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Pocket forests . “The Miyawaki method of...

Pocket forests . “The Miyawaki method of reforestation inserts small, densely packed wild acreage into urban environs. It’s proving wildly successful.” The key is densely planting diverse & native species…this isn’t just planting some trees.

Meta sued by major book publishers over copyright infringement

Meta is facing a class action lawsuit filed by five major book publishers and one author over claims the company "engaged in one of the most massive infringements of copyrighted materials in history" when training its Llama AI models, as reported earlier by The New York Times.

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Microsoft’s new Xbox shake-up is all about platform changes

Microsoft's new Xbox chief, Asha Sharma, has spent the past couple of months making her mark on the Xbox organization. After focusing on highly-requested Xbox console features, reducing the price of Game Pass, and moving Microsoft Gaming back to Xbox, Sharma is now reorganizing

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Croz Boyce – “Steven’s Sunshine Rejected”

All these decades into their existence, Animal Collective are still spinning off new side projects. A couple of months ago, longtime bandmates Avey Tare and Geologist (or, if you prefer, Dave Portner and Brian Weitz) announced that they’d started an instrumental duo called Croz