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This story was originally published in The Highlight, Vox’s member-exclusive magazine. To get access to member-exclusive stories every month, become a Vox Member today. When the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus published Systema Naturae in 1735, he set out to classify every living thing on Earth — inventing the naming system we still use today and personally describing […]
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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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Decades before today's affordability crisis, one particular year exposed how recessions, prices, and interest rates can reshape car buying. Read more ›
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"Scientists have created a miraculous new way to stop fires from spreading through neighborhoods using nothing but sound," reports the New York Post: Former NASA engineers with California-based Sonic Fire Tech found that using sound waves can snuff out blazes and potentially be used to stop another Pacific Palisades inferno... The technology works by targeting oxygen molecules using low-frequency sound waves that vibrate them, stopping the fire from growing. "Sound... Read more ›
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Consumer Reports dropped 18 cars from its 2026 recommended list after owners reported more problems with reliability and key vehicle systems. Read more ›
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Чтобы не зависеть от онлайн-сервисов с их лимитами, очередями и закрытыми настройками, локальный генератор изображений можно собрать прямо на своём компьютере. Такой подход даёт больше контроля: можно самостоятельно выбирать модель, менять параметры генерации, подключать LoRA, использовать апскейл, ControlNet и другие инструменты. Читать далее Read more ›
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After yet another modest upgrade, you might be wondering what would be the most sensible pick between the newly released Samsung Galaxy S26+ and the year-old Samsung Galaxy S25+. After all, it looks like the latter gets you a lot of the way there at a more reasonable starting price. But not everything becomes immediately apparent from the spec sheet alone. There are still some under-the-hood changes that need exploring.... Read more ›
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A cancelled spy thriller, a rotoscoped animated drama, and a melancholic sci-fi anthology make up this weekend's three underrated Prime Video shows that never got the audience they deserved. Read more ›
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Tools can get quite expensive, but they don't have to be; you can get some very useful tools for $25 or less, especially if you shop at Harbor Freight. Read more ›
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Рассмотрен подход к созданию управляемого "бэкдора", позволяющего подгружать функции без остановки и перезагрузки. С помощью манипуляций с линкер-скриптом и средств языка C создаются "точки расширения" в прошивке, позволяющие в будущем внедрять новые функциональные модули без пересборки и перезаписи всей программы. Такой подход может быть полезен при разработке отказоустойчивых систем для оптимизации жизненного цикла встроенного ПО, так как позволяет заложить гибкость при непредвиденных модификациях. Читать 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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The Academy confirms AI cannot win Oscars for acting or writing, reinforcing that human performance and authorship remain central despite growing use of AI in filmmaking. Read more ›
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Thinking about buying a pre-owned SUV? Watch out - these five popular models are notorious for catastrophic gear failures and expensive repairs. Read more ›
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Long-time Slashdot reader Anne Thwacks frequently uses YouTube's subtitles "not to disturb others in the room, or because my hearing is not very good." But they say there's a new problem. "The subtitling is terrible!" Almost every sentence has a huge error. Proper names are more often wrong than right. Non-English place names are almost always mangled to barely recognizable. And no effort whatsoever is made to use context to... Read more ›
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If you're eyeing new outdoor tools, Stihl's latest lineup shows where battery gear is improving in ways that actually change day to day work. Read more ›
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Samsung's Galaxy S24 phones are still available in stores, but are they better than the ones that came out in 2026? One model stands out as a worthy contender. Read more ›
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This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. It’s been just over eight weeks since the US and Israel started a war with Iran for contradictory and incoherent reasons. Virtually nothing about the conflict — except maybe its stakes — has gotten […] Read more ›
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More than 63 million people in America are caregivers — of kids, of parents, and loved ones. And nearly half of caregivers under the age of 50 are taking care of a parent and a child at the same time. Maybe you’re one of them. Maybe you’re also trying to hold down a job and […] Read more ›
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The most shocking thing about the attempted attack on the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday night at the Washington Hilton was how not shocking it was. Even before an armed man attempted to breach the secured area outside the hotel’s ballroom, the event’s guest list was a grim self-portrait of political violence in […] Read more ›
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Your Mileage May Vary is an advice column offering you a unique framework for thinking through your moral dilemmas. It’s based on value pluralism — the idea that each of us has multiple values that are equally valid but that often conflict with each other. To submit a question, fill out this anonymous form. Here’s this week’s question from […] Read more ›
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How well do you know your neighbors? Could you ask them for a favor? The internet and its promise of limitless connectivity has led many people to overlook those kinds of connections, which used to be far more common. But things are starting to shift back the other way: Americans are rediscovering the value of […] Read more ›
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There are many ways you could measure the health of a city — its air quality index, its population growth, the number of jobs it added last year. My favorite is one not often high on the priority lists of city governments in the US: How safe is it to walk? The US has the […] Read more ›
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For years, many Democrats have lamented the fact that some workers at highly profitable corporations — from Amazon to Walmart to McDonald’s — receive Medicaid benefits. Their reasoning isn’t hard to understand: To be eligible for safety net programs, one must have a low household income. And why should anyone working at a highly profitable […] Read more ›
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Buying tickets to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics is kind of like having a megawealthy friend talk to you about the hobbies that they enjoy. Do you fence? Do you like cricket? Badminton’s fun, right? Like a diabolically rich friend, the Olympics are also, at the same time, a test of financial responsibility. How much […] Read more ›
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Lena Dunham, the subject of a thousand 2010s think pieces about whether or not she is problematic, has re-emerged from behind the curtain with her new memoir, Famesick. But this time around, the think pieces look different. Some of them are mea culpas addressed to Dunham. “We owe Lena Dunham an apology,” declared Rachel Simon […] Read more ›
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If I’d only listened to the first half of the Supreme Court’s Monday argument in Chatrie v. United States, a case asking when police can use cellphone data to determine who was present near the site of a crime, I would be convinced that the Court is about to drastically limit Americans’ right to privacy. […] Read more ›
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