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The Schoolyard Hero With No Legs

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The Schoolyard Hero With No Legs

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Segregation stories: Gordon Parks in the US south

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Segregation stories: Gordon Parks in the US south

The great photographer documented black family life in postwar Alabama – and the dignity and resilience people showed under discriminatory Jim Crow laws

5 months ago

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The Testaments review

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The Testaments review

Don’t be fooled by the lighter tone of Margaret Atwood’s follow-on. June’s daughter is now grown up in Gilead, where daily horrors are still in full swing – and Aunt Lydia is back

5 months ago

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The Cure review

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The Cure review

A fabulously wealthy teen girl with lupus makes a new friend who pulls her out of plush isolation and toward some dark discoveries

5 months ago

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The Boys season five review

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The Boys season five review

As the extraordinary superhero satire comes to an end, a mighty showdown has terrifying parallels with modern America. What a horrifying pleasure it has been to watch

5 months ago

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Turkey to race ahead of EU on battery storage amid fossil fuel crisis

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Turkey to race ahead of EU on battery storage amid fossil fuel crisis

More than 33GW of battery capacity approved for Turkish grid since 2022 compared with 12-13GW in Germany

5 months ago

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The Drama skewers a culture of manufactured outrage

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The Drama skewers a culture of manufactured outrage

There is a great bit from the late Norm Macdonald in which he recalls someone saying the worst part of the Bill Cosby scandal was the hypocrisy. “And I disagreed,” Norm replied. “I thought it was the raping.”

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Elon Musk seeks ouster of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as part of lawsuit

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Elon Musk seeks ouster of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as part of lawsuit

Elon Musk is seeking to have OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman removed from their roles as officers in the company as part of a lawsuit.

5 months ago

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The Most Beautiful Moment of the Artemis II Mission

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The Most Beautiful Moment of the Artemis II Mission

The most moving image to emerge from the Artemis II mission has not been a snapshot of the moon or the Earth. The camera was instead pointed at the astronauts themselves, squeezed inside their tiny capsule. Christina Koch sat in the foreground, strapped into her chair. Only parts of the other three were visible. Jeremy Hansen, the Canadian, was talking to ground control but also to an international livestream audience.

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AI will affect more than half of all U.S. jobs, analysis finds

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AI will affect more than half of all U.S. jobs, analysis finds

Artificial intelligence will dramatically change the nature of work, but stop short of replacing most employees, according to a recent analysis.

5 months ago

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Anthropic limits Mythos AI rollout over fears hackers could use model for cyberattacks

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Anthropic limits Mythos AI rollout over fears hackers could use model for cyberattacks

Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks and others will use the model as part of a new cybersecurity initiative called Project Glasswing.

5 months ago

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The Guardian view on Artemis II: the light and dark sides of the moon

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The Guardian view on Artemis II: the light and dark sides of the moon

The threat posed by a new space race is real. But so is the wonder of humankind’s reaching for the skies

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