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We’re finally going to the Solar System’s most intriguing but unexplored frontier

I really hate to be the bearer of such bad news, but you and I will not live forever, dear reader. We may hope to draw breath for a few decades yet, perhaps. But that's not long enough to descry any worlds circling other stars in a meaningful way. Those mysterious orbs are too distant, both in space and time; the vastness of this galaxy is too great, the beat of a human life too short against the slow rhythm of cosmic time. We space enjoyers must therefore be content with what lies in our backyard. If you are of a certain age, say half a century old or less, you may feel as though you missed the golden age of space exploration, when humanity first walked into that backyard. The Baby Boomers, who were born in time to not only see what the lunar surface looked like but to watch humans walk upon it in real time, were truly lucky. Read full article

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Annual sneaker, sofa, smartphone production destroys 2.56 million hectares of nature

The global production of smartphones, sneakers and sofas accounts for the destruction of roughly 2,564,000 hectares every year, ABN Amro

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News Image A Major GLP-1 Drug Shortage Is Over. Some Patients Aren’t Celebrating

Mounjaro and Zepbound are now out of shortage. This should be good news—but because so many patients are taking compounded versions of these GLP-1 medications, it’s a complicated situation.

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Unhappy with their exit, these ex-Planetly employees are using AI to refine carbon accounting

Startup employees often go on to found interesting ventures, basing their new work on the experience gained from their time building a company from scratch. But not all of those experiences are positive, and sometimes, a less-than-satisfactory exit can do more to fuel a founder’s fervor than anything else. In the case of Forward Earth’s […]

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News Image You can save $50 on a PlayStation 5 Slim

Prime Day doesn’t usually come with any game console deals — but if you’re in the market for a PS5, a $50 discount on the PlayStation 5 Slim has been on offer since earlier this month and is still available at several retailers. The PS5 Slim Digital Edition is starting as low as $399 ($51 off) at retailers like Walmart, Best Buy, and Target. You can find the same for the PS5 Slim with a disc drive, which is starting at $449 at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. The consoles still aren’t cheap, per se, but they’re as cheap as you’ll find for machines that can play the latest titles with up to 4K resolution and 120 frames per second. Of course, reaching the upper threshold on either of those metrics is highly dependent on the game you’re...

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DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis and John Jumper scoop Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold

It has been a big week for Nobel Prizes in the world of artificial intelligence. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences today announced the Nobel Prize in Chemistry winners for 2024, with DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis and Director John Jumper sharing one-half of the prize, with David Baker — who is head of the Institute for Protein Design at […]

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Basecamp Research draws $60M to build a ‘GPT for biology’

While companies like OpenAI and Anthropic continue to popularize the idea of using ordinary language to ask artificial intelligence agents for answers to their questions, write their proposals or draw pictures, a London startup called Basecamp Research has raised $60 million to tackle a new frontier. It’s building an AI agent that not only answers […]

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News Image Florida Hospitals and Nursing Homes Are Bracing for Hurricane Milton

More than 200 health care facilities in impacted areas are moving patients and residents in what the state’s chief of emergency medical oversight calls “our largest evacuation ever.”

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Prosecutors say traffic dispute led to fatal shooting in Eindhoven

The fatal shooting on Sunday night, 23 June, in Eindhoven was the result of a traf

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News Image Threads is working on a community groups feature

Threads is working on a new community feature that will seemingly allow users to group together around particular topics and interests, TechCrunch reports. Developer Chris Messina spotted references to “Loops” in the code for Threads’ latest app update, which vaguely describes something similar to the “Communities” feature on X or even subreddits. The code mentions things like the ability to join and leave a Loop community, and giving it a name and bio. The discovery builds upon sleuthing done earlier by developer and established leaker Alessandro Paluzzi, who found examples showing what the Loops feature might look like inside the Threads app, including “a shortcut to the composer and the home header.” One screenshot shows a speech...

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