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In November 2023, violent Atlantic storm “Domingos” struck the northern coast of Portugal, generating record-high waves and leaving a path of destruction across much of Western Europe.  People on land were grappling with flooded homes, closed roads, and landslides. But just offshore, a potentially game-changing wave energy device was happily bobbing up and down, side to side — seemingly, in its

From the Sun Belt to the Rust Belt, these seven swing states will be key for the presidential candidates to win the 2024 US presidential election. Here's where Trump and Harris stand.

• Parents in Massachusetts are suing a school over their son being punished for using AI.
• The parents say their high-achieving son only used AI to help prepare a paper, not to write it.
• A law professor told BI that the use of AI tools in assignments is now "virtually entrenched."

The parents of a Massachusetts

Amazon is revamping its Kindle lineup in a big way, though the announcement seems to have come a little early.

The company unveiled the new Kindles via a Spanish-language post on its website, complete with photos, leaving little doubts as to its authenticity. The post was since removed, but the archive is still accessible here (via The Verge).

The most interesting among the new devices is the

The Tesla CEO called his PAC "centrist" because you can just say whatever you want on the internet.

Amazon's latest version of its popular Kindle Paperwhite has arrived, marking the sixth iteration if you're keeping score at home. The new model is the thinnest Paperwhite yet and has a refreshed 7-inch screen that's a touch larger than the previous model's 6.8-inch display. It also has the highest contrast of any Kindle thanks to the oxide thin-film transistor display tech. 

Amazon boosted the

Seventeen years is an odd anniversary to call out. But at an event launching four new Kindles, Amazon’s head of devices and services Panos Panay reminded a group of media that “Kindle is 17 years in the making, almost to the day.” Panay added that the device is currently seeing its highest sales numbers, and that 20.8 billion pages are read each month on a Kindle. But people aren’t just reading on

The greatest nemesis in animation history is back to menace Wallace and Gromit once more—and maybe this time it'll work.

Amazon has launched its first ever ereader with a color display, in addition to the latest versions of the other models in its Kindle lineup. The company says it designed the Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition to deliver "rich, paper-like color." You'll be able to see book covers, images, comics and graphic novels as authors intended on the device, and you'll be able to highlight passages in

• SpaceX has sued the California Coastal Commission.
• Commissioners publicly criticized Elon Musk's politics and denied more frequent SpaceX flights.
• Legal experts said Musk will need to prove the commission would have granted the flights, if not for Musk's politics.

Elon Musk made good Tuesday on an

• Russian troops are crashing into anti-tank barriers in Kursk, Russia.
• Russian nationalist bloggers are blaming inept commanders for putting them in the wrong place.
• Other reports suggest they are the work of saboteurs.

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• Lufthansa was fined $4 million for discrimination over a 2022 incident involving over 100 Jewish passengers.
• 128 were denied boarding to a connecting flight after some were said to have misbehaved.
• They were traveling from New York to Budapest for an