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Why would Trump risk prosecution rather than just giving back the docs?

TexasSignal: Rep. Lance Gooden, a Republican who represents Texas’ 5th District, has introduced legislation that would allow U.S. citizens to seize the yachts, jets, and other property belonging to Russian oligarchs who have been sanctioned in response to the invasion of Ukraine. In other words, privateering. …In the age of sail, it was common for […]

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The military wants future super-soldiers to control robots with their thoughts.

Moore’s law talks about the fact that computer chips get faster and cheaper over time. It turns out that the biggest shift to our culture isn’t the changing speed of a computer chip, it…

As you’ve probably heard, Amazon has a new series set in Middle-earth, the world created by J.R.R. Tolkien in his landmark novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. With The Rings of Power premi…

A 21-year-old New Jersey man has been arrested and charged with stalking in connection with a federal investigation into groups of cybercriminals who are settling scores by hiring people to carry out physical attacks on their rivals. Prosecutors say the…

What was sex like for those living in Europe during the Middle Ages? In this History Hit video, Dr Eleanor Janega and Dr Kate Lister (from @whoresofyore) look at sex practices 500-800 years ago, fr…

Over the past several years, disinformation, or the intentional deployment of false information for malicious ends, has emerged as a critical threat.

A deep-fake video will make an appearance on NBC's "America's Got Talent" tonight in what its creators hope, and detractors fear, will mark a new acceptance of the technology.

For decades, marketers (and politicians) have been working to amplify cultural distress, a hack on our emotions. Not the tragic emotional distress of being unable to care for your kids, find a plac…

If a decentralized blockchain protocol is worried about being shut down by the authorities, how can it defend itself? A recent discussion s...

China is the world’s second largest economy, it has the world’s largest population, and it is only a matter of time before has a world-class technology

Techdirt: I wrote about the companies and organizations most likely to benefit from California's AB 2273, the "Age Appropriate Design Code" bill that the California legislature seems eager to pass (and which they refer to as the "Kid's Code" even though the details show it will impact everyone, and not just kids). The bill seemed to be getting very little attention, but after a few of my ...

The appreciation of Russian genius is all well and good, but appreciation only gets you so far.

Logic suggests that having options allows people to select precisely what makes them happiest. But, as studies show, abundant choice often makes for misery

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When we went to the south of France for a beach holiday vacation a while back, we did the usual tourist program: Visiting Nice, visiting Cannes, and enjoying the riviera’s beaches. Already arri

Google has killed more than 200 projects over the last few decades. They fail all the time. More than once a month they shut down a business that frightened the competition and seduced consumers. T…

For some companies, revenue is a feature.

There are many books about remote work, some of which I’ve even read (e.g. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]). There are also countless blogs and podcasts on the subject, I’ve gone through too many to list. After working remotely for 4 companies over 5 years, interviews with hundreds of others, managing fully remote teams, interviewing hundreds of employees for remote roles, chatting with thousands of remote workers, and voyeuring the activities of many amazing remote teams, I concluded that, to my surprise, I need to write a different take about why, when and how remote work is worth it.

“I stuck my Aranet4 CO2 monitor in my kid’s backpack today (h/t @DavidElfstrom). My kid’s classroom’s CO2 is a rollercoaster ride, rising and falling between 600-900 ppm. The class has 20 kids and 1 adult.”