UK to launch new military space squadron to protect satellites: the hour's strongest signal
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Science & Climate/Global/Signal 62
UK to launch new military space squadron to protect satellites
Britain announced Wednesday that it will launch a new military space squadron to defend the country's satellites, the latest move as countries race to develop military space capabilities.
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Global Affairs/Africa/Signal 59
South Africa: 11 Killed in Mass Shooting At a House Party in KZN
[Scrolla] Eleven people, including a pregnant woman, were killed when three gunmen opened fire on a gathering inside a house in KwaMakhutha on Tuesday night.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 54
Trump-backed Board of Peace will unveil $2.45 billion Gaza recovery plan: report
45 billion recovery plan for Gaza, according to news outlet Axios. Among the proposals set to be announced at a meeting of its members on Wednesday are spending for temporary housing, rubble removal, hospital repairs, economic recovery and the deployment of a multinational…
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Global Affairs/Europe/Signal 48
Israel blasts ‘grotesque absurdity’ of Macron’s UN remarks on West Bank
The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office on Wednesday issued a stinging rebuke to French President Emmanuel Macron's UN speech denouncing settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 43
Israeli fire kills two people in Gaza, medics say
Israeli fire kills two people in Gaza, medics say An Israeli air strike killed at least two Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, local health officials said.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 43
Iranian flight lands in China despite US threat of sanctions: flight tracker
An Iranian flight successfully landed in China despite threats of US sanctions, according to flight tracking information.
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Business & Finance/North America/Signal 42
Zelenskyy says Ukraine ready for ‘energy ceasefire’, calls for trilateral meeting with Putin, Trump
Zelenskyy said Ukraine is ready for an “energy ceasefire” with Russia, provided Moscow stops attacks on critical infrastructure.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 41
Oil prices fall after Trump hails 'good' talks with Iran
Oil prices fell on Wednesday after President Donald Trump said US and Iranian representatives had met for "very good" talks at the United Nations.
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Global Affairs/North America/Signal 41
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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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
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
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
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
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
A Minimalist Wheeled Stool That Doesn't Look Like a Wheeled Stool
This Allround stool is by industrial designer Hirotaka Tako. It comes with a little surprise: Casters hidden beneath the base. There's also a taller version with a third disc to act as a footrest.
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Longform/North America/Signal 40
I Accidentally Found Out a Secret About My Brother’s Financial Life. I Want to Offer My Help, But There’s a Catch.
This hasn't gone well for me in the past.
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Slate SoundBites for September 23, 2026
Build your answer from the sound up with our new game, SoundBites!
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