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- Dow futures drop as first day of U.S.-Iran talks sees Trump threaten Tehran on Hormuz: ‘You close it and you won’t have a country’
He also said the U.S. may take over the strait, adding "I'll blow the s--t out of them. If they don't make a deal, we'll collect tolls."
- Cape Verde Has Become World Cup Darlings Without Winning A Game
Without winning a game, Cape Verde has become the darlings of the World Cup. The Blue Sharks have stunned a pair of favored sides with draws.
- Sweet Home Tropicana: Tampa Bay Rays Are Thriving At Home
The Rays held the Nationals, MLB’s highest-scoring team, to nine runs in taking a three-game series that commenced a season-long 10-game homestand at Tropicana Field.
- War Gaming The Price Of Oil
Iran's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz has also shown other nations how they can also move the global crude oil market and affect the U.S. midterm elections
- ‘House Of The Dragon’ Season 3, Episode 1 Recap And Review: The Battle Of The Gullet
The 'House of the Dragon' Season 3 premiere is an epic battle but changes from the book remain inexplicable and do not change it for the better.
Technology
- Trump admin’s coal investments assist plants with repeated violations
At least three coal plants have been repeatedly cited for violating environmental regulations.
- Review: Widow's Bay is a boldly original take on comedic horror
An eminently binge-able series that honors classic horror tropes while reinventing them in surprising ways
- The UK will scan asylum-seekers’ faces for age checks—despite knowing the tech is flawed
Tests of age-verification technology show the risks of life-altering errors.
- Rocket Report: Rebuild begins at Blue Origin launch pad; Relativity targets Mars
A French launch startup is scrapping the name of its rocket, apparently due to a trademark issue.
- The Download: AI bottleneck debates, and BCI trials take off
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A startup claims it broke through a bottleneck that’s holding back LLMs AI startup Subquadratic came out of stealth last month with a huge claim: it had solved a mathematical bottleneck…
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