Published on: 2025-06-04 03:04:34
In September 1781, Thomas Hughes, then 22, visited Brighton for what he hoped would be a restorative holiday. It was not his first trip: such sojourns were common for Hughes. But on this occasion something was different. As Hughes recorded in his journal, ‘launched into a sea of gaiety and dissipation’ he nevertheless felt ‘out of my element’. Though he admitted to being naturally of a somewhat ‘reserved disposition’, this had never previously stopped the young man from enjoying polite company.
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Summer Game Fest 2025 is just around the corner and it'll be a weekend packed with video game news. The event kicks off on June 6, with roughly a dozen livestreams scheduled to take place from then through June 8. Among them is the Latin American Games Showcase, which will highlight over 50 titles from Latin American indie developers. You can tune into the YouTube stream on Saturday, June 7 at 2PM ET (11AM PT). Last year's Latin American Games Showcase at SGF gave us a glimpse at a ton of games
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Big quote: In an interview with Bloomberg, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made it clear that while the company navigates a complex geopolitical landscape, it remains committed to innovation and ensuring that American technology continues to set the standard worldwide. He highlighted both the opportunities and risks facing US tech leaders – and the pivotal role that government policy will play in shaping the industry's future. "Irrespective of the near-term revenue success we have had, we can't ignore t
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is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. The US State Department has launched its latest rebuke against Europe and other countries over their attempts to regulate digital platforms. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Wednesday that the US would restrict visas for “foreign nationals who are responsible for censorshi
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The following is adapted from a lecture delivered in Washington, D.C., on May 6, 2025, as part of the AWC Family Foundation Lecture Series. Sponsored by Hillsdale College’s Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship, which is undergoing extensive expansion and renovation, the lecture was delivered in The Heritage Foundation’s Van Andel–Gaby Center. Tariffs are among the oldest of taxes for the simple reason that they are easy to collect. Just send in the tax collector
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There’s a house for sale on the northern plain, in a place you’d never go. It sits by a field just a mile from the river, where a million bass and perch are jumping just now as I write this. By modern standards, it’s a tiny little house — just 600 square feet. But if you adhere to the standard of our great-grandfathers, it’s a fine-sized place, where any young, industrious couple could easily raise a whack of kids. Now, there might seem to be a certain cruelty in talking about housing. I say th
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Terrence Malick is the quietest of American movie directors. He gives no interviews; he avoids talkshows and festival appearances; he doesn’t feed us stories of what he was doing and why. For decades, he has done his best to avoid being photographed. He isn’t a ‘known American’ or a spokesman for himself in the way of Scorsese, Coppola, Tarantino, Spike Lee or just about any other director. For fifty years he has been involving us in questions about cinema – what it is, what it might be, whethe
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U.S. President Donald Trump signs a guest book next to United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, at Qasr Al Watan, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, May 15, 2025. ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — The U.S. and United Arab Emirates are working on a path to allow Abu Dhabi to purchase some of the most advanced American-made semiconductors for its AI development, U.S. President Donald Trump said from the Emirati capital Friday. "Yesterday the two countries also agreed t
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has canceled plans to introduce new rules designed to limit the ability of US data brokers to sell sensitive information about Americans, including financial data, credit history, and Social Security numbers. The CFPB proposed the new rule in early December under former director Rohit Chopra, who said the changes were necessary to combat commercial surveillance practices that “threaten our personal safety and undermine America’s national security.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has cancelled plans to introduce new rules designed to limit the ability of US data brokers to sell sensitive information about Americans, including financial data, credit history, and Social Security numbers. CFPB proposed the new rule in early December under former director Rohit Chopra, who said the changes were necessary to combat commercial surveillance practices that “threaten our personal safety and undermine America’s national security.”
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Crypto Prediction Platform Polymarket Was Utterly Wrong About the New Pope The American Pope surprised everyone. Papal Predictor Polymarket, the crypto-based prediction market where users can place bets on events ranging from national elections to natural disasters, got the Pope odds way wrong. Those forecasts were reflected in Polymarket as well as the similar platform Kalshi, which both took a hard turn toward Parolin as the public caught sight of white smoke, according to Axios. Meanwhile
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 05:05:39
is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. The US government is bringing up Starlink adoption in the midst of tariff trade talks with other countries, according to a report from The Washington Post. In recent weeks, several countries have moved forward with licensing the Elon Musk-owned satellite internet company, including India, Somalia, Lesotho, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Banglades
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On Wednesday, the Trump administration announced plans to rescind and replace a Biden-era rule regulating the export of high-end AI accelerator chips worldwide, Bloomberg and Reuters reported. A Department of Commerce spokeswoman told Reuters that officials found the previous framework "overly complex, overly bureaucratic, and would stymie American innovation" and pledged to create "a much simpler rule that unleashes American innovation and ensures American AI dominance." The Biden administrat
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, right, speaks alongside President Donald Trump about investing in America, at the White House in Washington, on April 30, 2025. Nvidia shares rose on Wednesday as the Trump administration prepared to rescind what's known as the "AI diffusion rule," effectively stopping a set of artificial intelligence chip controls from taking effect later this month. A Department of Commerce spokesperson confirmed the plan to CNBC after Bloomberg reported on it earlier. "The Biden AI
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-20 09:00:00
It’s official: As part of President Donald Trump’s roller-coaster trade war, the de minimis exemption no longer applies to packages arriving to the United States from China as of Friday, May 2. The provision previously allowed Chinese ecommerce giants like Temu, Shein, and AliExpress, as well as American companies like Amazon, to send goods valued at less than $800 to US customers duty-free. Those same goods are now subject to tariffs as high as 145 percent. In response to the change, Shein ann
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vonn In the late 1980s, U.S. audiences met an odd musical group from Finland: the Leningrad Cowboys, stars of a deadpan-comic, not-quite-documentary, road-trip film called Leningrad Cowboys Go America. Once you got past the name, two other things made the Cowboys stand out–most immediately, their look. They sported black suits, white shirts, ties, and dark shades… but they were no Russo-Scandinavian Blues Brothers. Rather, their hair was pompadoured forward, to stiff points protruding about a
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vonn In the late 1980s, U.S. audiences met an odd musical group from Finland: the Leningrad Cowboys, stars of a deadpan-comic, not-quite-documentary, road-trip film called Leningrad Cowboys Go America. Once you got past the name, two other things made the Cowboys stand out–most immediately, their look. They sported black suits, white shirts, ties, and dark shades… but they were no Russo-Scandinavian Blues Brothers. Rather, their hair was pompadoured forward, to stiff points protruding about a
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Elon Musk has spent the past three months helping President Donald Trump destroy vital parts of the U.S. federal government. The Tesla CEO unlawfully dismantled USAID, has gained access to highly sensitive personal data on Americans, and helped purge at least 120,000 government workers. Musk has also given his own businesses preferential treatment, creating a massive conflict of interest. And most Americans really don’t like any of it, according to new polling. Only 35% of Americans approve of
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-31 21:59:39
Arvind Krishna, chief executive officer of International Business Machines Corp. (IBM), during a Bloomberg Television interview at the World Governments Summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. International Business Machines Corporation on Monday announced it will invest $150 billion in the U.S. over the next five years, including more than $30 billion to advance American manufacturing of its mainframe and quantum computers. "We have been focused on American jobs and
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-02 06:39:00
The big picture: A growing number of American researchers are exploring scientific careers outside the United States, spurred by deep funding reductions and political interference that have upended the nation's research environment. Recent figures from Nature's global science jobs platform highlight this trend: in the first quarter of 2025, applications from US-based scientists for overseas positions climbed by 32 percent compared to a year earlier. Meanwhile, the number of American users search
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-03 17:21:37
When we priced a U.S.-made version of our flagship product 85% higher than our Chinese-made one, 25,650 customers had the chance to vote with their wallets. Here’s what happened. As small business owners, we’ve heard it a thousand times: “I’d gladly pay more to support American-made.” We wanted to believe it. So we put it to the test. We make filtered showerheads. Clean, sleek design. But more importantly, with the best shower filters on the market. Our bestselling model—manufactured in
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Last Friday, in an op-ed piece on the Trump administration's war on American universities, we called for academia to 1) band together and 2) resist coercive control over hiring and teaching, though we noted that the 3) "temperamental caution of university administrators" means that they might "have trouble finding a clear voice to speak with when they come under thundering public attacks from a government they are more used to thinking of as a funding source." It only took billions of dollars i
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Under President Trump’s tariff-happy administration, no industry is being spared. On Monday, the U.S. Department of Commerce finalized hefty tariffs on solar panel cells imported from Southeast Asia in a supposed effort to stop China from cheating. In a press release, the department stated that the tariffs would target Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam. The exact percentage varies depending on the country. For example, Malaysian products from Jinko Solar will see tariffs of 41.56 percen
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Last Friday, in an op-ed piece on the Trump administration's war on American universities, we called for academia to 1) band together and 2) resist coercive control over hiring and teaching, though we noted that the 3) "temperamental caution of university administrators" means that they might "have trouble finding a clear voice to speak with when they come under thundering public attacks from a government they are more used to thinking of as a funding source." It only took billions of dollars i
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Trump Just Set a Tariff on Solar Panels So High That Your Eyebrows May Raise Involuntarily This is bonkers, even for Trump. Cell Dweller The Trump administration is slapping giant tariffs on Southeast Asian-made solar panels — and the figures are so high, you may straight up gasp. As CNN and other outlets report, the United States is seeking tariffs of up to 3,521 percent — yes, you read that right — on solar cells and panels from Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, and Vietnam, all of which suppl
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FROSTBITE: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves, by Nicola Twilley Consider the improbable fact of the supermarket banana. In “Frostbite,” an exploration of the vast system known as the cold chain, the journalist Nicola Twilley follows the banana through a “seamless network of thermal control.” This series of refrigerated trucks, rail cars, shipping containers and warehouses ends in the ripening room, with its temperature gauges and gas immersion baths, all to meet our
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The only catch is you have to sign up for an AAdvantage account. American Airlines has announced plans to finally offer free Wi-Fi on flights. The company said that its AT&T-sponsored program will start offering free, high-speed Wi-Fi "across more than 2 million American flights per year" in January 2026. To be able to access free Wi-Fi you'll have to be a member of American's AAdvantage loyalty program, but once you're signed up, all you'll need to do is log in to access the internet. Wi-Fi w
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American Airlines is the most popular airline in the US, and an especially great option for Apple fans thanks to free Apple Music and Apple TV+ offers. But unlike some of its competitors, it has always charged for Wi-Fi connectivity. Fortunately, that practice is about to end: free Wi-Fi is coming to American Airlines soon. American Airlines free Wi-Fi coming January 2026 In a new press release, American Airlines has announced that free connectivity is on the way. Starting next year in Januar
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The colonial victory against the British in the American Revolutionary War was far from a predetermined outcome. In addition to good strategy and the timely appearance of key allies like the French, Continental soldiers relied on several key technological innovations in weaponry. But just how accurate is an 18th-century musket when it comes to hitting a target? Did the rifle really determine the outcome of the war? And just how much damage did cannon inflict? A team of military weapons experts a
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An American Eagle jet set to leave Washington, D.C. for New York on Thursday afternoon clipped wings with another aircraft on the runway at Ronald Reagan National Airport. One of the planes had at least seven members of Congress on board, according to a report from NBC News. No injuries were reported as a result of the incident, and both planes were able to return to the terminal for inspection, according to a statement from American Airlines given to the BBC. The two flights involved in the gr
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