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Insured losses from natural disasters around the world in the first half of the year have already topped $60 billion, 54 percent higher than the 10-year average. Three-quarters of insured losses were due to severe thunderstorms, flooding, and forest fires. More recent calamities like Hurricane Helene will push the toll this year much higher. Damage […]
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Honor needed no fanfare to release its latest entry-level smartphones – X5b and X5b Plus. The devices are available in several Middle East markets; as the names suggest, they are closely related. Honor did make the Plus slightly better, but similarities are more than the differences. Honor X5b and X5b Plus have an LTE-only Helio G36 chipset and run Android 14 with MagicOS 8.0 on top. The screen is a... Read more ›
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Christensen kick-started online culture by inspiring thousands of hobbyist communities. Read more ›
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Bellwether LVMH reports third-quarter revenue on Tuesday, which could indicate how the rest of the industry fared in a challenging market. Read more ›
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Carlos Tavares said automakers will have to wrestle with higher costs as they have to invest in both electric and combustion-engine vehicles. Read more ›
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Elon Musk and the team behind xAI purportedly setup a total of 100,000 H200 Nvidia GPUs in just 19 days. That's a feat that should have taken four years to complete. Read more ›
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French cyber insurance leader Stoïk announced a €25 million Series B funding round led by Alven with participation from existing investors: Andreessen Horowitz, Munich Re Ventures, Opera Tech Ventures, and Anthemis. Stoïk also announced the addition of Cyber Integrity Capital (CYBICA) and Tokio Marine HCC International (TMHCCI), a leading specialty insurance group and a member ... Read more ›
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Wordle 1,214 is the third hardest ever, with an average score of 5.7. Here are my tips for solving this kind of answer. Read more ›
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A man who says Combs orally raped him while he worked for Ecko accuses Macy's of keeping mum to save a Sean John deal, lawsuit says. Read more ›
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Apple is preparing to begin supporting digital car keys in the Wallet app for certain Volvo, Polestar, and Audi vehicles, based on code changes discovered by MacRumors in Apple's Wallet app backend. ‌The car keys‌ function can allow an iPhone or Apple Watch with NFC capabilities to unlock, lock, or start a vehicle through the Wallet app by simply holding the device near a compatible vehicle's NFC reader. Car key... Read more ›
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The Lanying R6000, or the Lanthanum Shadow, is designed to carry up to 4,400 pounds and fly a maximum of 2,400 miles, per a government-shared report. Read more ›
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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is discovered to have incredibly brutal streaming bandwidth requirements: limited cap users need not apply. Read more ›
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The new accusations against Sean 'Diddy' Combs are part of a wave of more than 100 lawsuits attorney Tony Buzbee said will come over the next month. Read more ›
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SpaceX achieved a world first by returning its Starship rocket booster to its launch site, a reminder that Elon Musk can prove the doubters wrong. Read more ›
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Just a handful of VPN providers offer support for Snapdragon PCs, and NordVPN is among the very few with an ARM-native application. Read more ›
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Gerber has turned more bearish on Tesla and Elon Musk in the last year, whittling down his fund's position in the EV maker as he eyes strategy missteps. Read more ›
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A lower-level federal court has twice rejected Trump's efforts to move the case to a venue where, if elected, he could try to pardon himself. Read more ›
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Since Hurricane Helene decimated parts of western North Carolina last week, former President Donald Trump has seized on the tragedy to perpetuate lies about the federal response, sowing chaos and confusion as officials scramble to help those affected. In recent days, Trump has repeatedly and falsely suggested that the federal government is purposely neglecting areas […] Read more ›
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Between Sunday and Monday morning — a mere 24 hours — Hurricane Milton grew from a tropical storm to a fierce Category 5 hurricane. With wind speeds pushing 180 miles per hour Monday afternoon, before weakening Tuesday morning, Milton is one of the strongest hurricanes ever recorded in the Atlantic. Forecasters expect Milton, which is […] Read more ›
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AI companies are on a mission to radically change our world. They’re working on building machines that could outstrip human intelligence and unleash a dramatic economic transformation on us all. Sam Altman, the CEO of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, has basically told us he’s trying to build a god — or “magic intelligence in the sky,” as he […] Read more ›
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Former president Donald Trump’s new anti-immigration line sounds like a very old one: that immigrants are biologically worse than native-born Americans. In the latest episode of conservative pundit Hugh Hewitt’s podcast, Trump argued that the impulse to murder is determined by one’s genetics — and that immigrants today have “bad genes.” The comments seem to […] Read more ›
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“Social Security reform” is one of those soundbites you might hear every election cycle without anything ever changing. Politicians have been sounding the alarm for decades, saying that the program — which helps retirees, people with disabilities, and their families stay afloat — is quickly running out of money. So what’s actually at stake? Social […] Read more ›
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Most people know Sonoma County, the Northern California region sometimes called America’s Provence, for its lush vineyards, Mediterranean-style villas, and farm-to-table restaurants. But when I traveled to wine country last year, it was to observe a side of Sonoma that few outsiders know about: a dead-of-night animal rights protest at an industrial chicken slaughterhouse, located […] Read more ›
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What is the relationship between creativity and intelligence? That’s a fundamental, perhaps unanswerable, question. Is it also an obsolete one? The question today seems to be: What is the relationship between creativity and artificial intelligence? We tend to think of artistic creativity as a uniquely human endeavor, but what if it can be much more? […] Read more ›
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While making a grilled cheese the other day, a question popped into my mind: Why is cheese often yellow even though milk is white? Of course, this isn’t entirely true across the (cheese) board — cheese comes in a remarkable range of colors, from pale white to deep yellow-orange. Take cheddar, for instance — it […] Read more ›
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Insured losses from natural disasters around the world in the first half of the year have already topped $60 billion, 54 percent higher than the 10-year average. Three-quarters of insured losses were due to severe thunderstorms, flooding, and forest fires. More recent calamities like Hurricane Helene will push the toll this year much higher. Damage […] Read more ›
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Tomorrow is World Mental Health Day, and in many ways, it seems like the world has made great strides in mental health care. In 2023 alone, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) poured $1.25 billion into research studying how mental illness manifests in the brain. People are prescribed more psychiatric drugs now than ever, […] Read more ›
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