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Even in the hellscape of modern America, moral imagination remains the most important engine of progress
Everyone is panicking because AI is very bad; everyone is panicking because AI is very good. It’s just that you never know which one you’re going to get. Grok is a pornography machine. Claude Code can do anything from building websites to reading your MRI. So of course Gen Z is spooked by what this…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Meet the Vitalists: the hardcore longevity enthusiasts who believe death is “wrong” Last April, an excited crowd gathered at a compound in Berkeley, California, for a three-day event called the Vitalist Bay Summit.…
as with Raising Arizona for the Coen Brothers, Anderson's funniest, most humane film is also his greatest achievement
The article challenges the notion that China strategically plans for a millennium, arguing instead that its policies are often reactive and focused on immediate challenges rather than long-term foresight.
Tel Aviv has spent years dismissing the Gaza health ministry’s death toll as ‘misleading and unreliable’
BERLIN, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Thursday called for a stronger NATO within Europe but said that it should also always extend the hand of cooperation to the United States. Speaking to the German parliament, Merz also said that Europe will not be cowed by tariff threats any longer. (Reporting by Sarah Marsh and Matthias Williams, Editing by Friederike Heine)
Israel’s war in Gaza has caused high numbers of maternal and neonatal deaths, say two reports
From regime change to retaliation, the BBC's Frank Gardner outlines possible outcomes of US strikes on Iran