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The European Space Agency has launched the Biomass satellite to study the world's forests using the first space-based P-band synthetic aperture radar, aiming to accurately measure carbon storage and improve understanding of the global carbon cycle. CBS News reports: Forests on Earth collectively absorb and store about 8 billion tons of carbon dioxide annually, the ESA said. That regulates the planet's temperature. Deforestation and degradation, especially in tropical regions, means that stored carbon is bei
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Trump said he'd been told his immigration policies were "taking very good, long time workers away from" farmers and the hospitality industry. Read more ›
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Operation Rising Lion will continue for "as many days as it takes." Read more ›
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Alexandr Wang cofounded Scale AI. He's reportedly about to become a very expensive hire at Meta. Read more ›
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Lewis Pullman, son of Bill Pullman, is joining the 'Star Wars' spoof as Lone Starr's son. Plus, we have plot details. Read more ›
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iOS 26 adds a new Smart Display Zoom setting to CarPlay. When the setting is enabled, CarPlay will be automatically resized to better fit the shape and size of your vehicle's dashboard screen, if possible. The images below show what CarPlay looks like before and after the Smart Display Zoom setting is enabled. With the setting turned on, all of the user interface elements become smaller, allowing for an extra... Read more ›
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Yesterday we heard that Google is preparing a new Pixelsnap brand for magnetic accessories for its upcoming Pixel 10 devices, and we got all excited assuming that meant the phones would have the magnets built-in like iPhones. Today a new rumor contradicts that, saying that Google's basically doing what a lot of other Android device makers have done - supporting Qi2 but with the magnets in cases, not the phones... Read more ›
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On Thursday, June 12, Down Detector recorded widespread errors across the web, with users reporting outages at Twitch, Google, Gmail, and Discord. Read more ›
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Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest. Read more ›
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An Air India plane with more than 240 people onboard crashed into a medical college just five minutes after takeoff. Read more ›
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Oil prices surge on fears of supply disruption from the Middle East, a key producing region. Read more ›
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She has been sober for over 600 days and went on a family vacation to Italy with her teenage kids. Read more ›
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A "Spaceballs" sequel starring Bill Pullman, Rick Moranis, Keke Palmer, and Mel Brooks is coming in 2027. Read more ›
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The undocumented migrant community in the United States is using social networks and other digital platforms to send alerts about raids and the presence of immigration agents around the US. Read more ›
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Musk may be gone and on the outs with Trump, but on Capitol Hill, DOGE continues. The House voted to cut funding to NPR, PBS, and some foreign aid. Read more ›
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Paramount has confirmed that the U.S.S. Enterprise crew's journey is coming to an end with a truncated fifth season. Read more ›
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Melania Trump, Usha Vance, and Cheryl Hines attended the opening night of "Les Misérables" alongside their husbands. They all wore similar outfits. Read more ›
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Amazon has quietly doubled the ad load on Prime Video to 4-6 minutes per hour, up from the 2-3.5 minutes initially discussed when ads launched in 2024. AdWeek reports: According to six ad buyers and documents reviewed by ADWEEK, the current ad load on Prime Video now ranges from four to six minutes per hour. And while that could bring down CPMs, buyers will be watching whether this impacts user... Read more ›
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Meta is paying $14.3 billion to buy 49-percent of Scale AI and hire its CEO, Alexandr Wang, to reboot its troubled AI efforts. As part of the deal, Wang will report directly to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the company announced on Thursday. He will lead a new AI lab inside Meta tasked with building "superintelligence" […] Read more ›
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YouTube pulled a popular tutorial video from tech creator Jeff Geerling this week, claiming his guide to installing LibreELEC on a Raspberry Pi 5 violated policies against "harmful content." The video, which showed viewers how to set up their own home media servers, had been live for over a year and racked up more than 500,000 views. YouTube's automated systems flagged the content for allegedly teaching people "how to get... Read more ›
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The Atlantic makes that case that "the foundation of the AI industry is a scam" and that AI "is not what its developers are selling it as: a new class of thinking — and, soon, feeling — machines." [OpenAI CEO Sam] Altman brags about ChatGPT-4.5's improved "emotional intelligence," which he says makes users feel like they're "talking to a thoughtful person." Dario Amodei, the CEO of the AI company Anthropic,... Read more ›
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The Class of 2025 is encountering the worst entry-level job market in years with unemployment among recent degree-holders aged 22 to 27 reaching 5.8% this spring -- the highest level in approximately four years and well above the national average. According to Federal Reserve Bank of New York data, 85% of the unemployment rate increase since mid-2023 stems from new labor market entrants struggling to find work. Corporate hiring freezes... Read more ›
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Bluesky's user engagement has fallen roughly 50% since peaking in mid-November, according to a recent Pew Research Center analysis, as progressive groups' efforts to migrate users from Elon Musk's X platform show signs of failure. The research found that while many news influencers maintain Bluesky accounts, two-thirds post irregularly compared to more than 80% who still post daily to X. A Washington Post columnist tries to make sense of it:... Read more ›
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"Replanting forests can help cool the planet even more than some scientists once believed, especially in the tropics," according to a recent announcement from the University of California, Riverside. In a new modeling study published in Communications Earth & Environment, researchers at the University of California, Riverside, showed that restoring forests to their preindustrial extent could lower global average temperatures by 0.34 degrees Celsius. That is roughly one-quarter of the... Read more ›
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David Sacks, President Trump's AI policy advisor, has dismissed the prospect of implementing a universal basic income program, declaring "it's not going to happen" during his tenure. He said: The future of AI has become a Rorschach test where everyone sees what they want. The Left envisions a post-economic order in which people stop working and instead receive government benefits. In other words, everyone on welfare. This is their fantasy;... Read more ›
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The World Bank sharply reduced its global economic growth forecast for 2025 to 2.3% from 2.7%, warning that the current decade is on track to become the weakest for the global economy since the 1960s. The Washington-based lender attributed the downgrade to mounting costs from "international discord -- about trade, in particular," as Donald Trump's tariff policies create unprecedented uncertainty. The revised forecast would mark the slowest growth rate outside... Read more ›
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A dating site launched last week by Belgian artist Dries Depoorter matches potential partners based on their internet browsing histories rather than curated profiles or photos. Browser Dating requires users to download a Chrome or Firefox extension that exports and uploads their recent search data, creating matches based on shared online behaviors and interests rather than traditional dating app metrics. Less than 1,000 users have signed up since the platform's... Read more ›
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MIT comp-sci professor Ryan Williams suspected that a small amount of memory "would be as helpful as a lot of time in all conceivable computations..." writes Quanta magazine. "In February, he finally posted his proof online, to widespread acclaim..." Every algorithm takes some time to run, and requires some space to store data while it's running. Until now, the only known algorithms for accomplishing certain tasks required an amount of... Read more ›
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A new study "adds a whole extra level of detail to our understanding of caffeine's impact on the brain during sleep," reports ScienceAlert: Caffeine was shown to increase brain signal complexity, and shift the brain closer to a state of 'criticality', in tests run by researchers from the University of Montreal in Canada. This criticality refers to the brain being balanced between structure and flexibility, thought to be the most... Read more ›
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