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olson kundigs daisy ranch is a modern log cabin with panorami...

kat barandy I designboom

A House Between Meadow and Forest Olson Kundig designs this Daisy Ranch as a long, low house between dense trees and an open meadow. The project sits close to the rugged coastline of Canadas Salt S

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Still incomplete': Key questions unanswered on New York state...

Jimmy Vielkind

Gov. Kathy Hochul says shes reached a general agreement on a New York state budget but major policy proposals still arent settled, including Democrats plan to tax pieds--terre in New York City. The

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Trump administration cut funding to study hantavirus, the vir...

Adam Kovac

In 2025 the Trump administration eliminated funding for a group that had been running a pilot project aimed at studying the type of hantavirus that has been confirmed to be behind an ongoing outbreak

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Creating for a niche

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May 7, 2026 The bespoke mechanical keyboard designer I prefer, MtnKBD, is closing up shop and selling off his stock. It isnt a big surprise, as I imagine shipping a niche product from Australia for

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Cranks Are Already Peddling Ivermectin for Hantavirus

Ed Cara

In the wake of any major crisis these days, therell be people looking to hawk their own particular agenda. Case in point, there are already people trying to claim that ivermectinan antiparasitic med

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Paxton opens investigations into 29 Texas ISDs over Ten Comma...

Mateo Rosiles, USA TODAY NETWORK

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is launching investigations into 29 Texas school districts to ensure schools display the Ten Commandments in classrooms in compliance with Texas law. This comes aft

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Spending Just 10 Minutes With AI Can Fry Your Brain, Research...

AJ Dellinger

There has been quite a bit of research that shows relying on artificial intelligence tools encourages people to stop thinking critically and start deferring to the machine. But youd be shocked at ju

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Your laptop's USB port is probably slower than advertised he...

Gavin Phillips

USB ports used to be simple. You plugged something in, it worked, and that was about it. But modern laptops are packed with different USB standards, confusing naming schemes, and ports that all look

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Protests in Bolivia escalate amid economic turmoil and policy...

Andy Hirschfeld

Protests in Bolivia have entered the third day with three separate groups calling for reforms to agricultural, educational and labour policies. The countrys main trade union, the Bolivian Workers Ce

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To The Surprise Of No One, Cops Are Using ALPR Cameras To Sta...

Tim Cushing

from the worst-people-have-the-most-power dept The cops never change. Only the tech toys do. Thats the upshot of this report from the Institute for Justice, which has been tracking what cops have

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Melissa Barrera Is Returning to Horror Movies on Her Own Terms

Cheryl Eddy

Earlier this week, Melissa Barrera gave a no-holds-barred interview talking about her firing from Scream 7 after she voiced support for Palestine on social media. We know she has no love for that par

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Ageof Empires IV: Yue Feis Legacy Available Now!

Danielle Partis, Xbox Wire Editor

A new 8-mission campaign and the Jin Dynasty civilization have come to Age of Empires IV with the release of Yue Feis Legacy! Explore a new campaign following Yue Fei, the great Song Dynasty gener

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Slower biological aging may tied to getting the same amount o...

Claire Cameron

Whether youre trying to get seven hours of sleep a night or take an hour-long run every morning, consistency is the key to building healthy habits. And now a new study suggests that having stable da

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Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's Thoughts into...

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When you talk to an AI model like Claude, you talk to it in words. Internally, Claude processes those words as long lists of numbers, before again producing words as its output. These numbers in the

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Comey seeks to cancel upcoming court appearance in North Caro...

ERIC TUCKER

WASHINGTON (AP) Former FBI Director James Comey on Thursday asked to cancel his upcoming court appearance in North Carolina, saying it was unnecessary because he already surrendered in Virginia and g

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Maine Dems to Vote on Condemning DCCC Interference in House P...

Noah Hurowitz

Locals in Maine are bridling at the decision by a powerful Washington Democratic group to throw its weight behind one candidate in the contested primary race for the House seat in the states Second C

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Google defends Chromes silent Gemini installs, but doesnt add...

Dave Schafer

Summary <ul><li> Chrome silently installs a 4GB file called weights.bin that's related to the Gemini Nano on-device AI model. </li><li> The file will reappear if deleted, without ever asking

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Review: 2026 Mazda CX-70 is the CX-90 without a third row. An...

Aaron Turpen

I bet that if Mazda had a dollar for every time someone said, Wait, isnt that just the CX-90 without the third row? it could probably fund a Wankel comeback. <ul><li>A CX-90 but without the extra se

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Trump calls for incitement charges against top Democrat Hakee...

Al Jazeera Staff

United States President Donald Trump has called for criminal charges of incitement to violence against top Democratic lawmaker Hakeem Jeffries, escalating his push to use the legal system against his

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Hantavirus outbreak will not cause a covid-style pandemic, sa...

James Woodford

Medics escort a person with a suspected hantavirus infection to an ambulance after being flown to Amsterdam, the Netherlands Peter Dejong/Associated Press/Alamy The outbreak of hantavirus on board

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The BJPs Bengal victory exposes the erosion of Indian democracy

Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay

Recent state elections in India have produced one of the most consequential political verdicts in the countrys contemporary history, especially in West Bengal (WB), a border state of more than 100 mi

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Assassins Creed Black Flag Resynced Is Getting Overhauled Wit...

Rebekah Valentine

Ubisoft has announced a number of new accessibility features coming to Assassins Creed Black Flag Resynced when it launches July 9. The full list of additions includes a number of features not pres

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Amberspire review - a strategy game dedicated to the dicey ec...

Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

Amberspire reviewAn elegant, jarring and entrancing boardgame about dicing with an alien moon for the soul of a city.<ul><li>Developer: Lunar Division</li><li>Publisher: Bithell Games</li><li>Release

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