Remains of 56 people found decomposing at Chicago funeral home: the hour's strongest signal
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Global Affairs/Europe/Signal 41
Remains of 56 people found decomposing at Chicago funeral home
Officials describe ‘deplorable conditions’ at home run by pair linked to crematory closed due to mishandled remains The remains of 56 people were found improperly stored and decomposing on Thursday at a Chicago funeral home run by a couple who previously operated a crematory…
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 40
Ancient olive trees damaged in wildfires given new life, rehabilitated into bonsai trees
The rehabilitated trees will eventually be displayed to the public at the Jerusalem Botanical Gardens in Givat Ram and at KKL-JNF's Eshtaol Nursery.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Combining Computational Design with Wicker
Wicker story is the name of an initiative by architect Priyanka Narula and her firm, Hyderabad-based Prelab Design Studio. "The project was a response to a prolonged quest to define the future of design in the Indian context," Narula writes.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Unitree's Impressive Off-Road Dog-Bot/Pack Mule
It might seem silly to develop a dog robot that can breakdance, as Chinese robotics brand Unitree has done. However, they've put all that agility to practical use.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Sonic's Focus on the UX of Pencil Cases
Here Japanese stationery manufacturer Sonic rethinks the humble pencil case, which is typically a form-follows-function rectangle.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Chinese Autonomous Buses are Spreading Around the World
S. was the dominant industrial power. We enjoyed conveniences and luxuries not readily available in other parts of the world, from air conditioning to appliances to cutting-edge vehicles.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Modhaus' Wireless Phone Charger with a Concrete Base
To prevent sliding around on a tabletop, most wireless chargers have rubber feet or silicone pads under their bases. The folks over at Modhaus , a South Korean product brand, went with a more extreme solution: The base of their Upright charger is cast concrete.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
U.S. Government Bans Foreign-Made Robots
Recently we've covered a number of robots, ranging from creepy to nifty: UBTECH's U1 companion robots. Unitree's crazy off-road AS2-W . Hyundai's parking robots .
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Meet Fusion Forward Competition Juror Michelle Lee, Partner at IDEO San Francisco
As a Partner and Executive Managing Director at IDEO San Francisco , Michelle Lee leads multidisciplinary teams of researchers, designers, and engineers across sectors ranging from healthcare and workplace culture to responsible digital design and the circular economy.
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Investigative/Global/Signal 40
Appeals court rules Trump can’t build White House ballroom without congressional approval - apnews.com
Appeals court rules Trump can’t build White House ballroom without congressional approval apnews.com Another court blocks White House ballroom work, teeing up a Supreme Court review NPR Trump says he’ll bring ballroom fight to Supreme Court after lower court halts work The…
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Global Affairs/North America/Signal 39
ICE will only release body camera video when in agency's 'best interests,' policy says
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is moving to equip officers with body cameras in the next two months but the agency's policy gives it broad control over what footage will be made public by specifying any releases must be in its "best interests."
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Global Affairs/Oceania/Signal 39
RNZ New Zealand Headlines
The Latest New Zealand headlines from RNZ News
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 38
Europe’s summer heatwave reveals Ice Age mammoth bones, sunken Nazi relics in receding Danube River
Near Opatovac, Croatia,receding water levels have also begun to reveal a shows the wreckage of the Hungarian cargo ship Fulton which sunk in the Danube in 1937 while transporting coal.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 38
Egypt uncovers first complete bath complex, ancient hydraulic system north of Suez Canal
Leithy added that the layer is marked by remnants of ancient Cypriot pottery and Greek amphorae, confirming that settlement of the site began before the construction of the bathing complex.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 38
'End this war. NOW': US senators introduce resolution
'End this war. NOW': US senators introduce resolution American senators have “introduced a resolution to put a stop to President Trump’s illegal war with Iran”, according to Senator John Hickenlooper. “American lives have been lost.
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Business & Finance/Europe/Signal 36
How to fix Britain’s housing crisis
We need to find ways to lift the financial and resource constraints on new homebuilding
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Investigative/Global/Signal 36
Why a prosecution of Anthony Fauci could face challenges in court - The Washington Post
Why a prosecution of Anthony Fauci could face challenges in court The Washington Post Exclusive | Senate Panel Says It Has Obtained Copy of Fauci’s Covid-Era Phone WSJ Senate Panel Votes to Hold Fauci in Contempt of Congress The New York Times Trump did many of the things…
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Investigative/Global/Signal 35
Senate eyes the exit after GOP-Trump deal - Politico
Senate eyes the exit after GOP-Trump deal Politico Inside the Senate's great escape plan Axios Senate eyes deal to leave for recess as agenda items pile up CBS News Thune’s trainwreck has done some damage Punchbowl News Senate faces long to-do list and little time before recess…