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Japanese quail: The bird with weird sperm foam, a post-sex strut and a spot in space history

Male Japanese quails produce a strange seminal foam that appears to enhance the chances of successfully fertilizing an egg.

Google faces EU antitrust complaint over AI Overviews

A group known as the Independent Publishers Alliance has filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission over Google’s AI Overviews, according to Reuters. The complaint accuses Google of “misusing web content for Google’s AI Overviews in Google Search, which have caused, and continue to cause, significant harm to publishers, including news publishers in the […]

Elon Musk’s proposed new political party could focus on a few pivotal congressional seats

Billionaire said his ‘America party’ would try to turn attainable House and Senate seats to decide major issuesThe new US political party that Elon Musk has boasted about possibly bankrolling could initially focus on a handful of attainable House and Senate seats while striving to be the decisive vote on major issues amid the thin margins in Congress.Tesla and SpaceX’s multibillionaire CEO mused about that approach on Friday in a post on X, the social media platform which he owns, as he continued feuding with Donald Trump over the spending bill that the president has signed into law. Continue reading...

Samsung is about to find out if Ultra is enough

The Z Fold 6 brought us “improved flatness.” I don't often get asked about the phones I'm testing when I'm out and about, unless it's a folding phone. Then I usually hear some version of the same thing: "Oh, I thought about getting one of those! But then I just got a [insert slab-style phone name here]." My anecdotal data matches the actual sales figures; there are many more people curious about folding phones than there are buyers of folding phones. Samsung would very much like that to not be the case, and, by all indications, it's about to pull out all the stops at at its Unpacked event on July 9th. But is putting the Ultra name on a folding phone enough? The weak sales are not for … Read the full story at The Verge.

Rescuers Search for Over 20 Girls From Texas Camp as Flooding Death Toll Rises

"People need to know today will be a hard day," said Kerrville Mayor Joe Herring, Jr. at a press conference on Saturday.

Microsoft to Lay Off About 9,000 Employees

The reductions followed cuts of about 6,000 positions last quarter, and were indicative of a tightening job market at big technology companies.

Texas officials say they were caught off guard by deadly storms: 'We didn’t know'

The deadly floods that struck Texas on the 4th of July caught local officials off guard as the torrential rains caused the Guadalupe River to overflow in minutes.

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