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A deadly Houthi attack on Tel Aviv is forcing Israel to rethink its drone defenses

A deadly Houthi attack on Tel Aviv is forcing Israel to rethink its drone defenses

The Houthis' unprecedented July 19 drone attack against Tel Aviv from Yemen caught Israelis by surprise, piercing the country's battle-tested defenses and exposing vulnerabilities that the Yemen-based rebels were ready and willing to exploit."The July 19 drone attack showed the importance of the human factor as well as training and mission planning in any military situation," Federico Borsari, a defense expert at the Center for European Policy Analysis, told Business Insider."On the Houthi side, it confirms a quite sophisticated mission planning based on attacking Israel from the least expected direction — the Mediterranean Sea."The Houthis carried out the attack using…
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Amazon Has to Recall More Than 400,000 Dangerous Products

Amazon Has to Recall More Than 400,000 Dangerous Products

Amazon failed to adequately alert more than 300,000 customers to serious risks—including death and electrocution—that US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) testing found with more than 400,000 products that third parties sold on its platform.The CPSC unanimously voted to hold Amazon legally responsible for third-party sellers' defective products. Now, Amazon must make a CPSC-approved plan to properly recall the dangerous products—including highly flammable children's pajamas, faulty carbon monoxide detectors, and unsafe hair dryers that could cause electrocution—which the CPSC fears may still be widely used in homes across America.While Amazon scrambles to devise a plan, the CPSC summarized the ongoing…
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Meta’s going to spend like crazy on AI in the next year — and investors don’t hate it

Meta’s going to spend like crazy on AI in the next year — and investors don’t hate it

The social media giant surpassed analyst expectations in its second-quarter earnings report released Wednesday. Its revenue hit $39 billion, a 22% increase over the same period last year. Wall Street analysts had expected just over $38 billion.Meanwhile, the company said it expects infrastructure costs — such as the money it's plowing into building its artificial intelligence capabilities — to be a "significant driver of expense growth." It's expecting to spend at least $35 billion to $37 billion this year — an increase from its last estimate. It kept its maximum spend estimate at $40 billion for the year.And it is…
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Trump kicked off his NABJ appearance in a combative mood. It only got worse from there.

Trump kicked off his NABJ appearance in a combative mood. It only got worse from there.

Most people expected fireworks when it was announced that former President Donald Trump would appear at this year's National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago.And that's exactly what happened almost immediately after Trump walked onto the stage, as the former president complained about the tone of the first few questions that he was asked and accused Vice President Kamala Harris of downplaying her Indian heritage."I didn't know she was Black until a number of years ago, when she happened to turn Black, and now she wants to be known as Black," the former president said of Harris."Is she Indian…
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I send my kids to stay with family over the summer. I deserve time away from them, and they have fun.

I send my kids to stay with family over the summer. I deserve time away from them, and they have fun.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Tanya Mitra. It has been edited for length and clarity.One of the highlights of my summer so far was a short getaway to the Texas hill country with my partner, Tyran. We did everything from hiking, visiting wineries, and floating on the river for three hours to relaxing over a movie at our Airbnb.We didn't spend a whole lot of time talking about the kids. We allowed ourselves to be spontaneous and just be us. As a couples coach, I'm intentional about taking the time to reconnect with my significant other.Meanwhile,…
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How Maker’s Mark produces 34 million bottles of bourbon a year

How Maker’s Mark produces 34 million bottles of bourbon a year

In a tiny Kentucky town, Maker's Mark produces one of America's most famous bourbon whiskeys. Known worldwide for its bottles' iconic red wax, the company sells over 3 million cases of bourbon each year. But bourbon making is a complicated process that depends on special wooden barrels to age the whiskey for years, and the oak trees needed to make those barrels aren't growing enough to support the next generation of bourbon makers. We visited Maker's Mark's one and only distillery to learn more about making bourbon and what the company is doing to stop the industry from facing a…
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