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Is Australia’s 3-hour free electricity per day promise too good to be true?
Australia has successfully turned its relentless sunshine into a massive power plant. The country leads in residential solar penetration per capita, with millions of residences sporting rooftop solar arrays. This enormous capacity means that during peak daylight hours, the main electricity grid is routinely flooded with clean energy, thereby frequently pushing wholesale electricity spot prices
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Is AI Becoming a Tool Only the Wealthy Can Afford to Use?
When GitHub Copilot changed its pricing model in June 2026, it highlighted a larger question about the future of artificial intelligence: who will be able to afford access to the most powerful AI tools? For the past few years, AI has felt remarkably accessible. Students have used it to understand difficult concepts, developers have used
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Worldwide Developers Conference 2026
Apple’s “Intelligence” has been mediocre at most. Its message summaries are ridiculed for taking meanings too literally. While Apple Intelligence struggles, Google Gemini and Microsoft Copilot have been thriving through the AI boom. Thus, Apple stepped up its game in WWDC 26 with its biggest intelligence update since it announced Apple Intelligence, but it did
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The creator economy: How influencers are becoming new generation of celebrities
For decades, celebrity status largely depended on traditional entertainment industries. Movie studios, record labels, sports leagues and television networks controlled who and what gained influence, whether that be through screens or magazine covers. In 2026, that system still exists, but a new player has managed to shatter the monopoly that big entertainment coalitions once held
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Trump’s Executive Order Struck Down
President Trump has consistently made his stance on mail-in voting clear, posting that “ELECTIONS CAN NEVER BE HONEST WITH MAIL IN BALLOTS/VOTING.” His war against this form of voting has culminated in an executive order, which would restrict mail-in ballots, being struck down in Massachusetts. The order stated that the United States Postal Service would
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Hawaii’s Roads Combat Pollution
We may be building a new island between Hawaii and California. Not one that is hospitable, beautiful, or even healthy, but already spanning more than 1.6 million km2. This “island”, called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, contains an estimated 1.8 trillion pieces of garbage, most of which are microplastics less than 5 mm wide. Rather
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