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Paige Vickers/VoxThis was a hard year. But these 10 news stories remind us a better future is possible. I’m not going to lie to you: 2023 was an ugly year. War rages in Gaza, Ukraine, and Sudan, with millions displaced, injured, or dead. On top of global strife, AI-fueled misinformation runs rampant, we’re barreling past climate goals, and abortion access dwindles.
But when the world is mired in horrible things, it’s important to imagine a better future; without hope, new solutions wouldn’t be possible. I
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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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James Wise on why the Sovereign AI Unit criticism is wrong – and the one company he wishes he’d backed Read more ›
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Save 50% off this $59 Hoto Electric Screwdriver with 25 included bits. Limited-time Amazon countdown sale drops the price to just $29. Read more ›
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Over 280 ancient mass graves have been discovered east of the Nile, and the monuments predate ancient Egypt. Read more ›
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An AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon collaboration not be common, but if it improves satellite connectivity, we're all for it. Read more ›
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Razer's 2026 Blade 18 arrives with Intel's Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus, a dual-mode display hitting 440Hz or 240Hz 4K, up to an RTX 5090 with 24GB GDDR7. Read more ›
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Summer nights don't have to belong to mosquitoes. These clever gadgets use everything from UV light to salt blasts to help keep bites at bay. Read more ›
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AT&T detailed a joint venture (JV) between the Big Three this week. AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile are teaming up improve customer experience by eliminating coverage gaps, as well as help drive the industry as a whole by, “enabling competition and fostering innovation.” The big takeaway is that the JV is in a position to better... Read the original post: AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile Team Up to Eliminate Dead Zones Across US Read more ›
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io9 spoke with both Michael Johnston and Inde Navarrette about the new film, now in theaters. Read more ›
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Anthropic announced today that it is partnering with the Gates Foundation to "commit $200 million in grant funding, Claude usage credits, and technical support for programs in global health, life sciences, education, and economic mobility over the next four years." "This commitment is central to Anthropicâ(TM)s efforts to extend the benefits of AI in areas where markets alone will not," the company says. Reuters reports: One area of focus is... Read more ›
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Chaotic Eclipse is wreaking havoc across the Windows landscape, leaking two more flaws Read more ›
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Artificial intelligence companies keep talking about changing the world. Now two of the biggest names in AI and philanthropy are putting serious money behind that promise. Anthropic and the Gates Foundation announced Thursday a new $200 million partnership focused on ... Read more ›
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Sektori, one of last year's best games - and a game so closely related to twin-stick shooter Geometry Wars they could be the same thing - has finally arrived on Nintendo Switch 2. Read more Read more ›
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Gemini Spark appears to be the consumer-ready evolution aimed at a much broader audience. Read more ›
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The new Philips Smart Lighting sync box works with your TV to mirror the on-screen colors in your smart lights, and it's a lot less than you'd pay for the Hue version. Read more ›
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On Wednesday, when FBI agents raided the office of one of the most powerful Democrats in Virginia, Fox News just happened to have one of its Washington-based foreign correspondents on the scene in the small city of Portsmouth. What an extraordinary coincidence! The raid targeted state Sen. Louise Lucas, the 82-year-old president pro tempore of […] Read more ›
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So, what’s 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: “Financially, what will take me to $1B?” For Brockman, now OpenAI’s president, the answer was a yearslong restructuring […] Read more ›
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It’s hard to imagine modern life without glycols. They are used in cosmetics, fog machines, and food. As you read this, you’re almost certainly wearing or drinking from something they were used to produce — polyester fabric or plastic bottles, for example. If you brush your teeth with toothpaste or top your salad with bottled […] Read more ›
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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 world’s public health authorities on high alert. So it’s natural to have the follow-up question: Is this the next pandemic? Not likely, experts […] Read more ›
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It’s been four months since the US captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and brought him to the US to stand trial. His vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, 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 […] Read more ›
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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 “point of no return” that will see it surrounded by the ocean within decades due to the climate crisis, a stark new study has concluded. […] Read more ›
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By a 4-3 vote, the Virginia Supreme Court just struck down that state’s recently enacted congressional maps, which were intended to give Democrats four additional seats in the state’s 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 […] Read more ›
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For years, one of the bedrock adages of electoral politics was “it’s the economy, stupid.” 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, Carville’s iconic advice feels like it’s been forgotten. In President Joe Biden’s […] Read more ›
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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 […] Read more ›
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I’ve 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 […] Read more ›
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