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Elon Musk Sure Made Lots of Predictions at Davos
Elon Musk, the richest man on Earth, is very good at making money. His track record of predicting the future is less stellar. Through the years, Musk has made several outlandish forecasts—about self-driving cars, about space exploration, about brain chips, about robotics—that have not panned out. The Tesla CEO and former steward of the so-called read more
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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Names Kristen Shepherd as New President and CEO
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts announced Thursday that it has named Kristen Shepherd as its new president and CEO. Shepherd will start in the role on February 9. Shepherd, 54, previously served as executive director and CEO at the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Florida for five and a half years. read more
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Apples F1 Movie Nominated for Best Picture at 2026 Oscars
Popular Apple racing movie F1 has been nominated for Best Picture by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Apple said today. Nominees were announced for the 98th annual Academy Awards, and Apple earned six nominations in total. F1, which stars Brad Pitt, will be up against Bugonia, Frankenstein, Hamnet, Marty Supreme, One Battle read more
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'Cat' Is a Purr-fect Celebration of Felines in Art Throughout the Centuries
In 1835, a tortoiseshell cat measuring more than three feet long was enough to warrant a small advertisement in a British newspaper that as “the greatest curiosity ever shown to the public,” it could be viewed at the Ship Tavern in London. Surely a pint of ale was the informal fee to view this extraordinary read more
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Ghana: World Cup 2026 / Apply Early for Visas – US Embassy
The U.S. Embassy in Accra is encouraging Ghanaian football enthusiasts and fans of the Black Stars planning to travel to the U.S for 2026 World Cup to apply early as it opened thousands of additional non-immigrant visa appointment and slots. A statement issued by the U.S. Embassy in Accra said many of the openings are read more
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Apples John Ternus Takes Over Design in Latest CEO Succession Move
Apple’s hardware chief John Ternus has been overseeing Apple design teams since late last year as Apple continues preparing him to take over as CEO, reports Bloomberg. Apple CEO Tim Cook put Ternus in charge of the design teams the final months of 2025, expanding his responsibilities. Apple’s software and hardware design teams were most read more
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ICA San Francisco to Stage Major Public Art Commission by Jeffrey Gibson For Super Bowl LX
While the San Francisco 49ers may have blown their chance at a hometown Super Bowl win, that hasn’t stopped the Bay Area from getting into the festivities. On Thursday, the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco announced that it will stage a major new public art commission by Jeffrey Gibson. The work—an adaptation of Gibson’s read more
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New Imaging Technology Revels Spicy, 2,000-Year-Old Graffiti Along Pompeii Passageway
Researchers at the Pompeii Archaeological Park have utilized cutting-edge imaging technology to decipher centuries-old graffiti—both textual and figurative, some of it quite spicy!—written on the walls of a theater district corridor in the ancient city. The project, called Bruits de coulous (Rumors) was initiated by a team from the Sorbonne in Paris and the University read more
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How Claude Code Is Reshaping Software—and Anthropic
Engineers in Silicon Valley have been raving about Anthropic’s AI coding tool, Claude Code, for months. But recently, the buzz feels as if it’s reached a fever pitch. Earlier this week, I sat down with Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code, to try to understand how the company is meeting this moment. “We built the read more
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AI-Powered Disinformation Swarms Are Coming for Democracy
“We are moving into a new phase of informational warfare on social media platforms where technological advancements have made the classic bot approach outdated,” says Jonas Kunst, a professor of communication at BI Norwegian Business School and one of the coauthors of the report. For experts who have spent years tracking and combating disinformation campaigns, read more
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Leonardo da Vinci Mural Will Be On View in Milan During Olympics
When the Winter Olympics begin in Italy next month, a mural by Leonardo da Vinci in the midst of restoration will go on view for five weeks staring February 7. That means visitors to Milan not preoccupied with sports like figure-skating and luge can set their eyes on an unfinished painting on the ceiling and read more
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Otherworldly Landscapes and Bolivian Culture Merge in River Claure's Mystical Photos
“Some people say that my work questions dominant notions of cultural identity, and perhaps that’s true,” says Bolivian photographer River Claure. “But I’m drawn to many things, such as thinking about landscapes, or the way clouds appear in a bright blue sky in some of my photographs.” Claure’s atmospheric photos capture daily life and dream-like read more
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Mews raises $300M to accelerate AI-powered hospitality operations
A hospitality management software provider, Mews, has raised $300 million in a Series D funding round led by EQT Growth, with new investors Atomico and HarbourVest Partners, and participation from existing investors Kinnevik, Battery Ventures, and Tiger Global. The round values the company at $2.5 billion. The investment follows Mews’ fourteenth acquisition, DataChat, a generative read more
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ICE Agents Are ‘Doxing’ Themselves
Last week, a website called ICE List went viral after its creators said that they had received what they described as a leak of personal information about nearly 4,500 Department of Homeland Security employees. However, a WIRED analysis of the site found that the database relies heavily on information that apparent DHS employees have posted read more
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Lorena Levi, Rising Artist Who Painted ‘Narrative Portraiture,’ Dies at 29
Lorena Levi, an artist whose portraits painted on wood gained her fast-growing momentum in the UK, died on January 8 at 29. Her death was announced this week via her Instagram, which said she had battled pancreatic cancer. Levi rose quickly over the past few years, staging a show in Milan with M+B, a well-regarded read more
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MacBook Pro to Receive Up to Six New Features by Next Year
Apple is expected to release MacBook Pro models with M5 Pro and M5 Max chips soon, but you might want to pass on them, as bigger changes are around the corner. It has been reported that the MacBook Pro will be receiving a major redesign in late 2026 or in 2027. Six new features have read more
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Apples Siri Chatbot May Run on Google Servers
Apple is considering a significant shift in how it operates Siri by potentially running its next-generation chatbot on Google’s cloud infrastructure rather than entirely on its own Private Cloud Compute servers, according to Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman. In yesterday’s report detailing Apple’s plans to turn Siri into a chatbot in iOS 27, Gurman said that the read more
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Researchers Have Found the World’s Oldest Known Rock Art in Indonesia, Dating Back 67,800 Years
Less than two years after discovering a 51,200-year-old cave painting of a pig on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, in what was then declared the oldest known figurative artwork, the same researchers have discovered an even older work. The newly dated work, located on the southeastern peninsula of Sulawesi, is a hand stencil dating to read more
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Ugandas opposition leader Bobi Wine tells the BBC he will not contest Yoweri Musevenis 2026 election victory
Uganda’s opposition leader Bobi Wine has told the BBC he will not contest the results of Thursday’s election in court, citing a lack of confidence in the judiciary and has instead urged his supporters to take to the streets to peacefully protest. Speaking to the BBC from hiding, he said he would continue to stand read more
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Live updates: Vance to visit Minneapolis as Trumps immigration crackdown expands to Maine | CNN
A protester pinned to the ground by at least two federal agents was sprayed directly in the face by another agent with a can of chemical irritant inches away from the man’s head. A photo taken by The Minnesota Star Tribune shows an opaque stream of orange chemical irritant blasting into the protester’s face before read more
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