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- The top 25 stories curated by editors and fellow readers!

Editor's Pick

Scientists Built a Proton Battery That Could Dethrone Lithium-Ion

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doesn’t explode!

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Editor's Note: "The electrolyte in a lithium-ion battery is made of
lithium salt, a solvent which is flammable and therefore is a big
concern," Chuan Zhao, a professor at UNSW Sydney, said in a press
statement. "In our case, we have both electrodes made of organic
molecules, and in between we have the water solution, making our
prototype battery lightweight, safe and affordable."

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Puerto Rico Power Outages Plunge Many Into Darkness on New Year's Eve
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Only a fraction of the island’s 1.4 million utility customers had
power by midday. The electricity provider said it would take 24 to 48
hours to restore service.

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Preying on investors how software firm MicroStrategys big bet on
bitcoin went stratospheric
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In the summer of 2020, as the Covid-19 pandemic upended economies
around the world, an obscure US software firm decided to diversify.






















 










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Nearly all of Puerto Rico is without power on New Year's Eve
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- A blackout hit nearly all of Puerto Rico
early Tuesday as the U.S. territory prepared to celebrate New Year's,
leaving more than 1.3 million clients in the dark. Officials said it
could take up to two days to restore power.

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10 Boundaries Therapists Want You to Set in the New Year
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Time to trade FaceTime for face time.







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TikTok Is Headed for a Ban -- but Can Trump Still Save It?
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The four ways Trump could potentially preserve the app.

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Where will AI be at the end of 2027? A bet
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We, Gary Marcus, author, scientist, and noted AI skeptic, and Miles
Brundage, an independent AI policy researcher who recently left OpenAI
and is bullish on AI progress, have agreed to the following bet, at
10:1 odds, with criteria drawn from two earlier Substack essays by
Gary that proposed criteri















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The 14 Predictions That Came True in 2024 -- and the 10 That Didn't
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The 24 forecasts we made in 2024, revisited.

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How to refine engineering strategy being implementing it.
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This is a work-in-progress draft! The belief that strategy is complex
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'Why Don't They Just Land?': Why the Best Diversion Airport May Not Be
the Closest
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While over 150,000 flights per day land at their intended destination,
some divert due to weather, mechanical, or medical reasons. When a
flight diverts, we're often asked why the aircraft didn't land at the
nearest airport.

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A Miracle: Notre-Dame's Astonishing Rebirth From the Ashes
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Benoist de Sinety, former vicar general of Paris, was on his scooter
that April evening in 2019, driving across the Pont Neuf toward the
Left Bank when he spotted flames in his rearview mirror billowing from
under the eaves of Notre-Dame. He cursed, made a U-turn and sped
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California will require insurance companies to offer coverage in
wildfire zones
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Insurance companies that stopped providing home coverage to hundreds
of thousands of Californians in recent years as wildfires became more
destructive will have to again provide policies in fire-prone areas if
they want to keep doing business in California under a state
regulation announced Monday.

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Opinion | Trump's Assault on the Systems That Keep Americans Safe Is
Dangerous
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Eviscerating modern state institutions almost always clears a path for
a different political order, built on loyalties and connections to the
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After ups and downs, food delivery startup Epicery closes shop |
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As an investor, Hermal knows that Epicery was operating in a complex
niche, but doesn’t think it’s a no-go. “Logistics businesses are
complicated and challenging in terms of metrics, but that doesn’t
mean it can’t be done.” Now that local businesses have had a taste
of this, and in a context where every sale counts, it wouldn’t be
too surprising to see an Epicery-like model make a comeback at some
point.

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US Treasury says it was hacked by China in 'major incident'
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Chinese state-sponsored hackers broke into the US Treasury
Department's systems earlier this month and were able to access
employee workstations and some unclassified documents, American
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Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon will face securities fraud charges
in the US
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Montenegro doesn't have extradition treaties with the US or South
Korea. The request played out in court over the last year and a half,
with Montenegro's Justice Minister Bojan Bozovic ordering Kwon's
extradition last week. Terraform Labs filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
protection in the US last January.

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The Morning After: A microwave with a 27-inch touchscreen
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Honesty? 2024 was a dull year for cameras, with new devices offering
small tweaks and minor improvements. But drones? Specifically,
entry-level ones? DJI made it an intriguing year, spitting out
multiple models, including the versatile, easy-to-use Neo, all while
fending off the US government's plans to ban sales from the company.






















 









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North Carolina governor commutes 15 death row sentences on last day in
office
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The announcement comes at the end of a year that saw a spate of
executions across the US that sparked significant outrage, including
cases involving defendants with credible innocence claims.

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A look back on my favorite episodes of TechCrunch's Found podcast |
TechCrunch
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Why it’s a fav: Hwang is a fascinating founder. From pretending to
be his own booking agent to building this startup out of someone
else’s dorm room, there are a lot of fun stories packed in here.
Plus, GigFinesse’s gig-booking tool is pretty cool on its own.

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'This Is What Makes Us Rich': Inside a Sinaloa Cartel Fentanyl Lab
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We had just walked into the fentanyl lab when the cook poured a white
powder into a stockpot full of liquid. He began mixing it with an
immersion blender and fumes rose from the pot, filling the small
kitchen. We wore gas masks and hazmat suits, but the cook had on only
a surgical mask.

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The States Restricting Guns and Legalizing Marijuana in the New Year
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Other state laws going into effect in 2025 will boost wages, restrict
social media for children and make insulin cheaper.

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Chief Justice Roberts Condemns Threats to Supreme Court and Judiciary
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In his year-end report on the federal judiciary, the chief justice
decried violence, intimidation and disinformation and warned against
defiance of court rulings.

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F.B.I. Says It Found Largest Cache of Homemade Explosives in Its
History at Va. Farm
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Investigators discovered more than 150 devices, mostly pipe bombs, on
a property outside Norfolk, court papers say.

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Do Kwon: fugitive cryptocrash boss finally extradited to US
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Investors scrambled to take their money out of other cryptocurrencies,
fearing that a similar thing could happen to them, which resulted in
values falling significantly across the whole sector.

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Inside the Y2K Crisis That Never Was, 25 Years Later
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Planes didn’t fall from the sky on Jan. 1, 2000. A technology
reporter who wrote a front-page article early that morning reflects on
a crisis that never was.

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Aaron Brown, CNN Anchor During the Sept. 11 Attacks, Dies at 76
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He was still in training when he was rushed into live coverage of the
collapse of the World Trade Center, and his broadcast became one of
the enduring records of the day.

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The Top Movies of 2024: 'Wicked' and Nine Sequels
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Box office returns have started to stabilize. But nine of the top 10
box office hits this year were sequels. And the 10th was “Wicked.”

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Stock Market Set for More Gains in 2025, Analysts Predict
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The S&P 500 posted back-to-back annual gains of more than 20 percent
for the first time since the late 1990s. Analysts expect stocks to
continue rising in 2025.

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Chinese Companies Have Sidestepped Trump's Tariffs. They Could Do It
Again.
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The companies have found plenty of new channels to the U.S. market —
demonstrating the potential limits of the tariffs Donald Trump has
promised to impose.

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The Wirecutter Show: Kitchen Gear That Lasts a Lifetime (or Extremely
Close)
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Quality kitchen gear can last a lifetime — but not every pot, pan or
knife is made to last.

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The housing market is heading into 2025 with a worrying supply trend
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"Buyers are struggling to keep pace with housing prices. The cost of
owning a home now, when adjusted for inflation, is at its highest
point in decades. This persistent increase in prices and interest
rates has created a challenging environment for both first-time buyers
and those looking to move up the property ladder," wrote Selma Hepp,
CoreLogic's chief economist, in the report.

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Silicon Valley's turn of fortune: Intel has worst year ever, while
Broadcom enjoys record gain
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At the Barclays event this month, Zinsner said the separate board for
the foundry business is "getting stood up today." More broadly, he
indicated that the company is looking to remove complexity and
associated costs wherever possible.

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On E-Scooters and ATVs, Russian Forces Swarm Ukrainian Positions in
the East
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Stepped up attacks by Russia are heightening longstanding concerns
over how Ukraine manages its military and countering assumptions that
Moscow’s offensive would slow, soldiers and military analysts say.

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Putin Declares 'Everything Will Be Fine' Despite Russia's Growing
Challenges
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Speaking on the 25th anniversary of his rule, President Vladimir V.
Putin delivered an upbeat and vague New Year’s Eve message that did
not address casualties in Ukraine or rising inflation at home.

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New Year's Eve 2025: Photos of Celebrations Around the World
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See how people across the globe celebrated.

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Germany's Chancellor Scholz Takes a Jab at Musk in New Year's Eve
Address
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Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Germany’s election would “not be
decided by the owners of social media channels” in his annual New
Year’s Eve address.

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Trump Wants Greenland and the Panama Canal. It's About Climate.
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Global warming is making both places more important to global shipping
and trade.

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Russian Forces are Swarming Ukrainian Positions in the East
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Plus, Wall Street sees more gains ahead.

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U.S. Carries Out Strikes on Houthis in Yemen
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The Houthis, who are backed by Iran, have targeted commercial ships in
the Red Sea in solidarity with Hamas in Gaza. They launched a missile
at Israel overnight.

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Just do it again: Will Nike keep its lead in 2025 or trip on the
track? (NKE)
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After a lackluster year that saw competitors steal market share,
innovation dry up, and its share price drop 30% from a year ago, Nike
(NYSE:NKE) is embarking on an ambitious turnaround plan for 2025 that
new CEO Elliott Hill

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The perfect New Year's Eve comedy turns 30
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Ars Technica has been separating the signal from the noise for over 25
years. With our unique combination of technical savvy and wide-ranging
interest in the technological arts and sciences, Ars is the trusted
source in a sea of information. After all, you don’t need to know
everything, only what’s important.

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Squid Game's second season is officially Netflix's biggest TV debut
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While the show offers a skewering critique of capitalism, Netflix has
been turning Squid Game into quite the cash cow. The streamer launched
a less deadly reality show spinoff, an in-person pop-up experience and
a multiplayer mobile game based on the TV series.

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The best SSDs in 2025
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Getting a bigger SSD doesn’t always translate into a faster drive
overall. A bigger SSD will provide a higher storage capacity, which
means more space for storing digital files and programs. To understand
how fast an SSD will be, you’ll want to look at its read/write
speeds: read speeds measure how fast a drive can access information,
while write speeds measure how fast the drive can save information.
Most SSDs list their approximate read/write speeds in their specs, so
be sure to check out those numbers before you make a purchase.

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Bluesky and Threads showed us very different visions for a post-X
future
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All that may not ultimately be enough to fend off Meta, which can
afford to throw billions of dollars at Threads. But Bluesky’s vision
for an open-source decentralized platform is about much more than
becoming the next big social media site. “We set out to change the
way social media works from the bottom up,” Graber said during a
recent press event. “I want us to have choice over what we see.”

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Dang, 2024 was a great year for horror game fans
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There it is — our humble ode to horror gaming in 2024. It’s been a
dozen months of indie innovation and gorgeous gore, with a side dish
of fabulous remakes and sizable updates. Some new horror games push
against the boundaries of the genre, expanding our ideas of what’s
scary and why, while others find fresh ways to dissect classic tropes.
It’s a case of modern cuisine vs. comfort food, and on my plate,
there’s plenty of room for both.

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Russia is trying to make its own game consoles in a bid for
technological independence
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Russia is likely unable to achieve true technological independence, in
video gaming or other crucial areas, as it relies too much on China
and doesn’t have the capabilities to produce PS5 or Xbox-level
chips. The two Russian video game consoles serve as a good example of
the challenges the country faces given its poor relations with many of
the world’s superpowers. Just like the Elbrus processor isn’t
going to truly compete against the best consoles, Russia will likely
continue to struggle for technological sovereignty.

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Tech's biggest losers in 2024
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From AI and AI gadgets to Intel and things that AI touched, here's our
list of the worst things in tech this year.

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Ecuador confirms incinerated bodies belong to missing a??Guayaquil
Foura?? boys
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Public prosecutors are now investigating whether the military were
responsible for the deaths. The Ministry of Defence had claimed that
the boys could have become victims of organised crime after being
released.

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South Korea plane crash investigators turn to black boxes in search
for vital clues
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Aviation experts have already raised safety questions over the
placement of a concrete embankment 250 metres beyond the end of the
runway at Muan international airport, into which the plane crashed
before bursting into a fireball.

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Xi says Chinaa??s economy on course to expand by 5% despite Trump
concerns
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Xi also praised Russia and said the two countries would move forward
"hand in hand" on the right path, months after the two countries
struck a "new era strategic partnership" on key issues.

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Woolworths to sell Australia Day holiday merchandise in reversal of
2024 policy
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A Roy Morgan poll conducted last January found more than two-thirds of
Australians (68.5%) believe 26 January should remain as “Australia
Day”, up 4.5% on the previous year. A total of 58.5% said the date
of Australia Day should remain the same, while 41.5% were in favour of
moving the date.

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