SpaceX launches its massive Starship rocket into orbit for the first time: the hour's strongest signal
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Business & Finance/North America/Signal 77
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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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 55
SpaceX’s showpiece Starship rocket reaches orbit for first time
Founder Elon Musk's rocket, the largest ever built, is meant to carry NASA mission to moon and beyond.
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Business & Finance/Global/Signal 54
Trump administration lowers fuel economy standards, critics say at a significant environmental cost - AP News
Trump administration lowers fuel economy standards, critics say at a significant environmental cost AP News See more headlines & perspectives on Google News
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Global Affairs/Europe/Signal 48
French far right's Jordan Bardella denies alleged 2013 anti-Semitic comments
Jordan Bardella, the head of Marine Le Pen's National Rally (RN) party, has denied allegations made by French investigative website Mediapart that he wrote anti-Semitic comments on private chats in 2013, when he was aged 17 or 18.
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Science & Climate/Global/Signal 48
Generous paternal leave policies improve maternal and newborn health, family finances and workplace equality
When our second child was born, my spouse had several weeks of paternity leave under his parental leave policy at work.
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Global Affairs/Europe/Signal 42
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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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 40
Study rejects claims that Israel is apartheid state or guilty of genocide
A new academic study examines apartheid, genocide and settler colonialism accusations against Israel, concluding the first two are not established and the third is an inadequate classification.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 40
Scholars launch 'Infidel Awareness Month,' to run annually from September 11 to October 7
By reclaiming and analyzing terms like "infidel" (kafir), the daily releases aim to dismantle the public's blind spots regarding how extremist groups categorize non-Muslim populations.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 40
Musician sentenced to 74 lashes for hijabless performance as Iran continues entertainment crackdown
The court found that a hijabless performance had violated “public decency through the production and publication of obscene and immoral content on cyberspace platforms.”
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 40
Parents of missing fight Jerusalem court's refusal of protest camp near PMO
The parents of Haymanot Kasau, who disappeared when she was nine in 2024, challenged the Jerusalem District Court's refusal to allow a month-long protest camp near the Prime Minister's Office.
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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
The Easy Roller: An Alternative Take on the Pizza Cutter
While the traditional form of a pizza cutter is this… …Japanese manufacturer Fireside has a different take, offering a much more compact form factor: It's no surprise this Easy Roller came from Japan, where storage space is limited.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
A Minimalist Low-Cost Japanese Sketchbook
These Blank Note sketchbooks by MUCU, a Japanese stationery brand, almost look like some kind of military surplus. But in fact they're just as minimal a sketchbook as possible: Two pieces of recycled paperboard for the covers, a canvas strip for the spine, and 60 pages of…
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Cost-Cutting Disguised as Minimalism: Volvo's EX30 Dashboard Goes Too Far
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Technology/Global/Signal 40
Fei-Fei Li Just Released a Landmark Model - A Chinese Open-Source Team Did It Six Months Ago
Fei-Fei Li put it something like this at Stanford: we built a machine that can write poems and paint, but it has no idea where it is.
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