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Can Smart Glasses Ever Be Privacy-Friendly? These Companies T...

James Pero

When Google Glass was unleashed onto the world some 13 years ago, a consensus was quickly reached: smart glasses suck, and anyone who decides to put them on their face sucks just as much for wearing

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A Department of Justice for an Age of Conspiracy Theories

Quinta Jurecic

Not so very long ago, the Justice Department stood as a bulwark of facts against Donald Trumps wildest claims. During his first term, a pattern emerged: Trump would make a bizarre assertion (say, th

The Atlantic

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My PC was talking to more servers than I expected

Tashreef Shareef

I always assumed I had a rough idea of what my PC does in the backgrounda few update checks, antivirus phoning home, a sync client or two. Sure, Windows 11 has a built-in packet analyzer that's more

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OpenAI Claims It Solved an 80-Year-Old Math Problem

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OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdos in 1946. If this sounds fami

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2 Commonly Overlooked Signs of Intelligence

Mark Travers Ph.D.

Most of us have a fairly tidy mental image of what an intelligent person looks like: someone with good habits, whos always articulate, composed, and chooses their words with the utmost care. The allu

Psychology Today

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AI just solved an 80-year-old Erds problem, and mathematician...

Joseph Howlett

After 80 years of fruitless struggle by human mathematicians, a major geometry conjecture has at last been solvedvia a straightforward query to a chatbot. The company OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT, anno

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Israels arrogance is becoming the evidence in the case agains...

Mohamad Elmasry

On Wednesday, Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir posted a video showing Israeli security officers abusing Sumud flotilla activists who were attempting to break Israels siege of Gaza.

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The Coming Vote for Europes Soul

Kevin Hjortshj O'Rourke

May 21, 2026Kevin Hjortshj O'Rourke The principle of non-discrimination between trading partners has underpinned international commerce for eight decades. Now, the same principle must guide Europea

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Web devs sleeping with the enemy: AI is doing their job and t...

Tim Anderson

A "state of Web Dev AI" survey shows that nearly half of web developers worry AI will displace their jobs, with one stating "it will be devastating to our sector." The survey of 7,258 developers i

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Is Dust the Best Thing in the Universe? Part 2: The Astronome...

Paul Sutter, Paul Sutter (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/pmsutter)

(This is Part 2 of a series on cosmic dust. Read Part 1 first.) And if you're trying to do any sort of astronomy or cosmology whatsoever, dust just gets in the way. It contaminates. It RUINS. Dust

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Plane Diverted From Detroit After Passenger From Ebola-Strick...

Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes Staff, Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes Staff https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/

WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 2026 An Air France flight is diverted to Montreal after border patrol agents in France mistakenly allowed him to board the flight in violation of new travel rules barring U.S. entr

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AWS parades orgs that took up its offer for Euro Sovereign Cloud

Dan Robinson

AWS is pushing its European Sovereign Cloud, revealing some of the customers it has signed up to operate sensitive workloads on the platform and the continent's over how much sovereign control ove

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Supergirl Is Starting To Feel Like It May Be A Big DCU Miss

Paul Tassi, Senior Contributor, Paul Tassi, Senior Contributor https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/

There are two enormous Marvel superhero movies arriving this year, Spider-Man: Brand New Day and Avengers: Doomsday, both likely to gross a billion at the box office or more. But the first DCU film o

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Republicans expected to abandon $1B security proposal for Whi...

Mary Clare Jalonick, Kevin Freking, Joey Cappelletti

WASHINGTON (AP) Senate Republican leaders are expected to abandon a proposal for $1 billion in security money for the White House complex and President Donald Trumps ballroom on Thursday after member

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Maths behind Hormuz toll: Is paying Iran for transit cheaper ...

Yashraj Sharma

Eleven weeks after the start of the Iran war, the Strait of Hormuz has remained closed to naval traffic, bleeding the global economy far beyond the Gulf. Irans Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRG

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European law enforcement forces pull the plug on this free VP...

Rene Millman

<ul><li>Authorities from seven countries took down 'First VPN,' seizing 33 servers</li><li>The VPN was heavily marketed as a safe haven for ransomware operators</li><li>The takedown led to thousands

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Whats Trumps anti-weaponisation fund and why are legal expert...

Sarah Shamim

The United States Department of Justice has introduced an anti-weaponisation fund that will be used to financially compensate people who claim they have been unfairly targeted by the federal governme

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How Sharp Is Your Vision?: Try To Guess All 20 Music Videos H...

Raquel Teixeira

Youve watched these music videos a thousand times. But can you recognize them when theyre blurry? Welcome to our ultimate 20-question visual challenge, where some of the most iconic music videos

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Factbox-Ukraine attacks Russian energy sites - what has been ...

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MOSCOW, May 21 (Reuters) - Ukraine has increased attacks on Russian energy facilities in recent months as peace talks have failed to produce any progress. There are no risks to fuel supplies in Russ

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The Boys Series Finale Review Scores Are Way Under Stranger T...

Paul Tassi, Senior Contributor, Paul Tassi, Senior Contributor https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/

The Boys has aired its final episode, and even with spinoffs on the way, its unlikely anything will match the main series in terms of impact. But of course, the eternal question is whether a show can

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10 Things Landscape Photographers Should Learn That Have Noth...

Alex Cooke

Improving as a landscape photographer has less to do with mastering technical settings and more to do with building the life skills that get you out the door, keep you in the field longer, and make y

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AI data center push is fueling new nuclear threat

Rachel Bronson

There is a lesson that keeps arriving in new and more violent forms: Energy security is national security. Russias invasion of Ukraine in 2022 delivered it to Europe, which woke up to the folly of ov

Salon

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I Spent Months Trying to Play Bloodborne on PC and It Was 100...

Tom Hawking

When I first succumbed to the hype and decided to give Elden Ring a try, having never played a Souls game before, I bounced off the game pretty hard. There were just lots of things I didnt like abou

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