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‘Who was this golden creature?’: the stars of London’s black queer nightlife – in pictures
From newbie drag queens to wild voguing performances, a new archival exhibition boasts images from four decades of riotous nightlife Continue reading...

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‘A split second of sheer terror – and we’re off’: Lucian Msamati on Waiting for Godot’s electrifying first night
The Gangs of London star returned to the stage alongside Ben Whishaw in a 2024 production of Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece. In this diary of the first preview, he describes passing the point of no returnI step into the wings and the state of it all hits me. The hum of a packed, expectant crowd ready for a show. I inch my way down along the short passage and there, standing in the cubbyhole space backstage like a…
Not to be outdone by OpenAI, Apple is reportedly developing an AI wearable

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Not to be outdone by OpenAI, Apple is reportedly developing an AI wearable
Should this wearable materialize, it could be released as early as 2027, according to a report on the device.

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Sources: Project SGLang spins out as RadixArk with $400M valuation as inference market explodes
SGLang, which originated as an open source research project at Ion Stoica’s UC Berkeley lab, has raised capital from Accel.

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A timeline of the US semiconductor market in 2025
From leadership changes at legacy semiconductor companies to wishy washy policy around chip exports, a lot happened last year.
X copies Bluesky with a ‘Starterpacks’ feature that helps you find who to follow

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X copies Bluesky with a ‘Starterpacks’ feature that helps you find who to follow
X says the new feature, similar to Bluesky's Starter Packs, will arrive in the coming weeks.
Todoist’s app now lets you add tasks to your to-do list by speaking to its AI

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Todoist’s app now lets you add tasks to your to-do list by speaking to its AI
The feature, now public, lets you create to-do's and action items by speaking naturally to the app's AI.
Apple plans to make Siri an AI chatbot, report says

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Apple plans to make Siri an AI chatbot, report says
Siri could look more like ChatGPT than its current state as an integrated feature across Apple products.
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Meteorologists blame a stretched polar vortex, moisture, lack of sea ice for dangerous winter blast
WASHINGTON (AP) — Warm Arctic waters and cold continental land are combining to stretch the dreaded polar vortex in a way that will send much...

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Anthropic revises Claude’s ‘Constitution,’ and hints at chatbot consciousness
The newly revised document offers a roadmap for what Anthropic says is a safer and more helpful chatbot experience.

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Apps for boycotting American products surge to the top of the Danish App Store
The boost in downloads comes as Danish consumers have been organizing a grassroots boycott of American-made products, which also included canceling their U.S. vacations and ditching their subscriptions to U.S.-based streaming services, like Netflix.

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Irony alert: Hallucinated citations found in papers from NeurIPS, the prestigious AI conference
Research from startup GPTZero points to the impossible problem prestigious conferences face in the age of AI slop.
