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Ireland has announced what it says is the world's first permanent basic income program for artists, a scheme that will pay 2,000 selected artists $385 per week for three years, funded by an $21.66 million allocation from Budget 2026. The program follows a 2022 pilot -- the Irish government's first large-scale randomized control trial -- that found participants had greater professional autonomy, less anxiety, and higher life satisfaction.
An external cost-benefit analysis of the pilot calculated a return o
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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AI growth could add up to 5 million metric tons of e-waste by 2030, as rapid hardware upgrades and data center expansion increase environmental impact. Read more ›
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I grew up in Australia and now live in Saigon, which means I’ve spent most of my adult life watching people with very different amounts of money move through the same social rooms. Expats who made a fortune in tech sitting at the same restaurant as a Vietnamese grandmother who raised five children on almost ... Read more Read more ›
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A growing wave of “AI doom influencers” is shaping public perception as real-world developments amplify concerns about advanced AI systems. Read more ›
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Luxury appliance brands might not have the same name recognition as more mainstream ones, but they boast high-end finishes (and even higher prices). Read more ›
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Введение: Звучащие кувалдыПредставьте, что вы часто ходите мимо кузницы. Кузнецы бьют молотами по наковальне, и вдруг вы замечаете странную вещь: одни молоты звучат вместе красиво, слитно, а другие — противно, вразнобой. Так, согласно легенде, Пифагор пришёл к открытию, которое положило начало теории музыки . Он принёс молоты в лабораторию и взвесил их. Оказалось, что веса молотов, дающих красивое сочетание (консонанс), соотносятся как простые числа 2:1, 3:2 и 4:3 . Так... Read more ›
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Dalal Street emerged as a founder’s paradise in 2025, with 18 Indian startups listing on the bourses and collectively mopping… Read more ›
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iPhone 18 Pro leak reveals a new Dark Cherry color, offering a premium, muted look similar to Kindle devices, alongside other subtle color options. Read more ›
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Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, plus my commentary on the puzzles. Read more ›
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Looking for NYT Strands answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, including the spangram. Read more ›
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Anthropic has received expressions of interest from investors who want to put money into the AI startup at an $800 billion valuation, but the company has no current plans to raise money. Those were among the details in a profile of Anthropic Chief Financial Officer Krishna Rao published by The ... Read more ›
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You may have heard of the engine break-in process for a new car, but there is also a similar rule to follow for your brakes that could save you some money. Read more ›
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"A trailer has been released for the first film to star an authorised generative AI version of a major Hollywood actor," writes The Guardian: Val Kilmer was cast in western As Deep As the Grave before his death in April 2025. Production delays meant he never shot any scenes, but the creative team worked with UK-based company Sonantic to create an AI speaking voice based on his old recordings. His... Read more ›
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From family trips to heavy haulage, these minivans offer cavernous capacity, flexible seating layouts, and even capable performance for maximum practicality. Read more ›
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Modern fighter jets are extremely capable, except they run into some efficiency problems at extremely high speeds. China says it may have developed a solution. Read more ›
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A mosaic metasurface design integrates eleven optical functions, claiming that controlled disorder can enhance performance and reduce space requirements in optical systems. Read more ›
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This rare Microsoft bundle deal gives you a lifetime license to Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows and Windows 11 Pro. Read more ›
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Arizona state prosecutors allege Kalshi is running an illegal gambling operation, charging the prediction market with 20 "wagering" misdemeanors. But Friday a federal judge "temporarily barred Arizona from enforcing its gambling laws against predictive market operators," reports the Associated Press, "and put the brakes on a criminal wagering case that the state has filed against Kalshi. "U.S. District Judge Michael Liburdi's ruling means a Monday arraignment hearing for Kalshi has... Read more ›
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175 million people in Brazil now use its instant-payment system "Pix", developed by the country's central bank for real-time payments using QR codes or keys, and American Banker notes that the central banks of Argentina and Costa Rica also have developed their own widely used digital systems for instant payments. Latin America has been able to build up sleek and effective payment systems in record time because it is not... Read more ›
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Remember that AI-powered vending machine that went bankrupt after Wall Street Journal reporters "systematically manipulated the bot into giving away its entire inventory for free"? It was Anthropic's experiment, with setup handled by a startup named Andon Labs (which also built the hardware and software integration). But for their latest experiment, Andon Labs co-founders Lukas Petersson and Axel Backlund "signed a three-year lease on a retail space in SF," reports... Read more ›
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Forbes estimates he's worth roughly $110 billion, "placing him ahead of Bill Gates." And now Changpeng Zhao, the 49-year-old billionaire founder of Binance, "has written a memoir..." It arrives with the unmistakable timing of a man determined to tell the world his version of his meteoric crypto rise and fall, and foreshadow his comeback. The book, Freedom of Money: A Memoir of Protecting Users, Resilience, and the Founding of Binance,... Read more ›
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The word clanker — a disparaging term for AI and robots — "has made its way into the Linux kernel," reports the blog It's FOSS "thanks to Greg Kroah-Hartman, the Linux stable kernel maintainer and the closest thing the project has to a second-in-command." He's been quietly running what looks like an AI-assisted fuzzing tool on the kernel that lives in a branch called "clanker" on his working kernel tree.... Read more ›
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The biotech industry's engineered cells could become an $8 trillion market by 2035, notes Phys.org. But how do you keep them from being stolen? Their article notes "an uptick in the theft and smuggling of high-value biological materials, including specially engineered cells." In Science Advances, a team of U.S. researchers present a new approach to genetically securing precious biological material. They created a genetic combination lock in which the locking... Read more ›
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Bloomberg describes him as a "former Harvard Medical School professor whose research has focused on the intersection of AI and neuroscience." "For the past 20 years, I studied how the human brain stores and retrieves memories," Kreiman writes on LinkedIn. And now "My co-founder Spandan Madan and I built a new algorithm to endow humans with perfect and infinite memory." Engramme connects to your **memorome**, i.e., entire digital life. Large... Read more ›
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Bloomberg describes him as a "former Harvard Medical School professor whose research has focused on the intersection of AI and neuroscience." "For the past 20 years, I studied how the human brain stores and retrieves memories," Kreiman writes on LinkedIn. And now "My co-founder Spandan Madan and I built a new algorithm to endow humans with perfect and infinite memory." Engramme connects to your **memorome**, i.e., entire digital life. Large... Read more ›
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Mississippi has one warehouse — run by a contractor — that sells all the liquor for the entire state of 2.9 million people. "If a restaurant or store anywhere in Mississippi wanted a bottle of Jim Beam, they had to order it from the wholesale warehouse," reports the Washington Post. But then Mississippi's warehouse-managing contractor implemented a new computer system that wasn't compatible with the state's delivery system (like they'd... Read more ›
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"RGB LED TVs have been the talk of the TV world this year," argues The Verge, with models coming from all the manufacturers." And the first one of 2026 is here — the UR9 from China's Hisense — "the first look at the viability of the new backlight technology outside of demo rooms." They call it "a step above the traditional mini-LED TVs of years past." and "a great first... Read more ›
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