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Despite having 5.6 million people packed into just 280 square miles, Singapore's relentless pursuit of efficiency and success has created a society where people can go days without meaningful human interaction, surrounded by hundreds yet deeply alone.
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With seller financing, the seller acts as the lender, typically providing their buyer with a short-term home loan. Read more âș
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If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained âmetalinguisticâ abilities? Read more âș
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Robot companies are racing toward a breakout year, but they'll have to confront some fundamental problems before making bigger promises. Read more âș
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A January order blocking wind energy projects in America has now been vacated by a U.S. judge and declared unlawful, reports the Associated Press: [Judge Saris of the U.S. district court for the district of Massachusetts] ruled in favor of a coalition of state attorneys general from 17 states and Washington DC, led by Letitia James, New York's attorney general, that challenged President Trump's day one order that paused leasing... Read more âș
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Here are hints and the answers for the NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle for Dec. 14, No. 447. Read more âș
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This week System76 launched the first stable release of its Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment, reports 9to5Linux. Announced in 2021, it's designed for all GNU/Linux distributions â and it shipping with Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS (based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS): Previous Pop!_OS releases used a version of the COSMIC desktop that was based on the GNOME desktop environment. However, System76 wanted to create a new desktop environment from scratch while keeping the... Read more âș
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The Galaxy A37 and A57 are expected to drop next month, and usually, the current models become more affordable. However, according to the latest tip, the company is planning to hike the prices of Galaxy A models in India by around INR 1,000. The Galaxy A56, on the other hand, will see its price go up by INR 2,000. The new prices will go into effect next week as early... Read more âș
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Chances are, if youâve played a multiplayer game online, youâve experienced lag in some way, shape, or form. Rubber-banding, delayed inputs, and framerate drops are all consequences of broader connectivity problems, and they can make gaming a miserable and frustrating experience. More often than not, lag shuts down a playerâs success in a competitive setting ... Read more âș
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The return of measles, weakening vaccines, and the complete destruction of the CDC are just a few of Kennedy's ignoble accomplishments in 2025. Read more âș
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Ahead of its entry into the US, the European brand with an ex-Ferrari boss and decades of motorsport success has a new EV to take on Porsche and Polestar. WIRED tries it on for size. Read more âș
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The R programming language "is sometimes frowned upon by 'traditional' software engineers," says the CEO of software quality services vendor Tiobe, "due to its unconventional syntax and limited scalability for large production systems." But he says it "continues to thrive at universities and in research-driven industries, and "for domain experts, it remains a powerful and elegant tool." Yet it's now gaining more popularity as statistics and large-scale data visualization become... Read more âș
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Rivian's autonomy chief James Philbin told Business Insider that the cost of lidar, a sensor that can be found in robotaxis, is no longer expensive. Read more âș
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Dick Van Dyke , who celebrated his 100th on Saturday, hasn't shied away from sharing his advice for a long, healthy life. Read more âș
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There are a number of new and notable features on the latest model of iPhone, but one feature can actually be rendered useless by a simple screen protector. Read more âș
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Five lawsuits were filed in Texas this week, putting some of the biggest names in PC tech under an uncomfortable spotlight, as their components are still being found in Russian weaponry. Read more âș
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The answer to the question âwhat charger should I use for my phone?â used to be simple â the right charger came in the box. That hasnât been true for a while now, at least not for most phones in most regions. Now you are expected to go out and buy your own charger. But which one? The main problem is that the U in USB is a lie â... Read more âș
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This week the Free Software Foundation honored Andy Wingo, Alx Sa, and Govdirectory with this year's annual Free Software Awards (given to community members and groups making "significant" contributions to software freedom): Andy Wingo is one of the co-maintainers of GNU Guile, the official extension language of the GNU operating system and the Scheme "backbone" of GNU Guix. Upon receiving the award, he stated: "Since I learned about free software,... Read more âș
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In 1975, 23-year-old electrical engineer Steve Sasson joined Kodak. And in a new interview with the BBC, he remembers that he'd found the whole photographic process "really annoying.... I wanted to build a camera with no moving parts. Now that was just to annoy the mechanical engineers..." "You take your picture, you have to wait a long time, you have to fiddle with these chemicals. Well, you know, I was... Read more âș
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Thereâs a reason emotional intelligence keeps showing up in research about what separates good leaders from great ones, successful relationships from failing ones, and people who navigate life smoothly from those who constantly hit walls. Studies have consistently shown that EQ often matters more than IQ when it comes to career success, relationship satisfaction, and ... Read more Read more âș
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If you had met me in my early twenties, you would have met someone who believed discipline was something you were either born with or you werenât. I genuinely thought successful people had some rare inner circuitry the rest of us didnât. They woke up early because it was ânaturalâ for them. They stayed consistent ... Read more Read more âș
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Iâve been watching my friends navigate their relationships with their aging parents, and thereâs a pattern I canât ignore. Some people talk to their parents daily. Others manage a obligatory call on holidays. A few have cut contact almost entirely. The difference isnât random. It comes down to specific behaviors that accumulate over decades and ... Read more Read more âș
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My sister rang me the other day, a bit emotional. Sheâd just spent the afternoon with our dad and her daughter, and something had shifted. Theyâd been in the garden together, the three of them. Dad was showing his granddaughter how to plant tomatoes, patiently explaining about spacing and depth, letting her make mistakes without ... Read more Read more âș
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The class that insists itâs âcomfortable but not richâ while sending their kids to schools that cost more than the median income. Nobody thinks theyâre upper middle class. Iâve noticed this pattern since I started writing about class. People earning $300,000 call themselves middle class. People living in million-dollar homes describe their situation as âcomfortable.â ... Read more Read more âș
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I spent most of my thirties trying to make everyone happy. When I left corporate to start my own consultancy, I thought the freedom would be exhilarating. But instead, I found myself saying yes to every client request, nodding along with bad ideas, and bending my recommendations to avoid conflict. Running that solo business forced ... Read more Read more âș
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I have a confession to make. My partnerâs dad is in his late sixties, and the guy moves better than me and most people I know in their thirties. He plays tennis twice a week, keeps up with his grandkids without breaking a sweat, and recently helped me move furniture up three flights of stairs ... Read more Read more âș
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I watched a guy at my gym spend forty minutes on his phone between sets last week. Same routine heâs had for years. Same weight. Same results. Or lack of them. It got me thinking about how many of us are stuck in loops we donât even notice. We say we want to progress, but ... Read more Read more âș
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My father spent thirty years in sales management, getting passed over for promotions repeatedly, staying loyal to companies that werenât loyal to him. For most of those years, he seemed fine. He went to work. He came home. He watched TV. He complained about his boss sometimes, but who doesnât? It wasnât until much later ... Read more Read more âș
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For years, I thought my body waking me up at 6:45 AM without an alarm was just a quirk. Then I started interviewing people whoâd built careers and lives they genuinely loved, and I noticed something. Almost all of them had figured out how to work with their mornings instead of fighting against them. These ... Read more Read more âș
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