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Subrata Ghosh, a 45-year-old climber from India, died just 50 meters below the summit of Mount Everest after reaching the peak on Thursday. He became the second fatality of this year's climbing season. According to his expedition team, Ghosh showed signs of extreme exhaustion and altitude sickness while
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AI startup Perplexity has officially expressed interest in acquiring TikTok, which faces a U.S. ban unless it separates from its Chinese owner, ByteDance. In a bold blog post, the San Francisco–based company outlined a vision to merge its AI-powered search engine with TikTok’s vast video library — aiming
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Chewing gum isn’t just sticky — it may be silently delivering microplastics into your body, according to a new study from UCLA. Researchers found that just one piece of gum can release hundreds of tiny plastic fragments into a person’s saliva. In some brands, that number soared to over
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In a recent interview on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Bill Gates shared a bold prediction: artificial intelligence will soon replace human doctors and teachers — making once-rare expertise freely available to all. “Today, great medical advice or tutoring is hard to access,” Gates said. “But in the next ten
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Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, is now facing a major antitrust trial in Washington — and the outcome could reshape the future of Big Tech. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) accuses Meta of using its market dominance to buy out potential rivals — specifically Instagram (2012)
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Most people celebrate their 70th birthday with cake and family. Don Pettit, NASA’s oldest active astronaut, spent his doing something very different: plummeting back to Earth in a Soyuz capsule after a seven-month mission aboard the ISS. Pettit, along with Russian cosmonauts Alexei Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, landed in
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Plastics may be silently killing us. A new study published in The Lancet eBioMedicine has linked daily exposure to DEHP, a chemical used in many everyday plastic products, to over 356,000 cardiovascular deaths worldwide in 2018 — especially among people aged 55 to 64. DEHP is a type of phthalate,
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Somalia is on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe. According to CARE International, nearly half a million childrenare at risk of dying from hunger as severe malnutrition sweeps across the country — just as international aid is being scaled back. The country, long plagued by civil war, climate disasters, and the
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After nine unexpected months aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams are finally set to come home. On a mission coordinated by NASA and SpaceX, a Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched from Kennedy Space Center carrying four new crew members: Anne McClain and Nicole Aunapu
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In a major political shift, Mark Carney, the former head of the Bank of Canada and Bank of England, has officially become Canada’s new Prime Minister. Carney, 59, replaces Justin Trudeau, whose at-times tense relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump shaped much of Canada–U.S. diplomacy in
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The U.S. has officially extradited Rostislav Panev, a 51-year-old dual citizen of Russia and Israel, accused of being a core developer behind one of the world’s most destructive ransomware gangs: LockBit. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Panev was involved with LockBit since its formation in
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Tragedy struck the northern West Bank on Wednesday night when Tzeela Gez, a 37-year-old pregnant Israeli woman, was fatally shot while en route to the hospital. The attack occurred near the settlement of Bruchin, amid heightened tensions in the region. According to Israeli authorities, a Palestinian gunman opened fire on