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Portland Lawsuit Alleges Tear Gas Use by ICE Is a Health Threat
A novel lawsuit in Portland argues the chemicals are a health threat that have soaked into apartment walls, furniture and even children’s toys. Source link
Winter Olympics: How Athletes Handle Disappointment (and How You Can Too)
Dealing with failure is part of the job for elite athletes. Here’s how they cope with it. Source link
How Hate Groups Are Using Online Games to Recruit Kids
Fringe movements are using games and other online platforms to draw growing numbers of children to their causes, new data and dozens of interviews show. Source link
What Peter Thiel Saw in Jeffrey Epstein
David Futrelle In the extensive correspondence between the Silicon Valley venture capitalist and the late pedophile, both men expressed a deep aversion to democracy. The post What Peter Thiel Saw in Jeffrey Epstein appeared first on The Nation. Source link
Samsung to hold its Galaxy S26 event on February 25
Samsung is going to launch S26 lineup just before Mobile World Congress (MWC). Source link
With co-founders leaving and an IPO looming, Elon Musk turns talk to the moon
According to The New York Times, which reports that it heard the meeting, Musk told employees that xAI needs a lunar manufacturing facility, a factory on the moon that will build AI satellites and fling them into space via a giant catapult. Source link
OpenAI policy exec who opposed chatbot’s “adult mode” reportedly fired on discrimination claim
The executive has denied the allegation that she engaged in discrimination. Source link
Amazon may launch a marketplace where media sites can sell their content to AI companies
A new report claims the e-commerce giant is looking to create a pipeline of licensable content between media publishers and AI companies. Source link
F.D.A. Refuses to Review Moderna Flu Vaccine
The vaccine maker said the U.S. regulator rejected its request to seek approval for a new product using mRNA technology, which Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has sharply criticized. Source link
Peter Attia’s Ties to Epstein Spark a Backlash From Doctors
What started as a rebuke of Dr. Attia has become a discussion about his credentials, longevity medicine and whom patients should trust. Source link