After eleven days and a final all-night session, 140 governments signed a $90 billion pact to shore up the coastlines, farmland, and water systems most exposed to a warming climate — a deal negotiators had twice declared dead.
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Two utilities most people have never heard of are about to control power for eleven million homes.
Younger voters broke a decade-long pattern, and three seats no one was watching flipped by dawn.
A generation that swore off short-haul flights has revived a service the airlines left for dead.
A small team says on-device models can end the privacy trade-off that has defined a decade of apps.
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Facing a third dry winter, one of the world's oldest metropolises is turning centuries-old cisterns back on — and asking sixteen million people to change how they live.
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Freight rates have fallen for six straight weeks. Behind the relief is a rare alignment of new ships, softer demand, and a reopened corridor — and no one agrees on how long it lasts.
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A wave of small, efficient models is arriving on laptops and phones. The promise is speed and privacy; the catch is what happens to the companies built on your data.
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The national museum's most ambitious exhibition in a generation pairs returned artifacts with the archives that document how they left — and refuses to give visitors an easy conclusion.
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Every calm stretch teaches the same lesson we forget: resilience is a cost you pay before you need it.
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The pact signed this week is a genuine achievement. But history is littered with grand communiqués that quietly went unfunded. The measure of this agreement will not be the headline number — it will be the first invoice, and who actually pays it.
Rina Adeyemi
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Return is not an ending. Done honestly, it's the start of a much harder, more interesting conversation.
Theo Vance
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The most interesting thing about on-device AI isn't what it can do. It's what it no longer has to send away.
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