Israel denounces 'grotesque absurdity' of French president's remarks on West Bank at UN: the hour's strongest signal
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Global Affairs/Europe/Signal 47
Israel denounces 'grotesque absurdity' of French president's remarks on West Bank at UN
In his Tuesday speech, Macron railed against the humanitarian situation in Gaza and urged countries to recommit to international laws and the UN system.
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Global Affairs/North America/Signal 44
Trump administration to remove 760,000 Affordable Care Act enrollees over fraud claims
White House officials allege these individuals were fraudulently enrolled in the program or do not exist. 2 billion.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 41
China’s Xi kicks off state visit to Washington on Wednesday with a rare planeside welcome from Trump
Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to arrive in Washington for a state visit, receiving an unusual planeside welcome from President Donald Trump. S. and China.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 40
'I knew you were Left': Netanyahu, Smotrich attack Liberman over proposed Jordan role in West Bank
The proposal is not the first time Liberman has advocated a Jordanian administrative role in Palestinian areas of the West Bank.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 40
Israel's diplomatic isolation prevents proper recognition for its military achievements
Israel should be in a completely different position by now. The IDF's achievements over three years of war have been remarkable. But they should have been taken to the next level.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 40
Wife of US seismologist detained in China says Trump will ask Xi to free him
Youlin Chen, 54, is one of two Americans held by Beijing whom the US has designated as "wrongfully detained," making their release a top priority.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 40
Shifting to physical AI, Cognex to acquire Intel spinoff RealSense in $500 million deal
and $90 m.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Examples of Well-Worn Objects
Patina is often romanticized, as it (arguably) improves the look of leather and some metals. But sometimes objects just get worn out. Which they should, right?
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Industrial Designer Erina Caldeira's Steel Twist on Woven Baskets
This KŌSA container references the directionality of traditional basket weaving, but here the perpendicular elements do not actually touch. Instead the structure comes from the material: Two pieces of thin sheet steel, seamlessly joined.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Furniture Designer Chiara Verde's Cork Lounge Chair
dIn the early- and mid-20th century, we saw the advent of chairs slung with leather. These were radical because they did away with supporting surfaces and upholstery, instead relying on leather suspended from a structural frame of metal tubing or wood.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Why Did the Aerodynamic Look Go Away, and Will It Come Back?
For automakers on the cusp of the 1990s, interest in aerodynamic efficiency was high. 32. This aerodynamic sculpting also yielded, to my eye, good-looking and well-proportioned cars.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
From Hexagon to Hive: Designing Play Through the Geometry of Bees
How can a natural form become a design principle capable of shaping not only the aesthetics of a game, but also its narrative and modes of interaction? When designing a children's game, the challenge is not simply to create a set of rules.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Pedestal's Power Strip Accessories
Over the course of the past few decades, we've come to interact with power strips more and more. Despite that the object itself hasn't evolved much, because it doesn't need to, right? Danish tech accessory brand Pedestal begs to differ, with their collection of Power products .
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
A 1973 Fiat Pickup Truck
Have you ever wondered what an Italian pickup truck would look like? Well, here's your answer: It's even got a sunroof: Apparently in the 20th century, a handful of Italian motorists with quirky tastes hired coachbuilders to convert their Fiat 500s into pickup trucks.
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Science & Climate/Global/Signal 40
Snapshots reveal key molecular machine in tropical parasites at near-atomic resolution
A study conducted by the University of Liège and Rockefeller University reveals, with near-atomic precision, the three-dimensional structure and function of a gigantic molecular machine essential to the survival of trypanosomatid parasites, which cause serious diseases in…
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Science & Climate/Global/Signal 40
AI scans 4.6 million compounds in hours to predict hydrogen positions in drug-like molecules
New York University researchers have trained an AI model to learn chemical patterns associated with stability in drug-like molecules and accurately predict where their hydrogen atoms should be positioned.
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Business & Finance/North America/Signal 40
Softbank’s mega junk-bond deal shows capital for the AI race is getting more expensive
The artificial intelligence build-out is officially crossing over to the world of junk bonds, where investors expect to be paid more for taking bigger risks.
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Business & Finance/North America/Signal 39
Democrats worry Trump may make auto industry concessions to Xi
The president has floated the possibility of allowing Chinese carmakers to build vehicles in the US.
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