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Financial Times•9 days ago•1 min read

Chinese group’s technology allows electric vehicles to be charged in as little as five minutes

Business Insider•9 days ago•1 min read

The 'Shark Tank' investor says his Utah data center will create 10,000 construction jobs. The project faces opposition due to environmental concerns.

Business Insider•9 days ago•1 min read

Thinking Machines Lab, led by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, faces talent loss to rivals like Meta amid Silicon Valley's competitive AI sector.

The Verge•9 days ago•1 min read

At its peak, the Androscoggin paper mill in Jay, Maine, a rural town about 67 miles northwest of Portland, employed about 1,500 people - until a pulp digester exploded in 2020, forcing the mill to close permanently. In 2023, the 1.4 million-square-foot facility was purchased through a joint venture by JGT2 Redevelopment and a number […]

Business Insider•9 days ago•1 min read

Harvard computer science professor David J. Malan says CS will remain valuable, but interest is likely to fluctuate for a while.

Al Jazeera•9 days ago•1 min read

The 213cm centre, who publicly came out as gay in 2013, had been battling a brain tumour.

The Guardian•9 days ago•1 min read

Sussex police say officers are working to identify women and understand what had happened to themThe bodies of three women have been recovered from the sea off Brighton, Sussex police said.The force said emergency services were called to concerns for the welfare of three women in the sea off Brighton at around 5.45am on Wednesday. Continue reading...

Al Jazeera•9 days ago•1 min read

Palantir, Anduril, Google and other tech giants are selling AI-powered, computer-guided weapons systems.

Al Jazeera•9 days ago•1 min read

Miami and Argentina player earns more than twice as much as the second-highest-paid player in Major League Soccer.

The Verge•9 days ago•1 min read

Amazon's head of devices and services, Panos Panay, says that the company is "not necessarily" planning to release a smartphone, but has stopped short of denying it outright. It was previously reported that Amazon is developing an Alexa-enabled AI phone codenamed "Transformer," more than 10 years after it scrapped its ill-fated Fire Phone. Speaking to […]

The Guardian•9 days ago•1 min read

Another ally of health secretary renews call for resignation of prime minister, who is due to deliver king’s speech• UK politics live – latest updatesWes Streeting has held talks with Keir Starmer in Downing Street as an ally of the health secretary renewed calls for the prime minister to resign, saying his authori

France 24•9 days ago•1 min read

Oliver Farry is pleased to welcome Muhammad Munir, Virologist and Professor in Virology and Viral Zoonosis at Lancaster University. Munir offers a rare combination of epidemiological precision, operational insight, and public health realism as he assesses the international response to the hantavirus. Speaking at a moment of acute uncertainty, Munir frames the repatriation effort not merely as a logistical exercise, but as what he calls “a crucial juncture and a Rubicon moment”: a threshold at wh

Wired•9 days ago•1 min read

This is the first time NASA has encountered a situation like this, and it took nearly a week to resolve.

The Guardian•9 days ago•1 min read

Defence minister says E-7A Wedgetail surveillance aircraft deployed to Gulf in March will join UK and France-led defensive effort to calm Iran conflictFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our

BBC News•9 days ago•1 min read

The foreign minister says the "distressed" Ghanaians registered with the embassy in Pretoria to be evacuated.

Business Insider•9 days ago•1 min read

Savvy tenants are scoring cheaper rent as landlords hustle to fill a heap of new apartment units. Renters' leverage won't last for long, though.

France 24•9 days ago•1 min read

Genie Godula is pleased to welcome Bryce Warner, Canadian virologist and Research Scientist at Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization. When reports emerged of suspected human to human transmission of the Andes virus, memories of the early days of COVID-19 were never far from public consciousness: Cruise ships, quarantine protocols, international evacuations, alarmist headlines. But according to Bryce Warner, the scientific reality is profoundly different. Joining us from the University of S

DW News•9 days ago•1 min read

A new study using satellite data finds that 58% of the global population has been assigned to the wrong tier in the UN's Human Development Index. That can have real-world consequences for how aid reaches people.

The Guardian•9 days ago•1 min read

Exclusive: Where parties fielded multiple candidates in last week’s vote, those at top of list were more likely to be pickedFancy your chances in politics? Then perhaps you should change your name to Aaron Aaronson or Aaliyah Aardvark, figures from last week’s local elections in England suggest.A Guardian analysis of election results compiled by the website Democracy Club points to a striking alphabet effect. In wards where a party fielded three candidates, those listed nearer t

Financial Times•9 days ago•1 min read

Iran war has cut into oil consumption but not enough to halt ‘rapid’ draw on inventories

DW News•9 days ago•1 min read

US President Donald Trump is hoping for a foreign policy win at the upcoming summit with China's Xi Jinping. The Iran war, trade deals and Taiwan are expected to be high on the agenda during Trump's visit to Beijing.

DW News•9 days ago•1 min read

The answer is complex — and says a lot about how masculinity works in the modern world.

DW News•9 days ago•1 min read

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reportedly reduced the number of vehicles in his official convoy. The reports come as Modi is making an austerity appeal to Indians. DW has the latest.

Al Jazeera•9 days ago•1 min read

Chinese President Xi Jinping likely to seek concessions on arms sales to Taiwan, analysts say.