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Professional athletes spend thousands of hours perfecting their craft: free throws, defensive slides, sprints until their lungs burn. So it always comes as a pleasant surprise when one of them turns out to be just as dedicated to something completely unrelated, like nailing every dance trend on the internet. This fan edit is a love…
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JAXA’s Martian Moons eXploration mission is set to launch on an H3 rocket on October 20 local time, aiming to land on Phobos, collect at least 10 grams of material and return it to Earth in 2031.
A protest movement that began in suburban high schools brought hundreds of thousands onto French streets on Saturday, but looting and fires on the margins left 150 police officers hurt and around 1,200 people under arrest.
Supermarkets are usually the least dramatic places on earth. You push a trolley, compare prices on cheese and try to remember whether you still have eggs at home. But add one bold caption to a shaky phone video, and suddenly the cereal aisle feels like the set of an evening news broadcast. That’s exactly what…
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Forest loss in the Brazilian Amazon fell 41.8 percent in the year to July 2026, a record decline that puts the rainforest at the centre of the Lula versus Flavio Bolsonaro run-off.
A new Digital Duty of Care bill would force platforms to let Australians turn off recommended content and see only posts from accounts they follow, backed by fines of up to A$100 million.
There are riders who wear helmets and sensible boots, and there are riders who look like they’ve stepped straight out of a music video. The women in this clip somehow manage both: total control of their horses, plus sunglasses, flowing hair and outfits that wouldn’t look out of place at a summer festival. The first…
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South Korea’s KOSPI fell 7.57 percent to a six-month low and triggered a 20-minute trading halt, as hot US inflation data and doubts about AI spending hammered Samsung and SK Hynix.
On its Willow processor, Google Quantum AI cut errors in so-called magic states by about 40 times and reached 99.99 percent logical fidelity, a practical answer to one of quantum computing’s most expensive problems.
Some people find peace in yoga. Others find it in fishing, gardening or long walks. And then there are the millions who find it in watching a tiny brush glide across a perfectly shaped fingernail. If you’re one of them, this clip is your new favourite meditation. It opens with a single stroke of glossy…
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