Extreme heat warnings issued for parts of southern California - The Guardian: the hour's strongest signal
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Extreme heat warnings issued for parts of southern California - The Guardian
com Grueling Fall California Heatwave Continues. How Long Will It Last?
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 50
UK Green Party votes to define Zionism as ‘racism’
The UK’s Green Party has voted to define Zionism as a form of racism.
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Global Affairs/North America/Signal 48
FBI arrests a woman accused of spying on Taiwan leader's family for China
S. prosecutors say Wanying Zhang, also know as Heather, surveilled the Taiwanese president's son and his family.
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Business & Finance/Global/Signal 44
Middle East oil exports surpass pre-war levels despite tensions, data shows - Al Jazeera
Middle East oil exports surpass pre-war levels despite tensions, data shows Al Jazeera Shippers Are Offering Sailors Up to $25,000 a Trip to Sneak Oil Out of the Gulf WSJ Oil steadies as Middle East crude exports rise and G7 to release stocks Reuters Middle East oil exports…
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Global Affairs/North America/Signal 42
Nobel medicine prize goes to 3 scientists for research into brain activity
The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to three scientists working on the mechanisms the brain uses to switch on, or off, the activity of individual nerve cells.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 40
WATCH: Israel honors October 7 victims, heroes at second Mount Herzl ceremony
“We will forever remember what happened that day,” Herzog said.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 40
New Zealand police probes flydubai hijacker's time spent in island country
Additionally, the New Zealand Herald reported that Captain Smit Machchhar, the Indian pilot whom Hammami attacked aboard the flydubai flight, had trained in the island country.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 40
Will Yemen's massive new anti-Houthi offensive succeed in bid to reclaim lost territory?
The Yemen government is trying to rally its numerous disconnected frontlines to fight the Houthis. The problem is that the government forces are not well united.
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After meeting in Turkey, can Syria's new government manage tensions with Hezbollah?
“Hezbollah is not the decision maker,” said Syrian politician Fawaz Tello.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
AI Has Changed What Makes a Great Designer
For most of my nearly three decades teaching design at Parsons School of Design , there was a relatively straightforward answer to the question of what made a young designer valuable: technical proficiency.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Titan Straps: Fast, Tough Tie-Down Straps Invented for a Bikerafting Trip
Here's a fascinating way to travel: Bikerafting. First popularized in Alaska in the 1980s, you ride through the wilderness on your bike, carrying a packraft (an inflatable raft).
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
A "Mirror" Made Out of Motorized Penguins
21c Museum Hotels is a hospitality company that combines boutique hotels and restaurants with contemporary art gallery spaces free to the public.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
LDF 2026: Design collectives
Much has been said and written about design festivals having to bow to economic restraints and corporate rule. This year, independent collectives across London got together to shake up the establishment by just doing it themselves, together.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Meta's Radically Thinner, More Lightweight VR Glasses
There's a gigantic size gap between VR glasses and ordinary spectacles. I expected Apple to start closing that gap first, but instead it's Meta that's taking the design lead. Their forthcoming Meta VR glasses have chunky stems, but otherwise look a lot closer to regular eyewear.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Strutt's Chief Designer Covers the Development of Their Powered Wheelchair Battery
Earlier we looked at the ev¹ , a beautiful powered wheelchair by Singaporean startup Strutt . We were so taken by the form that we didn't even wonder where the battery goes, or what it looks like.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
The Unusual Joinery in Abuse Studio's 1000L Furniture
Furniture designers once sought to hide their joinery. But these days anything goes, with some designers turning the joinery itself into a point of visual interest.
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The People Who Refuse to Let Their Gadgets Die
What if you never upgraded at all?
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Business & Finance/North America/Signal 40
Your next hike could be at a Microsoft data center
The growing opposition to data centers tends to stem from concerns about the environmental toll of these massive, resource-intensive facilities.
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