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Heard an interview with Bill Gates on an Atlantic podcast, he relies on a few years of programming he did when he was in his teens and twenties, yet he is the most prominent person who knows anything about programming. This is a societal mistake. We have to have public discourse about tech that's as informed as Krugman is on economics, and Heather Cox Richardson is on American history.

The Alice Griffith Apartments opened in 2017 but have suffered from neglect.

The Port of Los Angeles has secured a new, 30-year lease with Yusen Terminals, with the marine terminal operator fully committed through 2056 in a deal that paves the way for an fresh, $200 million investment in zero-emission cargo-handling equipment. (!)

Heard an interview with Bill Gates on an Atlantic podcast, he relies on a few years of programming he did when he was in his teens and twenties, yet he is the most prominent person who knows anything about programming. This is a societal mistake. We have to have public discourse about tech that’s as […]

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Swedish mining company LKAB is putting a pair of massive, 130-ton electric Scania haul trucks to work at its Malmberget iron ore mine – which happens to be more than 4,000 feet below the surface of the Earth.

Brevard County's 2025 Deputy of the Year resigned rather than be fired after admitting he posed for a photograph investigators said showed him performing a Nazi salute. Deputy Michael Fultz, 24, quit in May as Sheriff Wayne Ivey prepared to fire him for "egregious misconduc...

It was reported that two people just died in Pennsylvania due to measles-related complications on Tuesday. Still, Dr. Oz tried to pump the brakes on the report to defend the Trump administration's attacks on vaccinations by claiming the two may have had another illness on t...

Dolly Parton and Carl Dean never had children, but they once dreamed about what their family might look like — and even had a daughter's name picked out. Continue reading…

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. In his White House Correspondents’ Association dinner speech on July 24, 2026, President Donald Trump made his usual diatribes against the news media. He derided the “failing” New York Times and reiterated his complaint that CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins doesn’t smile enough. He […]

I read Bill Gates' memo, and there's one thing almost no one has mentioned about AI systems, is how dependent we're getting on them. What if one day they stop working. What's the backup plan?

When we started up with PCs and then the web, it took a long time for us to build mission-critical systems around them. But this is happening very quickly.

The tornado threat was centered in neighboring Hardenburgh, while a severe storm carrying large hail and 60 mph winds moved toward Highmount, Oliverea, Pine Hill, and Belleayre Mountain. The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for an area near Shandaken after radar detected rotation in a severe thunderstorm shortly before 6 p.m. Thursday. The […]

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Nvidia just bought Hugging Face for $12.9 billion. That’s what Reuters says The Information says. The latter is behind an expensive paywall, so I’ll take Reuters’ word for it. In The Price Of Independence Was $5.9 Billion, AI Secret says, 🌍 How this hits reality: Last year, Hugging Face turned down a $500 million investment from Nvidia at […]

Standardized driver interface aims to let devices talk to AI and each other.

xAI accused of training Grok on real and AI-generated child pornography.

The new Kia EV3 is essentially an upgraded version of the now-retired Niro EV, and it’s about $10,000 cheaper.

The 49ers, Warriors, and Sharks are among the local teams that have hired former athletes to lead their front offices.