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Billionaire takes off for first ever private spacewalk
Billionaire Jared Isaacman has taken off in a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket for what he hopes will be the first ever privately funded spacewalk. More »
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September 10th, 2024
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The AI Skills You Should Be Building Now
ALISON BEARD: Welcome to the HBR IdeaCast from Harvard Business Review, I’m Alison Beard. Generative AI has been heralded as a breakthrough technology for workers in a wide variety of industries, and many companies are encouraging employees to experiment with,... More »
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SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission blasts off for first civilian spacewalk
Polaris Dawn launchSpaceX SpaceX has launched its Polaris Dawn mission to attempt the first ever civilian spacewalk, and one of the riskiest spacewalks ever attempted. The four crew will now spend up to five days in orbit around Earth, with the spacewalk – or ... More »
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2024 Innovator of the Year: Shawn Shan builds tools to help artists fight back against exploitative AI
Shawn Shan is one of MIT Technology Review’s 2024 Innovators Under 35. Meet the rest of this year’s honorees. When image-generating models such as DALL-E 2, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion kick-started the generative AI boom in early 2022, artists started no... More »
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Climate warriors fighting some of the ‘greatest crises humanity has ever seen’
Aru Shiney-Ajay’s awakening to the climate crisis began in her late teens. On visits to family in India, she watched in horror as loved ones endured one disaster after another: deadly floods in her parents’ home state of Kerala and record-shattering air pollut... More »
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Goldberg: This is the problem with former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney’s endorsement of Kamala Harris
Of all the living Republicans who have run on a presidential ticket, only two are publicly backing Donald Trump: Sarah Palin, the 2008 vice presidential candidate, and JD Vance, Trump’s current running mate.Everyone else is going a different way.Trump’s two-ti... More »
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The next-generation foreign policy of Kamala Harris
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris spent nearly four years working alongside a U.S. president for whom foreign policy is a passion bordering on political religion — one rooted in Cold War memories and a largely unchallenged U.S. global dominance. Harri... More »
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Q&A: How to talk about politics with people who don’t agree with you
These days, there’s no surer way to start a fight than to talk politics with someone who disagrees with you. And with election day drawing near, political conversations are increasingly difficult to avoid.You could muddle your way through the next two months a... More »
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How Kamala Harris Can Beat Donald Trump on the Debate Stage
The LedeHow Kamala Harris Can Beat Donald Trump on the Debate StageIn the Vice-President’s previous debate triumphs, she did not conquer her opponents so much as she permitted them to lose.By Jessica WinterSeptember 10, 2024Photograph by Justin Sullivan / Bloo... More »
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Thomas Trum’s Paint Machines Radiate Monumental Geometric Gradients
“Looping Line” in progress. All images © Thomas Trum, shared with permissionThomas Trum’s Paint Machines Radiate Monumental Geometric GradientsSeptember 10, 2024ArtKate Mothes Share Pin Email... More »
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Hostages Still Held by Hamas Are in ‘Grave Danger,’ Families Warn
A group representing the families of hostages in Gaza — including six captives whose bodies the Israeli military recently retrieved from a tunnel there — say that harrowing details about the conditions of their captivity indicate that those still held by Hamas... More »
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E.U. Court Rules Against Apple in Case Over $14.4 Billion in Taxes Ireland Never Collected
Apple Inc. lost its court fight over a €13 billion ($14.4 billion) Irish tax bill, in a boost to the European Union’s crackdown on special deals doled out by nations to big companies.The E.U.’s Court of Justice in Luxembourg backed a landmark 2016 decision tha... More »