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Tensions boiled over during the seventh inning of the Miami Marlins’ 12-5 win over the San Francisco Giants at Oracle Park on Thursday. Giants first baseman Wilmer Flores struck out in the bottom of the seventh inning and was frustrated with the first base umpire for calling him out on the check swing. As Flores…
The Pentagon unveiled details of its $961 billion budget request on Thursday, a budget roadmap that may deprioritize new F-35 fighter jets in favor of next-generation aircraft and drones. The budget would reach that figure through $848.3 billion in its discretionary defense budget and an additional $113 billion through reconciliation, the “One Big Beautiful Bill” the…
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A Google data center in Mayes County, Oklahoma. Google’s carbon emissions jumped yet again as the company continues to push ahead in AI. The company’s 2025 sustainability report emphasizes that its “ambition-based emissions” grew 11 percent last year to reach 11.5 million metric tons of carbon dioxide pollution, marking a 51 percent increase compared to…
The Supreme Court‘s decision on Friday supporting Maryland parents who fought to withdraw their children from LGBTQ storybook lessons in elementary school classrooms was hailed as a victory for parents’ rights and religious liberty. “Today’s victory sent a resounding message to activist school board members and educators nationwide: parental rights are not optional, and our…
For Republicans, the reaction to democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani’s stunning victory this week in New York City’s Democratic Party primary for mayor was simple. They attacked the Ugandan-born 33-year-old state assemblyman from Queens, who took a major step toward becoming the first Muslim mayor of the nation’s most populous city, as an extremist and anchored…
EXCLUSIVE: When Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s plane ride home encountered issues back from Guatemala on Thursday, she hitched a ride from Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE had just conducted a deportation flight from the United States to the Central American country, as the administration ramps up its efforts to remove those in…
A vaccine ingredient is in the spotlight this week, as a preservative called thimerosal was included on the agenda for a meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). “Presentation regarding thimerosal in vaccines” was listed as an agenda item for Thursday, June 26, followed by “Proposed recommendations regarding thimerosal-containing influenza vaccine.” Thimerosal…
With the Wear OS 5.1 update that was released last March, Google quietly introduced a new feature called Channel Sounding for the Pixel Watch 3 that could improve the accuracy of pinpointing the location of other devices using its existing Bluetooth hardware. But while Channel Sounding is now supported by the smartwatch, it’s not yet…
Recalibrate your relationship with phone photography. Adobe’s Project Indigo is a camera app built by camera nerds for camera nerds. It’s the work of Florian Kainz and Marc Levoy, the latter of whom is also known as one of the pioneers of computational photography with his work on early Pixel phones. Indigo’s basic promise is…