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• Singapore is the world's sixth Blue Zone, according to Dan Buettner, a journalist who popularized the term.
• In the Netflix series "Live to 100," Buettner shows how the country is designed to encourage its residents to live healthier.
• Policies on housing, transportation, and hawker centers come together to create what he calls a "Blue Zone 2.0."

• Delta's SkyMiles program typically allowed members to earn loyalty rewards through miles flown.
• The airline will now only factor cash spent to determine a member's elite status.
• Delta is also limiting access to its members-only airport lounge, Sky Club.

Delta announced significant

A couple of weeks ago, as San Francisco emergency responders attempted to pull away from a scene where a man had been seriously injured, a pair of Cruise robotaxis allegedly loitered in the ambulance’s path, not understanding that they were required to get out of the way. The man died not long afterward. It didn’t…

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• National Geographic captured humpback whales interrupting orcas that were hunting a seal in Antarctica.
• Humpbacks have been documenting disrupting orca hunts in the past, but it's not clear why.
• One expert said the seal may also have been trying to hide from the orcas behind the huumpbacks. 

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There are few game titles more literal than Monster Hunter. This is a world filled with monsters, and your job is to hunt them. But what makes the series so engrossing is the gameplay loop tied to those hunts: the way you prepare by collecting the right gear, weapons, and potions; how you spend time studying your target before heading into battle; and finally

I’m not ready to upgrade my PC. Would I pay $20 a month to rent one that lives in the cloud? Starfield is the first game that’s actually making me consider the possibility.

Today, Starfield arrived on Nvidia’s GeForce Now, a service that lets you tap into an RTX 4080-equivalent GPU, and I spent a little time benchmarking the hard

Wondering what you'll be playing on your PlayStation 5 this fall? Sony has some ideas. The company announced that its next State of Play stream will take place at 5PM ET on September 14, hosted on PlayStation's YouTube, Twitch and TikTok accounts. While the stream's announcement promises to have "something for everyone," including updates on major releases and PS VR2, don't expect a lot of big

She Who Became the Sun, Shelley Parker-Chan’s debut novel, is “a kind of” coming of age story. The first book in the Radiant Emperor duology is “about people who were not allowed to desire things in the world that they were born into or told that what they desired was wrong,” said Parker-Chan in an interview with io9.

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• NASA's James Webb Space Telescope discovered signs of a vast ocean on the planet K2-18 b.
• The exoplanet lies 120 light-years away, likely has an ice core, and may be a new type of habitable world.
• Webb may have detected a molecule there that's only linked to life, but

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Today I will cover a controversial ad campaign that has raised questions at LAist, a pivot at Clubhouse, and a group of late night hosts who are taking their podcast to Las Vegas.

Before I start with the news, one brief side note: Herb Scannell, the head of Southern California