Tools like OpenClaw can execute tasks autonomously on a user’s computer using AI models; China’s tech giants have launched their own versions, and around 1,000 people including students and retirees recently lined up outside Tencent’s Shenzhen headquarters for a free installation event.
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J.D. Capelouto,
semafor.com,
10 Mar. 2026
Tech giants are buying up memory chips like never before, and paying a premium for multiyear contracts.
Ramsden, who is thirty-one, grew up in the Lowveld region of South Africa, where his family managed a game reserve, farming livestock and sourcing wildlife, including lions, hippos, elephants, and rhinos, for export.
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Boyce Upholt,
New Yorker,
14 Mar. 2026
These Cornhuskers are treating the elephant much like Virginia considered righting its first-round loss to UMBC in 2019.
Now, Cryptio has 110 employees and more than 450 clients, including digital asset titans like the stablecoin issuer Circle as well as the blockchain subsidiary of the French bank Société Générale.
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Ben Weiss,
Fortune,
12 Mar. 2026
Accepting short-term financial pain as the cost of technological progress might be easy for tech titans with truckloads of money.
After the recent downturn, many of those tech behemoths are now trading at valuations rarely seen.
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Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
6 Mar. 2026
That figure marks 20 quarters of growth for the brand overall, as other luxury behemoths such as LVMH and Gucci owner Kering have seen setbacks amid an ongoing luxury slump.
Whale Sanctuary Project has yet to actually build a sanctuary despite collecting millions in donations over the last decade and has no backup plan if the whales fail to adapt.
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Valerie Greene,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 Mar. 2026
At her home on Vancouver Island, the Canadian-American actor spends her days scanning the chop for whales, not floundering swimmers.
Surviving Earth explores the world 450M years ago featuring giant sea scorpions, mammoths and sabertooths.
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Peter White,
Deadline,
12 Mar. 2026
Unlike typical mice with short gray-brown coats, these woolly mice have long dirty-blond hair that mimics the shaggy fur that helped protect mammoths from the Arctic cold.
The cardboard castle continued to prompt lessons, as children brought toy dragons to live inside it, then discussed taking pets to a veterinarian and then pivoted to dinosaurs.
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Michael Cuglietta,
The Orlando Sentinel,
13 Mar. 2026
The leg bone uncovered in New Mexico belongs to an unusually large tyrannosaur—the group of dinosaurs that includes the mightyTyrannosaurus rex.
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