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What's carving active gullies on Mars? It's not water

Scientists were shocked when they received the first images of Martian gullies. They were even more shocked as those gullies appeared to change over time. Their similarities to gullies seen on Earth were uncanny, but all of Earth's gullies are formed by water runoff, and Mars

Held Announce New EP Star Falling: Hear “Standby”

The heavy shoegaze boom continues. Right now, about a million underground bands are messing around with Deftones and Hum influences, and some of them are huge. But Held got started long before people were checking for that stuff. Oakland musician Daniel Phounsavan started Held

Microsoft’s head of comms is leaving after almost 20 years

Frank Shaw is leaving Microsoft after 17 years as chief communications officer. In an internal note to his team, Shaw says he's "decided it is time for me to move on and try new things," after supporting Microsoft's communications for 29 years - nearly 20 years as a Microsoft

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Trump, Hegseth tie Iran war to 9/11 in speech at Pentagon

President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth tied the Iran war to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in their anniversary remarks Friday at the Pentagon, suggesting the conflict is a continuation of the war on terror. “We salute the service members working right now to