meteorologists are worried that weather forecasts will suffer and people could die. Read more ›
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After a federal court upheld a pause on the SAVE plan, the Education Department removed other income-driven repayment applications from its website. Read more ›
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Microsoft today announced that it will officially retire Skype on May 5, 2025, concluding its 14-year tenure as the owner of the once-dominant internet calling and messaging service (via Bloomberg). Microsoft acquired Skype in 2011 for $8.5 billion in what was then its largest-ever acquisition. At its peak, Skype had more than 300 million monthly active users and was synonymous with internet-based voice and video calling. The service steadily declined... Read more ›
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It’s the end of an era. Microsoft is shutting down Skype in May and replacing it with the free version of Microsoft Teams for consumers. Existing Skype users will be able to log in to the Microsoft Teams app and have their message history, group chats, and contacts all automatically available without having to create […] Read more ›
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Justin Sun is celebrating avoiding a fraud investigation by posting handshake emojis on X. Read more ›
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Many Americans are expressing their displeasure with the oligarch. Read more ›
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The Trump administration's cuts to USAID resulted in rapid staff terminations and the clear-out of its headquarters. Read more ›
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Trump world lost it on Thursday when the government didn't give them what they wanted. Read more ›
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The Trump administration utterly botched a hyped release of “Jeffrey Epstein files” Thursday, a saga that resulted in disappointment among the MAGA faithful, finger-pointing among Trump aides, and — unsurprisingly — claims of deep state sabotage. Epstein, the well-connected financier who was indicted for sex trafficking underage girls and died in prison in 2019, has […] Read more ›
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When I go on a solo trip to Las Vegas, my perfect itinerary includes a spa visit, shops by the Strip, and brunch by the Bellagio Fountains. Read more ›
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Despite the attention AI gets, only a small percentage of US workers say they use it in their jobs. Read more ›
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Sapphire's new RX 9070 XT Nitro+ is the first AMD GPU to sport a cableless design with the latest 16-pin power connector. It is also the first RX 9070-series GPU we've seen so far sporting the connector. Read more ›
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Bezos announced Wednesday that the Post's opinion section would focus on "personal liberties and free markets." Trump says they had dinner that night. Read more ›
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Tina Nguyen is joining The Verge as a senior reporter, covering the Trump administration, Elon Muskâs takeover of the federal government, and the tech industryâs embrace of the MAGA movement. Nguyen joins The Verge from Puck, where she was a founding partner and national correspondent covering the evolution of the MAGA political ecosystem. Before that, […] Read more ›
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Sitting at 357 mm² and with 53.9 billion transistors, Navi 48's density runs circles around RDNA 3... and Nvidia's Blackwell competition. Read more ›
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In the open grasslands of South Dakota, not far from the dramatic rock formations of Badlands National Park, lives one of the continent’s cutest, fiercest, and rarest animals: the black-footed ferret. Black-footed ferrets, weasel-like animals with distinctive dark bands around their eyes and black feet, are ruthless little hunters. At night, they dive into burrows in pursuit […] Read more ›
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Since his 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump has posed a serious threat to American democracy. From the start, he refused to commit to accepting election results. As president, he routinely undermined the rule of law. And he eventually tried to illegally hold on to power after losing the 2020 election, going so far as to […] Read more ›
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Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) underlings are powering his takeover of the government with a “hardcore” work ethic that sacrifices sleeping for around-the-clock grinding. Musk boasted that they are working long hours, even over weekends because their “opponents” take that time off. They moved sofa beds into the Office of Personnel […] Read more ›
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On Wednesday night, Chief Justice John Roberts temporarily halted a lower court order, which would have required the Trump administration to make approximately $2 billion in foreign aid payments that it had stopped as part of a broader attack on the US Agency for International Development (USAID). It’s important not to read too much significance […] Read more ›
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Since Christmas Day, four commercial jets have crashed, killing nearly 300 people and injuring many others. Harrowing images — of the explosion over the Potomac after a Black Hawk helicopter collided with a plane, and of a Delta flight upside-down on the runway in Toronto — have people spooked about their next trip. The US National Transportation […] Read more ›
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Andrew Tate made his name as a misogynist podcast star, but has more recently been known as an alleged rapist and human trafficker as he awaits criminal trial in Romania with his brother Tristan. Last week, the Financial Times reported that the Trump administration, through special envoy Richard Grenell, had tried to pressure the Romanian […] Read more ›
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Elon Musk’s cut-first, aim-later run through the federal government is predicated on the idea that the nation’s finances are in crisis and that it needs to drastically cut spending to recover. But at least one cut Musk’s team is planning will actually cost the government money, worsening the supposed fiscal crisis that the Trump administration […] Read more ›
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Voters in Germany maintained a few global trends this past weekend: They kicked out incumbents, their youth moved to the right, and they delivered another surprise. Their radical, anti-immigrant party (Alternative für Deutschland, or AfD) finished second, and was likely boosted by some LGBTQ voters. The rightward shift of gay, lesbian, and bisexual voters is […] Read more ›
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In early February, Texas health officials reported that measles was spreading among an insular religious community in Gaines County, Texas, where nearly 14 percent of schoolchildren have an exemption (granted in some states for reasons of conscience, including for religious beliefs) from the required childhood vaccinations. The disease has since been detected in a bordering […] Read more ›
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Government websites have undergone massive changes since President Donald Trump returned to office. Some of the changes are routine — like swapping out the current president and vice president for their predecessors on the White House’s official site. But other changes go much further. Several sites — like USAID.gov, ReproductiveRights.gov, and the Spanish-language version of […] Read more ›
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