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Wrong trees in the wrong place can make cities hotter at night, study
reveals | University of Cambridge

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Editor's Note: Although a higher degree of tree canopy cover in street
canyons generally results in more cooling effects, excessively high
cover may trap heat at the pedestrian level, especially in compact
urban zones in high temperature climates. In such locations, narrow
species and sparse planting strategies are recommended.

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How to keep SaaS costs under control as you grow
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Advice on avoiding becoming a victim of your own success, by
understanding how to keep SaaS platform costs under control as your
business grows.

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Moment of relief as Romania and Bulgaria join EU border-free zone
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Seventeen years after Romania and Bulgaria joined the European Union,
they have been given the green light to become members of its
border-free Schengen travel zone.















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Firefox, one of the first "Do Not Track" supporters, no longer offers
it
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That moment, when every major browser had a Do Not Track option, was
perhaps the height of DNT, and even then, there was a feeling that it
could never work.

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Donald Trumps election win sparks trading surge for banks and brokers
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Markets activity exploded as traders bet on a more business-friendly
approach by incoming administration














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Trump advisers seek to shrink or eliminate bank regulators - WSJ (No
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In recent interviews with potential nominees to lead bank regulatory
agencies, Trump advisers and officials from his newfound Department of
Government Efficiency have, for example, asked whether the
president-elect could abolish the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.,
people familiar with the matter said.

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Googles quantum boost doesnt really compute - WSJ (No paywall)
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Alphabets sagging stock has been primed for any good news, but quantum
computings payoff is years away at best














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The emerging breast-cancer treatment: No surgery required - WSJ (No
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The strategy is akin to one already used in early prostate cancer , as
doctors are increasingly looking at whether they can pull back on some
cancer therapies , to spare patients side effects and costs.

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Trump team weighs options, including airstrikes, to stop Irans nuclear
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Military action would break with longstanding U.S. policy of stopping
Tehrans weapons program through diplomatic means.














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Fall of Syrian regime exposes limits of Russias global ambitions - WSJ
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With Moscows money, attention and ammunition focused on its conflict
with Ukraine, the Kremlins global power projects are in a state of
slow decay.

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A Beloved Toy Store Is Closing This Holiday Season. Are Shifting
Social Media Algorithms to Blame? - Inc (No paywall)
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Instagram had been a boon to Keewa Nurullahs Kido boutique in Chicagos
South Loop. Since it opened in 2018, Kidos inclusivity and
representation-broadening mission, as well as its heirloom-quality
toys, appealed to parents and grandparents looking for useful,
educational gifts. The shop eschewed the plastic toys often found in
big-box stores and instead featured toys from independent brands and
books that spoke to kids with differing abilities and diverse
families.














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Donald Trump Is Picking Fights. Will Anyone Hit Back? - The New Yorker
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Is anybody prepared to stand and fight Donald Trump? On Wednesday,
Christopher Wray, the F.B.I. director whom Trump had vowed to fire as
soon as he returned to the White House, announced that he would
premptively quit in January, with nearly three years left in his
ten-year term, rather than risk a public battle. Going out the door
with him will be the crucial concept of a politically independent
directorship, enshrined in law by Congress in the nineteen-seventies
to protect against just such a scenario of a President seeking to
install a partisan loyalist in the countrys most powerful
law-enforcement post. This is the best way to avoid dragging the
Bureau deeper into the fray, Wray said in a statement, while
reinforcing the values and principles that are so important to how we
do our work. He did not elaborate on how his self-defenestration would
preserve the institutions values and principles from the threats of
its incoming director, the Trump loyalist Kash Patel, who said in an
interview in September that his first act upon taking over the F.B.I.
would be to shut down the agencys main building and reopen it the next
day as a museum of the deep state.

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Jeff Bezos Amazon Planning $1 Million Donation To Trump
InaugurationMatching Meta - Forbes (No paywall)
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Amazon is reportedly planning to donate $1 million to President-elect
Donald Trumps inauguration fund as founder and billionaire Jeff Bezos
follows in the footsteps of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who directed his
company to make the same contribution earlier this week.














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AI's air pollution problem: Data center energy use adds to deadly
emissions
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The energy required for artificial intelligence causes air pollution
from fossil-fueled power sources, a new study has found, and the
authors warn that as AI grows so will the health burden from air
pollution unless data centers use cleaner power.

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Applying to college today is incredibly public and incredibly
isolating
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The Real Problem With the Costumes in 'It Ends With Us'
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It Ends With Us was always going to be a difficult story to bring to
life onscreen. The movie, which is closely based on the wildly popular
Colleen Hoover novel of the same name, is essentially a drama about an
abusive relationship. Hoover has been frank about the dark themes of
her book, revealing that the inspiration for the story was her own
mother leaving her abusive father. And in the years since the novel
was published in 2016, theres been endless discourse about how it
depicts and addresses trauma. All of which is to say that It Ends With
Us is no whimsical romanceits a pretty dark movie about an undeniably
grim topic.

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France's New PM: Is the Wait Over?
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The French president raised the suspense by promising--on Tuesday,
December 10th--to appoint a prime minister "within 48 hours." However,
while possible candidates' names have been circulating, no option has
yet been confirmed.













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China's Instagram-style Xiaohongshu crosses $1 billion in profit
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BYQilai Shen--Bloomberg via Getty Images

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Claus for concern: why we should be worried about Santa's health
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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Yes, it's that time of
year when preparations begin for the arrival of that favourite festive
visitor: Santa Claus.

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'Like a miracle': N.C. couple free of nearly $100,000 medical debt
after 15 years
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For 15 years, Donna and Gary Lindabury, of Vylas, North Carolina,
lived with the financial equivalent of an anvil over their heads: a
medical debt owed to a nonprofit hospital that at one point reached
$200,000.

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The open social web is the future of the internet. Here's why I'm
excited.
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The open social web puts control back in your hands. Unlike big social
media platforms, it's not run by a single company -- it's made up of
independent, connected communities where you decide how and with whom
you interact.

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Japan's next energy plan will not 'minimize nuclear energy'
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In a reversal after 10 years, Japan will end its stated goal to reduce
nuclear power reliance in its next Strategic Energy Plan, which charts
the direction of the nation's energy policy for the coming years.

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A controversial plan to refreeze the Arctic is seeing promising
results. Big risks ahead
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illuminem summarizes for you the essential news of the day.

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A list of countries that should change their name
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Look. Look. The world has seven jillion more pressing issues than the
matter of international toponymy. But i've been staring at maps for
long enough that i've got some strong opinions, and there's a lot of
confusion to be resolved.

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What is Captagon, the synthetic stimulant that earned billions for the
Assad regime in Syria?
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The Assad regime in Syria came toppling down in lightning speed after
rebel forces led a days-long offensive across the country and captured
the capital, Damascus, on Sunday, with President Bashar Assad
ultimately fleeing to Russia. How did it happen so quickly?

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How Knowledge Institutions Can Build a Promethean Moment
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At launch, we have data from nearly one million public domain books,
scanned at Harvard Library as part of the Google Books project. Our
structuring and analysis of the corpus is complete and we're working
with Google to release this treasure trove far and wide.

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Net Closing in on South Korea's President As MPs Get Death Threats
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Yoon Suk Yeol - whose attempt to impose martial law backfired - faces
another vote in parliament this weekend.

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Sundar Pichai and Jeff Bezos head to Mar-a-Lago to schmooze with Trump
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Two of tech's biggest leaders have plans to meet with President-elect
Donald Trump soon. The Information reports that Google CEO Sundar
Pichai is flying to Palm Beach, Florida, on Thursday, and Trump has
said Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is meeting with him next week.

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A new timeline for Neanderthal interbreeding with modern humans
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A new analysis of DNA from ancient modern humans (Homo sapiens) in
Europe and Asia has determined, more precisely than ever, the time
period during which Neanderthals interbred with modern humans,
starting about 50,500 years ago and lasting about 7,000 years -- until
Neanderthals began to disappear

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Luigi Mangione's Prison Inmates Yell For UnitedHealthcare CEO Murder
Suspect To Be Freed On Live TV
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Inmates at the prison where Luigi Mangione is being held may be behind
bars, but they made their voices heard answering a reporter's
questions through a window. On Wednesday, Dec. 11, a reporter with
NewsNation was reporting outside of State Correctional Institution
Huntingdon in Pennsylvania.

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Cases of 'flesh-eating' bacteria rose in Florida this year. Here's
what to know.
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Because Vibrio blooms when exposed to nutrients, they proliferate
quickly in both the human intestine and bloodstream. "They are some of
the fastest growing organisms on Earth.

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Lina Khan Goes Out With a Bang
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The failed Kroger-Albertsons merger offers the clearest proof yet that
the new antitrust movement is breaking through.

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When a Glock Isn't a Glock: The History of the Pistol Found With Luigi
Mangione
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At first glance, the gun in the police photographs -- the one the
authorities believe Luigi Mangione used to kill the chief executive of
UnitedHealthcare -- appears to be a Glock-19, a 9-millimeter
semiautomatic pistol used by military forces, police officers,
civilians and criminals all over the

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Unprecedented risk to life on Earth Scientists call for halt on mirror
life microbe research
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World-leading scientists have called for a halt on research to create
"mirror life" microbes amid concerns that the synthetic organisms
would present an "unprecedented risk" to life on Earth.

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Millions Of Stanley Cups Have Been Recalled--Here's Why
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Millions of stainless steel travel mugs sold by the popular Stanley
brand have been recalled as the company reports dozens of burn
injuries caused by faulty lids. Stanley on Thursday issued the recall
notice for 2.

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Gemini AI can now summarize what's in your Google Drive folders
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Gemini's integration into Google Drive is getting a little more
useful. In addition to summarizing documents or answering questions
about a project, the AI assistant can now generate summaries of
everything inside a folder.

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Why is deep sleep so important to memory? It's about time.
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It's no hidden health secret that sleep is really good for us. It
helps our immune systems and supports almost every organ system in the
body. We've also known for almost two decades that the slow,
synchronous electrical waves in the brain during deep sleep supports
memory formation.

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When IBM Built a War Room for Executives
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It seems to me that every item in the Computer History Museum's
collection has a biography of sorts--a life before CHM, a tale about
how it came to us, and a life within the museum.

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What Trump Said About Elon Musk in his TIME Person of the Year
Interview
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Why did China hack the worlds phone networks
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Chinese hackers have breached dozens of telecommunications companies
around the world.

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In Nigeria's lithium boom, many mines are illegal and children do much
of the work
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NASARAWA, Nigeria (AP) -- Dressed in a faded pink dress, 6-year-old
Juliet Samaniya squats under scorching skies to chip at a jagged white
rock with a stone tool. Dust coats her tiny hands and her hair as she
works hour after hour for less than a dollar a day.

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Warner Bros. Discovery restructures to split up streaming and cable
businesses
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Warner Bros. Discovery is reorganizing its business into two separate
units: one for linear networks, and the other for streaming and
studios business.

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Ex-FBI informant Alexander Smirnov pleads guilty to lying about the
Bidens
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A California man who was charged with lying to the FBI about fake
criminal allegations against President Biden and his son Hunter is
pleading guilty, according to an agreement filed in federal court on
Thursday.

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Trump's Pick for FTC Chair is Ready to Undo the Good Things From Lina
Khan
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President-elect Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that he would be
nominating Andrew Ferguson as head of the U.S. Federal Trade
Commission. Ferguson would replace Lina Khan, a regulator who fought
for consumer rights and pushed back hard against monopolists.

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Where next for Iran now that its 'Axis of Resistance' is shattered?
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Amid the shattered glass and trampled flags, posters of Iran's Supreme
Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei lie ripped on the floor of the Iranian
embassy in Damascus.

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Russian Troops Advance to Within 3 Miles of Key Ukrainian Transit Hub
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Ukraine's top general said on Thursday that his troops were facing
"extremely fierce" fighting as Russian forces close in on the
strategic eastern city of Pokrovsk, and that "unconventional
decisions" would have to be made to bolster Ukrainian defenses.
Although the commander, Gen.

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Google's new Project Astra could be generative AI's killer app
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Top billing goes to Gemini 2.0--the latest iteration of Google
DeepMind's family of multimodal large language models, now redesigned
around the ability to control agents--and a new version of Project
Astra, the experimental everything app that the company teased at
Google I/O in May.

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NYC Wants You to Stop Taking Traffic Cam Selfies, But Here's How to Do
It Anyway
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When it debuted this summer, the Traffic Cam Photobooth (TCP) website
offered a new twist on the surveillance state by enabling smartphone
users to take selfies with traffic cams in New York, Georgia,
Maryland, Minnesota, and Ireland. TCP was recently featured in an
exhibit at Miami Art Week.

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The Golden Rules of Road Tripping
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Veteran road trippers (including a service station food evangelist)
share their savviest tips and tricks.

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How Learning Tibetan Changed the Way I Think
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When I was nine years old, my parents discovered Buddhism and became
students of Lama Tony Karam at Casa Tibet Mexico. That same year, I
watched Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire.

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Scientists Built the First Engine Powered by Entanglement--Not Coal or
Oil
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The word "quantum" is proliferating into nearly every facet of modern
technology. There's quantum computers, of course, but also quantum
hard drives, quantum internet, and yes, even quantum engines.

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