Yayoi Kusama, high priestess of polka dots, has died
The Japanese artist has died at age 97. Kusama's polka dotted pumpkins, "Infinity Rooms," and other repetitive and dreamlike artworks have been shown …
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Secret Service officials placed on leave in inquiry over ‘potential misconduct’
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Judge sets 2028 trial for alleged 9/11 mastermind
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Prince William Is Still Silent About His Brother, Harry. Can That Last?
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Chip sell-off helps boost China’s private funds as US$83.3b is pulled out of mutual funds
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After Whiskey With His Captors, Cuban Dissident Lands in a Miami Maelstrom
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Forty children reported missing from UK asylum hotels still not found
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Hot ticket: UK’s first sauna theatre draws swimwear-clad audiences
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France to relax cheese production rules after drought takes toll on grazing land
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Yayoi Kusama Was the Avant-Garde Radical Who Became a Pop Icon
In her mass-produced ubiquity, Kusama became one of her own dots, spreading her image into every corner of our culture.
Glacial collapse caused huge flood leaving hundreds dead or missing in Nepal and Tibet
Entire populated areas swept away with early death toll standing at 165 and nationals from India, US, UK, Australia and Canada known to be missingFoll…
United’s new A321XLR is packed with tech, and it’s about to take on new transatlantic routes
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MIT engineers create a system for building shape-changing smart devices
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Nvidia Reportedly Stops Flirting With Hugging Face and Just Buys It
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Meta Apparently Seeks to Spread Settlement Pain to Its Competitors—With Snapchat Conspicuously Absent
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How to See the Partial Lunar Eclipse and Blood Moon on August 27
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CPU shipments fall as consumers pay the cost for price rises — but AMD grows its share
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The best displays to pair with your new Mac mini or Mac Studio
If you’ve just purchased a new Mac, like the recently released Mac mini or Mac Studio, you might be in the market for a new external display as well. …
Lesser-tracked bitcoin market dynamic lends credibility to August surge to $80,000
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Ripple (XRP) Whales Are Pulling Millions Off Binance: The $2 Level Is Back in Focus
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Gold Price Holds Above $4,600 Ahead of Warsh's Jackson Hole Speech
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BlackRock’s Robert Mitchnick says Bitcoin’s macro case strengthens amid fiscal concerns
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Cardano and Solana just exposed crypto governance’s biggest weakness
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Michael Saylor Calls for a ‘Bitcoin Reformation’ Beyond Orthodoxy
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Jim Cramer Says Falling Oil Prices Make PepsiCo His Next Stock Pick
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Why Is XRP Price Down Today?
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NBC’s Best Sitcom of All Time Deserves a Revival 44 Years Later
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Fallout 4: Call Of The Republic Is Available To Download Now
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Tom Cruise's Unforgettable 10/10 Action Movie is Officially Free to Watch on YouTube
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‘Silo’ Season 3’s Biggest Book Change Fixes a Problem the Novel Couldn’t
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DC Unveils Lex Luthor God-Tier Redesign For Superman's New Appearance
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The Walking Dead Officially Brings Back Its Scariest Villain After Years Away
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High school soccer coaches share which opponents they game-plan around
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Mike Breen fanboys over Keith Hernandez during Mets broadcast
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Five golden ducks: Trichy Grand Cholas suffer horror batting collapse in 84-run loss as Kovai Kings storm into 2026 TNPL final
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Nolan Bianchi and Richard Silva project Detroit Lions' 53-man roster
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Drive fall to Rome
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Walk-off home run leads River Bandits to win over Sky Carp
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Treatment involving patient's family cuts mental health hospital admissions, study finds
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FDA approves landmark pancreatic cancer drug that's shown to improve survival
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AMA Sued Over Its 'Paywalled' Billing Codes
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Drugstores say Medicare's $50 obesity drug program is catching on
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Reworked tRNAs enable protein design with up to 34 amino acids
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Innovative etching method for silicon: Higher precision through interlayer
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AI framework challenges student ideas early, helping undergraduates think critically about research
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