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Deep in Sweden’s icy north sits a small factory where the country’s largest industrial players have been steadily validating a new technology that could clean up one of the dirtiest industries on Earth.  Energy giant Vattenfall, steel-maker SSAB, and mining firm LKAB built the facility — located in the small town of Luleå — in 2020, as part of the HYBRIT project. The initiative aims to prove that



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The Labor Day discounts are coming in hot. Here’s one for Apple’s fantastic MagSafe charging pad. It’s usually $39, but this Amazon sale brings it down to $29. That’s a savings of 26 percent and close to a record low price.

If you haven’t tried a charging pad before, you are in for a treat. There’s a reason this thing made our list of the best iPhone accessories. All you do is plug it in and then



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This is a photo of Xen, guide narrator for Midst (left) and Liam O'Brien, co-founder of Critical Role.
"Midst" narrator Xen (left) and Critical Role's Liam O'Brien (right) are coming off a four-episode arc of the "Moonward" podcast.
  • Critical Role's new podcast, "Moonward," is a wild, four-episode dive into cosmic horrors.
  • "Moonward" builds on the "Midst" podcast, which Critical Role acquired in 2023.
  • BI sat down with Liam O'Brien and narrator Xen to talk about "Moonward" and what comes



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Labor Day deals are in full swing, so that means fall is almost here, bringing with it leaves of changing colors and crisp weather. In other words, it’s nearly bonfire season. To commemorate this, Solo Stove is holding a sitewide Labor Day sale that includes fire pits, pizza ovens and just about everything else.

You'll find straight-up discounts on a lot of gear, but you can also get up to an



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Netflix and the BBC have released an all-too-brief look at Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl. A clip from the stop-motion animated movie features Wallace proudly revealing his latest invention, a “smart gnome” called Norbot. The robot aggressively shakes Gromit’s paw while introducing itself to the pooch, hinting at trouble ahead.

It’s a very short clip, but it’s full of charm and wit. The



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The holiday that is "Labor Day" has official significance, of course, but that first September Monday often just serves as the definitive marker that summer is winding down — or as another reminder of how much one doesn't want to labor in the first place.

In either case, annual Labor Day sales can act as a consolation prize of sorts. These typically run between the last week of August and first



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U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly(R-PA), a ranking member of the Task Force on the Attempted Assassination of Donald J. Trump, speaks to the press after touring the shooting site at the Butler Farm Show Grounds on August 26, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania. At least five Secret Service agents have been placed on modified duty after the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump in July.
Five Democratic Party and three GOP representatives showed up on Monday to tour the site of the attempted assassination of Trump in Butler, PA.
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Meta has published an update on how its Llama large language models are performing, and they're apparently doing so well that they're now "approaching 350 million downloads to date." That's 10 times more than the downloads it accumulated compared to the same time last year. Approximately 20 million of those downloads took place in the last month alone, after the company released Llama 3.1, its



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If you’re in need of a compact and portable USB-C charger, then Genki’s TurboCharger might fit the bill. The gaming accessory maker says its new gallium nitride (GaN) accessory is the “flattest” 100W wall charger on the market, capable of folding to a thickness of 18 millimeters



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Meta's Oversight Board is looking at two anti-transgender posts shared in 2024 that were reported multiple times for hate speech, bullying and harassment. The first is a video shared on Facebook that shows a trans woman being confronted in the bathroom by another woman. The post misgenders the person as a man and questions why they should be allowed to use a women's bathroom. The other case looks