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- Yankees Open Season At Giants With Gerrit Cole On The Comeback Trail
The Yanks are trying to win the World Series for the first time since 2009, but need their full compliment of healthy starting pitchers to do it.
- Fuel Rationing, No AC, 4-Day Work Week: How Countries Are Dealing With The Iran War Oil Crisis
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has created a daily supply deficit of around 15 million barrels of oil, triggering fuel shortages in countries that rely heavily on Middle Eastern oil.
- Trump Retained Classified Documents Because Of His ‘Business Interests,’ Jack Smith Alleged
Trump allegedly showed a classified map to people aboard his private plane, Smith found during his investigation.
- The Iran War's Hidden Victim: The Green Energy Supply Chain
The minerals powering solar panels, EV batteries, and wind turbines travel through the same maritime chokepoints as crude oil. Escalation puts them at risks too.
- America claims it sent a cease-fire plan to Iran, which doesn’t confirm receipt
Tehran did not confirm receiving the plan and publicly dismissed the diplomatic effort while launching more attacks on Israel and Gulf Arab countries.
Technology
- Honda cancels the two electric vehicles it was developing with Sony
Sony Honda Mobility says the Afeela 1 and Afeela 2 are no more.
- The Download: reawakening frozen brains, and the AI Hype Index returns
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. This scientist rewarmed and studied pieces of his friend’s cryopreserved brain L. Stephen Coles’s brain sits in a vat at a storage facility in Arizona. It has been held there at a temperature…
- Agentic commerce runs on truth and context
Imagine telling a digital agent, “Use my points and book a family trip to Italy. Keep it within budget, pick hotels we’ve liked before, and handle the details.” Instead of returning a list of links, the agent assembles an itinerary and executes the purchase. That shift, from assistance to execution, is what makes agentic AI…
- So long, farewell: Saying goodbye to Audi's best car, the 2026 RS6 Avant
With production now finished, we take one last ride in our favorite station wagon.
- How chemists turned bourbon waste into supercapacitors
Hydrothermal carbonization can directly convert sloppy stillage into hard or activated carbon.
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