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Medium is launching a new note-taking app called TK

For the first time ever, Medium is becoming more than just a blogging platform. The company is launching a new app, called TK, that combines note taking and journaling with something resembling a private social network. The app is meant to get you writing more, and help you

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Two genes, two harvests: Adapting barley for double cropping

Growing two crops in succession on the same land requires a tight schedule. In parts of central and eastern China, farmers sow barley in autumn and harvest it in late spring. It is then followed by a summer crop, such as rice. For this cropping sequence to succeed, the barley

Jonathan Kanter is using AI to take on Big Tech

When Jonathan Kanter stepped down as head of the Justice Department's Antitrust Division in 2024, he set out to keep fighting to dismantle illegal monopolies. But this time, he's continuing the fight in the private sector, and with a perhaps unexpected tool: AI. Alongside

Trump says MAGA can exist without him

President Trump on Sunday said his "Make America Great Again" movement can exist in American politics without his involvement. Trump sat down for an interview with "60 Minutes" correspondent Ross Douthat, where he asked the president about the Republican Party's future

The migration that remade Africa

It's not easy to extract iron from its ore. But the peoples of the ancient city of Great Zimbabwe—the capital of a thriving kingdom in southern Africa between A.D. 1000 and 1700—were masters.