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This May Be Our Last Chance to Halt Bird Flu in Humans and We Are Blowing It

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U.S.WorldBusinessArtsLifestyleOpinionAudioGamesCookingWirecutterThe AthleticSKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.Credit...Shana Wittenwyler/ReduxBy Zeynep TufekciThe outbreak of H5N1 avian influe...

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Tesla Is Not the Next Ford. It's the Next Con Ed

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China on track for crewed moon landing by 2030, space official says

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HELSINKI — China is on target to reach its goal of putting its astronauts on the...
HELSINKI — China is on target to reach its goal of putting its astronauts on the moon before the end of the decade, according to the country’s human spaceflight agency. Officials with the China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO) provided a rare update on the crewed lunar program during a press conference at Jiu...
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QDEL, the backlight-less display tech that could replace OLED in premium TVs

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What comes after OLED? With OLED-equipped TVs, monitors, and other gadgets slowly becoming more readily available...
What comes after OLED? With OLED-equipped TVs, monitors, and other gadgets slowly becoming more readily available at lower prices, attention is turning to what the next landmark consumer display tech will be. Micro LED often features in such discussions, but the tech is not expected to start hitting consumer devices...
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Oracle founder Larry Ellison announces plans to move world HQ to Nashville

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Oracle founder Larry Ellison announced Tuesday that he plans to move the software giant’s corporate headquarters...
Oracle founder Larry Ellison announced Tuesday that he plans to move the software giant’s corporate headquarters to Nashville, Tennessee, which he added is at the center of the healthcare industry. Ellison sat down with former Senate majority leader Bill Frist for an onstage conversation in Nashville, which was shar...
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Why IBM employees in Brazil are suing to be classified as tech workers

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When IBM posted an ad for a remote job in Brazil last September, it included a...
When IBM posted an ad for a remote job in Brazil last September, it included a caveat: “IBM, for institutional reasons, will not hire residents of Minas Gerais, even though this is a remote position.” The company’s move to exclude workers from the southeastern Brazilian state, home to 20.5 million people, came after...

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Building Bluesky: A Distributed Social Network

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Before we start: AI tooling for software development feels like it has hit "peak hype" across...
Before we start: AI tooling for software development feels like it has hit "peak hype" across mainstream media. We would like to do a "reality check" and find out how engineers and teams are using these tools (and which tools/use cases are genuinely efficient). Please help us by filling out this survey. Fill out the...
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First Nvidia DGX H200 in the world, hand-delivered to OpenAI

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Nearsightedness is at epidemic levels – and the problem begins in childhood

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The Rise and Fall of the LAN Party

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Today it is trivially easy to play games on a computer with one’s friends over the...
Today it is trivially easy to play games on a computer with one’s friends over the internet. I can log into a game like Fortnite, party up with a squad and chat in either the game’s built-in voice protocol or use another service like Discord, and be in a game within minutes. I can do this from my computer, a game co...
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MDMA enhances empathy-like behaviors in mice via 5-HT release

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HashiCorp joins IBM to accelerate multi-cloud automation

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IBM to buy HashiCorp in $6.4B deal

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Meta Reports First Quarter 2024 Results

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IBM to Acquire HashiCorp, Inc for $6.4 billion

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ARMONK, N.Y. and SAN FRANCISCO, April 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) and HashiCorp Inc....
ARMONK, N.Y. and SAN FRANCISCO, April 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) and HashiCorp Inc. (NASDAQ: HCP), a leading multi-cloud infrastructure automation company, today announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which IBM will acquire HashiCorp for $35 per share in cash, representing an ent...

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Tesla profits drop 55% as Elon Musk dodges cheap car questions

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Enlarge / Tesla shares rose by almost 11 percent in premarket trading despite the disastrous financial...
Enlarge / Tesla shares rose by almost 11 percent in premarket trading despite the disastrous financial results. Tesla had a terrible first quarter of 2024, according to its financial results posted yesterday. We already knew that it was a bad three months in terms of delivering cars—the automaker built tens of thous...
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New evidence refutes Pentagon account of attack as US withdrew from Afghanistan

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New video evidence uncovered by CNN significantly undermines two Pentagon investigations, the latest of which was...
New video evidence uncovered by CNN significantly undermines two Pentagon investigations, the latest of which was released last week, into an ISIS-K suicide attack outside Kabul airport, during the American troop withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021. The incident was a gruesome coda to America’s longest war, l...
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SpaceX has now landed more boosters than most other rockets ever launch

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Enlarge / SpaceX landed its 300th booster on Tuesday. SpaceX launches have become extremely routine. On...
Enlarge / SpaceX landed its 300th booster on Tuesday. SpaceX launches have become extremely routine. On Tuesday evening, SpaceX launched its 42nd rocket of the year, carrying yet another passel of Starlink satellites into orbit. Chances are, you didn't even notice. All the same, the cumulative numbers are mind-boggl...
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Apple Releases OpenELM

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Lenovo and Micron first to implement LPCAMM2 in laptop

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Tesla driver arrested for homicide after running over motorcyclist on Autopilot

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Spotify is struggling to get Apple to approve its iOS updates in the EU

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Spotify submitted a new version of its iOS app that should give users in the European...
Spotify submitted a new version of its iOS app that should give users in the European Union in-app pricing information for subscriptions made outside of Apple’s payment system — provided the update doesn’t get stonewalled by Apple again.According to TechCrunch, the latest version of the app doesn’t contain a direct ...
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President Biden signs law to ban TikTok nationwide unless it is sold

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President Biden has signed a law that gives ByteDance up to a year to fully divest...
President Biden has signed a law that gives ByteDance up to a year to fully divest from TikTok, or face a nationwide ban. Kiichiro Sato/AP President Biden on Wednesday signed a law that would ban Chinese-owned TikTok unless it is sold within a year. It is the most serious threat yet to the video-streaming app's futu...
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A feature-rich front-end drag-and-drop component library

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