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Galactic cannonballs: The mystery of hypervelocity white dwarfs may just have been solved

September 1, 2025
White dwarfs — the superdense, slowly cooling embers left behind when stars like our sun die — are usually quiet cosmic relics. A rare few, however, are anything but. In recent years, astronomers analyzing data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft identified a handful of white dwarfs hurtling through the Milky Way at breakneck speeds of up to 1,240 miles per second (2,000…
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How Intuit killed the chatbot crutch – and built an agentic AI playbook you can copy

September 1, 2025
In the frenzied land rush for generative AI that followed ChatGPT’s debut, the mandate from Intuit’s CEO was clear: ship the company’s largest, most shocking AI-driven launch by Sept. 2023. Responding with blazing speed, the $200 billion company behind QuickBooks, TurboTax, and Mailchimp, delivered Intuit Assist, the company’s new generative AI assistant. Its most prominent feature was a…
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A new exhibition of Paul McCartney’s own photographs reminds me that being in the moment is the overriding principle of great photography

September 1, 2025
I’m a big enough fan of The Beatles that I sat through eight hours of Peter Jackson’s meticulously restored footage of the ‘Fab Four’ working on their final studio album in Disney+ docuseries, The Beatles: Get Back. So news of a Beatles-themed photography exhibition at the Gagosian’s Davies Street location in London was always going to be of interest. But Rearview Mirror…
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Tesla says Musk Autopilot claims should not have been heard in fatal crash case

September 1, 2025
Lawyers for Tesla filed a motion asking a court to throw out a recent $243 million verdict against the company related to a fatal crash in Florida in 2019. The case is the first instance of Tesla being ruled against by a court in an Autopilot liability case – previous cases had ended up settled out of court. To catch up, the case in question is the $243 million Autopilot wrongful death…
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