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Residents of a Kenyan village learn they will receive UBI payments from GiveDirectly. | Oliver Ochanda/VoxMoney always helps, but for the very poor, one lump sum can last a long time. Large sections of my brain that could contain useful knowledge are instead filled up with dumb tweets I saw years ago. One of my absolute favorites was someone identifying himself only as âSide Hustle King,â who would ask his followers, âWould you rather get paid $1,000,000 right now or $50 every month for the rest of your lif
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more âș
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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 âș
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A data center twice the size of Manhattan that will consume around 9GW of power has just been approved in Utah. Read more âș
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After undergoing mandatory sea trials in 2025, the vessel has finally departed the shipbuilding yard to make a trip before being commissioned. Read more âș
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Netflix has been secretly building an AI animation studio called INKubator to produce animated shorts and specials using generative AI tools. Read more âș
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Meta is rolling out new features to its Meta Ray-Ban Display smart glasses, including bringing the ability to write messages just with hand gestures to all users. You'll be able to use the feature in WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram and with "native Android and iOS messaging," Meta says. The feature, which relies on the Meta Ray-Ban [âŠ] Read more âș
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Microsoft Edge is bringing Copilot tab reasoning, Journeys, Voice, and Vision to mobile, giving smartphone users a real reason to try it before Chromeâs Gemini upgrade arrives. Read more âș
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A growing number of writers are leaving Substack for alternatives most people haven't heard of like Ghost, Beehiiv, Patreon, and Passport. The reason, writes The Verge's Emma Roth, is the "platform's increased focus on social features as well as a pricing model that puts a chokehold on their business." From the report: Sean Highkin, the creator of the NBA-focused publication The Rose Garden Report, tells The Verge that he makes... Read more âș
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I've been these AKG headphones for 12 months now, and they still get daily use. Read more âș
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There are no confirmed cases in the US, but 41 people who were potentially exposed to the Andes virus are in quarantine or being monitored for symptoms. Read more âș
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Yesterday, in Musk v. Altman, before the jurors came in, Sam Altman's team passed up what looked - from a distance - like a little league trophy. It was not. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers had the lawyers read the inscription aloud for the press: "Never stop being a jackass." It's a commemoration OpenAI employees bought for [âŠ] Read more âș
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Joshua Kushnerâs investment firm Thrive Capital has bought roughly $100 million in Shopify shares, Bloomberg reported Thursday, framing the move as a bet on how AI will lead to gains in e-commerce. While Thrive is best known for its startup investments, it has also previously made bets on other ... Read more âș
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Sony posted before-and-after AI camera samples for the Xperia 1 VIII and accidentally handed every photography-literate person on the internet a masterclass in computational photography failure. Read more âș
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The Samsung Galaxy Book6 Ultra represents the manufacturerâs latest attempt to deliver a high-performance Windows alternative to the MacBook Pro. Marketed as a premium, ultra-portable powerhouse, the device prioritizes structural integrity and display quality, though its design choices and performance-to-price ratio have drawn significant scrutiny from industry analysts. Visually, the Galaxy Book6 Ultra mirrors the aesthetic language of Appleâs flagship laptop. The similarities in chassis design, port place Read more âș
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Europe produces 517 kilograms of waste per person every year, yet less than half of it ends up recycled. And, for decades, European populations have treated garbage as a logistics problem â a matter of moving or burying trash â which has left the industry as one of the least digitised in the world. Waste ... Read more âș
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So, whatâs a guy got to do to become a billionaire around here? Greg Brockman scribbled the question in his diary, recently unsealed as trial evidence, just two years after co-founding OpenAI as a charity in 2015: âFinancially, what will take me to $1B?â For Brockman, now OpenAIâs president, the answer was a yearslong restructuring [âŠ] Read more âș
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Itâs hard to imagine modern life without glycols. They are used in cosmetics, fog machines, and food. As you read this, youâre almost certainly wearing or drinking from something they were used to produce â polyester fabric or plastic bottles, for example. If you brush your teeth with toothpaste or top your salad with bottled [âŠ] Read more âș
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The details of the ongoing outbreak of hantavirus may sound uncomfortably familiar to all of us who lived through Covid-19: an aggressive pneumonia-like infection, a cruise ship quarantined with sick passengers, the worldâs public health authorities on high alert. So itâs natural to have the follow-up question: Is this the next pandemic? Not likely, experts [âŠ] Read more âș
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Itâs been four months since the US captured Venezuelan President NicolĂĄs Maduro and brought him to the US to stand trial. His vice president, Delcy RodrĂguez, is now in charge, but the Trump administration has been largely silent on what comes next for the country. In the meantime, Missy Ryan, a staff writer at the [âŠ] Read more âș
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This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The process of relocating people from New Orleans should start immediately, as the city has reached a âpoint of no returnâ that will see it surrounded by the ocean within decades due to the climate crisis, a stark new study has concluded. [âŠ] Read more âș
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By a 4-3 vote, the Virginia Supreme Court just struck down that stateâs recently enacted congressional maps, which were intended to give Democrats four additional seats in the stateâs congressional election after the upcoming midterms. The state enacted these new maps to cancel out Republican gerrymanders in Texas and other red states. Both the majority [âŠ] Read more âș
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For years, one of the bedrock adages of electoral politics was âitâs the economy, stupid.â The quip, coined by former Bill Clinton strategist James Carville, warned party leaders that economic concerns will always outrank other issues in the mind of voters But recently, Carvilleâs iconic advice feels like itâs been forgotten. In President Joe Bidenâs [âŠ] Read more âș
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There are few news subjects more reliably depressing than nutritional science. A glance at the headlines will tell you that sugar is bad for you, red meat is bad for you, and alcohol is really, really bad for you. The message seems to be that if a food or drink gives you even an iota [âŠ] Read more âș
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Iâve been getting my hair braided ever since I was a little girl. In elementary school my Moesha obsession meant Brandy-style box braids; in middle school, Alicia Keys was the reason behind my cornrows, and even now, a vacation is not a vacation without a head full of boho braids. I always thought of braids [âŠ] Read more âș
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Your Mileage May Vary is an advice column offering you a unique framework for thinking through your moral dilemmas. Itâs based on value pluralism â 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. Hereâs this weekâs question from [âŠ] Read more âș
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