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One of the world's most private photographers is finally showing his work

Steven Meisel is, without question, one of the most influential fashion photographers walking this Earth today. He once shot 28 Vogue covers in a single year. He discovered Stella Tennant. He shaped the visual language of Italian Vogue for decades. And yet, the American almost never exhibits, never posts on social media, rarely gives interviews and has published very little. He is, paradoxically…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Volkswagen reveals the first electric GTI, a 222 hp EV hot hatch for $45,000 [Images]

The first electric GTI is finally here. Volkswagen unveiled the ID. Polo GTI, a sporty 222-horsepower EV hot hatch that will start at around $45,000. Volkswagen ID. Polo GTI debuts as first electric hot hatch 50 years after launching the first Golf GTI in 1976, Volkswagen is taking the iconic badge into a new era with the ID. Polo GTI. The ID. Polo is “100% electric and 100% GTI,” Volkswagen…
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DefenseNews

US Marines practice seizing remote islands in Philippine exercise

LAOAG, Philippines — At one point during Exercise Balikatan 2026 in the Philippines, one regiment of the U.S. Marine Corps had personnel strewn across 17 locations in the archipelago, giving forces a chance to flex their muscle in dispersed, expeditionary operations. Held from Apr. 20 to May 8, Balikatan was a good testing ground for the 3rd Marine Littoral Regiment, or 3rd MLR. This agile…
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ComputersNews

Meet Windows 11’s Dev Drive, the gaming speed trick hiding in plain sight

You might be inclined to blame insufficient graphics performance for a Windows system’s failure to hit its limit during gaming. But often it’s memory and file access that slow things down. This is precisely where a so-called “dev drive” can help. This refers to a volume introduced by Microsoft based on ReFS (Resilient File System). A dev drive is optimized for many simultaneous accesses to…
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