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Beginning Middle End by Valeria Luiselli review – a mother and daughter’s odyssey
Valeria Luiselli’s fourth novel, Beginning Middle End, follows a Mexican narrator living in the US who, after a difficult divorce, travels through Europe on a book tour with her 12-year-old daughter before settling in Sicily for the summer. The novel is prompted by the daughter’s request for her mother to write a story with a…
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Caitlin Clark erupts for 32 points as Fever hold off Storm to complete season-series sweep
Caitlin Clark scored 32 points to lead the Indiana Fever to a win over the Seattle Storm, completing a sweep of the season series between the two teams. The result underlines Clark’s continued impact as a scoring threat for Indiana and extends the Fever’s dominance over Seattle this season, with the victory coming on the…
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Organic eggs have worse impact on climate than eggs from caged chickens
A new study suggests that organic, free-range eggs have a greater climate impact than eggs from caged hens, as free-range systems require more birds to produce the same number of eggs, since caged hens are more efficient producers. This challenges the common assumption that higher-welfare farming methods are automatically better for the environment, and researchers…
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Queensland and NT reject Labor’s push to ensure that power-hungry AI datacentres use renewable energy
Queensland and the Northern Territory have rejected federal Labor’s proposal to force AI datacentres to use renewable energy, deepening a dispute over how Australia manages the rapid growth of the power-hungry technology. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese wants binding national standards requiring datacentres to generate renewable energy, minimise water use and offset their power consumption, but…
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Doc Talk Podcast: Director Sara Dosa On Her Oscar Contender ‘Time And Water’, Elegy For Iceland’s Disappearing Ice
Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast features director Sara Dosa discussing her documentary “Time and Water,” an elegy for Iceland’s vanishing glaciers and a widely tipped contender for this year’s Oscars. The film draws on the writings and family history of Icelandic poet Andri Snær Magnason, who was previously commissioned to memorialise the country’s first lost glacier,…
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Police make alarming discovery inside home in Sydney as criminals are put on notice
New South Wales Police have raided a home in Sydney’s south-west and seized a large stash of suspected drugs and stolen property, as part of a broader operation targeting organised crime in the area. Officers executed a search warrant at a property in Glenfield, near Liverpool, uncovering items believed to be linked to break-ins and…
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California AG-led coalition sues to stop Paramount-Warner Bros merger
Ari Emanuel, chief executive of TKO Group and former head of Endeavor, has publicly defended his friend and business associate David Ellison by attacking the state lawsuit seeking to block Paramount’s proposed merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, Emanuel argued that the antitrust action, led by California attorney general Rob…
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MCP gets an enterprise makeover
The Agentic AI Foundation, a Linux Foundation project, has released a major update to the Model Context Protocol (MCP), the open standard that lets AI agents connect to external data sources and tools. The revision, described by co-creator David Soria Parra as MCP’s most significant change since remote MCP launched, overhauls the protocol’s architecture to…
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Forget ‘Blade Runner,’ Netflix’s 2-Season Sci-Fi Masterpiece Changed the Genre Forever
Netflix’s 2018 series Altered Carbon, adapted from Richard K. Morgan’s 2002 novel, is being highlighted as a sci-fi successor to Blade Runner that pushes the genre’s social commentary further. The comparison comes as Blade Runner’s own universe expands again with the upcoming Blade Runner 2099, described at San Diego Comic-Con as a self-contained limited series…
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Cost of Net Zero will hit £40BILLION by the end of the decade, report reveals
A report has revealed that the cost of the UK’s transition to Net Zero is projected to reach £40 billion by the end of the decade, highlighting the mounting financial burden of the country’s climate commitments. The finding is likely to intensify debate over the pace and affordability of decarbonisation policies at a time when…