On Wednesday, huge crowds gathered after anti-trans organizers called for a “million man march” against transgender rights. Yet, it wasn't the opponents of trans rights who predominantly showed up. Instead, crowds of supporters for transgender rights and teachers unions backing them flooded stre…

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CNN — An Arkansas toddler died of a rare brain-eating amoeba infection, which was likely contracted at a splash pad at a country club, according to health officials and the county coroner. The victim died from Naegleria fowleri infection, which “destroys brain tissue, causing brain swelling an…

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Meta plans to release its first pair of smart glasses with a display in 2025 alongside a neural interface smartwatch designed to control them, The Verge has learned. Meanwhile, its first pair of full-fledged AR glasses, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg has predicted will eventually be as widely used as mob…

South Korea's science ministry has released a photo taken by the nations Danuri Moon orbiter depicting the landing site of India's Chandrayaan-3 Moon mission. The lunar orbiter's side hustle as space paparazzi saw it take the snap on August 27 – four days after Chandrayaan-3 became India’s firs…

One evening in September 2022, a group of Ukrainian sea drones sped out into the Black Sea, heading for Russian-occupied Crimea. Their designers—engineers who had been doing other things until the current war began—had carefully targeted the fast, remote-controlled, explosive-packed vessels to h…

Torrential downpours sparked dangerous flash floods in central Massachusetts on Monday evening, prompting officials in one city to evacuate residents and declare a state of emergency. Between six and nine inches of rain fell on Monday in northeastern Worcester County, where a flash flood warning wa…

Observations by JWST suggest that “we may need to rethink key features of the origin and development of the universe”. Plus, Colombia considers banning most research and education using live animals and the legacy of ‘redlining’ extends even to bird data. Hello Nature readers, would you lik…

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Artificial intelligence (AI) large language models (LLM) like OpenAI’s hit GPT-3, 3.5, and 4, encode a wealth of information about how we live, communicate, and behave, and researchers are constantly finding new ways to put this knowledge to use. A recent study conducted by Stanford University re…

By Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgium's national opera house has premiered "Cassandra", an original score recasting the mythical figure of a doomed prophetess as a climate change scientist whose warnings about global warming go unheeded. The play develops in parallel worlds, one inhab…

A global study led by a researcher at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and published in the journal Scientific Reports reveals that economic disparities at a societal level can’t be attributed solely to the poor making bad choices or the wealthy making good ones. Poor decisions …

This system has already slowed by 15 percent since the mid-20th century, and in 2021 researchers concluded there is “strong evidence that the AMOC is indeed approaching a critical, bifurcation-induced transition” (in other words, a tipping point) but the timing was unclear. Then, in July, a stud…

Long-Term Benadryl Doubles Risk of ... Please enable JavaScript Long-Term Benadryl Doubles Risk of Memory Loss Researchers uncover an unexpected route to better lithium-sulfur batteries by visualizing reactions at the atomic scale. The journey from a laboratory discovery to real-world application …

On the odd occasion when I get a day to myself, I wonder what to do with it. As a parent who works full-time, time off is a rare occurrence. Unstructured time can feel unfamiliar and anxiety-inducing, particularly to those who live by the clock. In these rare moments I try to balance my needs: do I …

A POLITICO analysis of federal data and interviews with a dozen security, extremism and electricity experts revealed that despite a record surge in attacks on the grid nationwide, communication gaps between law enforcement and state and federal regulators have left many officials largely in the dark…

Bravo It's wild to think back on what many aspects of life used to be like back in the day compared with now — but especially when it comes to the price of things and the cost of living. I found this Reddit thread where u/zombiem00se asked, "What was normal 20 to 30 years ago but is considered a …

The struggle over the sweeping red-state drive to roll back civil rights and liberties has primarily moved to the courts. Since 2021, Republican-controlled states have passed a swarm of laws to restrict voting rights, increase penalties for public protest, impose new restrictions on transgender you…

Megyn Kelly has announced that she will interview former President Donald Trump next week on her radio show, the first public interview with the former president since Fox’s 2016 primetime special. “It will be my first interview with a former president in seven years, and there is so much to ge…

According to a new book, Elon Musk demanded SpaceX engineers disengage a portion of the Starlink satellite network, used to provide internet access to isolated places, to areas around Crimea to intentionally thwart a Ukrainian surprise attack on the Russian navy in 2022. Per a CNN report, Musk lear…

Huntington Beach voted to ban mask and COVID-19 vaccine mandates across the city on Wednesday as cases continue rising across the state. Council members approved the ban 4-3 following an hours-long meeting that began on Tuesday night. The motion introduced by Mayor Pro Tem Gracey Van Der Mark was …

With the selection of former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum as the candidate of the country’s ruling party in next June’s election, Mexico will for the first time have time two women from its main political movements competing for the presidency. Sheinbaum, as well as the opposition candid…

In an affidavit filed in support of Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis’s motion to keep anonymous the names of the jurors who will decide if disgraced former President Trump and 19 of his co-conspirators are guilty of the many crimes listed in the sprawling RICO indictment handed…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith warned Tuesday that former President Donald Trump’s “daily” statements threaten to taint a jury pool in Washington in the criminal case charging him with scheming to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Trump…

U.S. senators and representatives returning from their summer vacations will need to shake off their suntans in quick time and get down to business. Congress has just 11 days when it’s in session before the next federal fiscal year begins on Oct. 1, 2023. And in that time, it will need to enact…

Democrats worried about Joe Biden’s re-election prospects are “fucking bedwetters” and should not worry so much, the former Obama campaign manager Jim Messina said. “Historically, we’re fucking bedwetters,” Messina told Politico. “We grew up in the 80s and 90s when Republicans won ele…

The iconic Italian carmaker is one of our many partners at High Mobility. Using the Alfa Romeo telematics system our API offers a complete solution for your remote vehicle management services. Partnering directly with brands, our API solution gets real-time data from many vehicle manufacturers, inc…

Bad news: your car is a spy. If your vehicle was made in the last few years, you’re probably driving around in a data-harvesting machine that may collect personal information as sensitive as your race, weight, and sexual activity. Volkswagen’s cars reportedly know if you’re fastening your seat…

A line of sheriff’s deputies move protesters away from a picket organized by the Coalition for Community Control Over the Police at the home of Los Angeles Sheriff’s Deputy Miguel Vega, who fatally shot Andres Guardado in 2020. A second former deputy with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Depa…

This summer, Google began rolling out its new Topics API, which “allows a browser to share information with third parties about a user’s interests while preserving privacy.” A part of Google’s new Privacy Sandbox, the API is supposed to replace the third-party cookies that have been followin…

Everyone knows that arithmetic is true: 2 + 2 = 4. But surprisingly, we don’t know why it’s true. By stepping outside the box of our usual way of thinking about numbers, my colleagues and I have recently shown that arithmetic has biological roots and is a natural consequence of how perception …

About a dozen people gathered in Dorchester on a recent hot afternoon to go for a walk. “Last week we did our first ‘tree walk’ here in Codman Square, and we explored west of Washington Street,” Jerel Ferguson of the advocacy group Speak for the Trees said to the group. “Today we're going…

A former president has been charged with crimes connected to his attempts to overturn the results of an American election. The federal investigation into the efforts from Donald Trump and his allies to subvert the outcome of the 2020 presidential election has yielded four criminal charges in a 45-p…

Local News Ancient Roman bust seized from Massachusetts museum in looting probe The bust known as “Portrait of a Lady” was acquired in 1966 by the Worcester Art Museum about 40 miles west of Boston. The Manhattan district attorney's office has seized "Portrait of a Lady (A Daughter of Marcus Aur…

Local News Ancient Roman bust seized from Massachusetts museum in looting probe The bust known as “Portrait of a Lady” was acquired in 1966 by the Worcester Art Museum about 40 miles west of Boston. The Manhattan district attorney's office has seized "Portrait of a Lady (A Daughter of Marcus Aur…

Today's links Naomi Klein's "Doppelganger" (permalink) If the Naomi be Klein you’re doing just fine If the Naomi be Wolf Oh, buddy. Ooooof. I learned this rhyme in Doppelganger, Naomi Klein's indescribable semi-memoir that is (more or less) about the way that people confuse her with …

When Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton held a news conference in May decrying state lawmakers’ anticipated vote to impeach him, he framed the decision as not only a threat to his political career but as one that endangered the slew of lawsuits he’d filed against the Biden administration. Paxton…

Mathematicians delight in the beauty of math that so many of us don't see. But nature is a wonderful realm in which to observe beauty born out of mathematical relationships. The natural world provides seemingly endless patterns underpinned by numbers – if we can recognize them. Luckily for us, a…

Just as the chill of autumn sets in, the recruitment business heats up. With key decision-makers returning from summer holidays, the job boards are suddenly repopulated with exciting new opportunities. This makes September one of the busiest months in recruitment (second only to the New Year rush i…

Ryan Williams, with the Utah Drivers License Division, displays his cellphone with the pilot version of the state’s mobile ID in West Valley City, Utah. California is experimenting with digital driver’s licenses. Residents can download the CA DMV Wallet app on their smartphone and follow the i…

Where the Alabama mainland meets the Gulf of Mexico, a narrow waterway—just a few hundred feet in most places—separates a picturesque coast of white sands and beach towns from the rest of the state. Those 30-some miles of shorefront are a point of pride and an economic lifeline for Alabama; eac…

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President Joe Biden took a swipe a quadrupedally-criminally indicted ex-President Donald Trump in a Labor Day speech in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Monday, NBC News' Henry Gomez reports. "The guy who held this job before me was just one of two presidents in history ... who left office with fewer …

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Updated October 2022 Most Americans believe that a rising tide should lift all boats—that as the economy expands, everybody should reap the rewards. This outcome can be guaranteed by smart and compassionate policy choices or subverted by policymakers choosing a different path. EPI’s Productivity…

“No Significant Action Taken on TN Gun Laws” read the headline of The Tennessean on Wednesday, the day after the Tennessee General Assembly ended a special legislative session on gun safety. To call that headline an understatement is itself an understatement. Mary Joyce, whose daughter attends …

From this view, it can seem that the United States is following the course of all empires: doomed to decline and eventual fall. America, it’s true, will never again enjoy the degree of global economic and political domination it exercised in the decades after the war. But it can, with the right ch…

From this view, it can seem that the United States is following the course of all empires: doomed to decline and eventual fall. America, it’s true, will never again enjoy the degree of global economic and political domination it exercised in the decades after the war. But it can, with the right ch…

After rejoining the Paris Agreement and passing the Inflation Reduction Act, the US has committed to cutting its greenhouse gas emissions in half by the end of the decade and hitting net-zero emissions by the middle of the century. That will require significant changes in everything from household a…

After rejoining the Paris Agreement and passing the Inflation Reduction Act, the US has committed to cutting its greenhouse gas emissions in half by the end of the decade and hitting net-zero emissions by the middle of the century. That will require significant changes in everything from household a…

DEF CON Infosec super-band the Cult of the Dead Cow has released Veilid (pronounced vay-lid), an open source project applications can use to connect up clients and transfer information in a peer-to-peer decentralized manner. The idea being here that apps – mobile, desktop, web, and headless – c…

Twenty-five years after Swissair Flight 111 crashed near Peggys Cove, N.S., killing all 229 passengers, loved ones of victims and first-responders gathered in Nova Scotia this weekend to mark the sombre occasion. One of them was Don Jongewaard, who first flew from the U.S. to Halifax to visit the c…

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Vigil is a very safe programming language, and an entry in the January 2013 PLT Games competition. Many programming languages claim to take testing, contracts and safety seriously, but only Vigil is truly vigilant about not allowing code that fails to pass programmatic specifications. Syntax and s…

CNN — Tens of thousands of people attending the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert are being told to conserve food, water and fuel as they shelter in place in the Black Rock Desert after a heavy rainstorm pummeled the area, festival organizers said. Attendees saw their campsites transform…

It all started with an email James Zou received. The email was making a request that seemed reasonable, but which Zou realized would be nearly impossible to fulfill. “Dear Researcher,” the email began. “As you are aware, participants are free to withdraw from the UK Biobank at any time and r…

This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic, Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. In October of last year, Donald Trump filed a defamation suit accusing CNN of calling him a lot of bad names, the first…

This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic, Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. In October of last year, Donald Trump filed a defamation suit accusing CNN of calling him a lot of bad names, the first…

One of my favorite things about science is how a very simple question can lead you down a rabbit hole. Here’s one for you: What color is the sun? Most people, I’d wager, would say yellow. You probably pictured it as yellow in your head when you thought of it just now. Not too long ago, a consp…

More importantly, Renato was a marketing genius who innovated advertising techniques in the 1950s to include billboards, commercials, and even animations — introducing “l’omino coi baffi” (the little man with a mustache), based on Renato himself. The little man appeared on the side of the Mo…

An unknown species of early human nearly died out around 900,000 years ago, according to genetic analysis. It may have been both the ancestor of Homo heidelbergensis and a species ancestral to our own.Credit: S. Entressangle/E. Daynes/Science Photo Library Human ancestors in Africa were pushed to t…

Saunas and Swastikas: Finland’s Summertime neo-Nazi Meet-Up In June 2023, a group of Finland’s most notorious neo-Nazis and a few of their international friends ventured to a lakeside cabin resort set against picturesque woodlands some 120 kilometres north of Helsinki. They called the gatherin…

WASHINGTON (AP) — With more than a year to go before the 2024 election, a constellation of conservative organizations is preparing for a possible second White House term for Donald Trump, recruiting thousands of Americans to come to Washington on a mission to dismantle the federal government and r…

Fox News Media’s Stuart Varney and Dana Perino alongside UNIVISION’s Ilia Calderón will be the co-moderators of the second Republican debate, the networks announced on Wednesday. The debate, which will be broadcast on FOX Business Network (FBN) and UNIVISION, will take place on Sept. 27 at the…

Predictably, the pharmaceutical lobby responded with outrage on Tuesday after the Biden administration took its first, modest step toward directly negotiating the costs of a small selection of high-priced prescription medications—a move that is overwhelmingly popular across the political spectrum.…

In May, Sputnik International, a state-owned Russian media outlet, posted a series of tweets lambasting US foreign policy and attacking the Biden administration. Each prompted a curt but well-crafted rebuttal from an account called CounterCloud, sometimes including a link to a relevant news or opini…

Head and hand motion data gathered from virtual reality (VR) headsets could be as effective at identifying individuals as fingerprints or face scans, research studies have shown, potentially compromising user privacy when interacting in immersive virtual environments. Two recent studies by research…

Central Saint Martins graduate Kiki Grammatopoulos has created a chunky, bristly running shoe outsole that helps to spread plants and seeds in cities, as part of a project she's titled Rewild the Run. Grammatopoulos used biomimicry in the project, borrowing elements from nature to create her sneake…

Powerful and versatile as it is, Python lacks a few key capabilities out of the box. For one, there is no native mechanism for compiling a Python program into a standalone executable package. To be fair, the original use case for Python never called for standalone redistributables. Python programs …

A flash robbery caught in progress at a Nordstrom store in Canoga Park this month. But does it tell the whole story of retail theft? Former Home Depot Chief Executive Bob Nardelli went on Fox Business the other day to warn that a surge in shoplifting by organized gangs showed that America was desce…

I thought I had malware on my main Windows 11 machine this weekend. There I was minding my own business in Chrome before tabbing back to a game and wham a pop-up appeared asking me to switch my default search engine to Microsoft Bing in Chrome. Stunningly, Microsoft now thinks it’s ok to shove a p…

Last month, The New York Times published a partial exposé of Trump’s plans for his second administration. It involved basically turning America into Russia or Hungary, where the president becomes the singular center of federal power, eclipsing Congress and the Courts. For example, the Times writ…

She paid her husband's hospital bill. A year after his death, they wanted more money Enlarge this image Matt Kile for KFF Health News Matt Kile for KFF Health News Last summer, Eloise Reynolds paid the bill for her husband's final stay in the hospital. In February 2022, doctors said that Kent, he…

A Lee Airbnb host was banned on Sunday from the short-term rental site over her connections to a well-known neo-Nazi. The Loon’s Nest Lodge at Silver Lake, owned by Kathie Greear, can no longer rent her rooms through Airbnb, according to Elle Wye, director of communications for the platform. A ne…

There's a labor shortage in the U.S. Why is it so hard for migrants to legally work? Enlarge this image toggle caption José A. Alvarado Jr. for NPR José A. Alvarado Jr. for NPR At almost any migrant shelter in New York it's easy to see men — sitting on curbs or park benches — waiting. Eddie …

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After making it clear that she would run her courtroom in the interests of justice without reference to the 2024 presidential election, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan has set March 4, 2024, as the start date for former president Trump’s trial on four criminal counts for his efforts to overturn …

Two years ago, as she walked through a hospital hallway in handcuffs and shackles to get tested for Covid, Sun Junli felt ashamed and defeated. At 45, she had come a long way. The poor village girl in northwestern China had become a successful businesswoman. Then she was crushed. In 2018, state-ow…

On a sunny afternoon in a cluttered music room at East High in Denver, two sophomores practiced violin while their music teacher, Keith Oxman, labored over a desk in an adjoining office. The ceiling fans were off to prevent the sheet music from scattering. The windows were sealed shut. East High is…

Dark Matter Images These pictures show the large scale dark matter distribution and a selection of dark matter halos from our simulations. The brightness of colors indicates the density, if not stated otherwise. Copyright [if not stated otherwise]: S. Gottlöber, G. Yepes, A. Klypin, A. Khalatya…

What if companies had to pay for the problems their carbon emissions cause? Their profits would plunge, according to new estimates, possibly wiping out trillions in financial gains. These results, spelled out in a recent study in the journal Science, are based on analysis of almost 15,000 publicly-…

"Calls to release the manifesto on the far-right have been pervasive since it happened," she says. "It's based on the hope that the manifesto somehow proves that so-called gender ideology is dangerous. That's why they so badly want to see it.

"Calls to release the manifesto on the far-right have been pervasive since it happened," she says. "It's based on the hope that the manifesto somehow proves that so-called gender ideology is dangerous. That's why they so badly want to see it.

Encryption is like a baby. It comes with problems, but you wouldn’t solve them with blunt force. If your baby is crying, or your baby is messy, you wouldn’t cut your baby in half (that is, if you’re not a psychopath). You can either protect and raise your baby in its full form or you don’t h…

New York-based Intenseye uses artificial intelligence to analyze images and surveillance videos to identify safety issues in the workplace for major customers like Coca-Cola and British textile conglomerate Coats. Getty The workplace AI software company is expected to roughly triple its valuation i…

With the emergence of the metaverse and web3 technologies, it’s clear that the next evolution of the internet is already underway. This is what I mean when I talk about the “future internet” – the next iteration of the internet, characterized by immersive virtual metaverse worlds (such as Fo…

Pope Francis has blasted the “backwardness” of some conservatives in the U.S. Catholic Church, saying that they have replaced faith with ideology and that a correct understanding of Roman Catholic doctrine allows for change over time. Francis’ comments were an acknowledgment of the divisions …

They stood on an arena stage in Milwaukee under a massive sign that read “Democracy” — the metaphorical 800-pound gorilla that loomed over this strange political event but was never really discussed. When the dust finally settled after two hours of the first televised debate of the 2024 GOP pr…

Governments are responsible not just for protecting children from immediate harm, the report says, but from the future effects of climate change. They can be held accountable for environmental damage both inside their own borders and beyond them.

Governments are responsible not just for protecting children from immediate harm, the report says, but from the future effects of climate change. They can be held accountable for environmental damage both inside their own borders and beyond them.

As global temperatures rapidly climb, humanity is seeing more and more of the disastrous effects scientists warned us about: fiercer heat waves, more intense wildfires, and heavier rain. The extremes of the past few months are but a preview of the ever-worsening pain we’ll endure if we don’t dra…

Poor Google. The company is about to get lapped in the AR/VR space by Apple's Vision Pro headset, despite dabbling in the AR/VR/XR space for over a decade now. A new report from Business Insider details how Google has fallen so far behind, telling the familiar modern-Google story of a rudderless com…

Too Long; Didn't Read People Mentioned In December 2022, VERSES AI set forth a sweeping vision for artificial intelligence based on a distributed, collective real-time knowledge graph, comprised of Intelligent Agents operating on the physics of intelligence itself. In their whitepaper, titled “D…

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Copper steam condenser pipes coated with F-DLC (top) and without a coating (bottom). The F-DLC coating allows the cond…

Alternative for Germany (AfD) lawmaker Beatrix von Storch called the attack "disgusting" and said she had filed a complaint. The far-right party opposes immigration and green policies. German lawmaker Beatrix von Storch, of the far-right Alternative for Germany party (AfD), was smeared with feces d…

A Ph.D. student at Michigan State University said his mother was arrested in Bangladesh after he criticized the country's government in a Facebook post. Tanzilur Rahman, who is pursuing his doctorate in materials science and engineering, said his mother, 58, was arrested by the Bangladesh Police on…

"We know that for some months there have been attempts to destabilise the Polish state," Mr Zaryn added. "Such attempts have been undertaken by the Russian Federation in conjunction with Belarus."

The tech industry has been on a quest for profitability lately. To get there, some tech companies have been raising prices. The result: Supposedly revolutionary services are looking a lot like what came before. Morning Brew Insider recommends waking up with, a daily newsletter. Loading Something …

During his Friday appearance in Iowa, Ramaswamy accused Pressley, the first Black woman elected to represent Massachusetts in Congress, of racism and compared her to “modern grand wizards” of the Ku Klux Klan for comments she made in 2019, saying: “We don’t need any more Black faces that don…