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Photo by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images Microsoft just signed a deal to revive the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. If approved by regulators, the software maker would have exclusive rights to 100 percent of the output for its AI data center needs. Constellation, the owner of the Three Mile Island plant, announced a power purchase agreement with Microsoft earlier today, which should see the site coming back online in 2028, assuming regulators approve it. The reactor that Microsoft plans to source its energy from was retired in 2019 for economic reasons and is located next to a unit that was shut down in 1979 after the worst US nuclear accident in history. The plant that Constellation plans to reopen can generate 837 megawatts of energy, enough to power more... Continue reading…

Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge The iPhone 16 is great. But it’s great in pretty much exactly the ways you’d expect it to be great — gone, it seems, are the days of big new ideas about these slabs of glass we all use all day. And that’s basically okay! But it does make you wonder: could you just train an AI to tell you everything you need to know about the new iPhone? On this episode of The Vergecast, we find out. Joanna Stern, a columnist at The Wall Street Journal and a forever friend of The Verge, comes on the show to tell us about her adventures building the Joannabot, an AI chatbot that knows a lot about iPhones and basically nothing about anything else. We ask Joannabot some questions; we take some of your questions and present them to the Joannabot (and a few to... Continue reading…

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Hey, folks! Every week for the past four years, the team behind Verge Deals has combed the web, looking for the best deals and discounts on the tech we love most at The Verge. We pride ourselves in having tried and tested every product we recommend — well, almost every product — and we continue to share those deals with our readers via our daily deal coverage and Verge Deals newsletter. That being said, everyone could use a little change every now and again. No, Verge Deals is not going away — quite the contrary, actually. We’ve given our newsletter a fresh coat of virtual paint to reflect our new(ish) colors and design language, and we plan to continue to deliver a fresh batch of deals to your inbox every Friday afternoon. This time,... Continue reading…

Image: Maira Erlich / Bloomberg via Getty Images For more than two weeks, Brazilians have been without access to X. Brazil’s Supreme Court blocked the platform after Elon Musk failed to comply with court rulings. As X evades the ban and Musk’s companies work slowly toward a resolution, the real concern for many isn’t just the absence of social media. It’s Musk’s power play over the government as he backs Brazil’s far right. X was banned on August 30th after months of back-and-forth between Musk and Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes. The conflict began in April when Musk publicized government requests for information and then removed all restrictions imposed on X profiles by Brazilian court orders. Moraes responded by including Musk in an investigation over organized political... Continue reading…

Less than a week after Apple released iOS 18, people seem to have a strong opinion on the redesigned Photos app. At the moment, it feels like I'm part of the minority who appreciate the new take on this crucial iPhone app. I think it makes my library more dynamic, and it's always full of memories that are ready to be relived. In addition, I love being able to hide screenshots from my gallery, making it cleaner. Of note, it's not the first time iPhone users have complained about a Photos app redesign. During the iOS 18 beta cycle, Apple even removed one of the app's features, a Carousel view of your photos, as some developers found it confusing. Several people posted on social media about their issues with this change: "iOS 18 has ruined the photos app," said a user on Threads. Another mentioned that it feels very confusing: "The new Photos app on iOS 18 is just like my mind—total chaos and completely disorganized." Post by @panku_ View on Threads https://www.threads.net/embed.js While I feel most people will get used to it, there's a way to almost revert the iOS 18 Photos app design to the old one. How to the iOS 18 Photos app to the old design Image source: José Adorno for BGR For me, what makes the new Photos app so special is the ability to customize it in any way you want, which is how you can tweak it so that it looks almost like the old design from Apple's Photos app in iOS 17 and earlier. Just follow these steps: Open the new Photos app Scroll down until you find the Customize & Reorder option Remove all options except for Media Types Once you do that, you'll have a new tab named "Media Types" with all your media categorized With this change, you'll enjoy a more familiar layout in the Photos app. In addition, you can tap the filter option when viewing all your photos, choose View Options, and remove things like Screenshots and Shared With You for a cleaner view. Do you feel these changes improve the new Photos app? Below, you can take a look at other iOS 18 hidden features. Don't Miss: 13 hidden iOS 18 features you should be using on your iPhone The post People are raging over the iOS 18 Photos app redesign – here’s how to fix it appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Today’s deals: $10 off Starbucks coffee, $199 Apple iPad, $16 portable blender, $99 BISSELL Little Green, more Best Apple Watch deals for September 2024 Today’s deals: $189 AirPods Pro, $50 DASH air fryer, $4.50 iPhone chargers, $99 DEWALT drill bundle, more Today’s deals: $20 Amazon credit, 23% off Galaxy Z Flip 6, $50 Ninja blender, $48 Anker ANC earbuds, more

Slavery, a practice that has existed in various forms throughout human history, was always a subject of significant ethical debate. In ancient civilizations, slavery was not only an economic and social institution but also deeply intertwined with the moral and philosophical frameworks of the time. Understanding the ethics of slavery in these early societies requires an examination of the cultural, religious, and philosophical beliefs that shaped attitudes toward slavery, as well as an analysis of the social structures that sustained it. So how did different cultures rationalize or oppose the practice? But more importantly, how did these perspectives evolve over time? An Era of Different Worldviews: The Concept of Slavery in Ancient Civilizations For millennia, slavery in ancient civilizations was a complex institution, varying significantly across regions and cultures. The ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece, Rome, and other civilizations all practiced slavery, but their justifications and ethical views differed greatly. In general, slavery was considered a natural part of society, with slaves often viewed as property rather than individuals with rights. This perception was supported by religious, legal, and philosophical frameworks that sought to justify the subjugation of one group of people by another. Read moreSection: NewsGeneralHistory & ArchaeologyHistoryAncient TraditionsPremiumPreviewRead Later 

A team of archaeologists from Peru, the United States, and Canada recently completed an analysis of 1,000-year-old textile samples recovered during excavations at the ancient and long-abandoned Andean city of Huacas de Moche northern Peru. Despite significant social, cultural, and political changes that had occurred in the region during the mid-to-late first millennium, it seems that some of the local Moche people’s cultural traditions had survived the passage of the centuries, as exhibited by the preservation of traditional ways of weaving and designing textiles. “While occupants of the site experienced many outside cultural influences, including those from the highland Wari Empire, continuity in textile traditions suggests that some sense of Moche identity was maintained through the tenth century and after the perceived end of the Moche culture,” the study authors wrote in an article about their research published by Antiquity. Read moreSection: ArtifactsOther ArtifactsNewsHistory & ArchaeologyAncient PlacesAmericasRead Later