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Lily Hay Newman

Under Trump, US Cyberdefense Loses Its Head

Chinese hacks, rampant ransomware, and Donald Trump’s budget cuts all threaten US security. In an exit interview with WIRED, former CISA head Jen Easterly argues for her agency’s survival.

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TL;DR: Grab a refurbished 2019 MacBook Pro with a Touch Bar for $424.97 through Feb. 2 — perfect for work, creativity, and entertainment.

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A moon-bound spacecraft snaps footage of Earth eclipsing the sun

En route to land on the moon, a spacecraft snapped views of Earth eclipsing the sun.

The Blue Ghost lunar lander, built by the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace for NASA, launched to space on Jan. 15, and is slated to attempt a challenging moon landing on March 2. Now in Earth's orbit, the robotic craft has opportunities to capture poignant solar system imagery.

"Witness Earth eclipsing the Sun from Blue Ghost's top deck — another incredible postcard moment on our trip to the Moon!"...

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Report: Metas fact checking program failed to spot most disinformation

Meta, precursing a wave of new "free speech" policies across its platforms, is disbanding its disinformation-spotting fact checking program. According to a new report, the program was already failing to do its intended job.

Published by misinformation watchdog NewsGuard, the analysis found that only 14 percent of sampled posts with Russian, Chinese, and Iranian disinformation narratives were flagged as false by Meta. "The vast majority of posts advancing foreign disinformation narratives...

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How Barcelonas Metro trains generate electricity

The Catalan city of Barcelona, home to Sagrada Família, is now partially powered by its own Metro underground trains, thanks to a system called regenerative braking.

When an electric vehicle is slowed, the excess kinetic energy released when pressing the brake is harvested, transformed into electricity via a generator, and then stored for future use. Larger vehicles produce more kinetic power, and have the capacity to store more excess energy. The technology is increasingly used in electric...

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How to watch Dallas Mavericks vs. Oklahoma City Thunder online

TL;DR: Live stream Dallas Mavericks vs. Oklahoma City Thunder in the NBA with FuboTV, Sling TV, or YouTube TV.

The Dallas Mavericks head to Paycom Center to face the Oklahoma City Thunder in a Western Conference matchup. The Mavs are 23-21, which puts them in ninth place. The Thunder are 36-7, which puts them at the top of the Western Conference.

The Mavs have lost four of their last five games, and are coming off back-to-back losses to the Minnesota Timberwolves and Charlotte Hornets. The...

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How to watch Chicago Bulls vs. Golden State Warriors online

TL;DR: Live stream Chicago Bulls vs. Golden State Warriors in the NBA with FuboTV, Sling TV, or YouTube TV.

The Chicago Bulls head to Chase Center to face the Golden State Warriors in a non-conference matchup. The Bulls are 19-25, which puts them in 10th place in the Eastern Conference. The Warriors are 21-22, which puts them in 11th place in the Western Conference.

The Bulls have lost four of their last five games, but are coming off a win over the LA Clippers. The Warriors have lost three...

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How to watch Boston Celtics vs. Los Angeles Lakers online

TL;DR: Live stream Boston Celtics vs. Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA with FuboTV, Sling TV, or YouTube TV.

The Boston Celtics head to crypto.com Arena to face the Los Angeles Lakers in a non-conference matchup. The Celtics are 30-13, which puts them in second place in the Eastern Conference. The Lakers are 23-18, which puts them in sixth place in the Western Conference.

The Celtics have lost three of their last five games, and are coming off a loss to the LA Clippers. The Lakers have won three...

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How to watch Washington Wizards vs. LA Clippers online

TL;DR: Live stream Washington Wizards vs. LA Clippers in the NBA with FuboTV, Sling TV, or YouTube TV.

The Washington Wizards head to Intuit Dome to face the LA Clippers in a non-conference matchup. The Wizards are 6-36, which puts them in last place in the Eastern Conference. The Clippers are 24-18, which puts them in fifth place in the Western Conference.

The Wizards have lost 11 consecutive games. The team's last win came against the Chicago Bulls on Jan. 1. The Clippers have won four of...

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A meteorite fell at their doorstep. The doorbell camera caught it all.

As a space rock slammed into the walkway in front of a Canadian couple's house, it screeched like a sheet of ice shattering. 

Joe Velaidum and Laura Kelly, who live on Prince Edward Island, caught a meteorite hitting their property on their doorbell camera. Some say this could be the first video recording of a meteorite that also captured its audio.

Thanks to doorbell cameras, people have become the unwitting voyeurs of some strange affairs: a delivery man hurling a fragile package, a...

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Patrick Sisson

Smartphones are making people lonely. This app thinks it has the cure

Timeleft wants to help you make IRL friends.

Last night, at more than 1,600 restaurants in 325-plus cities around the globe, approximately 20,000 people gathered for dinner with complete strangers. It’s what the creator of Timeleft—a French app that has been arranging impromptu dinner dates among strangers all over the world for the past year and a half—sees as a small but useful contribution to the fight against global loneliness. 

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Kristin Toussaint

Trump claims there’s an energy emergency. He’s wrong

And even there was, increasing fossil fuels is not the solution.

President Donald Trump declared a national energy emergency as part of a wave of executive actions on his first day in office. The order cited high energy prices as a reason the country needed to boost oil and gas production. But energy experts say there’s no such crisis—and that ramping up fossil fuels while curtailing other resources like wind power will actually hurt America’s energy landscape.

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Diana Budds

Trump can’t shake the real estate developer inside him

From his fixation on making Federal buildings ‘beautiful’ to his comments on rebuilding Gaza, Trump can’t help but try to remake the built environment in his image.

On his first day of his second term in office, President Trump signed dozens of orders and memoranda that outlined his positions on everything from foreign policy and immigration to gender identity, working from home, and TikTok. The contents of the executive actions—which have already triggered lawsuits—echo comments...

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Hunter Schwarz

Trump’s chaotic new border policy, in the rise and fall of two apps

The U.S. Customs and Border Patrol app shuts down, and Mexico launches its own to fill a resource void.

Overnight, changes to U.S. immigration and border policy are already having a real-world impact—and it’s even showing up in app stores.

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Ben Granger

A psychologist explains what Gen Z should be striving for at work (hint: not happiness)

Triumphs in our careers are often the result of engagement, not the constant pursuit of immediate happiness.

When it comes to work, we might think about being engaged and happy as one and the same. Being engaged and happy at work seem to go hand-in-hand and phrases like “happy employees create happy customers” have become truisms in many of our organizations. Although they’re related, engagement and happiness are meaningfully different and for the many Gen Z employees entering the...

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