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WASHINGTON —  President Biden delivered a defiant argument for a second term in his State of the Union speech Thursday night, lacing into GOP front-runner Donald Trump, whom he accused of espousing “resentment, revenge and retribution” and jeopardizing freedom at home and abroad.Reveling in the political moment, Biden fired multiple broadsides at “my predecessor” without ever mentioning Trump by name — 13 times in all — raising his voice repeatedly as he worked to quell voter concerns about his age and job performance…

With the release of iOS 17.4 this month Apple will finally allow people to install third-party app stores on their iPhones, a move that will stop short of allowing sideloading but still allow Apple to comply with the European Union's Digital Markets Act. But the company continues to argue that the move, which it opposes, will make iPhones less safe for those who use them in the region.Apple has been beta testing the iOS 17.4 update for weeks and is expected to release it to the public next week ahead of the DMA's March 6…

Amazon has become the latest company to argue that the structure of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) violates the U.S. Constitution, following the lead of SpaceX and Trader Joe’s. The e-commerce giant claimed in a recent filing that the labor board’s case, which accuses the company of illegally retaliating against unionizing workers, should be dismissed because the board itself is unconstitutional. Amazon argued that the NLRB’s structure “violates the separation of powers” because administrative…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Tipping elements of the Earth system should be considered global commons, researchers argue in a new paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Global commons cannot—as they currently do—only include the parts of the planet outside of national borders, like the high seas or Antarctica. They…

Disco Legends The Bee Gees’ New Book Reveals The Trio Used To Constantly Argue While Recording ( Photo Credit – Instagram ) Disco legends, the Bee Gees would argue constantly in recording studios, but always made up over a cup of tea, a new book reveals. According to the book ‘Bee Gees: Children of the World’, the ‘How Deep Is Your Love’ singers, Barry Gibb, 76, and his twin brothers Robin and Maurice, knew it was “time to get back to work” once the kettle had boiled, reports Mirror.co.uk. Studio engineer John…

As Star Wars has grown and modernized, more and more bits of our own evolving lexicon have become part of its dialogue—and cursing is no exception. For every dank ferrik and sithspit, there’s been mild curses from the “real world.” Already Andor made a transgressive step in having key characters use real cursing, but its true sweary prize remained out of reach.That is, of course, the denoument of Maarva Carasi Andor’s powerful funeral call to arms at the very climax of Andor’s first season. “If I could do it again, I’d…

Rusby Contreras-Díaz was scrolling through a biodiversity database, looking at places where people had spotted margays and jaguars, when she noticed something odd: Every location had an uncertainty of 30 kilometers. Contreras-Díaz—a mammologist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico—had hoped to use the observations to map where the two carnivores were found in Mexico. But the uncertainty in the data gave her pause. The observations were from…

Intriguingly, this kind of decoherence will occur anywhere there is a horizon that only allows information to travel in one direction, creating the potential for causality paradoxes. The edge of the known universe, called the cosmological horizon, is another example. Or consider the “Rindler horizon,” which forms behind an observer who continuously accelerates and approaches the speed of light, so that light rays can no longer catch up with them. All of these “Killing horizons” (named after the late-19th- and…

Fox News is going to need to rethink its strategy and excuses for why it promoted the lies of the 2020 election deniers. On Tuesday, a Delaware judge said during a pre-trial hearing that Fox News won’t be allowed to try and convince jurors its promotion of the “big lie” conspiracy was all just regular journalistic practice covering a sitting president.A Transformer Is Headed to the Moon“Just because someone is newsworthy doesn’t mean you can defame someone,” Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davistold Dominion and Fox’s…

Google will likely argue Thursday that the US Justice Department's allegations that it broke antitrust law to build and maintain its dominance of search are flawed and that its lawsuit should be thrown out, according to court filings.The government, which filed its lawsuit in the waning days of the Trump administration, will likely defend its complaint, which said that Alphabet's Google acts illegally in paying billions of dollars each year to smartphone makers like Apple, LG, Motorola, and Samsung, carriers like Verizon…