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Power-washing, pool-cleaning and mowing – playing games about mundane jobs (bbc.com)

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Demand for autism care is soaring (economist.com)

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Scientists are working on "everything vaccines" (economist.com)

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Egypt's New Pyramid Scheme (economist.com)

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Smarter Live Streaming at Scale: Rolling Out VBR for All Netflix Live Events (netflixtechblog.com)

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Nvidia Nemotron 3: Efficient and Open Intelligence (arxiv.org)

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Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth (bbc.com)

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The More You Study Consciousness, the Weirder It Gets (nytimes.com)

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Why Gen Z is taking up boomer hobbies (economist.com)

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Eli Lilly's obesity pill approved by FDA, setting up Novo Nordisk competition (statnews.com)

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Index providers shouldn't bend the rules for Elon Musk (economist.com)

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The plan to make IPOs great again (economist.com)

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Global trade will continue, but will become more complex (economist.com)

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The decline and fall of the Roman currency empire (economist.com)

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Amazon's unprecedented gamble on AI redemption might just work (economist.com)

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IXI's autofocusing lenses are almost ready to replace multifocal glasses (engadget.com)

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What the heirs to General Electric did next (economist.com)

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China's fight on air pollution has slowed (economist.com)

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China's new masterplan for its tech economy in 2030 and beyond (economist.com)

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For the first time in half a century, astronauts are going to the Moon (economist.com)

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Tesla, SpaceX Plan to Build New Chip Factory in Texas (wsj.com)

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ByteDance is swallowing the internet–in China and beyond (economist.com)

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The vital lessons in Metamorphoses, Ovid's 2k-year-old poem (bbc.com)

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In the killer world of online gaming, no hits any more – just survivors (theguardian.com)

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America tells private firms to “hack back” (economist.com)

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Waterfall Is Back. and It Works Now (thedisruptionbrief.com)

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The data wall is billions of years of evolution (2024) (dynomight.net)

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In Praise of Grunt Work (economist.com)

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Why are artificial lawns bad for the environment? (plymouth.ac.uk)

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Power Causes Brain Damage (theatlantic.com)

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Jürgen Habermas hoped rational discussion could save the world (economist.com)

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Nvidia is expanding its empire (economist.com)

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Is playing music good for the brain? (economist.com)

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The next phase of artificial intelligence may require different processors (economist.com)

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How to have a healthy relationship with caffeine (npr.org)

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The Anglosphere is increasingly miserable (economist.com)

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Cursive Is Back (npr.org)

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The Knights of Malta (economist.com)

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Rolls-Royce scraps goal to go all-electric by 2030 (theguardian.com)

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US financial regulator issues long-awaited cryptocurrency guidance (theguardian.com)

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Sergey Brin spends $45M in fight against California billionaire tax (theguardian.com)

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'Peaky Blinders' is easy to consume and impossible to forget (npr.org)

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Epigrams in Programming (yale.edu)

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Bounds for sorting by prefix reversal (1978) [pdf] (uni.edu)

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The worst volume control UI in the world (2017) (uxdesign.cc)

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From Descartes to punk rock, the letter X has an extraordinary history (npr.org)

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Autofocus glasses watch your eyes, and shift their focus accordingly (newatlas.com)

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A petri dish of human brain cells is currently playing Doom (theguardian.com)

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Oldest-known whale song recording provides new insight into ocean sounds (theguardian.com)

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Cover Flow with Modern CSS: Scroll-Driven Animations in Action (2025) (addyosmani.com)

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Why investors won't know what to make of AI for a while (economist.com)

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Trump administration to be paid $10B for brokering TikTok deal (theguardian.com)

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Cathars and Cathar Beliefs in the Languedoc (cathar.info)

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Better data could lead to better sex (economist.com)

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Want to hack your body with peptides? If only the science agreed (economist.com)

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Altman, Amodei and Musk fight dirty for the biggest prize in business (economist.com)

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Disney+ Teases Creator-Driven Content as It Launches Vertical Video Feature (hollywoodreporter.com)

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xAI to Repay $17.5B Debt as SpaceX IPO Nears (yahoo.com)

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Economic power is returning to the physical realm (economist.com)

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China sets its lowest growth target for a generatioN (economist.com)

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XAI: Explainable Artificial Intelligence (darpa.mil)

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There are 56 ethnicities in China–and 55 are getting squashed (economist.com)

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China's AI giants are handing out cash to lure in users (economist.com)

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To understand why countries grow, look at their firms (economist.com)

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Ten years after the EU referendum, Britain has become more European (economist.com)

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Tesla back on top as Norway's EV market surges to 98% share in February (teslarati.com)

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Oura buys gesture-navigation startup DoublePoint (engadget.com)

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AI Danger Gets Real (economist.com)

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Geoffrey Hinton on developing your framework for understanding reality (2024) (defenderofthebasic.substack.com)

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Triumph of the toons: how animation came to rule the box office (economist.com)

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Netflix Acquires AI Filmmaking Startup Founded by Ben Affleck (variety.com)

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Biosciences breeds controversy while trying to revive mammoths (npr.org)

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SpaceX to Compete in Pentagon Contest for Autonomous Drone Tech (yahoo.com)

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Microsoft Expands Starlink Alliance to Grow Azure and AI in Kenya (yahoo.com)

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Walk me through this "Safety Third" thing (mikerowe.com)

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Situational Awareness: the decade ahead (2024) (situational-awareness.ai)

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Data centres in space: less crazy than you think (economist.com)

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Robert F Kennedy Jr: 1 year of failure (thelancet.com)

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Satellites (globe.gl)

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Moon Landing Sites (globe.gl)

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Von Neumann on Consciousness in Quantum Mechanics (arxiv.org)

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WebMCP is available for early preview (chrome.com)

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At last, reasons to be cheerful about European tech (economist.com)

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The Coming AI Cataclysm (compactmag.com)

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MicroGPT Explained Interactively (growingswe.com)

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Becoming a software A-Team via writing culture (evalapply.org)

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The Uttar Pradesh Association of Dead People (economist.com)

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America's new era of state-sponsored mining (economist.com)

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The 19th century silent film that first captured a robot attack (npr.org)

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Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule (npr.org)

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Agentic Engineering Patterns (simonw.substack.com)

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Citrini Research research note on AI gets its economics wrong (economist.com)

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Thirty years on, Pokémon is still a monster hit (economist.com)

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The war against PDFs is heating up (economist.com)

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Apple Strikes F1 Deal with Netflix (hollywoodreporter.com)

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America's dangerous pursuit of critical-mineral dominance (economist.com)

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A Computational Perspective on NeuroAI and Synthetic Biological Intelligence (arxiv.org)

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Tropical plants flowering months earlier or later because of climate crisis (theguardian.com)

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Language Hacking in a Live Programming Environment (2016) (ohmjs.org)

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Turtle.audio – music sequencer inspired by turtle graphics programming (turtle.audio)