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Your Monday Briefing

The U.S. winds down Afghanistan airlift A U.S. drone strike in Kabul yesterday blew up a vehicle laden with explosives that officers stated was an “imminent ISIS-Ok risk” to the airport, three days after a bombing killed about 170 civilians and 13 American service members. Afghans stated that the drone strike killed various civilians, together

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Technology

Spies for Rent: China’s New Breed of Hackers Blends Espionage and Entrepreneurship

One posting from Hainan Xiandun stood out. The advert, on a Sichuan College pc science hiring board from 2018, boasted that Xiandun had “acquired a substantial variety of government-secret-related enterprise.” The corporate, based mostly in Hainan’s capital, Haikou, paid month-to-month salaries of $1,200 to $3,000 — stable middle-class wages for Chinese language tech staff contemporary

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Entertainment

Smarty Social gathering

On a Thursday night time in August, in an empty storefront in SoHo, a bunch of visitors in well-considered outfits gathered. It wasn’t strictly a celebration, though there have been flowing cocktails. It wasn’t a seminar or convention both, though the hosts — James B. Whiteside, a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre, and

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News

Lila Gleitman, Who Confirmed How Kids Study Language, Dies at 91

Lila Gleitman, whose pioneering work in linguistics and cognitive science expanded our understanding of how language works and the way kids go about studying it, died on Aug. 8 at a hospital in Philadelphia. She was 91. Her daughter Claire Gleitman mentioned the trigger was a coronary heart assault. Till the Seventies, most linguists believed

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Business

How the Delta Variant Infiltrated an Elementary Faculty Classroom

An unvaccinated elementary schoolteacher contaminated with the extremely contagious Delta variant unfold the virus to half of the scholars in a classroom, seeding an outbreak that ultimately contaminated 26 individuals, based on a new report from the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention. The unusually detailed examine, which comes as faculty districts throughout the nation

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Technology

Satellites Spot Oceans Aglow With Trillions of Organisms

The ocean has all the time glowed. The Greeks and Romans knew of luminous sea creatures in addition to the extra common phenomenon of seawater that may mild up in bluish-green colours. Charles Darwin, as he sailed close to South America on a darkish night time aboard the H.M.S. Beagle, encountered luminescent waves. He called

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