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Imagine drones that map disaster zones today and scout military targets tomorrow. Or seismic activity sensors built for construction that go on to detect submarines underwater. These ideas represent the promise of dual-use technologies that serve both civilian and military purposes. For the first time, the European Commission is explicitly proposing to fund them through programmes such as Horizon



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  • Match Group's CEO said that he was very pleased with Hinge's performance.
  • Hinge's success contrasts with a broader decline in the online dating industry.
  • The company plans to apply Hinge's strategies to improve Tinder's performance.

Hinge may be a bright spot in the fizzling online dating industry.

On Tuesday's earnings call for Hinge and Tinder parent Match Group, CEO


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The Amadea, a megayacht seized from a Russian oligarch, cost nearly $1 million a month to maintain.
  • The $325 million yacht of Russian oligarch Suleiman Kerimov is now on sale.
  • The six-deck, 348-foot-long superyacht was made in 2017 and seized by the US government in 2022.
  • It will be sold by sealed auction on September 10. Interested buyers must pay a 10 million euro

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Vercel's CEO says AI agents are becoming software's next users — and it's reshaping how APIs and developer tools are built.
  • Software is no longer being built for people, but for AI agents, said Vercel's CEO.
  • "Your customer is the agent that the developer or non-developer is wielding," said Guillermo Rauch.
  • AI agents have been on the rise, and they could

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"It may be a mistake to ask which occupations are most safe from being taken by AI," Paul Graham, the founder of Y Combinator, wrote on X on Tuesday.
  • Y Combinator founder Paul Graham says AI is not coming for every job, just the boring ones.
  • AI is "good at scutwork," and low-level programming jobs are "already disappearing," Graham said.
  • Graham said the best way to save your job is to do

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It's hard to believe we're still a few days away from a full moon, especially when it looks almost there tonight. The lunar cycle is a series of eight unique phases of the moon's visibility, and we're still in the phase before a full moon. The whole cycle takes about 29.5 days, according to NASA, and these different phases happen as the Sun lights up different parts of the moon whilst it orbits



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TL;DR: A wide range of ChatGPT courses are available to take for free on Udemy.


Udemy hosts an absolutely massive bank of online courses covering everything from Python programming to Microsoft Excel. Not yet familiar with this platform? It's time to change that.

And better yet, some of the most popular examples of these online courses are available to take for free. It sounds too good to be true


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Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows: Lifetime License

TL;DR: Grab Microsoft Office 2021 at just $49.97 (reg. $219) and enjoy lifetime access to essential productivity tools.


  • Lifetime license for Microsoft Office Professional 2021 — pay once and access it forever

  • Includes must-have apps: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, Teams, and Publisher

  • Compatible with Windows — ideal for professional and personal projects

  • Streamline your workflow with


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  • Household debt rose to $18.39 trillion, and delinquency remained "elevated," the New York Fed said.
  • Credit card balances hit $1.21 trillion, with rising student loan debt and mortgages.
  • Economic signals are mixed, with a strong stock market and spending, but weakening job growth.

The stock market and consumer spending may be up, but so is household debt.

A new report from the


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Depending on your generation, you may have been introduced to the Star Wars extended universe by several different movies — Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope, Episode I: The Phantom Menace, Episode VII: The Force Awakens, or even The Clone Wars TV show. Maybe you don't even remember.

And if you're really lucky, you haven't seen any of these movies yet, and you can dive into Star Wars in all its




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Rivian
  • Rivian reported mixed Q2 earnings results; the stock fell about 5% after trading hours.
  • The company says it expects headwinds due to changing policies around EVs in the US.
  • Tariffs will impact the cost of production by a "couple thousand dollars," Rivian's CFO said.

Rivian is expected to experience some headwinds in the near future due to the rapidly


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