SpaceX’s Starship rocket reaches orbit for the first time: the hour's strongest signal
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Business & Finance/Europe/Signal 56
SpaceX’s Starship rocket reaches orbit for the first time
System is pivotal to Elon Musk’s ambitions to win more Nasa contracts and transport humans to the Moon and Mars
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Global Affairs/Africa/Signal 51
Africa: Pollen Season - New Map of South Africa's Allergy Hotspots Gives You Time to Prepare
[The Conversation Africa] For some South Africans, the beginning of the flower season is met not with the joys of spring but rather with a sniffy nose, itchy eyes and a cacophony of sneezing.
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Global Affairs/North America/Signal 51
Powerful nor'easter floods Northeast again, causing problems from New Jersey to New England
Local officials in New Jersey and New York told residents that high tide late Monday could potentially bring more flooding.
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Global Affairs/Europe/Signal 48
Larissa Waters steps down as Greens leader due to ill health
Ballot for new leader expected next week after Waters quits to manage pre-existing kidney disease that has ‘declined significantly’ Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Greens leader Larissa Waters has announced she will step down due to ill health, with…
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Business & Finance/North America/Signal 46
SpaceX launches its massive Starship rocket into orbit for the first time
Elon Musk's SpaceX launched a historic test flight of its massive Starship rocket early Monday.
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Business & Finance/North America/Signal 45
Meta hires MongoDB CEO CJ Desai to lead enterprise unit. MongoDB shares crater
Desai will lead the new Meta Enterprise Platform unit and report to CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
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Business & Finance/North America/Signal 42
Trump ‘very seriously’ considering diesel export ban as global supply crunch worsens
S. gasoline prices as refiners adjust.
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Business & Finance/Global/Signal 42
What is the AI capex breakeven rate? - ft.com
What is the AI capex breakeven rate? 6% of GDP. Who’s Going to Pay for It?
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Business & Finance/North America/Signal 41
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent hires Wall Street economist David Zervos
Zervos is joining the Treasury Department as counselor to Bessent, adding a prominent markets voice to the administration's economic policy team.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 40
On this day: Second Intifada triggered following Ariel Sharon's visit to Temple Mount
In total, more than 1,000 Israelis were killed by Palestinian terrorist attacks, which included suicide bombings, shootings, stabbings, and car ramming.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 40
Iranian singer Gola brings message of hope to Haifa International Film Festival
Iranian singer Gola sang alongside Yuval Raphael, a Nova festival survivor, at the opening of the Haifa International Film Festival on Saturday.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 40
Jewish establishment heavy hitters are joining J Street in sign of changing times
More Jewish leaders in the US are joining J Street as American Jews aim to support Israel in new meaningful ways.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 40
South Korean military: 'Highly likely' North Korean mine injured soldiers in DMZ
A South Korean military team was conducting a reconnaissance operation inside the western sector of the DMZ border area separating the two Koreas when a landmine blast injured three soldiers.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
What an Anodized Aluminum Baseball Cap Holder Says About Our Product Landscape
You have to wonder what the pioneers of industrial design would make of this day and age. The original promise of ID was to harness the power of mass production to create useful objects for the masses.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Motomorphosis: MSCHF's Radically Modified Lexuses
Art collective MSCHF is at it again, this time with Lexus . For their Motomorphosis exhibit, which opens tomorrow at NYC's Armory Week art fair, they've stretched two real cars into unlikely forms.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Cory Johnson's Infinite Pocket Jeans
Remember these ridiculous jeans created by Werther's Originals? They had 30 coin pockets up and down the legs, intended to provide stash space for the candy company's treats.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Early Transforming Furniture: Richard Neutra's Camel Table
In the 1930s Richard Neutra , the Austrian architect who'd made his home in California, designed an early example of flexible-use furniture.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
An Architectural-Scale Kintsugi Project
In the 1960s, college students stumbled across an abandoned ruin in the wilds of Warsaw, Virginia, outside of Richmond. The crumbling stone structure had been abandoned following a hurricane in the 1930s, and weather had taken its toll.
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