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Magic Johnson: De'Aaron Fox Made 'Huge Mistake' in Spurs' Game 4 Collapse vs. Knicks
NBA legend Magic Johnson didn’t sugarcoat his words when pointing out the major mistake the San Antonio Spurs made in their Game 4 loss to the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday night. The Spurs made NBA Finals history in the game, albeit for the wrong reason. After leading by as many read more
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Kenya: Bitok Moved to Tourism As Ruto Reshuffles Two Departments
Nairobi — President William Ruto has reshuffled two top officials, swapping Principal Secretaries in the Education and Tourism ministries. In a presidential announcement issued Tuesday by Chief of Staff and Head of the Public Service Felix Koskei, Basic Education Principal Secretary Julius Bitok was reassigned to the State Department for Tourism, while Tourism Principal Secretary read more
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Anthropic Launches Claude Fable 5, Its First Public Mythos-Class Model
Anthropic today announced the launch of Claude Fable 5, a Mythos-class model that it says is safe for general use. According to Anthropic, Fable 5’s capabilities exceed those of any model it has made generally available, and Fable has demonstrated “exceptional performance” for software engineering, knowledge work, vision, scientific research, and more. It outperforms Opus read more
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There’s Finally Video of a Great White Shark in the Mediterranean
An encounter with a great white shark is undoubtedly a “thrilling” experience, considered especially rare in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea. The latest sighting, which has attracted media attention and made headlines around the world, occurred during a dive in the Strait of Sicily carried out by volunteers from Ghost Diving and Healthy Seas, read more
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GM Wants Your Electric Car to Power Your House—and Your Neighborhood
Still, Wade Sheffer, GM Energy’s vice president, insists: The reason more people aren’t using their cars to power their lives comes down to “awareness, awareness, and awareness.” To that end, at Tuesday’s event the subsidiary announced two partnerships with utilities: a “stress test” of bidirectional charging capabilities with 30 GM employees, enabled by Michigan’s DTE read more
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ERC System unveils Victor, a heavy-lift eVTOL designed to close Europe's logistics gap
Munich EVTOL company ERC System today announces the launch of “Victor”, a dual-use heavy-lift cargo UAS (Uncrewed Aircraft System) designed for critical missions in fields such as defence, commercial logistics, and disaster response. Presented publicly at ILA Berlin 2026, Victor aims to close a military capability gap through a scalable, deployable solution for infrastructure-independent, uncrewed read more
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'Hold to This Earth' Surveys the Abundance of American Indigenous Contemporary Art
From the beaded phrases of Jeffrey Gibson’s sculptural weavings to Jaune Quick-to-See Smith’s canoe series to Raven Halfmoon’s fingerprint-textured tributes, a new exhibition marks the largest presentation of American Indigenous work in the U.K. to date. Opening next week, Hold to This Earth at Yorkshire Sculpture Park features nearly 70 pieces by 38 artists, which read more
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Cacti and Clouds Glitch in Alexis Mata's Fantastical Landscapes
“There was a moment when I was walking between forests and mountains in Tepoztlán, Mexico, while dandelions floated across my face,” Alexis Mata says. “In that instant, I experienced a strange sensation, as if I were standing on another planet, in another time, confronted with an entirely new landscape.” As the dainty seeds drifted through read more
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Somalia: Somali Referee Thanks Supporters After U.S. Entry Ban Derails World Cup Role
Ankara — Somali international referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan has thanked the football community and the Somali public for their support after he was denied entry to the United States, preventing him from officiating at the 2026 FIFA World Cup. In a statement released from Turkey, Artan said he remained optimistic despite the setback and was read more
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Rob Reiner’s son Nick seeks money from trust parents left him for his defense in their killings
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rob Reiner’s son Nick Reiner is seeking unpaid money from a trust his parents established for him, saying he needs it to help in his defense against charges that he killed them. A petition filed by the 32-year-old Nick Reiner’s civil attorneys in a Los Angeles County court on Monday says read more
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'MIZU' Contemplates Fragility and Impermanence in a Poignant Dance with an Ice Puppet
“Ice burns, and it is hard for the warm-skinned to distinguish one sensation, fire, from the other, frost,” wrote A.S. Byatt in Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice. Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami characterizes ice in Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman as a capsule that preserves the past “cleanly and clearly,” but possesses no future. In the read more
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Finnish space safety startup Aavuus lands Pre-Seed funding to tackle space debris tracking
Aavuus, a Finnish building infrastructure for orbital safety, has raised Pre-Seed funding from Maki.vc. Aavuus is building a global network of ground-based laser stations designed to push object tracking in Low Earth Orbit well beyond the limits of today’s commercial systems, unlocking a level of precision and detection capability the market has not had access read more
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Granarium raises €1M+ to commercialise renewable supercapacitors for grid stability
Deeptech energy startup Granarium Technologies, spun out from VTT, has raised over €1 million Pre-Seed funding. BSV Ventures and Beamline led the round, with participation from FiBAN (Finnish Business Angels Network), EstBAN and LatBAN. VTT has transferred the underlying technology and IP to the newly established company. Grid volatility is increasing across Europe, while EU read more
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ICEYE raises €450M at €10B+ valuation as demand for sovereign space intelligence accelerates
Finnish spacetech company ICEYE has raised €450 million in a primary Series F funding round led by General Atlantic, at a valuation of over €10 billion. Together with a secondary placement, the total Series F funding round exceeds €1 billion. ICEYE delivers persistent monitoring capabilities to detect and respond to changes anywhere on Earth and read more
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Amazon’s Ember Artline Makes Art TVs More Accessible
One unique feature is a free “moving artwork” functionality. Imagine a static painting where a portion of the art, such as a river or mist over a mountain, is moving slightly. It’s calming and beautiful. At least dozens are available, but I’m not able to add my own. The TCL NXTVISION also features paintings in read more
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macOS 27 Golden Gate Gains Native Ultrawide Display Support
Apple adds native ultrawide display support in macOS 27 Golden Gate, bringing higher resolutions and persistent display arrangements to users of widescreen monitors. The update allows ultrawide displays to run at resolutions up to 5K at 120Hz. Apple also says that display arrangements are now preserved across connections, so the layout automatically restores exactly as read more
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Apple Outlines Major AI and Developer Tool Updates at 2026 Platforms State of the Union
Apple yesterday held its WWDC 2026 Platforms State of the Union, detailing a wide range of updates to its developer tools and platforms, headlined by a major expansion of the Foundation Models framework. The main announcement was free access to Apple Foundation Models running on Private Cloud Compute for developers with fewer than two million read more
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The Untold Story of the Google Buses That Took Over San Francisco
Activists in San Francisco’s Mission District weren’t giving up easily. David Campos had taken the baton from Chris Daly as the city Supervisor leading the anti-gentrification advocates, who were anchored in a handful of nonprofit community groups. During the springtime festivities for Cinco de Mayo in 2015, Campos called for a moratorium on all new read more
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Alex Vindman Survived Trump’s Retaliation Machine. Now He’s Running for Senate
It feels very difficult to contemplate how you claw back some of the power that ICE has been bestowed, right? Actually, I don’t think it’s that hard. You think it’s easy? Defund them? No, I don’t think it’s defunding them. I think it’s the fact that the signals from this administration have been signals of read more
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Anguished Parents, Crying Doctors: Life Amid Utah’s Measles Outbreak
In February, high school students throughout Utah tested positive after a state wrestling tournament at Utah Valley University in Orem. A dashboard monitoring measles viruses in wastewater lit up with notifications around the state. “Wrestling really feels like our turning point,” said Nicholas Rupp, communications director at the Salt Lake County Health Department. Salt Lake read more
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