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• Dolphins Create Invisible Vortices With Their Tails, Helping Them Power Ahead Underwater

  28-04-2026 23:20 via discovermagazine.com
  
  Learn how supercomputers simulate how dolphins create powerful vortices that push them forward and make them some of the fastest swimmers in the animal kingdom.
  
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• Quixote Studios Lays Off 70, Winds Down L.A. Locations Amid Production Slump - Variety

  28-04-2026 23:01 via news.google.com
  Quixote Studios Lays Off 70, Winds Down L.A. Locations Amid Production Slump  VarietyQuixote production services vendor to wind down most of its soundstage business in L.A.  Los Angeles TimesQuixote Cuts Most of Its L.A. Soundstage Business, Leaves Georgia and New Mexico Entirely  The Hollywood ReporterQuixote Studios Exiting Atlanta, Deploying Assets To New York & L.A.  DeadlineQuixote to lay off 70 staffers, wind down most of its sound stage business
  
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• Boom! United Arab Emirates Exits OPEC: The End Of The Petrodollar And The Rise Of IMEC

  28-04-2026 22:45 via technocracy.news
  History has just been made. The Petrodollar is dead. Asset tokenization will replace the dollar when pricing oil. The IMEC corridor is rebooted with or without the Strait of Hormuz. All of this at the hands of the UAE, the balance of power in the Middle East has shifted. This validates my new book, The New Economics of Technocracy.
  On April 28, 2026, the United Arab Emirates announced its withdrawal from OPEC, effective May 1, ending nearly six decades of membership in the oil cartel that has go
  
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• World’s Largest Explosions Lab in Texas Hopes to Ignite Breakthroughs in Hypersonic Flight and Star Death

  28-04-2026 22:00 via discovermagazine.com
  
  Learn about the newly opened Detonation Research Test Facility in Texas, a two-football-field-sized lab unlocking the secrets of explosive power.
  
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• Amazon touts a 'major expansion' with OpenAI as Microsoft ties loosen

  28-04-2026 21:29
  Amazon announced what it called a “major expansion” of its partnership with ChatGPT maker OpenAI on Tuesday, a day after the artificial intelligence company said it was loosening its ties to longtime backer Microsoft
  
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• Arctic Sea Ice Helped Some Bowhead Whales Survive Centuries of Industrial Whaling

  28-04-2026 21:25 via discovermagazine.com
  
  Learn how Arctic sea ice created natural refuges for bowhead whales during centuries of industrial whaling, shaping which populations are recovering today.
  
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• All About Zoë Kravitz's Engagement Ring From Harry Styles (and the Other Two She Received From Former Partners) - instyle.com

  28-04-2026 20:31 via news.google.com
  All About Zoë Kravitz's Engagement Ring From Harry Styles (and the Other Two She Received From Former Partners)  instyle.comHarry Styles and Zoë Kravitz Are Engaged 8 Months After First Being Spotted Together: Source  People.comChanning Tatum Shares Cryptic Poem After Ex Zoë Kravitz’s Engagement News  ComplexHarry Styles and Zoe Kravitz kiss in London as she's seen with HUGE diamond ring  The SunIt’s Official—This is the El
  
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• Fragments of Homer’s Iliad Found Buried with Roman-Era Mummy

  28-04-2026 20:20 via discovermagazine.com
  
  Learn about “papyrus packets” placed on mummies during funerary rituals.
  
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• Researchers Discover Critical GitHub CVE-2026-3854 RCE Flaw Exploitable via Single Git Push - The Hacker News

  28-04-2026 20:19 via news.google.com
  Researchers Discover Critical GitHub CVE-2026-3854 RCE Flaw Exploitable via Single Git Push  The Hacker NewsSecuring the git push pipeline: Responding to a critical remote code execution vulnerability  The GitHub BlogGitHub rushed to fix a critical vulnerability in less than six hours  The VergeGitHub RCE Vulnerability: CVE-2026-3854 Breakdown  wiz.ioCritical GitHub Vulnerability Exposed Millions of Repositories  SecurityWeek
  
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• Scientists identify mysterious ‘golden orb’ discovered off Alaska’s coast - Alaska Public Media

  28-04-2026 19:34 via news.google.com
  Scientists identify mysterious ‘golden orb’ discovered off Alaska’s coast  Alaska Public MediaGolden Blob, a Mystery From the Deep Sea, Is Identified  The New York TimesScientists Found This Mysterious Golden Orb on the Seafloor Nearly Three Years Ago. Now, They Finally Know What It Is  Smithsonian Magazine'Golden Orb' Found on Seafloor Mystified Scientists. 2 Years Later, They Learn Mass Belonged to Giant Underwater Creature  People.comS
  
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• DJI’s new Mic Mini 2 adds colorful covers to help them blend in - The Verge

  28-04-2026 17:04 via news.google.com
  DJI’s new Mic Mini 2 adds colorful covers to help them blend in  The VergeDJI announces Mic Mini 2 with swappable color covers  MashableDJI Mic Mini 2 review: The tiny wireless mic is colorful and much cheaper  EngadgetDJI Mic 3 Microphone Bundle With Charging Case Hits an All-Time Low, a Perfect Add-On for Osmo Users  GizmodoDJI Mic Mini 2 Released – 11g Transmitter, Three Voice Tone Presets, and Mic 3 Cross-Compatibility  CineD
  
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• First-Ever Smell Map Is a Breakthrough in Sensory Research, a Step to Help Us Tackle Loss of Smell

  28-04-2026 17:00 via discovermagazine.com
  
  Discover how smell receptors in our noses aren’t randomly arranged but are highly organized, offering new paths toward treating sensory impairment.
  
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• PS5 30-Day DRM “Confirmed” by PlayStation Support – But Sony Denies It - VICE

  28-04-2026 15:31 via news.google.com
  PS5 30-Day DRM “Confirmed” by PlayStation Support – But Sony Denies It  VICESony's New DRM Appears To Be a Refund Scam Workaround  TechPowerUpGameStop Is Trying To Capitalize On PS5's Reported New Online Requirement  GameSpotPlayStation gets new DRM update and your PS5 games can vanish after 30 days, per reports  Sportskeeda TechSony rolls out 30-day online DRM check-in for PlayStation digital games — players could temporarily lose
  
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• Neanderthal brains measure up to ours—literally - Ars Technica

  28-04-2026 13:05 via news.google.com
  Neanderthal brains measure up to ours—literally  Ars TechnicaForget the caveman myth: Neanderthal brains challenge what we thought we knew  Science X networkScientists think they finally know why Neanderthals vanished  ScienceDailyBrain Scans Reveal a Surprise About Neanderthal Intelligence  ScienceAlertClimate and competition alone cannot explain Neanderthal extinction, study finds  Phys.org
  
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• Archaeologists at Pompeii use artificial intelligence to reveal face of one victim

  28-04-2026 12:34
  Archaeologists at Pompeii have used artificial intelligence to digitally reconstruct the face of a man killed in the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius
  
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• Chinese Workers Horrified As Bosses Direct Them To Train Their AI Replacements

  28-04-2026 06:47 via technocracy.news
  Workers have been abused for years by requiring them to train their replacements, even when sitting across from them. Now AI has sped up the process. Chinese and American workers are forced to use products like OpenClaw to meticulously recreate the workflows that make up their jobs. Their last task will be to send themselves a pink slip. The ranks of the unemployed will give way to the unemployables. ⁃ Patrick Wood, Editor.For years, a buzzy Silicon Valley startup called Mercor has been&nb
  
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• CDC delay of infant hepatitis B shot likely to raise infections, studies show - The Washington Post

  28-04-2026 06:03 via news.google.com
  CDC delay of infant hepatitis B shot likely to raise infections, studies show  The Washington PostNew U.S. recommendation on hepatitis B vaccine will have dire consequences, studies project  statnews.comOne delayed newborn shot can set off a costly chain reaction with lifelong consequences for children  Medical XpressEnd of universal birth-dose hep B vaccination will drive up infections, deaths, costs, researchers say  CIDRAPCDC move to stop recommending h
  
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• DOH: Mpox detected in wastewater sample from Pearl Harbor - Honolulu Star-Advertiser

  28-04-2026 04:50 via news.google.com
  DOH: Mpox detected in wastewater sample from Pearl Harbor  Honolulu Star-AdvertiserWashoe County sees two Mpox cases; officials urge vaccination for those at higher risk  KOLO | 8 News NowMpox returns to Northern Nevada. What to know  Reno Gazette JournalDOH reports mpox found in Oahu water sample  Spectrum NewsMpox Clade Ib: 1st Local Transmission in Denmark & Wastewater Detection in Hawaii  Avian Flu Diary
  
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• Jury selection begins in Elon Musk's trial against OpenAI's Sam Altman

  28-04-2026 01:32 via nbcnews.com
  Jury selection began in Elon Musk’s civil trial against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. NBC News’ Brian Cheung explains how both sides will try to make their case and how the jury selection is unfolding. 
  
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• South Carolina's measles outbreak is over. But more are brewing around the country - NPR

  28-04-2026 01:17 via news.google.com
  South Carolina's measles outbreak is over. But more are brewing around the country  NPRMeasles Surge in South Carolina Ends After Sickening Nearly 1,000  The New York TimesA record-breaking measles outbreak in the US has ended. It may have helped drive a spike in vaccination rates  CNNMeasles outbreak in South Carolina officially ends after 997 cases  upi.comSouth Carolina’s 200-day measles outbreak is over. What it cost.  Post and Courier
  
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• 75-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals New Species of Hamster-Sized Mammal From the Age of Dinosaurs

  28-04-2026 00:00 via discovermagazine.com
  
  Learn about a small rodent-like mammal whose descendants survived the extinction event that killed all non-avian dinosaurs. 
  
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