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Build IT series: An office located on a dynamic and transforming framework, featuring a Tetris-inspired design with shifting shapes in the platform to convey the sense of a constantly evolving digital and technology-driven work environment

Digital transformations have made an appreciable impact on society. Whether it's conspicuous guidance or subtle suggestion, technology influences our everyday decisions. Think about it: You landed on this very page because an algorithm willed it — via a social platform, a search result, or some other digital conduit.

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This week at the Gizmodo science desk, deputy editor George Dvorsky reported on a modification to the famous Drake Equation that produces a rather sobering result about the number of extraterrestrial intelligences in our Galaxy. Health reporter Ed Cara chronicles a mysterious disease from the 1500s that vanished from…

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A huge and active solar spot on the sun's surface, seen through a solar telescope in late May 2024.

It's coming back.

In mid-May, the brilliant Northern Lights, or aurora, were visible in places that rarely see them, due to powerful ejections from the sun colliding with Earth. These bursts of energy, such as solar flares or coronal mass ejections, are normal, especially as our medium-sized star has entered the peak of its activity cycle (it's an 11-year solar cycle). They came from a giant dark



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Fire up the grill. It's summer.
  • Inflation has slowed in recent months, but prices are still high in many consumer categories.
  • Heading into the summer, retailers are beginning to offer savings, especially in the grocery aisles.
  • Here's a roundup of major stores slashing prices, including Amazon, Walmart, and Target.

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Should you stay in your job or chart a new path? Bangaly Kaba has a framework to help break the decision down.
  • How do you know if you're in the right job or if it's time to quit?
  • Bangaly Kaba, director of product at YouTube and alum of Facebook and Instagram, offers a framework.
  • He assesses impact as a product of your work environment and skills. Here's how he breaks it down.

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Marc Greenberg, executive director of the Interfaith Assembly on Homelessness and Housing.
  • New York City is facing its highest rate of homelessness since the Great Depression.
  • One key way to get New Yorkers housed is through the housing voucher program. 
  • But even those lucky enough to get a voucher are having a very hard time finding housing.

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This deep field view from the James Webb Space Telescope shows (in the box) the oldest-known galaxy ever discovered.

The most powerful space telescope ever built has peered into the dawn of time.

You read that right. The James Webb Space Telescope — with a giant mirror that catches extremely faint light, along with its ability to view a type of light (infrared) that can pass through huge clouds of cosmic gas — has allowed astronomers to spot the earliest galaxy ever found (so far, that is). It formed just 290



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Three Hermès Faubourg Birkins are on the block at Christie's handbag auction. Each is expected to go for more than $100,000.
  • Christie's luxury handbag auction is underway, with some Hermès bags expected to fetch six figures.
  • The auction highlights the high demand and limited supply of Birkins that drives up their value.
  • Luxury handbags have become an investment piece akin to art



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The BYD Shark, a hybrid pickup unveiled by the Tesla rival in Mexico earlier this month.
  • Cheap Chinese EVs are unlikely to come to the US anytime soon after President Joe Biden hiked tariffs.
  • But Tesla rivals are proving a hit in Brazil and Mexico, where auto exports are booming.
  • Chinese EV companies are also eyeing expansion in Europe, but could face tariffs there too.

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A composite image shows a top-down view of the flight decks of the US Navy's first-in-class USS Gerald R. Ford and China's third aircraft carrier, the Fujian.
  • China's most advanced aircraft carrier set sail for sea trials in early May.
  • It boasts electromagnetic catapults



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Closing apps on an iPhone is a 20-second task, but should you be closing them at all? The answer may surprise you!

How to close your apps on an iPhone

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