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Southeast Asia Keeps Building Gas Plants Despite Hormuz LNG Shock

Southeast Asia Keeps Building Gas Plants Despite Hormuz LNG Shock

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by Irina Slav via OilPrice.com, Countries in Southeast Asia are still building natural gas-fired power plants despite the price inflation in gas caused by the Middle East war. Asian countries are also building more LNG import capacity, Global Energy Monitor reported. The net-zero think tank said there was some 100 GW in new gas-fired power generation capacity under construction across the region and 70 GW in LNG import capacity. “The continued expansion of LNG import infrastructure risks deepening exposure to the same supply disruptions and price volatility the crisis has brought to the fore,” Global Energy Monitor said. The outlet noted that Southeast Asia could boost its domestic natural gas production to reduce dependence on imported liquefied gas but warned that this would take time. “GEM identifies at least 20 fields that could add around 62 bcm/y of production capacity by 2035, but new supply takes years to develop and may not even supply domestic power markets,” the think tank said. Asia is the biggest buyer of liquefied natural gas and gas been ramping …

MIT study finds brain circuits may work like reusable building blocks for thought

MIT study finds brain circuits may work like reusable building blocks for thought

Published by Jenni Sidey

MIT researchers found mouse brain cells that can reuse the same working-memory system for different kinds of information. In the prefrontal cortex, one cluster of neurons could hold either a remembered sound or a planned action. The findings support the idea that flexible behavior comes from reusable brain “building blocks,” not separate circuits for every task. A grocery list, a store clerk’s directions and the decision to count out cash may feel like separate mental chores. The brain may handle them by reusing the same neural tools. MIT neuroscientists have found evidence in mice for flexible brain modules that can perform the same computation across different kinds of tasks. The work focused on neurons in the prefrontal cortex, a brain region involved in planning and decision-making. Yuma Osako, an MIT postdoc, is the lead author. Senior authors are Mriganka Sur, the Newton Professor of Neuroscience at MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, and Timothy Buschman, a professor at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute. The team found that some neurons could store either sensory information or …

7 Reasons Why Building Quiet Wealth Beats Showy Living Every Single Time

7 Reasons Why Building Quiet Wealth Beats Showy Living Every Single Time

Published by Jenni Sidey

When someone shows up in a really nice outfit with designer labels blaring as they step out of their fancy car, it’s easy to assume they’re wealthy. Still, that kind of display is often just for show. Some people are more focused on showing off their money in order to boost their social status than they are on building lasting financial stability. These people spend money constantly instead of investing and saving so that it continues to build over the years. People who build their wealth quietly don’t need to buy nice clothes to feel good about themselves. Their lifestyle ends up being better than people who are showy with money for several simple reasons. Quiet wealth beats showy living any day of the week for these simple reasons: 1. It leaves room for retirement gradyreese from Getty Images Signature via Canva Building quiet wealth is helpful because it can last throughout your life. When you don’t spend your money on flashy things, you’re able to save it. People who form this habit often don’t waste …

Defiance, Fiery Language and a Cold Building

Defiance, Fiery Language and a Cold Building

Published by Sam Flores

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Competing speeches from Benjamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas commanded attention at the United Nations on Thursday, even though the Palestinian leader wasn’t there in person: The United States denied him a visa. Plenty of other stories unfolded Thursday that affect all parts of the world, as presidents and leaders and kings stand up, one after another, to speak to the U.N. General Assembly meetings. Here are a few: Thursday marked Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella’s first chance to address the gathering of world leaders. De la Espriella, who took office last month, promised on the campaign trail that if he won, he would forgo foreign trips so he could focus on the country’s internal problems, especially urban crime and the violence caused by illegal armed groups. So on Thursday, Vice President Jose Manuel Restrepo took the rostrum to deliver a speech in his president’s stead. He said it was the president’s own words that he would present. The speech began by hailing Colombia’s resilience in the wake of a powerful …

Meet Feather, the startup building the ‘Android of robotics’ for developers

Meet Feather, the startup building the ‘Android of robotics’ for developers

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If there is one thing robotics founders and investors agree on, it’s that the “ChatGPT moment” where a general-purpose robot can seamlessly adapt to any environment has not arrived. Opinions vary on whether the breakthrough is just around the corner or a decade away. Feather Robotics, a humanoid startup founded last year, is developing a robot for either timeline. Unlike Tesla or Figure, which are tackling the lofty mission of building both the body and a foundational ‘brain’ that isn’t yet widely deployed, Feather provides the hardware and software toolkit for developers to tackle real-world tasks now. “You can’t buy a Tesla robot today and develop on top of it,” Feather co-founder Hoa Mai told TechCrunch. “We realized that this is not how most companies became successful. Hardware players like Nvidia or Apple started with a product that worked and was deployable, and then they added complexity over time.” In 2025, after selling his previous humanoid startup to 1X, Mai (pictured left) teamed up with Parsa Bakhtiari (pictured right), a former Tesla Model 3 engineer …

Spring/Break 2026 Opens in Former CBS News Building

Spring/Break 2026 Opens in Former CBS News Building

Published by Jenni Sidey

This weekend, for likely the last time, cameras are rolling at 555 West 57th Street. The longtime headquarters of CBS News’s most hallowed properties—60 Minutes and Inside Edition—was recently hollowed out in a Paramount acquisition that saw personalities and producers shuffled to a center across the street. So, perhaps fittingly, Spring/Break, New York’s most irreverent art fair, has taken residence. Its inaugural edition at 555 West 57th Street, titled “Hide and Seek,” opened for previews yesterday. Roughly 120 exhibitors reanimate the office floor with the fair’s regularly scheduled program of bombastic installations and impish figuration—all of it anchored by a special installation in the recording studios. Related Articles Titled The People’s Newsroom, the installation was created with Spring/Break’s 2026 creative partner, the Slow Factory, an environmental and social justice nonprofit founded in 2012 by Celine Semaan and Collis Browne. It’s since grown into a robust art, media, and education platform; MoMA PS1 hosted its pop-up lab in 2022. The Slow Factory’s digital and print publication, Everything Is Political, is on site, too. Visitors, artists, and …

Building Team Cultures That Support Mental Health

Building Team Cultures That Support Mental Health

Published by Jenni Sidey

This month, I caught back up with the Kevin Love Fund (KLF), founded by NBA champion and mental health advocate Kevin Love, to discuss its new collaboration with the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). The two organizations recently launched Real Talk: Strength in Seeking Support, a free lesson designed to help teen athletes discuss emotional challenges, recognize when they or a teammate may need support, and feel more comfortable asking for help. The goal of the program is to build team cultures that promote openness around mental health by: Helping teen athletes build mental health awareness, Strengthening emotional skills, and Creating more supportive team environments. NAMI CEO Daniel Gillison and KLF director of education Ellie Foster, who developed the lesson with NAMI advisors, took a moment to share their thoughts on the new program. Inside the Program Foster took me inside the lesson, which incorporates research-backed strategies and expert guidance for destigmatizing conversations about mental health between teammates and coaches. Foster emphasized the importance of normalizing conversations about mental health through short videos of …

Kara Swisher: AI Isn’t Going to Destroy Humanity—But the People Building It Might

Kara Swisher: AI Isn’t Going to Destroy Humanity—But the People Building It Might

Published by Daniella Wilson

As the AI industry likes to tell it, superintelligent bots could one day cure cancer and end poverty. Or in the worst-case scenario, they might wipe out all humans from the face of the Earth. In recent weeks, Silicon Valley’s existential concerns about the technology it is racing to build have blown up. The tech journalist Kara Swisher sees it differently. “We have to stop thinking AI is going to kill humanity,” she told Atlantic executive editor Adrienne LaFrance at The Atlantic Festival. If the AI future goes sideways, bots won’t be to blame. People will be. “These are people at the helm of these things.” In the several decades that Swisher has covered Silicon Valley—formerly as a reporter at The Wall Street Journal, now as the host of two podcasts—she says that she’s seen tech whizzes make the same mistake again and again: failing to take proper precautions against the products they are building. “One of the things about tech people is they’re the smartest people in the world, in case you need to …

Trump Administration Begins Building Border Wall in Texas’ Big Bend Region

Trump Administration Begins Building Border Wall in Texas’ Big Bend Region

Published by Sam Flores

COMSTOCK, Texas (AP) — The Trump administration has started building the border wall through a west Texas section of the Big Bend region, marking the first major construction in an area of the U.S.-Mexico border where the administration’s plans have met heavy opposition. The start of construction marks an important milestone in the administration’s $46 billion plan to line the border with walls, barriers, roads and technology as it seeks to make good on a key campaign promise by President Donald Trump to finish the wall. And it comes as Customs and Border Protection says it has doubled the pace at which it is building the wall across the U.S.-Mexico border. Customs and Border Protection said in a statement to The Associated Press that “border wall panel installation is underway” in a 47-mile stretch of Hudspeth County in west Texas known as Big Bend 1. There are a total of five project areas that make up the roughly 500-mile Big Bend region stretching from an area of Hudspeth County south of El Paso to Lake …

Asteroid the size of six-storey building crashed into moon in ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ moment, says NASA | Science, Climate & Tech News

Asteroid the size of six-storey building crashed into moon in ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ moment, says NASA | Science, Climate & Tech News

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Scientists have discovered a crater on the moon which has a span the length of two football pitches. The steep-sided hole, which is around 728ft (222m) wide and up to 141ft (43m) deep, was created by a powerful impact and is the largest newly-formed crater ever found in the solar system. Such a large-scale event is estimated to take place only once every 132 years, researchers said, as NASA prepares to build a base for astronauts on the moon’s south pole. In what started as a routine data-quality check, Robert Wagner, a scientist with NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), scanned a giant moon map on his computer screen in May 2024, when an unusually large bright spot circled by a dark halo caught his attention. It implied that surface material in that region had been shaken up, NASA said. “I just stopped, dropped everything, and started looking into what that spot was,” Mr Wagner said. You need javascript enabled to view this content Enable javascript to share Share From May: How will NASA’s ambitious ‘moon …