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Data Brokers Are Hiding Their Opt-Out Pages From Google Search

[ad_1] Data brokers are required by California law to provide ways for consumers to request their data be deleted. But good luck finding them. More than 30 of the companies, which collect and sell consumers’ personal information, hid their deletion instructions from Google, according to a review by The Markup and CalMatters of hundreds of broker websites. This creates one

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The Rise of the US Military’s Clandestine Foreign War Apparatus

[ad_1] The 2020s are shaping up to be one of the most violent decades in modern history, with American-sponsored proxy conflicts and shadow wars smoldering all over the world, from Ukraine to Yemen to Gaza. The United States enables and prolongs these wars not by sending troops to fight in them, but by trafficking arms to the belligerents, providing intelligence

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Apple’s AI Ambitions Leave Big Questions Over Its Climate Goals

[ad_1] “A year ago, when they were talking about Apple Intelligence, it struck me how they were doing an ‘all of the above,’ right? They had their own thing but they could fall back onto ChatGPT,” says Ben Lee, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania in the department of electrical and systems engineering, who has previously consulted for Meta

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Flipkart Independence Day Sale 2025: Top Discounts and Offers on Smart TVs

[ad_1] Flipkart’s Independence Day Sale 2025 is scheduled to begin on Wednesday (August 13). The sale event’s name appears to be inconsistent, as the landing page and URL refer to it as the Flipkart Independence Day Sale 2025, while the banner labels it the Flipkart Freedom Sale 2025. Notably, the e-commerce platform previously held a Flipkart Freedom Sale 2025 from

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Central American Beaches Are Being Overrun With Local and Foreign Plastic

[ad_1] An image from the study illustrating how plastic bottles reach Latin American Pacific coasts. Illustration: Garcés-Ordóñez et al. (2025) (CC BY 4.0) The scientists found that, like other marine debris, the bottles and caps they retrieved were sometimes colonized by immobile organisms called epibionts, which live on the surface of other organisms or materials. The team found items with

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Climate heat extremes driving tropical bird decline: study

[ad_1] PARIS: Tropical bird populations have plummeted not only due to deforestation but also extreme heat attributable to climate change, according to a study published on Monday in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution. Intensifying temepratures caused a 25-38 percent reduction in tropical bird populations between 1950 and 2020, compared to a scenario without manmade global warming, scientists based in

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Vivo V60 Launching Today: Know Price, Features, Specifications and More

[ad_1] Vivo V60 is all set to be launched in India today (August 12). It is expected to arrive as the successor to the Vivo V50, which debuted in February. In the days leading up to its launch, the brand has been revealing several details about the phone. To begin with, it will feature a Zeiss-branded triple rear camera system

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Landmark study offers new insights into what protects against dengue

[ad_1] The specific components of the immune response in a human body that protect against a dengue virus (DENV) infection and the subsequent illness remain unclear. Scientists are still trying to understand how natural infection and vaccination protect people so that they can develop better vaccines. Now, a novel study has revealed important insights into developing strong immunity against DENV,

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SpaceX to Fly Italian Science Experiments to Mars on Starship in 2026

[ad_1] SpaceX has signed a first-of-its-kind deal with the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to fly Italian science experiments to Mars aboard its Starship rocket. ASI President Teodoro Valente announced that ASI will send its experiments on SpaceX’s first commercial Mars flights. The payloads will include a plant-growth module, a meteorology station and a radiation detector, which will collect data during

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SWOT Satellite Captures Tsunami Wave After Kamchatka Quake

[ad_1] The U.S.-French SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography) satellite captured the leading edge of a tsunami wave that rolled through the Pacific Ocean on July 30, 2025 (11:25 a.m. local time), in the wake of a magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. The satellite captured the data about 70 minutes after the earthquake struck. SWOT is a

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Ford’s Answer to China: A Completely New Way of Making Cars

[ad_1] “We build a structural battery out of the cells, and that is the floor of the vehicle. So we actually built the seats on it,” says Field. So, to be clear, there’s no frame or structure with a battery on top of it to which the seats are bolted—with Ford’s new model the battery is the structure. How does

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An AI Model for the Brain Is Coming to the ICU

[ad_1] The Cleveland Clinic is partnering with San Francisco-based startup Piramidal to develop a large-scale AI model that will be used to monitor patients’ brain health in intensive care units. Instead of being trained on text, the system is based on electroencephalogram (EEG) data, which is collected via electrodes placed on the scalp and then read out by a computer

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Microsoft Lens App to Be Retired at the End of This Year, Company Suggests Users Switch to Copilot

[ad_1] Microsoft Lens app will be discontinued later this year, the company said last week. The app was designed to scan images of physical documents, text, handwritten papers, and whiteboards and convert them into digital files. However, the Redmond-based tech giant stated that it will be retired in a phased manner by the end of this year. While the company

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In ‘Alien: Earth’, the Future Is a Corporate Hellscape

[ad_1] “I think we can all agree that the planet’s about to get a lot hotter and a lot wetter,” Hawley says, and Bangkok is a tropical location filled with rivers and canals. Originally, he envisioned Prodigy’s soldiers moving around New Siam on trains, but once he visited Bangkok, “it became very clear: We’ll put people on boats, [and] it’ll

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Maiden EU-India medical research project eyes better understanding of dengue infection

[ad_1] MUMBAI: In a first of its kind joint initiative in the field of medical research, the European Union (EU) and India have come together to combat dengue, one of the major virus-induced diseases of recent years affecting millions across continents. Although there is still no specific therapeutic medicine, a vaccine has been developed and approved for use in certain

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Truth about disappearances in Bermuda Triangle, according to veteran investigator who has studied cases for years

[ad_1] For decades the Bermuda Triangle has been a tidy label for messy events. Ships vanish. Planes go silent. Stories grow legs. Yet when you strip away the lore, a simpler picture emerges. Busy waters, sharp weather, and human error explain far more than sea monsters ever could. That is the argument Australian science communicator Karl Kruszelnicki has pushed for

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Redmi Pad 2 Review: The Budget Tablet Done Right

[ad_1] The high-value, do-it-all Redmi Pad is finally back after a 3-year wait. Aptly called the Redmi Pad 2, the tablet appears to be slightly different and features some essential additions that were missing from the first model. There’s a new processor, a slightly more pixel-dense display, and a slightly bigger battery, all of which I found to be questionable

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What Does Palantir Actually Do?

[ad_1] In response to a detailed request for comment from WIRED, Palantir spokesperson Lisa Gordon said in a statement that the company is “proud to support the US government, especially our warfighters,” and that it has never wavered from its founding mission “to support the West and empower the world’s most important institutions.” Gordon added that the open letter criticizing

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Inside the Multimillion-Dollar Gray Market for Video Game Cheats

[ad_1] It’s all part of the ongoing tussle between the cheat developers and games companies, which spend money on developing anti-cheat software and trying to limit nefarious behavior in their games—sometimes including lawsuits around perceived copyright issues. “It’s a legal gray area. It’s not illegal to sell cheats” in most countries, Chothia says, noting that China and South Korea are

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