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U.S. picks winning bids in the Atlantic Coast’s first commercial sale for floating offshore wind project

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management held a lease sale and selected nearly $22 million in winning bids for four lease areas.

The U.S. government chose winning bids Tuesday to develop wind power off New England in the first commercial sale for floating offshore wind project on the Atlantic Coast.

The Harris campaign is running the biggest political ad of all time on the Sphere

The Harris campaign goes big and bold to rally voters in Las Vegas.

The single biggest ad of the election—ever, for that matter—is running in Las Vegas.

Arizona students just pressured the Tucson school district to pass an aggressive climate resolution

The Tucson school district will cut its emissions in half by 2030 and reach net zero emissions by 2040.

The Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) in Arizona just passed a bold climate action plan—and the effort was spearheaded by student activists.

DOT and Delta reveal plans for wheelchair-adaptive seats on planes

With a focus on inclusion, Delta’s new seating will allow passengers to remain in their wheelchairs, ensuring a more comfortable journey.

It’s been a long time coming, but air travel is about to get a little less complicated for travelers who use wheelchairs. This week, the Department of Transportation (DOT), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and Delta Air Lines confirmed, per USAToday, that innovations are being made so that wheelchair users can remain in their wheelchairs while flying. The confirmation came after Rights on Flights, a campaign that seeks to systematically change air travel for the better for disabled passengers, announced the plans on social media.

Google’s AI-aided cloud computing gains heat up the race against Amazon, Microsoft

This is the fourth straight quarter of growth reaccelerating in Google Cloud.

Google-parent Alphabet’s breakout cloud sales in the July-September quarter bode well for top cloud providers Microsoft and Amazon.com, and signal that market for AI-aided computing power is only growing.

Voters are writing in memes as their presidential picks—and bragging about it on TikTok

Whether these meme write-ins were real or edited, they achieved immediate virality.

Some rage-baiting TikTok and X users are choosing not to vote for Kamala Harris or Donald Trump. Instead, they’re writing in their favorite meme. 

Why Sony killed the PS5 game ‘Concord’—and the entire studio that made it

Sony says it is shutting down ‘Concord,’ the PS5 video game that was out just two weeks, for good.

Sony Interactive Studios is swinging the axe with a ferocity even God of War’s Kratos would have trouble matching. The video game company announced plans Tuesday to shut down two internal studios and to “permanently sunset” Concord, the online multiplayer shooter it took offline after less than two weeks in September.

Trump’s ‘Access Hollywood’ tape is making the rounds on TikTok

The Republican Voters Against Trump’s TikTok account reposted the infamous audio clip this month, reigniting controversy just ahead of the election.

“Grab them by the p***y.” Thought that phrase was buried in the past? Think again. With the election on the horizon, the notorious conversation between former President Donald Trump and Billy Bush, then of Access Hollywood, has since resurfaced on TikTok and is horrifying a whole new generation of voters. 

Bitcoin price closes in on all-time high, Dogecoin rallies as crypto meme coins ride Trump and Musk’s election waves

Elon Musk has brought his favorite token, Dogecoin, back to life as he travels the country campaigning for the crypto-loving Republican nominee.

Cryptocurrencies are skyrocketing just 7 days before the presidential election, and many people are wondering why. The answer, which should come as no surprise, is of course, Elon Musk.

‘Like, seriously, go vote’: Influencers are getting paid to court your vote

Content creators are cashing in on thousands for a single TikTok or Instagram post.

“I hypothetically was just offered a lot of money to endorse a political party. Like, millions,” internet personality Tana Mongeau told her podcast cohost last month. “Then I was being allegedly told an alleged list of other influencers that have already hypothetically accepted money to do those hypothetical things that were hypothetically offered to me to hypothetically do.”