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SHANGHAI—Hundreds of vendors at Shanghai’s largest clothing market were very busy. But they weren’t making sales. They were processing returns. At Qipu Road Wholesale Clothing Market, wholesalers send ...

How do you go about making a mirror with 128 segments, each of which can be independently angled? That was the question that a certain bloke over at [Time Sink Studio] found himself pondering on, to ...

The Justice Department is still struggling to process the massive trove of Epstein files and is prodding hundreds of lawyers reviewing pages to work faster, according to a recent email from DOJ ...

The Justice Department on Monday said it has released 12,285 documents – less than 1% – of its Jeffrey Epstein-related files, with more than 2 million documents still being reviewed. Attorney General ...

This video covers two breakthroughs that push “mind reading” from fiction into early reality: UT Austin decoding language from brain activity, and Meta decoding visual perception from brain waves. At ...

Three days after releasing a large tranche of Jeffrey Epstein documents that contained few mentions of President Donald Trump, the Justice Department disclosed thousands more files that included ...

The ease of recovering information that was not properly redacted digitally suggests that at least some of the documents released by the Justice Department were hastily censored. By Santul Nerkar ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The search function that was supposed to be part of the Department of Justice's release of the Jeffrey Epstein files appears to ...

Abstract: High-temperature superconducting (HTS) magnets have huge advantages for providing strong magnetic fields within a compact structure and saving energy. However, it is almost impossible for ...

Microsoft updated its Windows 11 support documentation to clarify that AI agents now require explicit user permission to access six key folders: Documents, Downloads ...

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