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Last month, a heat wave persisted for days in the Chilean coastal city of Viña del Mar. The landscape, already affected by an El Niño-supercharged drought, was baked dry. So, when wildfires sparked,
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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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Samsung, in an attempt to build more hype for its upcoming lineup of foldable devices, has taken drastic measures and wiped its entire Instagram feed. To be honest, I couldn’t tell you how many photos/reels the brand had posted, but alas, it’s all gone. In a post sent out to media, Samsung says that, “This... Read the original post: Samsung Just Wiped Its Instagram Feed Read more ›
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Samsung is teasing its next generation of foldables with a cryptic social media campaign, and we're just trying to read the tea leaves. Read more ›
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Rapid AI adoption is just shifting bottlenecks downstream as governance fails to keep up, making trust more critical than speed. Read more ›
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The White House is easing restrictions on Anthropic’s most advanced AI models weeks after ordering the company to suspend access for foreign nationals. Read more ›
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Apple is working on a high-end MacBook Pro that could be called the "MacBook Ultra." The device will have several firsts in a Mac, including an OLED display and a touchscreen. Subscribe to the MacRumors YouTube channel for more videos. The "Ultra" name isn't a sure thing, and Apple could also continue to call the device the MacBook Pro. It will be a "Pro" device in the MacBook Pro line.... Read more ›
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Call it a hot chip summer. Investors are flocking to startups making semiconductors and components to run AI more efficiently, minting high valuations for businesses looking to compete with Nvidia and other stalwarts. Etched, a four-year-old startup run by young Harvard dropouts trying to develop a specialized AI chip, announced a $800 million funding round Tuesday. Last week, our colleagues reported that chip startups SambaNova and xLight are both raising... Read more ›
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Nanoleaf today launched the Smart Multicolor Ceiling Light, an affordable Matter-compatible lighting product. With a dual-sided design, there's a main downlight and an upward backlight for a layered lighting glow. Each side can be controlled individually for bright light or an ambient lighting option. The light has 196 LEDs inside, with up to 2600 lumens. White light ranges from 2200K to 6500K, supporting tones that change throughout the day to... Read more ›
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Erasmo Guerra enjoys a takeout dinner on his balcony in Bangkok while watching the neon-lit dinner boats cruise along the river. Read more ›
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Microsoft is planning job cuts that are expected to affect areas such as sales, consulting, and Xbox as it ramps up AI spending. Read more ›
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Senators Tim Scott and Bill Hagerty, who managed to push the crypto GENIUS Act into law, introduced the bill to give the government powers to defend U.S. AI. Read more ›
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iOS 27 lets you describe a photo in plain English, and Siri will find it. I tested it extensively on the developer beta, and it saves more time than you'd expect. Read more ›
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Amazon says it is ending sideloading on new Fire Sticks because "apps that facilitate piracy, and other apps, can carry malware," adding that there is "a good amount of evidence" that sideloaded apps may contain unwanted code or behavior. However, the company did not provide specific examples of Fire Stick users being harmed. Ars Technica reports: Amazon has released two Fire Stick models that use its proprietary, Linux-based operating system,... 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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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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Zohran Mamdani just took his first steps toward remaking the national Democratic Party. The New York City mayor took on his state’s Democratic establishment in three key congressional primaries Tuesday — and in all three, he prevailed. Brad Lander, the former city comptroller who made an alliance with Mamdani when they were both running for […] Read more ›
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This story was originally published in The Highlight. To get access to member-exclusive stories like this every month, become a Vox Member today. A generation or two ago, when Americans had an important but nonemergency medical need, many of them would have called on their family doctor, somebody who had treated them for years. It was a […] Read more ›
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This story was originally published in The Highlight. To get access to member-exclusive stories like this every month, become a Vox Member today. “Elon Musk, Ryan Seacrest, and Chris Anderson of TED, consider yourself challenged,” Bill Gates bellowed from his garden. Beaming, he tugged on a candy cane-colored rope that dumped a barrel of icy cold water […] Read more ›
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The dust from the first round of the “redistricting wars” — the unusual mid-decade redrawing of congressional maps in search of a partisan edge in the 2026 midterms — is settling, and Republicans have a clear advantage: about 10 congressional seats, give or take. But that clear-cut number obscures something else. While the GOP may […] Read more ›
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In 1954, years after he led the project that created the atomic bomb, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was called to testify before the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). The ostensible subject of the hearings was Oppenheimer’s position on the hydrogen bomb, a far more destructive version of the atomic bomb that the US had developed and […] Read more ›
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In November 2023, Melat Kiros blew up her career. Major US law firms had signed a letter denouncing antisemitism and “calls for the elimination of the Israeli state.” Kiros, a 26-year-old attorney at one of those firms, publicly posted a rebuttal, in which she condemned bigotry but said the “geopolitical legitimacy of the Israeli state” […] Read more ›
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In the last few years, there has been a notable shift in the state propaganda coming out of North Korea. A young girl — maybe 13 or so — has become a fixture at most major state events. Before an intercontinental ballistic missile launch, she can be seen side by side with her father, North […] Read more ›
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This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: President Donald Trump is sabotaging a rare bipartisan legislative win for a bill with no chance of passage. What’s happening? Trump was set to sign […] Read more ›
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Democratic socialists won big in New York’s primaries Tuesday, as two members of the Democratic Socialists of America defeated the Democratic establishment choices in congressional primaries, and several more triumphed in state legislative primaries. The victories suggested that DSA member Zohran Mamdani’s election as mayor of New York City last year wasn’t a fluke. Democratic […] Read more ›
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New York’s congressional primaries on Tuesday were supposed to be the moment AI’s top backers definitively proved they could bend US politics to their will. Instead, they left behind a muddy stalemate that only raises more questions about whether their spending can keep pace with an anti-AI backlash. The stage for the battle was set […] Read more ›
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