And American tech giants like Amazon, OpenAI and Microsoft see the Gulf states’ abundant and cheap energy and vast land as key to their AI infrastructure buildouts.
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John Liu,
CNN Money,
31 Mar. 2026
Rioux is two inches taller than former NBA giants Gheorghe Muresan and Manute Bol, and three inches taller than popular big men Yao Ming, Tacko Fall and Shawn Bradley.
Any kid who stars at smaller schools transfers before the program can become a threat to the behemoths.
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Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
27 Mar. 2026
The Silicon Valley drama Cupertino from The Good Wife creators Robert and Michelle King will see a lawyer (Mike Colter) take on Silicon Valley behemoths.
Eat the elephant one bite at a time, Redd recommends.
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Alora Bopray,
USA Today,
4 Apr. 2026
By about 1500 trade in the Indian Ocean was dominated by Arab, Indian, Malay, and Chinese merchants, who together used various seafaring craft to transport a spectrum of cargo, from spices to elephants.
The Center for Biological Diversity estimated that the Deepwater Horizon disaster harmed or killed more than eighty thousand birds, six thousand sea turtles, and twenty-five thousand dolphins and whales.
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Jeffrey Marlow,
New Yorker,
5 Apr. 2026
Juvenile whales gently nudged the calf and kept it close to the mother.
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Samantha Agate,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
4 Apr. 2026
Stripped back to just Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson, the drone-metal titans explore the minutiae of microtonal vibrations on an album that sprawls like land art.
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Daniel Bromfield,
Pitchfork,
4 Apr. 2026
The tech titans and Schultz join Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, PayPal and Palantir cofounder Peter Thiel, Citadel founder Ken Griffin, and Oracle cofounder Larry Ellison, who have all bought property or moved their companies’ operations to Florida in the past couple of years.
If the dinosaurs and woolly mammoths that once roamed the Earth had since crumbled into dust, then what hope was there for humanity?
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Kathryn Hughes,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
Birds are thought to have descended from carnivorous dinosaurs that began growing feathers by the Late Jurassic Period; thus, birds are technically one lineage of reptiles.
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