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Climate protestors in Germany broke through police barricades on Friday, amid clashes between activists and law enforcement. The protestors either made it onto (according to protestors) or near (according to local police) the grounds of a Tesla gigafactory in Grünheide, Germany, near Berlin. It’s part of a planned five-day demonstration ahead of a local government vote next week to determine

The National Weather Service’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) issued a rare “severe” geomagnetic storm watch for the US for Friday night. The Met Office weather service also issued a similar watch for the UK for Friday and Saturday

• Israel's Netanyahu told Dr. Phil he plans to assault Rafah despite US warnings.
• US President Joe Biden has threatened to cut off weapon shipments if Israel presses forward.
• Netanyahu reaffirmed his goal of eradicating Hamas and returning hostages.

After President Joe Biden threatened to withhold additional weapons if Israeli forces

If you’re in the mood for a weird scavenger hunt this spring, you’re in luck. Entomologists are asking members of the public to report sightings of adult brood cicadas that have become infested with the parasite Massospora cicadina, also known as the zombie cicada fungus. Those looking will have an easy clue: the…

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• Apple's "crush" ad for the new iPad Pro drew a massive backlash.
• The company apologized, saying it "missed the mark," and pulled the ad from TV.
• But seriously, folks ... it's just an iPad ad. 

There's been a huge backlash to the ad Apple put out this week to promote

• A nonprofit that's gifted Columbia $86 million pulled funding last month, the NYT reported.
• Unlike outspoken billionaires, the Berrie Foundation exerted influence behind the scenes.
• Columbia said the move wouldn't affect patients at a diabetes lab and treatment center.

Yet another Columbia University mega-donor yanked

The timing seemed just a little too precious. A day after Warner Bros. announced it would be making a new Lord of the Rings film called “The Hunt for Gollum,” a fan film with the same name that had been online for 15 years was removed from YouTube. “This video contains content from Warner Bros Entertainment, who has…

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• Jim Simons, the billionaire hedge-fund manager, has died.
• The legendary investor was 86.
• Simons founded Renaissance Technologies and was a codebreaker, mathematician, and philanthropist.

Jim Simons, the legendary billionaire hedge-fund manager who founded the wildly successful Renaissance Technologies, died on Friday, his foundation announced on its website.

He

• Shopping malls were some of the most popular hangout spots in the late 20th century.
• Some are still open to shoppers, while others have been demolished or redeveloped.
• From tiny arcades to massive malls, here is the oldest mall in every state.

If you grew up in the US during the last several

Swiss start-up Climeworks has done it again. The company just opened the world’s largest carbon capture plant in Iceland, dwarfing its own record of how much CO2 it can pull from the air. The company’s previous record-holding carbon capture plant, Orca, sucks around 4,000 tons of CO2 from the atmosphere per year, but the new plant can handle nearly ten times that, as reported by The Washington

Cultural events in the digital age take a familiar shape. There is the central story — in this case, the truly vicious beef between rappers Kendrick Lamar and Drake — and then a whole array of tendrils stemming from that core event. The main thing feeds, for better or worse, a content ecosystem.

The Kendrick vs. Drake fracas has birthed a cottage industry of reactions online. Sure, the beef is

• The Fed risks "breaking" something in the economy if it delays rate cuts, according to Moody's Mark Zandi.
• Higher interest rates raise the odds of recession or bank failures, the economist warned.
• "If I were king for the day, I would really be cutting rates at this point," Zandi told Yahoo Finance.

The Federal Reserve would be