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These Robotic Arms Are Powered by Algae. Watch How They Move
What if a robot could be squishy? Soft, flexible robots could be useful for a wide variety of applications, including artificial muscles and wearable devices—or really any application where a robot must be especially delicate. This is what has fueled development of “soft actuators” that can flex like a bicep and have a fine-tuned sense…
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Trump’s smirk would be slapped right off his smug face by this one reform
In the two remaining months leading up to the supposed peaceful transfer of power in Congress, be prepared to hear the word ‘Impeachment’ at least 100 times a day. With Democrats increasingly talking about impeaching everyone in Trump’s Cabinet, the familiar chorus of congressional outrage will start to sound like a broken record. Subpoenas! Hearings!…
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Biden: What Trump Did on January 6 ‘Should Follow Him to His Grave’
Eight days after the 2024 election, I honored a presidential tradition by hosting a visit from the president-elect. Jill and I met President Trump and his entourage in the Diplomatic Reception Room, and then I escorted him into the Oval Office for our formal meeting, accompanied only by our chiefs of staff, Jeff Zients and…
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DHS Has Used This Controversial Investigative Tool 185,000 Times Since Trump Took Office
Homeland Security Investigations, the investigative wing of Immigration and Customs Enforcement that normally takes on transnational crime, estimates it has sent out at least 185,000 administrative subpoenas since the start of the Trump administration, according to a recent court filing. The figure shows how HSI has increasingly relied on this warrantless authority to conduct investigations.…
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I Let Pangram Loose on My Gmail Inbox. Here’s How Much AI It Found
AI-generated content is everywhere now: From restaurant menus and student essays to full-length movies and social media posts, AI is churning out huge amounts of text, images, audio, and video. In some digital spaces, it’s overwhelming human-made content. But what about your inbox? Just how many of your friends, family members, clients, and colleagues are…
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Police say the 24-year-old who fatally shot 6 people in a Krakow square has died in the hospital
The 24-year-old who opened fire in a city square in Poland, killing six people and wounding 15 on Saturday, died in the hospital Monday morning, police said. The man had been in critical condition after police shot him to end the attackand had several operations. The assailant drove through the square in the heart of…
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Dear Abby: My life is a failure I don’t know how I’m able to live moving forward
DEAR ABBY: I’m a 44-year-old man, and as I reflect on my life, there’s no way to describe it except as a failure. As a teenager, I didn’t apply myself in school for a number of reasons, partly due to being the target of bullying. (I have Asperger’s and have always been socially awkward.) In…
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Bikers and Bug-Lovers Join Forces to Fight a New Google Data Center
On Wednesday afternoon, Jamie Robins strolled up to the entrance of Google’s UK headquarters in Kings Cross, London. He brandished a letter containing details of a petition signed by almost 55,000 people, calling for Google to abandon plans to build a large new data center in Thurrock, 15 miles to the east of London. Robins…
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Meteor — described as ‘Biggest ball of fire’ by shocked witnesses — lights up sky over Tennessee, NASA says
A meteor that lit up a southeastern Tennessee sky on Thursday in what one witness called the “biggest ball of fire” they’d ever seen was a piece of an asteroid vaporizing above Earth, NASA said. The fireball was first spotted above Robbinsville, North Carolina around 7:45 p.m., traveling around 47,000 miles per hour in Earth’s…
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Welcome to Weed Island
Steven Tan walks along a narrow concourse in the Northern Leaf greenhouse in St Lawrence, Jersey, reading aloud the strains of his cannabis plants: Pink Gasoline, Moon Beam Gelato, Carbon Fibre, Gorilla Kush. Rows of plants stretch off into the distance. To the untrained eye, they look largely the same, with their distinctive jagged-edged, multi-fingered…