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Ishiuchi Miyako photographs completely different things, yet her 50 years of work all looks unmistakably hers

Ishiuchi Miyako photographs abandoned buildings. She photographs scars on human skin. She photographs old Kimono fabric. She photographs lipstick. She photographs her own water-damaged prints. But there’s something that connects all her photography. Something that makes it unmistakably hers. It’s not what she’s photographing; it’s how she photographs. She has an eye for how time leaves…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Republicans devise another way to make electricity more expensive with new fees

As everything gets less affordable, republicans are proposing big new inspection fees for cheap energy projects, trying to protect their fossil fuel masters from the rise of better options. Wind power is one of the cheapest and most environmentally friendly forms of electricity generation. And offshore wind is great, too, because wind blows more consistently on the ocean, and the land use of…
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DefenseNews

Pentagon looks to reinvent the bunker-buster bomb

With nations such as Iran protecting their arsenals by burying them deep underground, the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is searching for new types of bunker-buster bombs. The goal is to go beyond the traditional brute-force approach of giant bombs that rely on the force of gravity to smash their way deep into the ground before exploding. During World War II, the Royal Air…
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Quad nations step up Indo-Pacific push with new initiatives

NEW DELHI — India, the United States, Australia and Japan have announced new initiatives on maritime security in the Indo-Pacific and unveiled plans for their first joint port infrastructure project in Fiji. The foreign ministers of the four countries made the announcement…
ComputersNews

Dell’s $599 XPS 13 is coming for the MacBook Neo’s lunch money

Dell’s latest XPS 13 might not have set out to specifically challenge Apple’s MacBook Neo, but it arrives at the right time. Its $599 price for students directly challenges the MacBook Neo’s own $599 price, with either Intel’s latest “Wildcat Lake” or the more powerful “Panther Lake” processors under the hood. Better yet, the new XPS 13 sports an OLED display and a 17-hour battery…
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