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What Trump promised oil CEOs as he asked them to steer $1B to his campaign

Defense think tank MITRE to build AI supercomputer with Nvidia

The iPad Lost. Smartphones Won

Life boomed on Earth half a billion years ago. You can thank magnets.

The space shuttle that never came home

Tesla retreat from EV charging leaves growth of U.S. network in doubt

Microsoft is changing how you log in to your accounts

An assassination plot on American soil reveals a darker side of Modi's India

Apple banned Delta for years. It's now America's Number 1 iPhone app.

Major newspapers join legal backlash against OpenAI, Microsoft

The U.S. economy's big problem? People forgot what 'normal' looks like

How the right U.S. chip strategy can keep Taiwan free

Pearls Before Breakfast: Can a great musician cut fog of rush hour? (2007)

Lawsuits test Tesla claim that drivers are solely responsible for crashes

A vegan cheese beat dairy in a big competition. Then the plot curdled

Federal regulators accuse Amazon executives of deleting messages

Claiming high user satisfaction, IRS will decide on renewing free tax site

Solar power is changing life deep in the Amazon

Lawmakers unveil sprawling plan to expand online privacy protections

Rooftop solar panels are flooding California's grid. That's a problem

Google fires more workers after CEO says workplace isn’t for politics

AI is about to make the online child sex abuse problem much worse

Don't waste your time recycling plastic

A new look at the original Romantic heartthrob, Lord Byron