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The camera flash will evolve into a multicolor LED that illuminates when your phone is face down.

Chico Harlan, global climate correspondent at The New York Times, discusses the wildfires in Europe and the ways climate change is impacting the continent right now.

Photo: VIOTIA, GREECE - AUGUST 2: Volunteers battle a wildfire burning near Porto Germeno, 70 kilometres northwest of Athens in the region of Viotia, Greece, on August 2, 2026 (Photo by Costas Baltas/Anadolu via Getty Images)

 

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Dr. Anthony Fauci returned to Congress to testify on his role in the COVID-19 pandemic after Republican Senator Rand Paul released some of Fauci's diary entries from 2020. Chelsea Cirruzzo, Washington correspondent at STAT News, discusses Fauci's testimony and related news. 

Photo: WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 29: Former NIH Director Anthony Fauci is sworn in before testifying to Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on July 29, 2026 in Washington, DC. Fauci was expected to be questioned about his diary entries during his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

 

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Kathryn Jezer-Morton, writer of The Cut's Brooding newsletter and the author of The Story of Your Life: How Social Media Shapes the Way We Experience Everything (Viking, 2026), talks about her reporting on and experience with the way social media is changing our lives. Photo...

A new private club is slated to open this month at Jacob Riis Park on the Rockaway Peninsula. Dubbed "The Peoples Beach," the park has a long history as an informal gathering place for the LGBTQ community. Liam Quigley, parks and sanitation reporter for Gothamist/WNYC, unpacks the status of the project, whose opening has been delayed several times this summer, including why some beachgoers are unhappy with the plan; plus listeners weigh in with their thoughts on the club and the beach's storied history.

Photo: Jacob Riis Park is a seaside park in the New York City borough of Queens

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Sunlit has been updated with fixes and design improvements for Liquid Glass. Sunlit is our iOS app for photo-blogging, with great support for posting longer posts with multiple photos and text sections.

For the past two years, most of the conversations about AI and software development have centered on security: How do

The post Claude, Gemini, and GPT-5 can handle every SDLC task. Almost none of them should. appeared first on The New Stack.

The sexual assault of children. The catcalling and income discrimination your sister faces. The struggles your granddad has connecting emotionally. These are topics explored in gender and sexuality studies classes.  But following Florida, universities in the Lone Star State, including the University of North Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, University of Texas, and now the […]

The post University of Houston Nixed Its Gender and Sexuality Classes. That Won’t Stop Texas’ Crusade Against Higher Ed  appeared first on The Texas Observer.

Bigfoot enthusiasts, this one is for you! The Sasquatch Festival and Calling Contest returns this September in Upstate, New York. Continue reading…

The Ulster County Fair in New Paltz will take place August 4, 2026 until August 9, 2026. We can try their new ride called Artificial Intelligence on site! Continue reading…

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A handshake in Nashville means everything and nothing at the same time — and one country duo learned that the hard way. Continue reading…

“President Donald Trump is facing pressure from his allies to intervene in Rep. Max Miller’s race as the party races against a Wednesday deadline for the embattled Ohio Republican to drop out,” Semafor reports.

David Graham: “The Democratic Party’s problems remain very real, but for the moment, Trump and the GOP have more serious ones. The most glaring one is Trump’s deep personal unpopularity. In the current polarized and dyspeptic political environment, all presidents seem to be unpopular, but Trump is in a different league.” “A CNN poll released […]

The Trump administration is building a border wall through a levee system that protects a small Texas town from flooding.

I Advocated for a Return of My Prison’s Recreation Programs. Then I Was Transferred.
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