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A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit, in the Brazilian city of Belém. The highway will ease traffic into the city, which will host over 50,000 people at the conference this November: The state Read more…

SpaceX founder Elon Musk has said his Starship rocket will head to Mars by the end of next year, as the company investigates several recent explosions in flight tests. Human landings could begin as early as 2029 if initial missions go well, though “2031 was more likely”, he added in Read more…

Younger Americans don’t have enough saved to cover a single month of spending, showcasing their vulnerability should the economy head into a downturn. Members of the Gen Z generation — people born after 1995 — were spending twice the amount they had in savings on average in February, according to Read more…

A leaked Apple meeting reveals significant internal struggles with Siri’s development, as AI-powered features announced last June have been delayed and may not make it into iOS 19. T Siri team meeting led by senior director Robby Walker, who oversees the division. He called the delay an “ugly” situation and Read more…

Wind and solar energy generated more electricity in the U.S. than coal for the first time last year, according to analysis from clean-energy think tank Ember. Solar was the fastest-growing energy source, according to Ember’s analysis of data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, increasing 27% from the year before, Read more…

Germany’s foreign intelligence service in 2020 put at 80%-90% the likelihood that the coronavirus behind the COVID-19 pandemic was accidentally released from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology. According to a joint report by publications Die Zeit and Sueddeutscher Zeitung, Germany’s spying agency BND had indications that the institute had conducted Read more…