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Why Do People Dance Around Maypoles on May Day?

Eden Gordon

You may have seen images or videos of people dancing around maypoles on May Day. Perhaps youve even found yourself twirling around one, clad in flowers, breathing in the fresh late spring air. It tur

Mental Floss

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Xbox's new April Update brings awesome improvements to Xbox a...

lowryb3865@gmail.com (Brendan Lowry) , Brendan Lowry

The new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has only been leading Microsoft's gaming brand for a little over two months now, but she's already made some very popular changes and additions to the platform in that ti

Windows Central

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The GUARD Act Isnt Targeting Dangerous AIIts Blocking Everyda...

Joe Mullin

from the it's-another-surveillance-bill dept Lawmakers in Congress are moving quickly on theGUARD Act,an age-gating billrestricting minors access to a wide range of online tools, with a key vote

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Kobo is giving away free e-readers, accessories, and gift car...

Kaitlyn Cimino

<ul><li>Kobo is now running a This or That quiz-based contest to dig into users reading personas.</li><li>Prizes include Kobo Libra Colour bundles, gift cards, and Kobo Remotes.</li><li>The contest i

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Democratic Leaders Wanted to Control the Maine Senate Race. T...

Akela Lacy

The Democratic Partys pick for Maine senator suspended her candidacy on Thursday. Democratic Gov. Janet Mills, who entered the race as the establishment pick and assumed favorite, announced her campa

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Trump pulls Casey Means' stalled surgeon general nomination, ...

The Associated Press

WASHINGTON President Trump said Thursday he's nominating former Fox News Channel contributor and radiologist Dr. Nicole Saphier for surgeon general after Dr. Casey Means' path forward stalled in the

NPR

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FBI cyber boss: China's hacker-for-hire ecosystem 'out of con...

Jessica Lyons

China's "hacker-for-hire ecosystem has gotten out of control," according to Brett Leatherman, assistant director of the FBI's cyber division. This ecosystem includes private technology companies ope

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SBI promotes 8 CGMs as DMDs in annual reshuffle

Joel Rebello

Mumbai: State Bank of India (SBI) has promoted eight chief general managers (CGMs) to the post of deputy managing directors (DMDs) in its annual cycle. Some of the new DMDs have already been assigned

The Times of India

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Newly discovered hamster-sized mammal lived alongside dinosaurs

U. Washington

Researchers have discovered the fossil of a new hamster-sized mammal that lived alongside dinosaurs on the Pacific Coast. Mammals and dinosaurs coexisted on Earth until a catastrophic event 66 milli

Futurity: Research News

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Jury For Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition Resigns...

Melanie Goodfellow

The jury of Venice Biennales International Art Exhibition has resigned just days after it announced it would exclude national pavilions representing territories where the leaders are charged withcr

Deadline

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The Human Creativity Benchmark Evaluating Generative AI in C...

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1.0Introduction When professional creatives evaluate AI-generated work, their judgments produce two distinct signals. The first is convergence: evaluators agree on what works, revealing shared best

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How Graham Platner Trounced Janet Mills in the Maine Senate P...

Right Now With Perry Bacon

You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack Governor Janet Millss decision to suspend her campaign effectively hands the Democrati

The New Republic

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Graham Platners Next Fight Is Even More Consequential

Perry Bacon

But this race is also a proxy for broader tensions within the Democratic Party. Mills is a 78-year-old in a party where many voters blame the American authoritarianism of the last year on an 80-somet

The New Republic

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Myanmars former leader Aung San Suu Kyi moved to house arrest

Al Jazeera

Myanmars former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved to house arrest, state media report, more than five years after the military toppled the civilian government that the Nobel laureate had led and

Al Jazeera English

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How Do Close Binary Stars Form?

Andy Tomaswick, Andy Tomaswick (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/andy-tomaswick)

Our Sun is a bit of an outlier in the general stellar population. We typically think of stars as being solitary wanderers throughout the galaxy. But roughly half of Sun-like stars are locked in with

Universe Today

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UN chief calls for immediate reopening of the Strait of Hormuz

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NewsFeed UN Secretary-General Antnio Guterres has urged the immediate reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, warning the closure is pushing the developing world towards emergency and that the pain will

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Trump Announces Fox News Contributor Dr. Nicole Saphier As Ne...

Greg Evans

Radiologist and Fox News opinion contributor Dr. Nicole Saphier will be nominated by Donald Trump for surgeon general, putting an end to speculation over whether the presidents previous pick, Dr. Ca

Deadline

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Hegseth doubles down on attacking dissenters on Iran war as '...

Chris Boccia, Luis Martinez

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told a Senate committee on Thursday that dissent from the "cheap seats" in Congress sought to undermine the military's efforts in its war in Iran only two months into t

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Iran threatens painful response if US renews attacks

By Humeyra Pamuk and Tala Ramadan

By Humeyra Pamuk and Tala Ramadan WASHINGTON/DUBAI, April 30 (Reuters) - Iran said on Thursday it would respond with "long and painful strikes" on U.S. positions if Washington renewed attacks, and a

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Myanmar junta says Suu Kyi moved to house arrest, doubts linger

Lorcan Lovett

Myanmar's former leader Aung San Suu Kyi was detained following a military coup in 2021. Aung Shine Oo/AP BANGKOK Myanmar's military junta has transferred deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi from priso

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Trump nominates radiologist Dr. Nicole Saphier as surgeon gen...

Mary Kekatos

President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he is nominating Dr. Nicole Saphier to be the next surgeon general. Trump made the announcement on social media, calling Saphier a "STAR physician who ha

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I never thought I'd see a $199 phone ever again, yet the TCL ...

Nicholas Sutrich

Why you can trust Android Central Our expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you. Find out more about how we test.Compared to a decad

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I built a Game Boy emulator in F#

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Nick Kossolapov April 2026 Ive been working as a software engineer for over 8 years at this point, and admittedly Ive never understood how computers actually work. So I figured Id try to learn h

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