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System76’s COSMIC desktop environment continues to take shape, with a third alpha snapshot now available for testing. The first alpha brought the core essentials, the second alpha delivered stack of new features, and this third alpha fills in gaps, fixes issues, and finesses the user experience further. Of note, COSMICContinue Reading

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Images of coastal houses being carried off into the sea due to eroding coastlines and powerful storm surges are becoming more commonplace as climate change brings a rising sea level coupled with more powerful storms. In the U.S. alone, coastal storms caused $165 billion in losses in 2022. Now, aContinue Reading

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It can be hard to connect a certain amount of average global warming with one’s everyday experience, so researchers at MIT have devised a different approach to quantifying the direct impact of climate change. Instead of focusing on global averages, they came up with the concept of “outdoor days”: theContinue Reading

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American Coup: Wilmington 1898 premieres tonight on PBS and investigates the only successful insurrection conducted against a U.S. government, when self-described white supremacist residents stoked fears of “Negro Rule” and carried out a deadly massacre in Wilmington, North Carolina. Their aim was to destroy Black political and economic power andContinue Reading

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Auerbach came to England in 1939 as a child refugee after fleeing from Nazi Germany., Auerbach came to England in 1939 as a child refugee after fleeing from Nazi Germany. Painter Frank Auerbach, who fled Nazi Germany to Britain as a child, has died at age 93, his representatives say.Continue Reading

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Israeli forces bombarded Beirut’s southern suburbs, urging residents to evacuate before launching daytime air strikes., Smoke rises after an Israeli air strike on Dahiyeh, in the southern suburb of Beirut [Bilal Hussein/AP Photo] Israel’s military has pounded Beirut’s southern suburbs with air strikes, mounting one of its heaviest daytime attacksContinue Reading

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The world’s leading climate diplomats, scientists and policy experts convene in Baku, Azerbaijan, this week to begin the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29). Framed as the “finance COP”, this year’s summit will be defined by negotiations around the amount of public money dedicated to tackling climate change. LessContinue Reading