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“I am very annoyed”: Pharma execs blast RFK Jr.’s attack on vaccines

Waiting for the midterms But pharmaceutical executives don’t appear comforted by the pushback. “Today it may be childhood vaccines or mRNA, but tomorrow it’s...

Why I’m withholding certainty that “precise” US cyber-op disrupted Venezuelan electricity

The New York Times has published new details about a purported cyberattack that unnamed US officials claim plunged parts of Venezuela into darkness in...

A car you can chat with and that gets you? Volvo dishes on AI-wielding EX60.

“Of course there’s, at some point, cars go into maintenance, but the majority of the fleet of cars that we have out, we intend...

A British redcoat’s lost memoir resurfaces

History buffs are no doubt familiar with the story of Shadrack Byfield, a rank-and-file British redcoat who fought during the War of 1812 and...

Anthropic launches Cowork, a Claude Code-like for general computing

Anthropic’s agentic tool Claude Code has been an enormous hit with some software developers and hobbyists, and now the company is bringing that modality...

You can now reserve a hotel room on the Moon for $250,000

A company called GRU Space publicly announced its intent to construct a series of increasingly sophisticated habitats on the Moon, culminating in a hotel...

That time Will Smith helped discover new species of anaconda

https://youtube.com/watch?v=AkFiprE0RHg&start=0&wmode=transparent In 2024, scientists announced the discovery of a new species of giant anaconda in South America. A National Geographic camera crew...

The oceans just keep getting hotter

Since 2018, a group of researchers from around the world has crunched the numbers on how much heat the world’s oceans are absorbing each...

Conservative lawmakers want porn taxes. Critics say they’re unconstitutional.

Critics argue that age verification has never been about protecting children but rather scrubbing porn from the internet. A video leaked in 2024 by...

SpaceX gets FCC permission to launch another 7,500 Starlink satellites

T-Mobile is using Starlink in the US, and the satellite operator has partnerships with carriers overseas. With today’s FCC authorization, Starlink will be able...

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