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- Hung Cao, Acting Secretary Of The Navy, Is The SECNAV America Needs
Hung Cao, the new Acting Secretary of the Navy, is doing a great job. But with only two years to make a difference, he needs to make some "big swings" now.
- Ariana Grande Surges On Billboard’s Albums Chart With Three Comebacks
Three albums by Ariana Grande — Thank U, Next, My Everything and Positions — return to the Billboard 200, joining Eternal Sunshine and Dangerous Woman on the list.
- Sports Betting: DFS V SportsBooks V Predictive Markets
Predictive markets, traditional SportsBooks or DFS, how you spend your money will depend on what you choose to wager.
- TV’s Best New Show Arrives With A 100% Rotten Tomatoes Score
The best new show that has hit TV this week has a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score, and you may not have heard of it yet.
- Drake Passes One Of The Most Successful Singers Of All Time
As Drake's Iceman holds at No. 1 for a fourth consecutive frame, he pulls out of a tie with Adele for the fourth-most weeks atop the Billboard 200 of all time.
Technology
- 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…
- As global warming threatens corals, scientists search for reefs that can take the heat
Researchers say these coral strongholds may help repopulate more degraded reefs.
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