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South Korea hopes for talks between US and North Korea after Trump downsizes military drills AP NewsTrump has handed a gift to Kim Jong Un and deepened concerns over US reliability cnn.comTrump alarms South Korea with call to scale back military drills and deference to Kim Jong Un NBC NewsTrump's Overture to Kim Jong-un Strains Alliance With South Korea The New York TimesTrump Will Make South Korea Pay for His Iran Humiliation
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Live Updates: Trump threatens to bomb Oman with Iran war stuck in stalemate as 60-day negotiation period ends CBS NewsLive Updates: Trump Lashes Out at Oman as Deadline for U.S.-Iran Deal Passes The New York TimesTrump threatens Oman as it works with Iran on Strait of Hormuz deal Los Angeles TimesDonald Trump threatens to bomb Oman if it ‘gets in the way' of ending Iran war The Guardian
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Nvidia to invest $100bn for OpenAI data centre in Ohio Financial TimesNvidia backs financing for OpenAI data center in Ohio CNBCNvidia to Invest Up to $105 Billion for OpenAI Data Center in Ohio Bloomberg.comSecuring the Infrastructure of Intelligence blogs.nvidia.com
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China's recovery sputters as consumption, output lose steam reuters.comChina's Economy Weakens on Several Fronts as Property Bust Worsens WSJChina investment slump deepens as economy shows signs of weakness Financial TimesChina's economy slows further in July as retail sales barely grow, investment slump steepens CNBC
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Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has sold his longtime Hawaii sanctuary for the staggering price of $36 million—just months after he bought a $44 million residence in Florida.
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US Supreme Court again rebuffs Trump in $5 million E. Jean Carroll case ReutersSupreme Court Again Rejects Trump's Appeal of $5 Million E. Jean Carroll Payment The New York TimesSupreme Court again rebuffs Trump's push to toss out $5 million verdict in E. Jean Carroll case Pittsburgh Post-GazetteSupreme Court again rejects Trump bid to overturn E. Jean Carroll verdict CNBC
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Oil prices rise as Iran rules out interim deal extension, threatens to escalate conflict CNBCU.S. and Iran Blow Through Deadline to Agree to a Broad Deal to End War The New York Times60-day deadline for an Iran peace deal is expiring. Here's where things stand ABC7 Los AngelesUS-Iran ceasefire set to expire as Trump admin meets with Israel's Netanyahu Fox News
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Hayden Panettiere's Death Under Investigation After Apparent Overdose Rolling StoneHayden Panettiere remembered by co-stars and friends after her death: "An old, wise soul with such a deep heart" CBS NewsActor Hayden Panettiere, known for roles in ‘Heroes' and ‘Nashville,' dies at 36 NBC NewsNo Evidence of Foul Play in Hayden Panettiere's Death, Police Say The New York Times
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"My CPA hasn't gotten back to me."
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Burnham exchanged messages with impersonator of top Trump aide politico.euBritish Leader Exchanged Texts With Someone Posing as Trump's Chief of Staff nytimes.comBritish PM Andy Burnham exchanged messages with someone impersonating Trump's chief of staff CNNBurnham exchanged messages with individual impersonating Trump chief of staff The GuardianBurnham exchanged messages with person posing as Trump's chief of staff
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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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