Lawyer Told Trump Defying Documents Subpoena Would Be a Crime - The New York Times

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The lawyer, Jennifer Little, recounted the discussion to a grand jury overseen by the special counsel Jack Smith before he brought charges against the former president.

Not long after federal prosecutors issued a subpoena last year for all the classified documents that former President Donald J. Trump took with him from the White House to his estate in southern Florida, one of his lawyers told him, in no uncertain terms, that it would be a crime if he did not comply with the demand, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The lawyer, Jennifer Little, this year related the account of her discussion with Mr. Trump to a grand jury overseen by the special counsel Jack Smith. She is one of several witnesses who prosecutors were told had advised Mr. Trump to cooperate.

A few months after Ms. Little testified to the grand jury, Mr. Smith charged Mr. Trump with violating the subpoena for the documents and obstructing the government’s repeated efforts to reclaim nearly three dozen classified documents that he removed from the White House.

As part of her grand jury appearance, Ms. Little told prosecutors that the former president clearly understood her warning, the person familiar with the matter said.

Her sworn testimony that Mr. Trump was aware that disregarding the subpoena would be a criminal offense could serve as significant evidence of his consciousness of guilt if she ends up being called as a witness when the case eventually goes in front of a jury.

The details of her testimony were reported earlier by ABC News.

The remarks by Ms. Little, who was already working for Mr. Trump in connection with a criminal investigation in Georgia and was brought in to help advise him on how to comply with the subpoena because she was one of the few people around him who knew the criminal justice system, were made during a critical meeting in the spring of 2022. At Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump’s private club and residence in Florida, she and another lawyer, M. Evan Corcoran, advised the former president that he needed to obey the government’s demands that he return the classified material.

The indictment filed by Mr. Smith in June accuses Mr. Trump of illegally holding on to 32 classified national security documents and then conspiring to cover up his actions with two of his aides at Mar-a-Lago. The case is set to go to trial in Federal District Court in Fort Pierce, Fla., at the end of May.

While Mr. Corcoran has received outsize attention in the case — largely because Mr. Smith’s team managed to get a court order to obtain the audio notes of his discussions with Mr. Trump — Ms. Little has so far maintained a lower profile.

It was unclear what else Ms. Little testified to in her grand jury appearance.

On Wednesday night, Steven Cheung, a Trump campaign spokesman, denounced “misleading leaks” about the case that showed “utter disregard” for attorney-client privilege.

“President Trump has consistently been fully cooperative, and told the key D.O.J. official, in person, ‘Anything you need from us, just let us know,’” he said.

Ms. Little was initially subpoenaed to appear before the grand jury, in Federal District Court in Washington, on Jan. 25. Both she and Mr. Corcoran initially tried to avoid providing testimony, arguing that their dealings with Mr. Trump were protected by attorney-client privilege.

But in March, Judge Beryl A. Howell, who was then Washington’s chief federal judge, forced both of them to appear before the grand jury under what is known as the crime-fraud exception. That provision allows prosecutors to work around attorney-client privilege when they have reason to believe that legal advice or legal services have been used in furthering a crime.

Several aides to Mr. Trump told him that he had to comply with the subpoena for the classified documents, which was issued to him in May 2022. According to Mr. Smith’s indictment, Mr. Trump asked Mr. Corcoran what would happen if he did not cooperate with federal prosecutors.

“What happens if we just don’t respond at all or don’t play ball with them?” the indictment quotes him as saying.

Ms. Little stopped being directly involved in the documents case not long after that meeting, according to two people familiar with the matter, but she remains involved with Mr. Trump.

She is currently helping to represent him in a criminal case in Fulton County, Ga., where he stands accused of state charges of seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

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A little bar in Northern Ireland has won hearts across the world with its moving holiday commercial - CNN

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Christmas commercials have become a staple of the holiday season for many retail giants, from Disney to British department store John Lewis, with morals and miniature stories often contained within them.

But one little bar in Northern Ireland, Charlie’s Bar, has eclipsed them all this year, producing a heart-warming commercial that has gone viral, as social media users praised its “beautiful message” and “poignant” storyline.

The video, posted Friday on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok, depicts an old man laying flowers at his wife’s grave before walking down the streets of Enniskillen, attempting to greet strangers - who take no notice of him.

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He enters a bar, where he sits alone until he is approached by a friendly little dog, shortly followed by the dog’s young owners, and they all enjoy a festive drink together.

The video, which is just over two minutes long, finishes with a quote often attributed to the poet W.B. Yeats: “There are no strangers here, only friends you haven’t yet met.”

“There’s often a lot of loneliness at Christmas time…and so the story was about kindness,” Aoife Teague, a content creator who filmed and edited the commercial, told CNN.

“It was about spreading love and being aware that there are people out there who are on their own at Christmas time that don’t find it a magical time of the year and find it quite lonely … It’s about being a friend and the dog sort of represents a person making the first move to go over to speak to somebody and the impact that can make to their day.”

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Charlie’s Bar has served the residents of Enniskillen, a small town in Northern Ireland about 80 miles southwest of the capital, Belfast, since 1944 and has stayed in the same family for that time.

Its manager, Una Burns, worked closely with Teague to produce the commercial. Teague said Burns and a friend came up with the storyline after encountering several customers who were lonely and came to the bar in search of company.

Then, after the three of them storyboarded the commercial “basically on a piece of paper, it wasn’t … the professional way,” Teague filmed it over the course of three hours.

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The four stars of the commercial are all local residents, Teague said, explaining that “the couple were Una’s friends who just happened to have a lovely dog,” Missy, and Martin McManus, who plays the old man, performs in local community theater.

As of Thursday, the video had accumulated 1.2 million views on TikTokalone since it was posted on Friday evening, as well as more than 147,000 likes on Facebook, a response that Teague says still “hasn’t really sunk in.”

And its impact stretched beyond social media, she added, with people from all around the world, including Canada, the United States and Germany, sending messages “saying either they relate to the video or the video means an awful lot to them.”

“There’s also been … even strangers who have rung up the bar and donated money towards someone who might be coming into the bar this Christmas on their own to just buy them a drink or offer them a chat,” she said.

“I think this video has really impacted people in ways that we’d hoped but in some ways that we never imagined, either.”

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JERUSALEM (AP) — Bayan Khateeb knows she’s a terrible cook. So when she managed to pull off a dish of cooked tomatoes and eggs, she took a photo to show friends on social media.

“Soon we shall eat the Shakshouka of victory!” crowed her caption, which included an emoji of the Palestinian flag.

Khateeb intended the Oct. 8 Instagram post as a joke, she said. But in the fraught atmosphere that has gripped Israel since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, statements that might have once sounded innocuous have taken on more sinister meaning and resulted in scores of arrests.

A classmate saw the post and thought Khateeb, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, was cheering on Hamas. When the post was shared more widely, Khateeb suddenly found herself accused online of supporting terrorism. The next thing she knew, she was suspended from her studies at a prestigious university, ejected from her dorm, fired from her two jobs and interrogated in shackles by Israeli police.

“I felt like I was in a nightmare. You’re arresting me, after I was subjected to two weeks of political persecution?” she said. “How did I end up in this situation?”

She was among more than 270 Palestinian citizens who have been arrested in an Israeli crackdown on free speech and political activity since the Hamas attack, according to Adalah, an advocacy organization for Palestinians inside Israel.

Palestinian citizens have also reported intimidation, firings and expulsions from universities, as well as surveillance of their online speech by other civilians.

“People are arrested for anything expressing sympathy for the civilian victims in Gaza,” said lawyer Abeer Baker, who represents another woman who was arrested. “Everything that was not in favor of attacking Gaza as such actually puts you in danger of being arrested.”

The arrests go to the heart of the dual identity of Palestinian citizens as they struggle to navigate a Jewish-majority society. Palestinian citizens have equal rights on paper but have historically suffered from discrimination in job opportunities, housing, health care and education. The community is one of Israel’s poorest.

The arrests also raise questions about Israel’s commitment to free speech and the rights of its Palestinian minority, which accounts for a fifth of the country’s nearly 10 million people.

“We have undergone many wars. Never was such suppression ever declared before,” said Hassan Jabareen, the director general of Adalah. “People among themselves speak about living under a dictatorial regime. A Jewish, racist dictatorship.”

Police did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Some of the Palestinian citizens arrested over the past five weeks allegedly expressed outright support for Hamas and its onslaught.

“There is nothing better than to wake up to the terror and fear of the Zionists, and missiles falling on their heads,” a preschool aide is accused of posting.

But others have been detained because authorities either misinterpreted posts or conflated support for the people of Gaza with support for terrorism, critics say. Prominent Arab leaders in Israel have been arrested for challenging a ban on anti-war protests, and two Arab lawmakers were sanctioned for remarks related to the Hamas attack.

Baker’s client, singer and neuroscientist Dalal Abu Amneh, didn’t expect to find herself behind bars when she went to Israeli police to file a complaint about threats she received in response to an online post. But like Khateeb, she found herself in shackles and in jail after posting “No victor but God” on social media, with an emoji of the Palestinian flag, on the day of the Hamas attack.

“Dalal believes in God. It means he is the only one who can bring justice, who can bring peace,” Baker said. “This sentence was interpreted wrongly as if she said Palestine will win.”

Jews aren’t immune from punishment, although it is rare. Earlier this month, a court extended the remand of a Jewish teacher who posted anti-war and anti-occupation messages on Facebook and was fired from his job, the Haaretz daily newspaper reported.

Videos posted on social media by Israeli police delivered an unmistakable message: There will be zero tolerance for any identification with the Gaza Strip and the enclave’s Hamas rulers.

“We are at war and the orders are unequivocal: There will be zero tolerance for any incident,” Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai said in one video.

“Anyone who wants to be a citizen, ahlan wasahlan,” Shabtai said, using the Arabic phrase for welcome. “Anyone who wants to identify with Gaza is also welcome — I’ll put them on a bus and send them there.”

Danny Danon, a lawmaker in the ruling Likud Party, said only a small number of Israel’s Arab minority have crossed the line. “But when you see those incidents of radicals trying to promote violence, I think it’s necessary to stop it at the initial stages,” he said.

Asked whether officials may have gone too far in their crackdown, he said: “I trust our legal system.”

The arrests have unfolded under the most right-wing government in Israel’s history and amid the trauma of the Hamas attack, which killed at least 1,200 people and resulted in over 240 others being taken hostage.

The violence has not spared Israel’s Palestinian citizens: At least 21 were killed in the initial attack and by rocket and mortar fire launched by Hamas and its Lebanese Hezbollah ally, said Atta Abu Mtegem, mayor of the Bedouin city of Rahat. Seven are missing, and possibly captured by Hamas, he said. Others, including soldiers, have died in the fighting.

At the same time, the images of devastation coming out of Gaza have been wrenching for a community with close ties to Palestinians there and in the West Bank. The death toll from Israel’s assault on Gaza has topped 13,000, according to health authorities there. Airstrikes have leveled wide swaths of the territory and displaced more than two thirds of its 2.3 million people.

Following the Hamas attack, some Palestinians have been afraid to go to work or mix with Jews, and lawyers and professors are afraid of running afoul of undefined new limits on speech, Jabareen said.

More than 100 Palestinian citizens have been suspended or expelled from universities and colleges over posts, according to Adalah. Arab students at one college had to be extricated from their dormitory after hundreds of Jews, some chanting “Death to Arabs,” protested outside, accusing them of disrupting a Sabbath prayer service and hurling eggs, Israeli media reported.

Many Palestinian citizens are afraid to post messages online for fear they will be detained.

“The reality is so bleak that if you call for a cease-fire, you must be a supporter of terrorism,” Hanin Majadli, a journalist and editor at Haaretz, wrote in an Oct. 29 opinion piece. “This is the way they continue to deepen the idea of ‘the enemy within us.’

More than 50 of the Palestinian citizens who have been arrested have been indicted. Indictments have also been filed against eight Jewish defendants alleging racially motivated violence, but not for online behavior or the dorm incident.

Lawmakers have also entered the fray with new legislation criminalizing the “systematic consumption of terrorist content” and allowing the government to block or shutter foreign media deemed hostile to the state.

Interior Minister Moshe Arbel, meanwhile, has instructed authorities to look into stripping a Palestinian actress of her Israeli citizenship for posting material that included laughing emojis on a photo of an elderly woman being taken into captivity by Hamas militants, with the caption, “She is going on the adventure of her life.”

For now, Khateeb is living in limbo. Her suspension from her data science and engineering program is open ended. She’s unemployed, living with her parents and waiting to see if she gets indicted.

“Besides the war that we are experiencing right now,” she said, “I am personally experiencing another war — a war between us, between the citizens of Israel.”

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Too little. Too late. Too slow. But could COP yet turn the tide on climate change? - Financial Times

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Little Havana businessmen who sued Miami’s Joe Carollo now want his wages garnished - Miami Herald

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Rumors swirl as LSU coach Kim Mulkey says little about Angel Reese’s absence - The Athletic

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LSU welcomed the spotlight. The Tigers embraced it. They wanted to be the hunted.

After all, you don’t begin a national title defense by stalking the transfer portal and bringing in the nation’s top recruiting class to fly under the radar.

The Tigers were modern college basketball’s petri dish under the microscope of watchful eyes, a near-historic accumulation of talent on a single roster under coach Kim Mulkey. It was as big as possible. Tigers fans were welcomed into the Pete Maravich Assembly Center for the season’s first practice to a giant video screen that read in all caps: “COME SEE THE SHOW.”

But two months in, we’re still not sure if it’s a drama, comedy or tragedy.

The seventh-ranked Tigers host No. 9 Virginia Tech on Thursday night in a game that should be billed as the best matchup of the week, one of a handful of primetime games on ESPN this season. Instead? We’re not talking about the matchup. We’re not even talking about basketball.

We’re talking about the other show. Everything else swirling around the defending champs.

We’re talking about the mysterious absence of LSU’s star player, Angel Reese, and Mulkey’s cryptic, terse responses to inquiries about the situation. We’re wondering what all this might mean for a team that, on paper, was the most talented in the country coming into the year ranked No. 1.

There’s a lot we don’t know. We don’t know why Reese was benched midway through the Kent State game on Nov. 14 or why she hasn’t been seen in an LSU uniform since that night. We don’t know if she’s practicing with the team. We don’t know why Kateri Poole also didn’t make the trip to the Cayman Islands Classic. We don’t know if the two absences are connected. And we don’t know why Mulkey has refused to give any true clarity on these issues, if only enough to quell rumors and speculation.

We knew LSU would get each of its opponent’s best shots this season. But LSU has now created issues for itself, too.

Mulkey is not the first coach in history to bench a star player and be asked about it. And there are fair questions to ask in these situations: What happened? How long will these players be out? Are there conditions that need to be met to return?

Mulkey has stated at postgame news conferences that the media isn’t entitled to know these answers. And that is a perfectly fine response. It might even be the best response for a team with this level of spotlight and star power.

But what Mulkey should know — as someone who has been leading major programs for nearly 25 years, from a time when few covered women’s basketball to today’s comparatively burgeoning media landscape — is that the microscope zooms in. Anything she says will be parsed and dissected. And then, it will spread like wildfire.

When the Tigers took the floor without Reese three days after the Kent State game, Mulkey said: “Angel is a part of this basketball team, and we hope she’s back with the team soon. I’m not going to answer any more than that.” Three days later, after saying the public isn’t entitled to know whether Reese was practicing with the team, Mulkey was asked about her coaching style. “You always have to deal with locker room issues,” she said. She later added: “It’s like a family. If you do some disciplining of your own children, do you think we’re entitled to know that? That’s a family in that locker room.”

So then, is the media not entitled to know? Or does this have something to do with locker room issues and discipline? Through Reese’s 4 1/2-game absence, Mulkey and LSU have just let these words linger and ruminate, not clarifying or walking back the statements. Her verbal breadcrumbs have led to the most obvious endpoint: rumors.

Mulkey has repeatedly said that she’s protecting her players.

But is it truly protecting them to leave so much open to interpretation, knowing all too well where vague statements lead? Understanding — even though she says she doesn’t use social media — the kind of rumors that will swirl the longer this goes on without some kind of clarity or closure or defined end date? Is it protecting the other players on her team to have the dominant conversation about this wildly talented group being so focused on something other than its national title quest?

There might not be a perfect way to handle any of this, but had she clearly stated how long Reese would sit and categorized it in some way, that would have helped to limit speculation. Besides missing two key players, there are now also questions about how Mulkey is handling (or mishandling) this situation.

Assuming Reese and Poole eventually return, everything from here on out will be scrutinized. Every time the Tigers look disjointed on the court. Every time Mulkey yells at a player, particularly if it’s Reese or Poole. Every time LSU looks out of sync or uninterested.

These small moments become the kind of weight that can follow a team like a shadow through the season. But that’s the thing about shadows — they show up where the sun shines brightest. And that’s exactly where LSU wanted to be.

The Tigers wanted this spotlight. They wanted the eyeballs. They wanted people to watch.

They got exactly that. And now?

The show must go on.

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Many owners see little value in storing their firearms securely, finds study - Medical Xpress

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With more than 400 million privately owned firearms in circulation across the United States, gun violence prevention efforts have emphasized secure firearm storage as a method for preventing injury and death. But some owners may not see the value in doing so, according to Rutgers researchers.

Despite evidence that secure storage can effectively reduce the risk of suicide and unintentional shootings, many firearm owners typically keep at least one firearm stored loaded and unlocked, quickly accessible in case of home invasion. One possible explanation is that firearm owners simply may not see value in storing their firearms unloaded, locked up, and separate from ammunition.

A study published in the journal Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior by the New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center at Rutgers University addressed this question by collecting a representative sample from five diverse states in mid-2022 and assessing whether firearm owners who store their firearms loaded and unlocked see less utility in specific storage practices for preventing firearm theft, unintentional shootings and suicide.

"The most common reason for owning a firearm is protection at home, so many firearm owners view their firearms as tools to have on the ready in case of home invasion," said Michael Anestis, executive director of the New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center at Rutgers and lead author of the study.

The researchers surveyed a representative sample of English-speaking adults from five states: New Jersey, Minnesota, Mississippi, Colorado and Texas. These states were chosen because they vary widely from one another geographically, politically and culturally and have broadly different firearm policies and rates of gun violence. The researchers then selected 941 firearm owners in their sample and examined whether those who typically store at least one firearm loaded and unlocked (23.6% of firearm owners) perceive less value in specific firearm storage practices.

The researchers found that firearm owners generally viewed most secure firearm storage practices as more effective at preventing suicide and unintentional shootings than in preventing firearm theft. For both firearm theft prevention and suicide prevention, those who stored their firearms loaded and unlocked saw less value in storing firearms unloaded, separate from ammunition, in a locked location (e.g., a gun safe) and with a locking device (e.g., a cable lock) installed. For unintentional shootings, those who stored their firearms loaded and unlocked saw less value in storing firearms in a locked location.

"If firearm owners are unaware of the suicide prevention value of secure firearm storage practices, it makes sense that they opt to have at least one firearm in their home stored loaded and unlocked," said Anestis. "The problem is, staging a firearm so it is so quickly accessible dramatically increases the risk for injury and death, so these perceptions are causing firearm owners to put themselves and their families in danger."

The researchers said their findings are consistent with the notion that many firearm owners do not see suicide, theft, and unintentional shootings as likely outcomes in their homes. Although this may be true for many firearm owners, the risk for these outcomes nonetheless remains higher than the risk of an armed home invasion, which means that firearm owners are making risky storage decisions based upon faulty cost-benefit analyses.

"The risk for armed home invasion requiring defense with a firearm is not zero, but it is lower than the risk of suicide and unintentional shootings," Anestis said. "If firearm owners are misperceiving the risks associated with securely and insecurely stored firearms, that means they are making important decisions for their homes and families based upon faulty information."

Anestis added, "Our findings highlight how important it is to help firearm owners see that, while it is their right not only to own a firearm but to keep it in their home in a manner that aligns with local laws and their personal values, the decision to store a firearm loaded and unlocked is putting them, their loved ones and their communities at severe risk. As of now, that message is not getting out there the way it should be."

More information: Perceptions of the utility of secure firearm storage methods as a suicide prevention tool among firearm owners who currently store their firearms loaded and unlocked, Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior (2023). DOI: 10.1111/sltb.13023

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A New Type of Geothermal Power Plant Just Made the Internet a Little Greener - WIRED

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Earlier this month, one corner of the internet got a little bit greener, thanks to a first-of-its-kind geothermal operation in the northern Nevada desert. Project Red, developed by a geothermal startup called Fervo, began pushing electrons onto a local grid that includes data centers operated by Google. The search company invested in the project two years ago as part of its efforts to make all of its data centers run on green energy 24/7.

Project Red is small—producing between 2 and 3 megawatts of power, or enough to power a few thousand homes—but it is a crucial demonstration of a new approach to geothermal power that could make it possible to harness the Earth’s natural heat anywhere in the world.

Hot rock is everywhere, with temperatures rising hundreds of degrees Fahrenheit within the first few miles of the surface, but geothermal plants provide just a small fraction of the global electricity supply. That’s largely because they are mostly built where naturally heated water can be easily tapped, like hot springs and geysers. Hot water is pumped to the surface, where it produces steam that powers turbines.

The Nevada site, an “enhanced” geothermal system, or EGS, works differently. Instead of drilling into a natural hydrothermal system, Fervo dug into rock that is completely dry and effectively created an artificial hot spring by pumping down water that returns to the surface much hotter.

That strategy piggybacks on hydraulic fracturing techniques developed by the oil and gas industry. Fervo drilled two wells that each extended more than 7,000 feet down before turning fully horizontal. It then connected them by fracking, producing cracks in the rock that connected the two boreholes. Water enters one borehole cold and exits the other at a temperature high enough to drive turbines and generate power.

Fervo announced that its experiment had been a success this summer after a monthlong testing period that saw temperatures at the bottom of the boreholes reach 375 degrees Fahrenheit (191 C) and enough water torrenting through the system to produce an estimated 3.5 megawatts of electricity. Those operational figures have held relatively steady since then, according to Fervo CEO Tim Latimer, suggesting the project was ready to be plugged into the grid for the long haul. The Nevada wells were drilled close enough to a traditional geothermal power plant that the project can use existing turbines and power lines to deliver electricity to the grid.

While output is short of the company’s initial 5-megawatt estimate when it announced with Google, Latimer says further tweaks should eke out more electricity in the future. As it stands, the project is the first to achieve such a high level of performance, he notes. While two plants in northeastern France currently produce electricity from dry rocks, they operate at substantially cooler temperatures and rely on exploiting natural fault systems in the rock. Latimer says that Fervo’s results point to a strategy that can be scaled up.

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Geothermal energy could help Google with a challenge faced by all tech companies trying to reduce the impact of power-hungry data centers. Wind and solar now power vast swathes of the cloud computing behind internet services and apps, but because wind and sun aren’t always available, the flow of energy derived from them isn’t either.

Google has in recent years purchased enough renewable power to cover its data operations’ annual energy use—but at any given hour of the day, on any particular grid, the electricity that flows into a data center may have to come from a dirtier source. The company is now working on a more ambitious 2030 goal to secure 24/7 clean energy on the local grids where its data centers are located. Geothermal is a leading candidate for making it possible. “There's a very small group of options there for technologies that we could scale,” says Michael Terrell, senior director for climate and energy at Google.

The company has explored other options, like new types of small-scale nuclear reactors or hydrogen fuel produced with renewable electricity, but they will likely take more time to develop. “Out of the next set of technologies after wind, solar, and lithium-ion storage, this is the first one that's actually out there now delivering electrons,” Terrell says of the new Nevada geothermal plant. With an output of just a few megawatts of power, it’s a long way from providing the hundreds of megawatts a typical data center might need, but he considers the concept proven out.

Although it’s now up and running, EGS still has risks. The initial costs of any project are high, simply because reaching rocks that are hot enough requires drilling thousands of feet beneath the surface. The granite beneath places like the western US is considered ideal for EGS, because it provides relatively shallow heat and lacks natural fissures, meaning the only cracks into which the water will flow are those that engineers create. But the hard, tombstone-like rock is especially difficult to drill through.

Once the hard work of drilling the wells is over, there’s still a chance that an EGS project will never tap enough heat or pump enough water to power a plant. Sometimes it’s just not possible to properly read out what conditions will be like down there in advance. And some past EGS projects have accidentally triggered destructive earthquakes by disturbing natural faults.

Those challenges can dissuade investors, says Latimer, who are more interested in doling out small sums to exciting new lab technologies or more significant investments to more proven technologies, like solar. He describes technologies like EGS—theoretically feasible, but not yet proven at large scale—as the “missing middle” for energy investment.

Latimer says that Fervo has focused on reducing up-front drilling costs and mitigating the risk that a project will fail, primarily through modeling based on geological data to build an accurate picture of how the geothermal system it is creating will function. That work has been aided by the US government, which has funded a project called FORGE in Utah aimed at “derisking” EGS technology, primarily by testing out pricey tools and techniques like drill bits and seismic monitoring to see what works. The lessons are passed along to startups like Fervo.

Fervo’s next EGS project, in Beaver County, Utah, is scheduled to be operational in 2026 and will be far bigger than Project Red, at 400 megawatts. The location, visible from the FORGE site, was chosen for its well-understood geology and proximity to existing transmission lines. Latimer declined to give specific cost estimates for the electricity produced from the project, but he said the project is on track to match the costs of a traditional geothermal project, and all of its future energy production is already spoken for by utilities and other electricity customers. “We’re sold out!” he says—for now, at least. Latimer says the company is in the early stages of additional projects throughout the western US.

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Little Kid have announced a new album, A Million Easy Payments, which will be released in February. It’s the Toronto band’s follow-up to 2020’s Transfiguration Highway, which was our Album Of The Week back when it came out. Today, they’re sharing the album’s lead single, “Something To Say.”

“When we got together to record, it came together quickly: the version on the album is our very first take,” bandleader Kenny Boothby shared in a statement. “We added a few overdubs but the vocals and the primary instruments were from that first run-through. It felt fitting to start the album with the first song we played together during the recording process.”

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TRACKLIST:
01 “Something To Say”
02 “Bad Energy”
03 “Beside Myself”
04 “Always Change”
05 “Eggshell”
06 “Somewhere In Between”
07 “Nothing At All”
08 “What Qualifies As Silence”

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Unfortunately, the Mini PC won’t accept miniscule NES cartridges as SD cards, but that doesn’t stop Ayaneo’s portable offering from looking adorable.

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How best can you display the advances in technology over the years? Let’s take a PC like the landmark original 1984 Apple Macintosh—later rebranded the Macintosh 128K—and shrink it by more than half. Then, boost its processing capability and memory by a factor of thousands or even tens of thousands—AKA modern mobile gaming standards. That’s what Ayaneo is doing with its upcoming Mini PC AM01, a pint-sized homage to the all-in-one computing system that weighs a little more than a pound.

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Ayaneo first shared images and a few scant details of its Mini PC earlier this month, but the company launched its funding campaign Retro Mini PC Tuesday and shared full PC specs on its Indiegogo page.

It seems the “Little Mac,” as we at Gizmodo have taken to calling it, is pretty powerful for its size. The Mini PC will come with either an AMD Ryzen 3 3200U at 3.5 GHz or a Ryzen 7 5700U at 4.3 GHz. The “U” signifies they’re the low-power versions of the CPU, but it is plenty powerful to run most web-based applications. It will also sport up to 64GB of DDR4 memory, plus an integrated Vega or RDNA2 video card. It means the Mini PC might have a good deal of function for its petite size. The 3200U version will start at a $149 baseline for those going in early on the crowdfunding campaign, while the 5700U will shoot upwards of $219. The retail price will be $199 and $259 for the less and more powerful CPUs at base.

Novelty is surely a factor, but it only weighs less than 466 grams, or a little more than 1 pound. The box itself measures 5.2 by 5.2 inches and is a little more than 2 inches deep, meaning it is plenty portable even though you’re going to be missing out on any sort of display. The Mini PC supports Wi-Fi 6 or 5, and it contains three USB 3.2 ports, a USB-C (only for data transfer), and an HDMI 2.0 and DisplayPort 1.4 to connect to other displays.

The big sticking point may be memory or, more, the lack of it. The bare system does not contain HDD or SSD, so you’ll have to pay more for 256 GB, 512 GB, or 2 TB of internal storage. It has a PCIe 3.0 slot to support a VMe or SATA SSD, plus a SATA 3.0 interface without the bracket.

The system comes pre-installed with Windows 11, and as a handheld console maker, Ayaneo is trying to share how it could be used for gaming. However, you can also install Linux, Ubuntu, and Debian and gaming-based operating systems like Steam OS. Videocardz also offered a nice rundown of the specs and compared them to the original $2,495 Macintosh released back in ‘84.

When the company first revealed the Mini PC, it displayed it next to a few small, extremely cute game cartridges, but the company confirmed with Gizmodo all that was just set dressing. In effect, the PC is much akin to the new wave of portable gaming consoles, though the starting price on a Mini PC is far, far lower than even the $399 LCD Steam Deck with 256 GB of storage, let alone the newer OLED Steam Decks. Without a screen, the Mini PC offers a different kind of portability, so long as you have controls and a monitor to hook it up to.

So no, it’s not a device meant to play physical media, and the slot on the original Macintosh is instead just a bar to house the power button. There’s also no in-built monochrome screen like the Macintosh 128K, but there is a cheeky nod on the black bar to Apple’s original Finder logo.

It’s a shame nobody outside Ayaneo has had the chance to test out the Mini PC, and we can’t advise anybody to drop money on a crowdfunding campaign when nobody has had the chance to put it through its paces. That doesn’t stop the retro throwback from looking absolutely adorable.

Ayaneo, the China-based handheld PC brand that’s been making waves since 2020, has a penchant for crafting devices that not-so-gently scratch at tech nostalgia. The company is also gearing up to release the Ayaneo Slide, a portable PC that resembles the Nokia Sidekick thanks to the slideout screen hiding a keyboard underneath.

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How did a little corner of Canada end up in Old Harlow? - BBC.com

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Alyssa Griffiths, 25, from Torbay in Newfoundland came to Harlow after hearing from other students about their experiences at Memorial's Essex outpost

Blink, and you might well miss something a little unusual about the quaint, almost village-like, centre of Old Harlow in Essex. Here, amongst a scattering of businesses, a church and a community centre, sits a campus belonging not to a British university but a Canadian one headquartered 2,327 miles (3,745 km) away. How and why did it end up here?

"I really like Harlow," says Alyssa Griffiths, a 25-year-old from Torbay in Newfoundland, Canada.

An education student, she describes the town as "homey" and "a lot like Newfoundland" because the "weather is very similar".

Despite being an ocean away from home, Ms Griffiths is still on the grounds of her university - Memorial University of Newfoundland.

She has merely swapped university campuses - from St John's, in Newfoundland, for Harlow, in England.

The campus, which has 16 staff and up to 60 students at any one time, was the brainchild of Lord Taylor of Harlow who, after helping create the new town of Harlow after World War Two, became president of Memorial on the other side of the Atlantic.

Speaking at the time, Lord Taylor said: "I think it would be rather fitting if the oldest town in the New World is linked to the newest town in the Old World."

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Ms Griffiths says she and many other students knew nothing of their university's Harlow outpost

The campus has steadily grown since 1969 to include a 150-year-old Maltings building, a Victorian former schoolhouse, a former butcher's shop and an upstairs apartment in Market Street and the oak-beamed Cabot House.

Memorial is not the only Canadian institution with a UK campus. Since1993, Queen's University in Ontario has run its Bader College campus from Herstmonceux Castle in East Sussex.

Students from Memorial come to Harlow to continue their studies in a range of fields including teaching, business, biochemistry, biology, the visual arts, theatre and the social sciences

"I personally didn't know about it until I heard about it from one of the girls who ended up coming over with me," says Ms Griffiths.

"Everyone I spoke to who had done this programme said it was amazing and life-changing and I would completely agree with them.

"I'll be trying to spread the word when I go home."

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Jayme Humber and Alyssa Griffiths discuss their experiences of studying and working in Harlow

For students like Ms Griffiths, spending the Canadian Thanksgiving - held on the second Monday of October - away from home and family can be tough.

However, a local head teacher - herself a former student at Memorial - invited the current students over for a traditional Jiggs Dinner (which is like a roast dinner, but boiled).

Jayme Humber, 23, from Corner Brook in Newfoundland, is currently teaching reception-aged children at a primary school in Harlow.

"It is really good," she says. "It is really nice to see the English school system and compare it to Canada and Harlow is a great place to travel from."

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At weekends, Jayme Humber, 23, from Corner Brook in Newfoundland, has used her Harlow base to travel extensively around Europe

In the first three months of her semester in Essex, she has used her Harlow base to travel widely.

"We've been to a lot of countries on the weekends such as France, Holland, Ireland, Greece and we're about go to Spain."

Years from now, both Ms Humber and Ms Griffiths are likely to be remembered by their pupils as that "Canadian teacher" they had when they were young.

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Clocks on the Harlow campus show both the local time and the time in St John's, Newfoundland

Harlow resident Michelle Sortwell was born in the year Memorial's Harlow campus first opened and had a "Canadian teacher" at primary school.

But while Ms Sortwell remembers the teacher being "really good" she no longer remembers her name.

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It was only after Ms Sortwell became the finance manager at the campus that she realised her Canadian teacher must have been a student at the institution which now pays her salary

It was only after Ms Sortwell became the campus's finance manager that she realised her Canadian teacher must have been a student at the institution which now pays her salary.

"I am desperately trying to find her," she says. "It would be really nice to track her down and tell her where I am working now."

She loves working at Memorial but says some things took a while to get used to.

"They say 'right' a lot at the end of their sentences and that threw me a little bit because I didn't know if I was meant to respond to the 'right' or is it just an end of a sentence?"

Such confusion, she says, is mutual.

"When our students arrive they get really confused when people say 'alright' and they look back and say 'yeah, I'm alright, why?'.

"We do like to teach our students some Essex-isms - such as 'geezer' (as opposed to geysers) and 'chav' - and they love learning what our sayings are."

To date, Ms Sortwell has managed to avoid partaking in the Screech-In ceremony which, she says involves imbibing screech (a Newfoundland rum) before kissing a cod.

Once done, the cod-kissing rum drinker is declared "an honorary Newfoundlander".

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Publicans George and Hayley Reynolds say they love their Canadian patrons despite their aversion to ordering rounds of drinks and penchant for producing out-of-date bank notes

Although bereft of screech and cod, many students quickly discover The Crown public house.

"They are good customers and bring a great spirit to the place," says landlord George Reynolds.

"They try to tip as well," says Mr Reynolds. "OK, so that's nice and welcome, but we do tell them they don't need to tip in pubs and bars in the UK.

"They also come in as a group but pay individually rather than in a round which has, shall we say, an impact on our efficiency."

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Cristin Casey first came here in 2005 as a student for teaching practice

Of all the people connected with the campus, this little corner of Canada arguably matters most to Cristin Casey, the campus manager.

She first came here in 2005 as a student for teaching practice

"I met a boy - a Harlow lad - and 18 years later I'm still here," she says. "This is my home away from home and literally this campus is a little bit of Newfoundland in the place I chose to live in."

She says the village feel of the campus was vital in minimising the culture shock for incoming students.

"Newfoundland is one and a half times the size of the UK with only 500,000 people and half of those people live in St John's, the big city in Newfoundland," she says.

"The shock of going into London for the first time can be immense."

She is keen that students here feel at home.

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The campus recently held a smudging ceremony, a First Nations purification ceremony, which involves lighting sacred medicinal plants

To that end, the Ode to Newfoundland hangs above reception, the rooms are named after communities in Newfoundland and Labrador, the tables in the cafeteria are named after popular restaurants back home and there's a map on which new students pin a flag to show where they are from.

"We have Canada Day and Thanksgiving celebrations so we will make Newfoundland food - Jiggs Dinner - for them," says Ms Casey. "I brought moose over for moose stew and other little things from Newfoundland whenever I go home to make the students feel at home and to help the staff know a little of what Newfoundland is like."

She also hopes that, in the future, everybody in the area - and further afield - will know about this little corner of Canada.

When scaffolding is next put up on the Maltings building, she says, she plans to have four flagpoles installed.

They will fly the Newfoundland flag, the Labrador flag, the Canadian flag and the Union Flag.

"You won't be able to miss us," she says.

Photography: Laurence Cawley

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