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If Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's pleas couldn't change enough Republicans' minds, it's unclear how Alexey Navalny's death will be any different.
  • US and European leaders have vowed Putin will pay for Alexey Navalny's death.
  • But it's unclear how the somber moment will change the debate on Ukraine funding anytime soon.
  • It's likely that

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A Manhattan judge has issued former Pres. Donald Trump with a more than $350 million penalty in the verdict in his fraud trial.
  • In his single largest net-worth whopper, Trump told a bank in 2018 that Mar-a-Lago was worth $739M.
  • He told the tax man it was worth a fraction of that and now claims it's worth north of $1 billion.
  • Trump's civil-fraud-trial judge called

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The inaugural CHAPEA crew celebrates Thanksgiving inside the habitat. From left to right: Nathan Jones, Kelly Haston, Anca Selariu, Ross Brockwell.
  • NASA is seeking four people to live for a year in a simulated Mars habitat.
  • The agency wants healthy adults with a science degree or military or piloting experience to apply.
  • The Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA)



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The PlayStation Portal sitting on a bedside table with a pair of earbuds. The handheld gaming device is streaming God of War: Ragnarök off a PlayStation 5.
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Update February 16th, 6:35PM ET: Sony appears to have sold out of the PlayStation Portal, as the handheld remote player is no longer available via PlayStation Direct.

Sony’s PlayStation Portal is a bit of an odd, single-purpose device but it’s been flying off shelves since it came out in mid-November — and right now it’s back in



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On Thursday, OpenAI once again shook up the AI world with a video generation model called Sora.

The demos showed photorealistic videos with crisp detail and complexity, based off of simple text prompts. A video based on the prompt "Reflections in the window of a train traveling through the Tokyo suburbs" looked like it was filmed on a phone, shaky camera work and reflections of train passengers



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The lifespan of a movie these days can be very unpredictable. Take for instance Sydney Sweeney’s surprise hit Anyone But You (not Madame Web) and Pixar’s Elemental—two films which ended up getting legs after a few weeks of release. Here’s hoping that’s the case with Lisa Frankenstein, that it chops off some legs and…

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J. Robert Oppenheimer in the classroom.
J. Robert Oppenheimer in the classroom.
  • J. Robert Oppenheimer watched the first atom bomb explode and thought, "Now I am become Death."
  • The famous quote is not an Oppenheimer original. The god Vishnu says it in Hindu scripture.
  • Watch the moment Oppenheimer spoke those foreboding words on NBC, below.

J. Robert Oppenheimer once declared himself — or, possibly, the power of the