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South Korea's Kospi index jumps nearly 18% on a surge in chipmaking stocks AP NewsSouth Korea's chip giants just logged their biggest rally ever. What it means for the global AI trade. MarketWatchNasdaq futures rise as tech stocks lead sharp Wall Street rebound: Live updates CNBCKorean Stocks Jump Record 15% on Renewed AI Trade Optimism Bloomberg.com
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Blue Earth Capital has passed $200m in capital commitments for its impact secondaries strategy after it concluded a second close. Momentum for the latest close came largely from the US, where three prominent names joined the investor base. These were Builders Vision, iAlumbra Capital and Sonen Capital. The firm said the milestone marks an important […]
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Middle East crisis live: Trump claims breakthrough reached in Gaza disarmament; Hamas confirms deal The GuardianSee more headlines & perspectives on Google News
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AI hedge fund Situational Awareness may have sold its public portfolio, but it still has its Anthropic shares TechCrunchAI investor Leopold Aschenbrenner forced to unwind all public stock positions after steep losses, sources say CNBCAschenbrenner Tried to Sell Private Stakes Before Citadel Deal BloombergExclusive | Citadel Buys Situational Awareness's Stock Por
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Fed chair Kevin Warsh has been outspoken about the need to bring inflation down. But his stinginess with details this week has raised anxiety about less predictable policy.
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U.S. sees progress toward deal to disarm Hamas, rebuild Gaza AxiosHamas agrees to complete disarmament under 'historic' Gaza agreement: Trump foxnews.comBoard of Peace said nearing deal with Hamas on disarmament, but Israel opposes offer The Times of Israel
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Thousands of Migrants Enter Ceuta, a Spanish Enclave, From Morocco The New York TimesSpain deploys military after thousands of migrants overwhelm border enclave, at least 9 dead Fox NewsThousands of Migrants Pour Across Border Into a Tiny Spanish Territory WSJ
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Topic: FuturismInventionsPeople love and hate Daylight Savings Time. Or more to the point, they hate the transition to and from it, particularly the spring one where you get 1 hour less sleep. It's even been tracked that traffic accidents go up after this shift.
There's a virtue to DST, though. We've become a night culture, and many of us get up well after sunrise and stay up well into dark, wasting hours of daylight every day. DST reduces that, though if you start the day too soon, you are rising and commuting in darkness. In the "energy crisis" they made year-round DST and many complained their kids were going to school in the dark. Of course, you can just resolve to get up earlier, or later, as you like, and control your own day, but many people must work on dictated schedules, and everybody wants to be in sync with those around them.
In the era before clocks, people tended to wake around sunrise each day. Indeed, the dawn twilight is what woke them up. Then they stayed up for 16 hours. In summer, it was 16 hours of day. In winter, they would get what daylight there was, then stay up into the night. Each day, they got up with the sun, arising at a different time, a few minutes earlier than before from December to June, a few minutes later the other half of the year. This is the natural clock that we evolved to, and is probably best for us.
Japan
Before contact with the west, Japan used a very different system. The day was divided into 12 "hours" or
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