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Turning old maps into 3D digital models of lost neighborhoods
Machine learning technique viewed as boon to urban research
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Israel’s Genocide in Gaza Is a World Historical Crime
When Jews were being slaughtered by the Nazis, the world turned away. Now, the world has awakened to Israel’s crimes.
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Multiple communications failures hurt emergency response to Maui wildfires – report
Inoperative cell towers left residents and tourists with few options to receive emergency alerts like evacuation orders. And the closed systems used by police created a dam of information that was not being relayed in a timely way to the mayor and emergency officials, the report said.
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Why I'll Be Observing Passover Differently This Year
Rabbi Elliot Kukla on why we must reimagine freedom this passover.
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To save Cherokee language, a digital tool shares tales of Standing Rock and Big Snake with the next generation
Cherokees Writing the Keetoowah Way provides English translations of historic documents and lessons to help the next generation learn.
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How a fictitious 'sea' became a top Maldivian tourist attraction
The Maldives' famous Sea of Stars is part fact, part fiction – but that just adds to the mystery of one of the country's top tourist attractions
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Google Contract Shows Deal With Israel Defense Ministry
Exclusive: Google has negotiated deepening the relationship during the war in Gaza.
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My Search for the Origins of Clothing
An archaeologist uses climate data and tailoring tools to trace the origins and evolution of Paleolithic clothing in colder climates.
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‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local Call reveal.
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How long will printed books continue to exist and be necessary in the future?
Books will live on if we allow them to remain. We will need a tactile world to remind us that we are still here, that we can suffer and heal, make considered judgments, and love in a way that only biological beings can.
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Philanthropist group buys up large tracts of land in Romania to create ‘European Yellowstone’
Local residents who at first suspected gold or uranium deposits had been found are being won over by the initiative to protect nature and economically develop the areas involved
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Israeli Forces Massacred Hundreds at Al-Shifa Hospital. Here’s How It Happened.
Eyewitnesses report the IDF shot patients in their beds and summarily executed hundreds of government employees.
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As The US Freaks Out About TikTok, It’s Revealed That The CIA Was Using Chinese Social Media To Try To Undermine The Gov’t There
You know that line, “every accusation is a confession?” For no reason at all, that’s coming to mind all of a sudden. No reason. If American freedom can’t resist an app of short videos, mostly used by kids, what kind of freedom is it really?
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Plundered and corrupted for 200 years, Haiti was doomed to end in anarchy | Kenan Malik
Successive foreign governments plunged it into unpayable debt and left its citizens in penury
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‘A new abyss’: Gaza and the hundred years’ war on Palestine
The long read: While much has changed since 7 October, the horrific events of the past six months are not unique, and do not stand outside history
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The Philadelphia Phillies are scrapping $1 hot dog nights following unruly fan behavior
The Philadelphia Phillies have scrapped their popular $1 hot dog nights for the 2024 season.
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Rivers Reborn: Alewives Continue to Make a Recovery in the Penobscot Watershed in Maine
Alewife fish populations are continuing to journey back home to Maine's Penobscot River thanks to the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act which is helping to reconnect and restore fish passages.
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Apple refuses to relax its iron grip on iPhones in Europe
As its walled garden crumbles, Apple grudgingly allows EU users to sideload applications. Will regulators take stiffer action, and what about the US?
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50 Megaton Tsar Bomba Declassified • Ivan RDS-220 Hydrogen Bomb
The Soviet RDS-220 hydrogen bomb (code name Ivan or Vanya), also known as Tsar Bomba (Russian: Царь-бо́мба, tr. Tsar'-bómba, IPA: [t͡sarʲ ˈbombə], lit. 'Tsar bomb'), was the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created and tested. Tested on 30 October 1961 as an experimental verification of calculation principles and multi-stage thermonuclear weapon designs, it also remains the most powerful human-made explosive ever detonated.
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Las Vegas has invested billions into sports. The question is, will it pay off?
Las Vegas spent billions into becoming a global hub for sports and entertainment. The question is, will it pay off?