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Trump Defends Prediction Markets and Bitcoin in Truth Social Post Praising CFTC’s Selig

President Donald Trump posted a public statement Tuesday defending the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) exclusive federal authority over prediction markets and warning that the United States must protect its position as the world’s leading crypto destination. Key Takeaways Trump backs CFTC Chairman Michael Selig’s federal authority over prediction markets, rejecting state-level…
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Could a cosmic uncertainty principle help explain dark matter?

Anyone who has been paying attention to cosmology over the past few years is aware of problems with our best attempts to explain why the universe is the way it is. Our standard model, Lambda-CDM (or LCDM), is one of the most successful theories in the history of science. It…
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Unusual red northern lights over Japan suggest some solar storms are stronger than we thought

A rare crimson aurora glowing over northern Japan may be a sign that some solar storms are more powerful than scientists once believed. Researchers studying faint red auroras observed above Japan in June 2024 found that the displays stretched far higher into Earth’s atmosphere than expected, reaching altitudes between roughly 310 and 500 miles (500 to 800 kilometers) — which is unusually…
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DuckDuckGo installs are up 30% as users reject being ‘force-fed’ Google’s AI Search

Last week, after Google announced its huge overhaul to Search, I overheard a woman on the phone saying she was switching to DuckDuckGo because you can “opt out of using AI.” “Google just isn’t Google anymore,” she said. It seems that others had the same idea. At I/O, Google’s annual developer conference, the company said its traditional list of blue links is…
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Color photography as we know it is a lie – and this 135-year-old process proves it!

Color photography has always sold itself as a faithful record of the world, but a fascinating 135-year-old process suggests that the pictures we have trusted for generations may not be quite as honest as they appear – and YouTuber Steve Mould has lifted the lid on the Victorian-era process. The technique is called the Lippmann Process, and it sits somewhere between a photograph and a hologram.
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