Huge Hyundai and KIA recall warns owners of terrifying fire risk

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Black Lawmakers Urge DOJ To Take ‘Aggressive’ Action Against Voter Restrictions

“The future of our democracy is at stake,” Congressional Black Caucus members wrote in a letter to the Justice Department.

Great, DARPA Just Flew a Black Hawk Helicopter With Nobody In It

The United States military just inched one step closer to bringing autonomous helicopters to the battlefield. Like most strange feats of advanced military technology, this one comes from The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, better known simply as “DARPA.”

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Coal-Loving Australia Just Hit Wind and Solar Power Records

January was a banner month for renewables Down Under. According to an analyst at Rystad Energy, who shared the figures with clean energy site Renew Economy, three of Australia’s six states saw new records for wind and solar power production. In total, utility-scale wind and solar produced 3,628 gigawatt hours of power…

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Mission: Impossibles 7 and 8 Might Be Tom Cruise's Last

He’s jumped off buildings, hung outside airplanes, and will soon be diving off a cliff on a motorcycle. However, for his next trick, Tom Cruise might be going on his most impossible mission yet: ending the franchise.

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Ecuador's Indigenous Groups Have New Power to Protect Their Lands from Destruction

The highest court in Ecuador ruled last week that Indigenous communities in the country should have a stronger say over extractive projects like oil drilling and mining that affect their ancestral lands.

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The first Steam Deck reviews are making us believers

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Adobe Premier Pro now uses AI to fit music to your videos

It can be a pain to time music with a video you’re editing — you may spend ages trimming and slicing tracks to create an arrangement that matches your footage. Adobe thinks your computer can do the heavy lifting, though. It just updated Premiere Pro with a Remix feature that uses AI to re-time music to fit your video’s duration. This probably won’t be completely satisfying if you’re exacting about your soundtracks, but it could save valuable hours if you were just looking for well-timed background audio.

The Premiere Pro update is also far more useful for transcriptions. Speech-to-text conversion is now available offline through downloadable language packs, leading to transcriptions up to three times faster on M1- and Core i9-based systems. English is included by default.

Adobe is providing some of its customary hardware optimizations. Windows users can now export 10-bit HDR videos up to 10 times faster with Intel- or NVIDIA-based graphics. Block Dissolve and Linear Wipe effects now use GPU acceleration, too. And if you own one of the latest 14- or 16-inch MacBook Pros, Premiere Pro now properly adapts to the display notch. These won’t necessarily affect your workflows in the way Remix might, but they’ll be appreciated if they help you finish projects that much sooner.

Rep. Joyce Beatty Says She Was Told ‘Kiss My Ass’ By Rep. Hal Rogers After Mask Request

The chair of the Congressional Black Caucus wants an apology from the Kentucky Republican.

Mega Comet Arriving From the Oort Cloud Is 85 Miles Wide

Bernardinelli-Bernstein is officially the largest comet ever discovered, according to updated observations of the inbound object.

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