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Elon Musk, who famously owns an electric vehicle company and has said he wants to move humanity to “a sustainable energy civilization,” told former President Donald Trump during an interview on X that “we shouldn’t vilify the oil and gas industry.”

Musk interviewed Trump on his social media platform, where the livestream was delayed



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Google's next big hardware event is fast approaching, with Made by Google 2024 scheduled to kick off on Aug. 13. It's an earlier date than usual for this annual event, which usually takes place in October. 

This doesn't automatically mean there's some exciting news that the tech giant just couldn't wait to share. Google may just be trying to get its new Pixel phones out ahead of Apple's expected iP



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Former President Donald Trump and billionaire businessman Elon Musk live-streamed a rambling conversation on Musk's social media platform, X, on Monday.
  • Former President Donald Trump and Elon Musk on Monday live-streamed a rambling conversation on X.
  • The first 15 minutes of the conversation was spent talking about

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It’s been nearly five years since Valve announced a truly new game — and counting. Valve has still not announced Deadlock, its new hero shooter that takes cues from Overwatch, Dota 2, Team Fortress 2, and more. But that hasn’t stopped nearly 20,000 people from trying the



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X’s live streaming infrastructure appears to have failed, once again, at a high-profile moment for the company. X owner Elon Musk was supposed to be interviewing Donald Trump live on Spaces, beginning at 8pm ET Monday. But the stream repeatedly crashed and was completely inaccessible to many users.

Musk claimed that the failure was due to a “massive DDOS [distributed denial of service] attack on X



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Elon Musk’s “conversation” with former President Donald Trump got off to a rocky start. The interview, which was hosted on X Spaces and scheduled to begin at 8PM ET Monday night, crashed immediately and didn’t begin until 42 minutes later.

Those who did manage to get into the Space, including several Verge staf



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Elon Musk and Donald Trump's conversation on Monday had technical issues.
  • X's Spaces malfunctioned on Monday ahead of Elon Musk's live interview with Donald Trump.
  • Musk later acknowledged the technical difficulties and claimed there was a DDOS attack.
  • Trump and Musk's conversation started about 40 minutes late.

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While incest was generally considered taboo in the community that inhabited Paquimé, it may have been overlooked—and leveraged—by the power-grasping upper classes.



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After years of legwork, Harvard researchers canceled plans to test a controversial theory for cooling the planet by sending sunlight-reflecting particles up into the atmosphere. Now, members of an independent advisory committee tasked with addressing ethics and safety



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  • Mars just scored another point in favor of alien life.
  • Scientists discovered signs of an ocean's worth of liquid water miles below Mars' surface.
  • The findings, based on Marsquake measurements by NASA's InSight lander, could help solve a mystery.

Mars is looking more and more like a place for NASA to find the first signs of alien