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• August data from Realtor.com showed US housing inventory remains tight.
• The total number of homes for sale dipped by 9.2% from a year ago, the fourth consecutive month of annual declines.
• But total inventory has been rising on a monthly basis and is up 19% since January.

Realtor.com data published Thursday showed the total number of homes for sale, including

Mars, a world that once gushed with water, is today 1,000 times drier than Earth's driest desert. Yet some ice still flows, slowly, on the Martian ground.

The world is covered with plastic pollution. That breaks down to become microplastics—tiny bits of plastic smaller than 5 mm. We know that it isn’t healthy to find these bits of plastic all over the planet (and in our bodies) but there isn’t much research on how this is going to affect mammals. A new study published…

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Lavoie is buying bankrupt e-bike maker VanMoof. The e-mobility subsidiary of McLaren Applied announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the VanMoof e-bike business. The announcement gives new hope to the trailblazing

Jabra announced new Elite earbuds at IFA 2023, with the premium Elite 10 offering up to 6 hours of playback with ANC, while the Elite 8 Active is for sports and adventures.

• Anguilla is a tiny British overseas territory with a population around 16,000.
• But it's also in charge of the .ai domain name.
• The software developer who manages the domain told Bloomberg it could generate $30 million this year.

A tiny Caribbean island could make $30 million from the AI boom thanks to its unique internet domain, Bloomberg reported.

Anguilla is

This article was originally published on .cult by Melina Zacharia and Ines Almeida. .cult is a Berlin-based community platform for developers. We write about all things career-related, make original documentaries, and share heaps of other untold developer stories from around the world. It’s that time again: the annual Honeypot breakdown of software developer salaries in Germany. We’re building on

• Gannett has paused the use of AI to write sports articles after readers pushed back.
• AI-written articles quickly went viral over their bizarre language and lack of detail. 
• Gannett is among a number of publications experimenting with AI-generated journalism, with mixed results.

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IBM has returned to the facial recognition market — just three years after announcing it was abandoning work on the technology due to concerns about racial profiling, mass surveillance, and other human rights violations.

In June 2020, as Black Lives Matter protests swept the US after George Floyd’s murder, IBM chief executive Arvind

The following article discusses the fourth season of Star Trek: Lower Decks.

There’s a risk, using a word like “should” that we’re a short hop away from a tantrum to police the borders of What Proper Star Trek(™) is. But after watching most of Star Trek: Lower Decks’ fourth season, it does feel as if the show’s outlook is the most Star Trek of the bunch. Part of this is because the show is mature

The Jabra Elite 8 Active make a very active case for themselves as bona fide wireless earbuds capable of withstanding punishment and sounding good doing it.

The Jabra Elite 10 are meant to stand out on their own, and a refined design helps deliver one of the best all-around experiences you'll find in any pair of wireless earbuds.