Experts debate whether Neanderthals created art. A paleoanthropologist explores the evidence and the sources of people’s skepticism.

Florida law was blocked by lower courts that found it violates First Amendment.

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The demand for lithium for EV batteries is driving a mining boom in an arid Andes region of Argentina, Chile, and Bolivia, home to half the world’s reserves. Hydrologists are warning the mines could drain vital ecosystems and deprive Indigenous communities…

You can’t have a 4-slot GPU. You just can’t.
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Stripe now reaches a majority of the globe: 4.4 billion people in more than 110 countries can receive funds in local currencies or crypto.

UsForThem said it has been unable to access thousands of pounds in donations ‘due to the nature of our activities’

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The idea of being able to write kernel code in the Rust language has a
certain appeal, but it is hard to judge how well that would actually work
in the absence of examples to look at. Those examples, especially for
modules beyond the "hello world" level…

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