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US State Department Kills Global Air Monitoring Program Researchers Say Paid for Itself
The initiative helped pressure the Chinese government to clean up the air in Beijing and was later expanded to dozens of cities around the world. Now, it’s been abruptly halted.Wired - 19h -
Apple AirTag 4-Pack Discounted Below Amazon's Black Friday Price
Apple AirTags 4-Pack for $68 (was $100) | Singles for $23 (was ...GameSpot - Feb. 24 -
Protests at USAID building as workers pack up their desks, cuts take effect
Protesters are outside a United States Agency for International Development building in Washington, D.C., in support of fired workers. This comes after the Supreme Court's Chief Justice John ...CBS News - 6d -
Amazon-Exclusive Formula 1 Lego Collector's Pack Is Available Now
Formula 1 racing fans have a bunch of new Lego building sets to assemble. On March 1, Lego released a lineup of officially licensed F1 car model kits in its Speed Champions line . The new ...GameSpot - 2d -
France recall Ntamack and Penaud & pack bench with seven forwards
Romain Ntamack and Damian Penaud return to the France line-up for Saturday's Six Nations game against Ireland in Dublin (14:15 GMT).BBC News - 2h -
What Kind of World Do Silicon Valley Billionaires Want to Create?
The world’s richest entrepreneur and its most powerful political leader have joined forces. What comes next is unknown.Inc. - Feb. 24 -
Three billionaires: America’s oligarchy is now fully exposed | Robert Reich
As Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk alter US media, the connections between wealth and power are in plain sight. One of the unacknowledged advantages of the horrendous era we’ve entered is ...The Guardian - 6d -
Hong Kong’s ‘superman’ billionaire and the battle over the Panama Canal
The company founded by 96-year-old Li Ka-shing is caught up in Donald Trump’s complaints about China’s influenceFinancial Times - 6d -
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The billionaire elite who answered Trump’s call on Panama Canal
How Li Ka-shing, Larry Fink and Adebayo Ogunlesi struck a $22.8bn ports deal within weeksFinancial Times - 23h -
PowerA teams up with Bandai Namco for licensed Pac-Man gear for 45th anniversary
PowerA has partnered with Bandai Namco Entertainment America to create gaming gear for the 45th anniversary of Pac-Man.VentureBeat - 2d -
Namco Is Celebrating Pac-Man's 45th Anniversary With Live Events, Museum Exhibits, And More
There were video games and arcade hits before Pac-Man, but Namco's ghost-gobbling hero quickly became a pop-culture icon after his debut in May 1980. Pac-Man's 45th anniversary is now just over two ...GameSpot - 1d -
Musk's PAC launches $1 million TV ad buy touting Trump's first 6 weeks in office
Billionaire Elon Musk's political action committee has placed a $1 million ad buy to tout President Trump's first six weeks in office.ABC News - 16h -
How DeepSeek used distillation to train its artificial intelligence model, and what it means for companies such as OpenAI
DeepSeek's sudden emergence has put the AI industry's focus on a technique called distillation.CNBC - Feb. 21 -
How Google’s New AI Co-Scientist Tool Gives Us a Taste of Tomorrow’s Workplace
Scientists often use sophisticated technology, so an AI tool designed to help them begin new investigations may see broad take-up among the community. It’s also a hint of how many other workplaces ...Inc. - Feb. 21 -
Did the Covid-19 Pandemic Change How You Travel? Let Us Know.
The pandemic was declared in March 2020, shutting down travel for months. How did the lockdowns, and then the surge in demand, change the way you travel?The New York Times - Feb. 21 -
I Used to Work at the IRS. Here’s How the Massive Job Cuts This Week Will Affect You
Is it a good time to cheat on your taxes given all the pink slips at the IRS?Inc. - Feb. 22 -
‘The bot asked me four times a day how I was feeling’: is tracking everything actually good for us?
Gathering data used to be a fringe pursuit of Silicon Valley nerds. Now we’re all at it, recording everything from menstrual cycles and mobility to toothbrushing and time spent in daylight. Is this ...The Guardian - Feb. 22 -
Don’t Call it Crypto: How This Founder Used Stablecoin to Build a New Cross-Border Payment Network
Sinclair Toffa left Palantir to bring innovation to international payments.Inc. - Feb. 25 -
Rebuilding Alexa: How Amazon is mixing models, agents and browser-use for smarter AI
In rearchitecting the upgraded Alexa voice assistant, Amazon turned to model mixing to bring agentic capabilities to devices.VentureBeat - Feb. 26 -
Weak cyber defenses are exposing critical infrastructure — how enterprises can proactively thwart cunning attackers to protect us all
If businesses fail to up their cybersecurity game, the systems everyone relies on could face serious and devastating disruptions.VentureBeat - 4d -
How Elon Musk Uses Internet Slang to Marshal His Army of Online Fans
Mr. Musk uses online slang to marshal his 200 million social media followers in support of his efforts to gut the federal government. But he might be reaching his limits.The New York Times - 3d -
UK data protection watchdog investigating how TikTok uses children's personal data
The U.K.’s data protection watchdog says that it's investigating how TikTok uses the personal information of teenagers to deliver content recommendations to them when they use the social media ...ABC News - 2d -
Taurasi, champ at all levels, retires from WNBA
Diana Taurasi, the WNBA's all-time leading scorer who led the Mercury to three titles while winning six Olympic golds, announced her retirement after 20 seasons.ESPN - Feb. 26 -
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'Magnificent' Cunha screamer draws Wolves level at Bournemouth
Watch Wolverhampton Wanderers' top scorer Matheus Cunha grab his 15th goal of the season with a 'magnificent' rocket from outside the box against Bournemouth in the FA Cup fifth round.Bournemouth ...BBC News - 4d -
'Remarkable finish' - Fernandes levels for Man Utd
Bruno Fernandes levels for Manchester United against Fulham in the FA Cup fifth- round tie.BBC News - 3d -
What record levels of uncertainty mean for the stock market
It’s not always a bad thing.MarketWatch - 2d -
Illegal border crossings plunge to lowest level in decades
Illegal border crossings have sunk to the lowest level in at least 25 years. CBS News immigration and politics reporter Camilo Montoya-Galvez examines what's behind the drop.CBS News - 2d -
Arteta: Arsenal can still go to a 'different level'
Mikel Arteta has insisted that Arsenal still have "gears to take the game to a different level" despite their injury crisis.ESPN - 2d -
The Papers: 'Vance's slur' and 'Entry level hosting'
A row over remarks by US Vice-President JD Vance about peacekeepers for Ukraine makes headlines on Wednesday.BBC News - 1d -
From sneakers to luxury handbags, hotels are providing more so you can pack less
Some hotels are making packing easier by providing shoes and clothing as well as baby and pet items, so travelers aren't burdened with bringing their own.CNBC - Feb. 25 -
Microsoft’s new Phi-4 AI models pack big performance in small packages
Microsoft's new Phi-4 AI models deliver breakthrough performance in a compact size, processing text, images and speech simultaneously while requiring less computing power than competitors.VentureBeat - Feb. 27 -
Daytona hydration packs from Nos. 34, 51 on display in post-penalty demonstration at COTA
AUSTIN, Texas — NASCAR\\\"s show-and-tell took center stage Friday afternoon at Circuit of The Americas, revealing more details about the penalties that led to crew chief ejections for the Nos. 34 ...Yahoo Sports - 5d -
‘It’s packed with dealers. Look around you’: life amid the cocaine cartels of the French Riviera
Nice may be at the heart of France’s upmarket Mediterranean coast, but violent drug gangs making €1.5m a month are colonising part of it. The sight of the gun tucked into the man’s trousers told us ...The Guardian - 4d -
The Tates in the States
Self-described misogynist Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have landed in Florida.BBC News - 6d -
The State of Himself
Trump hasn’t altered his behavior to be president. He altered the presidency to match his personality.The New York Times - 22h -
Just before getting engaged, billionaire Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco bought a $35 million Beverly Hills mansion
The Spanish-inspired, opulent pad features a spiral staircase, library, fitness center, pool, and a glass greenhouse solarium.MarketWatch - Feb. 26
