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Voters Said No to Data Centres in 40 of 41 Local Ballot Measures, From Ohio Towns to Alhambra

Tuesday's midterms carried 41 local questions on AI data centres across ten states. With all 41 counted, all but one had gone against the industry, often by more than 70 percent.

Nov 5, 2026/3 min read

Two-storey brick and white-painted shopfronts along North Sandusky Avenue in downtown Upper Sandusky, Ohio, under a partly cloudy sky, photographed on 11 April 2009, a file photograph of the town and not of Tuesday's vote

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Ancient DNA From 4,500 Europeans Redraws How Germanic and Celtic Languages Spread, Two Nature Studies Say

A previously unknown migration into Scandinavia about 4,000 years ago and a westward push by Urnfield people around 3,000 years ago are the headline findings from 712 newly sequenced genomes.

Nov 4, 2026/3 min read

A dark, decorated Urnfield culture burial urn with its lid and a small cup from a cemetery at Rennweg, displayed in the Archaeological Museum in Kelheim, Lower Bavaria, photographed on 4 June 2015, a file photograph of an Urnfield urn and not of any object in the new study

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Canva Restructures 1,271 Roles, 22 Percent of Its Staff, as Growth Slows for the First Time in a Decade

The Sydney design company is merging its product, growth and platform teams, cutting management layers and calling hybrid staff back to the office after trimming its growth forecast.

Nov 4, 2026/2 min read

A woman typing on a laptop at a home office desk with a cup of coffee and notebooks in dim light, photographed on 18 March 2026, a file photograph illustrative of software work and not of Canva, its offices or its staff

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Children Who Live Near More Trees and Parks Scored Better on Attention Tests, a 12,000-Child Study Finds

Washington University researchers used the ABCD cohort to link neighbourhood tree canopy and park cover to objective attention scores, with air quality explaining part of the effect.

Nov 3, 2026/2 min read

Trees turning yellow and orange in autumn above a pink and blue children's playground in Veterans Park, Hamilton Township, New Jersey, photographed on 23 October 2023, a file photograph of a park with tree canopy and not of any child in the study

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Marvell Agrees to Buy Lumentum for $115 Billion in Stock, and Both Companies' Shares Slide

The chip designer is paying 4.5 of its own shares for every Lumentum share to own the lasers and optical parts that AI data centres are short of. Investors sent Marvell down about 13 percent.

Nov 3, 2026/3 min read

A bundle of yellow single-mode fibre optic patch cords with blue LC connectors fanned out beside a black splitter module on a white background, photographed in 2014, a file photograph of optical networking parts and not of any Marvell or Lumentum product

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The Brain Culls Most of Its Genetically Damaged Neurons Around Birth, a Nature Study Finds

Sequencing 2,357 single neurons from donors aged 14 weeks' gestation to the 90s, Harvard and Boston Children's researchers saw the share with scrambled chromosomes fall from 26 to 6 percent.

Oct 30, 2026/2 min read

A fluorescence micrograph of a single cortical neuron glowing red against a black background, its cell body at the centre and branching dendrites covered in fine spines, published on 6 April 2017, an illustrative image of a cortical neuron and not from the Nature study

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A Sahara Meteorite Is at Least 4.1 Billion Years Old and May Be the Oldest Known Piece of Mars

A study in Science dates the Sahara meteorite Teghaza 001 to more than 4.1 billion years, a rare sample of early Martian crust that also shows signs of ancient water.

Oct 30, 2026/2 min read

Two Hubble Space Telescope views of the orange planet Mars with white polar and cloud features, taken on 28 and 29 December 2024, a file image of the planet and not of the Teghaza 001 meteorite

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GM Will Pay $220 Million to 36 States Over Selling Drivers' Location and Driving Data

General Motors settles with 36 attorneys general over data from its Smart Driver feature, and must now get express consent before collecting or sharing how and where people drive.

Oct 30, 2026/3 min read

A white Chevrolet Tahoe hybrid sport utility vehicle driving past trees and pedestrians in New York City, photographed on 12 July 2008, a file photograph of a General Motors vehicle and not of any driver, app or data in the settlement

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DoorDash Agrees to Buy Instacart for About $17 Billion, Paying $65 a Share

The two delivery rivals signed a mostly cash deal at a 26 percent premium, but it will not close until late 2027 or early 2028 and still needs regulatory sign-off in three countries.

Oct 29, 2026/2 min read

Bunches of parsley, green onions and other vegetables on a supermarket produce shelf in Clearwater, Florida, with a 99-cent price tag, photographed on 25 September 2020, a file photograph illustrative of grocery shopping and not of Instacart or DoorDash

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Mars's Strangest Cloud May Freeze Straight From Vapour With No Dust Seed, a New Study Suggests

A 1,800-kilometre ribbon of ice that forms each morning over a Martian volcano defied standard cloud physics until researchers let water vapour crystallise on its own.

Oct 29, 2026/2 min read

A grey NASA orbiter mosaic of the wide, steep-walled summit caldera of the Martian volcano Arsia Mons, dated 13 June 2005, a file image of the volcano named in the story and not of the elongated cloud

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Apple Unveils Its First Touchscreen MacBook Pro, From $2,899, on Sale 6 November

Apple built a touch sensor into an OLED panel, redesigned the hinge to take a finger and swapped the notch for a Dynamic Island, with M5 Pro or M5 Max chips and up to 128GB of memory.

Oct 29, 2026/2 min read