Alex Knapp
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Senior Editor covering science and healthcare at Forbes. (he/him)
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First edition of my emerging tech newsletter, The Prototype, looks back on what I think were some of the biggest tech breakthroughs of 2025. Check it out!
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I'm just getting around to watching DELI BOYS, which is fantastic. But also... Poorna Jagannathan is amazing in this show.
January 6, 2026 at 4:28 AM
I'm just getting around to watching DELI BOYS, which is fantastic. But also... Poorna Jagannathan is amazing in this show.
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AMD unveils two Ryzen AI Max+ chips, the 392 with 12 cores and the 388 with 8 cores, both offering 40 graphics compute units and 60 teraflops of performance (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
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January 6, 2026 at 4:15 AM
AMD unveils two Ryzen AI Max+ chips, the 392 with 12 cores and the 388 with 8 cores, both offering 40 graphics compute units and 60 teraflops of performance (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
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Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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New: "Oil And Gas Industry Spent $250 Million On Elections That Produced The Current U.S. Government—And A Potential Venezuela Windfall"
88% of that $250M went to Republicans.
me, for @forbes.com with @opensecrets.org's analysis
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88% of that $250M went to Republicans.
me, for @forbes.com with @opensecrets.org's analysis
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January 5, 2026 at 11:02 PM
New: "Oil And Gas Industry Spent $250 Million On Elections That Produced The Current U.S. Government—And A Potential Venezuela Windfall"
88% of that $250M went to Republicans.
me, for @forbes.com with @opensecrets.org's analysis
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88% of that $250M went to Republicans.
me, for @forbes.com with @opensecrets.org's analysis
www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...
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I love that EFF knows their base well enough to lead with "we understand you probably already have a lot of polyhedral dice sets..."
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January 5, 2026 at 11:06 PM
I love that EFF knows their base well enough to lead with "we understand you probably already have a lot of polyhedral dice sets..."
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Now that these works have entered the public domain, put them to good use in our annual Public Domain Film Remix Contest: blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...
Submit your short film by 11:59pm PST on January 7.
Submit your short film by 11:59pm PST on January 7.
When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like:
💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
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💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
🧵👇
January 3, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Now that these works have entered the public domain, put them to good use in our annual Public Domain Film Remix Contest: blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...
Submit your short film by 11:59pm PST on January 7.
Submit your short film by 11:59pm PST on January 7.
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Read our full statement by AAP President Dr. Andrew Racine on today’s HHS announcement about the childhood immunization schedule: www.aap.org/en/news-room...
January 5, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Read our full statement by AAP President Dr. Andrew Racine on today’s HHS announcement about the childhood immunization schedule: www.aap.org/en/news-room...
Flu may be at the highest rate on record in the U.S. as vaccinations decline.
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January 5, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Flu may be at the highest rate on record in the U.S. as vaccinations decline.
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In the latest Current Climate newsletter:
☀️ Solar power’s relentless rise
💰Elon Musk’s year of big blunders and payday bonanzas
💧Progress for green hydrogen #solar #hydrogen www.forbes.com/sites/curren...
☀️ Solar power’s relentless rise
💰Elon Musk’s year of big blunders and payday bonanzas
💧Progress for green hydrogen #solar #hydrogen www.forbes.com/sites/curren...
January 5, 2026 at 4:08 PM
In the latest Current Climate newsletter:
☀️ Solar power’s relentless rise
💰Elon Musk’s year of big blunders and payday bonanzas
💧Progress for green hydrogen #solar #hydrogen www.forbes.com/sites/curren...
☀️ Solar power’s relentless rise
💰Elon Musk’s year of big blunders and payday bonanzas
💧Progress for green hydrogen #solar #hydrogen www.forbes.com/sites/curren...
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all this is both foolish and unnecessary
January 4, 2026 at 9:47 PM
all this is both foolish and unnecessary
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🟡 NEW: The New York Times and Washington Post learned of a secret US raid on Venezuela soon before it was scheduled to begin Friday night — but held off publishing what they knew to avoid endangering US troops.
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News organizations held off on reporting Venezuela raid
The American news organizations held their stories over concerns about endangering US troops.
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January 4, 2026 at 2:04 AM
🟡 NEW: The New York Times and Washington Post learned of a secret US raid on Venezuela soon before it was scheduled to begin Friday night — but held off publishing what they knew to avoid endangering US troops.
www.semafor.com/article/01/0...
www.semafor.com/article/01/0...
If you need a little respite and just want a good time at the movies, I definitely recommend the new ANACONDA movie.
January 4, 2026 at 2:46 AM
If you need a little respite and just want a good time at the movies, I definitely recommend the new ANACONDA movie.
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New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
January 3, 2026 at 9:42 PM
New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
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Astronomers just measured the mass of a free-floating planet without a star for the first time
Scientists Just Clocked a ‘Rogue’ Planet the Size of Saturn
Astronomers just measured the mass of a free-floating planet without a star for the first time
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January 1, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Astronomers just measured the mass of a free-floating planet without a star for the first time
"The number of flu hospitalizations hit a record high in New York state Friday"
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January 3, 2026 at 6:40 PM
"The number of flu hospitalizations hit a record high in New York state Friday"
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The House Armed Services Committee also was not briefed, I've confirmed.
News: Gang of Eight in Congress were only notified about Trump's Venezuela operation after it began, source familiar tells me. That means the heads of the Intelligence Committees in Senate and House were *not* consulted. Just crazy.
January 3, 2026 at 3:58 PM
The House Armed Services Committee also was not briefed, I've confirmed.
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Minnesota’s Department of Children, Youth, and Families said that investigators have found child care centers at the center of recent fraud allegations were operating as they should.
Minnesota department finds child care centers targeted in viral video operating normally
The state Department of Children, Youth, and Families said it visited the nine facilities at the center of right-wing claims of fraud and found them "operating as expected."
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January 3, 2026 at 4:32 AM
Minnesota’s Department of Children, Youth, and Families said that investigators have found child care centers at the center of recent fraud allegations were operating as they should.
First edition of my emerging tech newsletter, The Prototype, looks back on what I think were some of the biggest tech breakthroughs of 2025. Check it out!
www.forbes.com/sites/the-pr...
www.forbes.com/sites/the-pr...
January 2, 2026 at 9:04 PM
First edition of my emerging tech newsletter, The Prototype, looks back on what I think were some of the biggest tech breakthroughs of 2025. Check it out!
www.forbes.com/sites/the-pr...
www.forbes.com/sites/the-pr...
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A new report from researchers at the Yale School of Public Health warns that the U.S. government’s abrupt cancellation of funding for mRNA vaccine research could have devastating health and economic consequences for the nation.
New report sounds alarm on health fallout from mRNA vaccine funding cuts
A new report from the Yale School of Public Health warns that the U.S. government’s abrupt cancellation of funding for mRNA vaccine research could have
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December 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A new report from researchers at the Yale School of Public Health warns that the U.S. government’s abrupt cancellation of funding for mRNA vaccine research could have devastating health and economic consequences for the nation.
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EXCLUSIVE: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & I have spent the last year collecting school+county-level vaccination data from across the US and found that only about 28% of counties now have herd immunity for kindergartners from measles—that leaves about 5.2mn kids unprotected.
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U.S. vaccination rates are plunging. Look up where your school stands.
Take a look to see what the kindergarten measles vaccination rates are in your area.
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December 31, 2025 at 2:29 PM
EXCLUSIVE: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & I have spent the last year collecting school+county-level vaccination data from across the US and found that only about 28% of counties now have herd immunity for kindergartners from measles—that leaves about 5.2mn kids unprotected.
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Gift link: wapo.st/49zDc43
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This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
U.S. measles cases this year surpassed 2,000, the highest total in a single year since 1992.
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December 30, 2025 at 4:27 AM
U.S. measles cases this year surpassed 2,000, the highest total in a single year since 1992.
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