This latest group of founders stands on the shoulders of giants from the noughties like Spotify, Klarna, and Skype, who themselves took inspiration from the postwar design empires of IKEA, H&M and Tetra Pak (modernizer of the milk carton).
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Jan Larsson,
Fortune,
9 Oct. 2026
Google on Thursday unveiled a new AI agent tailored for workplace tasks, positioning it to compete with other technology giants racing to offer their own virtual office assistants.
This wildly luxurious hideaway coexists with nature to put you up-close with the Big Five—especially the elephants, lion, and rhino that roam this northwest corner of South Africa.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
6 Oct. 2026
Acehnese conservationist Farwiza Farhan has spent years fighting to protect Sumatra’s Leuser Ecosystem—perhaps the last place on Earth where elephants, tigers, rhinos and orangutans still coexist in the wild.
But compared to galaxies, which can host 100 billion similarly sized star systems, even these cosmic titans are relatively small in stature.
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Robert Lea,
Space.com,
2 Oct. 2026
The guest list includes Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, among other tech titans staking out positions on whether more safeguards are needed in the race to develop artificial intelligence.
For decades, the seabirds have pecked at whales surfacing to breathe, gorging on their skin and blubber.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
2 Oct. 2026
The new interpretations of the Endangered Species Act remove some of the legal basis for enforcing rules for noisy seismic surveys, speed limits on vessels and restrictions on shipping routes designed to help protect the whales from harm.
In ancient California, they are believed to have existed alongside other extinct native species, including bison-sized Jefferson’s ground sloths, Columbian mammoths and western camels.
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Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Sep. 2026
See fossils of the 14-foot, 20,000-pound mammoths that used to roam around Texas.
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Ella Gonzales,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
3 Sep. 2026
About 66 million years ago, the Chicxulub asteroid smashed into Earth, kicking up tsunamis and dropping hot debris that annihilated non-avian dinosaurs and many other species.
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Elizabeth Rayne,
ArsTechnica,
30 Sep. 2026
Its discovery adds to our understanding of one of the world’s premier fossil deposits and what life in Illinois looked like even before dinosaurs.
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