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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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Ripple's Brad Garlinghouse says he and co-founder Chris Larsen considered winding the company down and handing its XRP to shareholders before deciding to fight the 2020 lawsuit. Read more ›
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The BIP 110 proposal would cap arbitrary data on Bitcoin for a year, but Saylor, Adam Back and others say turning a spam dispute into a consensus fight could create a bigger risk than the spam itself. Read more ›
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К 2013 году американская журналистика пять лет как падала в яму. Кризис 2008-го обрушил рекламную модель прессы; газетные ньюсрумы США за следующее десятилетие потеряли больше половины сотрудников — десятки тысяч профессионалов с опытом, связями и портфолио оказались на улице (ничего не напоминает?). Куда идёт уволенный журналист? Во фриланс — больше некуда. Одновременно университетские программы научной журналистики (MIT, Нью-Йоркский, Санта-Круз) продолжали исправно выпускать молодых, потому что профессия Read more ›
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“Not using AI is like being left behind,” Apple CEO Tim Cook’s remark captures the urgency around artificial intelligence today… Read more ›
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The useful reading of the MIT finding is not that generative AI has failed. It is that enterprise AI has run into the same old enterprise problem: a tool that does not fit the work is not made valuable by being technically impressive. The report in question has been widely identified as MIT NANDA’s The ... Read more Read more ›
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AI may have killed Stack Overflow while training on the same platform, as it pushed expert contributors away from the platform Read more ›
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There is a version of a good old age that most of us carry around without examining it. In it, an older person is comfortable, cared for, in reasonable health, and surrounded by people who love them. Money is not a worry. The phone rings on the right days, someone remembers the birthday, and the ... Read more Read more ›
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Stephen Dawson holds onto the Science and Innovation portfolio in a Cabinet reshuffle sparked by Paul Papalia’s retirement from politics. Read more ›
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The ‘fault tolerant’ computer — one that is acceptably error-free — is still some time away Read more ›
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Justice commissioner Michael McGrath says Brussels seeks to strengthen social media safeguards Read more ›
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How to watch Wimbledon for free. Live stream Sinner vs. Zverev in the 2026 Wimbledon final for free from anywhere in the world. Read more ›
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The Associated Press reports: An islandwide blackout struck Cuba on Friday for the second time this week as the nation of nearly 10 million people grapples with a crumbling power grid and fuel shortages stemming from a U.S. energy blockade... Authorities reported that they have already begun restoring power to some areas. On Monday, another massive blackout affected nearly 10 million people nationwide. Authorities reported during the week that service... Read more ›
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While the previous version of its flagship phone used titanium, the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra has since ditched it for what the company calls "Armor Aluminum". Read more ›
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The Honor Magic V6 is available in Europe at a discounted price of €1,700/£1,500 until the end of the month. The EU price is set to go up to €2,300 in August and the UK price relies on a £500 voucher, which probably won’t last long. In either case, you get a free Honor Pad 10 and a 24-month screen protection plan. Even so, the price is turning some potential... Read more ›
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Scientists have uncovered evidence that serotonin, the chemical best known for regulating mood, may also speed the progression of a common heart valve disease in some people. The research suggests that patients with degenerative mitral regurgitation who take SSRI antidepressants and carry a specific genetic variant may develop severe valve damage sooner, potentially requiring surgery at a younger age. Read more ›
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi did not find the deepest form of human aliveness where modern culture often tells us to look for it. Not in total comfort. Not in passive ease. Not in the blank relief of finally doing nothing. He found it in the opposite place: in hard, absorbing activity that demanded so much attention that ... Read more Read more ›
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Smart TVs can seem like plug-and-play devices, but streaming apps, internet access, software updates, and privacy settings are worth understanding before setup. Read more ›
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Gold may have a secret self-defense system that helps it resist tarnishing. Researchers discovered that atoms on gold surfaces reorganize themselves into patterns that block oxygen from reacting with the metal, suppressing oxidation by up to a trillion-fold. Beyond explaining why gold jewelry stays bright for generations, the finding could help scientists create more powerful gold-based catalysts for manufacturing and clean energy. Read more ›
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Demand is up 6%, occupancy is a fat 77%, and the pipeline is thinning. That may be a textbook setup for pricing power. Read more ›
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While India's premium travel boom is real, Air India and IndiGo's new entry-level fares reveal that the country's biggest aviation opportunity remains attracting cost-conscious first-time flyers. Read more ›
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The PIF is stepping back from direct tourism investment, and private capital is racing into the vacuum — but no two entrants agree on which segment actually has room to grow. Read more ›
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Comporta's magic was scarcity and silence. Sublime's expansion bets it can grow without diluting either. Read more ›
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Travel apps inside AI chatbots are starting to look like real referral channels. The catch, Skift's testing found: A brand can be connected and still get skipped. Read more ›
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Turns out the World Cup’s tourism impact extends beyond the 16 host cities, with outside markets seeing some of the steepest spikes in demand. Read more ›
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Concerts, festivals, sports and cultural moments are changing where and how the world travels, and the shift is proving durable. Most operators still treat it as a calendar event. The Skift Live Tourism Summit, presented by Live Nation, is the room where they learn to build around it. Read more ›
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Hilton and Navan have launched a direct booking connection that skips distribution middlemen, giving the hotel group more control over retailing. It's an early step in a broader corporate travel push to overhaul how road warriors book hotels. Read more ›
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Chinese OTAs have long offered airport transfers and chauffeur services through third-party partnerships. If completed, Tongcheng's Dida acquisition would make it one of the first to own the ride-sharing marketplace itself, rather than plugging into someone else's. Read more ›
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Mews says AI can remove the handoffs that once slowed work and hurt margins. Now it has to prove a leaner structure can bring hotels closer, not leave them with less. Read more ›
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