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Electric Cars Are Making It Easier To Breathe, Study Finds(2026-02-10 00:00:04)

An anonymous reader shares a report: It turns out that when fewer cars spew exhaust as they drive along, air quality improves. That's the conclusion of a new study published in The Lancet Planetary Health that looked at the effect of increased numbers of both EVs and plug-in hybrids on air pollution...
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Linux 7.0 Kernel Confirmed By Linus Torvalds, Expected In Mid-April 2026(2026-02-09 20:00:15)

An anonymous reader writes: Linus Torvalds has confirmed the next major kernel series as Linux 7.0, reports Linux news website 9to5Linux.com: "So there you have it, the Linux 6.x era has ended with today's Linux 6.19 kernel release, and a new one will begin with Linux 7.0, which is expected in mid-A...
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Romance Publishing Has an AI Problem and Most Readers Don't Know It Yet(2026-02-09 15:00:05)

The romance genre -- long the publishing industry's earliest adopter of technological shifts, from e-books to self-publishing to serial releases -- has become the front line for AI-generated fiction, and the results as you can imagine are messy. Coral Hart, a Cape Town-based novelist previously publ...
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Age Bias is Still the Default at Work But the Data is Turning(2026-02-09 10:00:38)

A mounting body of research is making it harder for companies to justify what most of them still do -- push experienced workers out the door just as they're hitting their professional peak. A 2025 study published in the journal Intelligence analyzed 16 cognitive, emotional and personality dimensions...
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SpaceX Prioritizes Lunar 'Self-Growing City' Over Mars Project, Musk Says(2026-02-09 05:00:14)

"Elon Musk said on Sunday that SpaceX has shifted its focus to building a 'self-growing city' on the moon," reports Reuters, "which could be achieved in less than 10 years." SpaceX still intends to start on Musk's long-held ambition of a city on Mars within five to seven years, he wrote on his X s...
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