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- Thunder Preseason Themes And Trends To Keep An Eye On
The Oklahoma City Thunder are almost done with their preseason slate, so it's important to evaluate trends and themes.
- AI Chip Boom Propels Chairman Of Korean Circuit Board Maker Into The Billionaire Ranks
The surging demand for computer chips and related components to fuel the AI boom has boosted shares of ISU Petasys by 215% so far this year.
- Upgrade avoided the neobank meltdown—and just raised $165 million en route to an IPO
The fintech is thriving thanks to a business strategy that revolves around diverse product offerings that range from home renovation loans to credit card refinancing.
- Europe’s defence wake-up call: why innovation can’t wait
The continent faces a critical choice: continue relying on legacy defence contractors or rapidly embrace the technological revolution reshaping warfare.
- What Does Andrew Vaughn’s Career Revival Say About The White Sox?
After five frustrating seasons with the White Sox, former first-round draft pick Andrew Vaughn is a key piece of the Brewers' success. Are there lessons to be learned?
Technology
- Inside the web infrastructure revolt over Google’s AI Overviews
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is making sweeping changes to force Google's hand.
- The race to make the perfect baby is creating an ethical mess
Consider, if you will, the translucent blob in the eye of a microscope: a human blastocyst, the biological specimen that emerges just five days or so after a fateful encounter between egg and sperm. This bundle of cells, about the size of a grain of sand pulled from a powdery white Caribbean beach, contains the…
- Meet the man building a starter kit for civilization
You live in a house you designed and built yourself. You rely on the sun for power, heat your home with a woodstove, and farm your own fish and vegetables. The year is 2025. This is the life of Marcin Jakubowski, the 53-year-old founder of Open Source Ecology, an open collaborative of engineers, producers, and…
- The problem with Big Tech’s favorite carbon removal tech
Sucking carbon pollution out of the atmosphere is becoming a big business—companies are paying top dollar for technologies that can cancel out their own emissions. Today, nearly 70% of announced carbon removal contracts are for one technology: bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS). Basically, the idea is to use trees or some other types…
- Army general says he’s using AI to improve “decision-making”
"AI is one thing that, as a commander, it’s been very, very interesting for me."
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