The Arctic Is Warming Much Faster Than the Rest of Earth

As climate delegates discuss the planet’s future at the COP25 meeting in Madrid this week, a new study finds the Arctic is warming much faster than the rest of the planet. That’s forcing polar bears and walruses to crowd onto shrinking beaches, starving reindeer and caribou, and driving extreme heat, drought, and sea level rise…

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Qualcomm Bets Big on 5G With the Snapdragon 865 and 765

Qualcomm revealed the newest iterations of its Snapdragon mobile processors this week. The chipmaker announced not just one but two new chipsets: one that will power some of the highest-end smartphones to be released in 2020, and another system-on-a-chip for midrange phones.The company's two new chips are the flagship Snapdragon 865, which also includes an…

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Elon Musk on the Stand: ‘Pedo Guy’ Doesn’t Mean ‘Pedophile’

On the top floor of a Los Angeles courthouse, lawyers for a British diver and a billionaire tech CEO sparred over a linguistic dilemma: Does the phrase pedo guy necessarily mean pedophile?Elon Musk, founder of Tesla and SpaceX, had tweeted the insult about Vernon Unsworth, the diver, in July 2018. Unsworth later sued for defamation.…

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‘No Time to Die’ Trailer Predicts James Bond’s Future

Halfway through the first trailer for No Time to Die—the 25th James Bond film, and the last to star Daniel Craig as the lead MI5 agent—007 delivers a warning: “History isn’t kind to men who play god.”Presumably, he’s talking to Safin, the villain played by Rami Malek, but in some ways the Bond franchise has…

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We Need to Protect Antarctic ‘Blue Carbon’

Both polar regions are losing marine ice. Ice shelves are breaking up into giant icebergs, more glaciers are retreating and at faster rates, less sea surface is freezing and for shorter periods. Simply put, the north and south poles are becoming less white and more blue. Yet the coldest parts of the planet are also…

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