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Hummingbirds run on sugar. The fuel powers their tiny, furious bodies and super-fast wings — which beat 80 times per second — and they burn through it at a rate that would likely kill a human. But luckily for them, they don’t seem to get diabetes, even though they have extremely high blood glucose levels. […]
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MSNBC is rebranding to "MS NOW" and is getting a new logo. Employees are chattering about what the rebrand signals for the cable TV network's future. Read more ›
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Masayoshi Son’s investment group touts ‘commitment to advancing US technology and manufacturing leadership’ Read more ›
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Apple today released the fourth public betas of iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS 26, allowing the public to test the updates ahead of their September launch. The fourth public betas come a week after the third public betas, and the updates correspond with the seventh developer betas that were released earlier today. Beta testers that have registered on Apple's website can download the iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 updates... Read more ›
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A WIRED review of a now-deleted Twitter account that used the screen name “Dr. Erwin J. Antoni III” shows it posted conspiratorial content about the 2020 election, Covid-19, and Jeffrey Epstein. Read more ›
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The Trump administration is considering taking a 10% stake in Intel by converting $10.9B in Chips Act grants into equity, a move that would make the U.S. government Intel’s largest shareholder and mark a major shift in how federal chip funding is deployed. Read more ›
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Russian state media footage shows the M113 armored personnel carrier driving into combat in the Zaporizhzhia region. Read more ›
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This update could spell trouble for its translation competitor, the internet's favorite green owl. Read more ›
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Increased solar flare activity over the last few days will cause the northern horizon to light up for many states. Read more ›
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Starbucks salaried employees, such as store managers, are set to get a 2% raise in 2025 amid the company's turnaround plan. Read more ›
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced plans to investigate both Meta AI Studio and Character.AI for offering AI chatbots that can claim to be health tools, and potentially misusing data collected from underage users. Paxton says that AI chatbots from either platform "can present themselves as professional therapeutic tools," to the point of lying about their qualifications. That behavior that can leave younger users vulnerable to misleading and inaccurate... Read more ›
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AppleInsider's Marko Zivkovic today said that he has discovered a device identifier for what is "almost certainly" a Mac mini with an M5 chip. He already discovered an identifier for a potential Mac mini with an M5 Pro chip last month. All in all, the next Mac mini will be powered by M5 and M5 Pro chips, if he is right. Given that the current Mac mini can be configured... Read more ›
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Here are hints and answers for the NYT Strands puzzle for Aug. 19, No. 534. Read more ›
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Altman also doesn't want ChatGPT to become an anime sex robot. Good to know. Read more ›
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The "Make Our Children Healthy Again Strategy" draft doesn't mention top killers of kids. Read more ›
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This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: We’re coming to you a little later than normal after the conclusion of a summit between Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, […] Read more ›
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How do Israelis feel about the increasingly horrifying crimes its government is committing in Gaza? This is one of the key questions going forward. Israel is a (teetering) democracy with elections scheduled for next year. The public’s attitudes could — by putting pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition — play a major role in determining if, […] Read more ›
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On Monday, President Donald Trump released an executive order invoking a rarely used federal law that allows him to temporarily seize control over Washington, DC’s police force. Later the same day, DC’s Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser seemed to concede that there’s nothing she can do about it. “What I would point you to is the […] Read more ›
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President Donald Trump’s administration is scrutinizing higher education. Last week, the White House issued a memorandum requiring all universities receiving federal funds to submit admissions data on all applicants to the Department of Education. The goal is to enforce the 2023 Supreme Court decision that ended race-based affirmative action. Days before the memo was released, […] Read more ›
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This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: The Trump administration’s decision to cancel billions in foreign aid can stand, a federal appeals court said today, in a major blow to global humanitarian aid. […] Read more ›
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Last month, a federal judge in Los Angeles handed down a temporary order placing some restrictions on the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in that city. The Trump administration now wants the Supreme Court to lift those restrictions. The contested provisions of Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong’s order are fairly narrow. They provide that federal law enforcement […] Read more ›
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It’s bad enough that climate change is ruining the dream of a white Christmas for many people, as warming makes snow in some regions less likely. Now, apparently, it’s coming for reindeer, too. Reindeer aren’t just creatures of Christmas myth; they’re real animals — a kind of deer that live in the Arctic, from northern […] Read more ›
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Whatever else can be said about the second Trump administration, it is always teaching me about parts of the Constitution I had forgotten were even in there. Case in point: Article I, Section 9, Clause 5 states that “No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State.” This is known as […] Read more ›
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Just a few years ago, the movement for Washington, DC, statehood was gaining steam. In 2020 and 2021, Democrats in the House passed bills to make DC the 51st state, re-energizing the fight to grant residents of the nation’s capital representation in Congress. Those bills were ultimately doomed because of strong Republican opposition. But now, […] Read more ›
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This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: President Donald Trump announced his new nominee to head the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Monday evening, less than two weeks after firing the agency’s […] Read more ›
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