NEW YORK — President Joe Biden is set to deliver his final address to the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday as Israel and Hezbollah militants in Lebanon are edging toward all-out war and Israel’s bloody operation against Hamas in Gaza nears the one-year mark.... More »
More than 125 Hollywood actors, directors, producers, music artists and entertainment industry leaders have added their names to a letter released Tuesday urging Gov. Gavin Newsom to sign a bill that would require developers of advanced artificial intelligence... More »
Conventional high-voltage transmission lines lose a portion of the electric energy as heatLimbofu/Shutterstock The following is an extract from our climate newsletter Fix the Planet. Sign up to receive it for free in your inbox every month. Last year, research... More »
HONG KONG — Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways has banned a couple for harassing a mainland Chinese woman who refused to put up her reclined seat.An altercation occurred during a flight from Hong Kong to London on September 17. The female passenger — who has n... More »
Greetings from the sports desk located somewhere below decks of the Good Pirate Ship RedState. Sammy the Shark and Karl the Kraken are their usual dynamic selves at the moment:AdvertisementGood help is so hard to find these days. Still, they know more abo... More »
A project at Stanford points to the need for institutional innovation, especially in government, to increase the odds that A.I. enhances democracy.In the late 1780s, shortly after the Industrial Revolution had begun, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John ... More »
ALISON BEARD: Welcome to the HBR IdeaCast from Harvard Business Review. I’m Alison Beard. In the political world, success often depends on being an inspirational public speaker, and we all know a good speech when we hear one. JOHN F KENNEDY: Two thousand years... More »
“It’s the most powerful wearable tracking the most important organ in your body.”Dr. Ramses Alcaide is explaining the electroencephalography (EEG) technology that his company Neurable uses to track activity with its brain-computer interface (BCI). Alcaide is t... More »
Apple's push for generative AI across its multiple OSes has begun, under the none-too-subtle name of Apple Intelligence. That kicked off when Apple Intelligence stole the show during the WWDC keynote back in June and took a step forward at It's Glowtime event ... More »
Click-clack, click-clack. That’s the sound of someone typing meeting notes during a Zoom call, and it’s super annoying. Like caffeinated chipmunks, people sometimes don’t realize they are clattering away on a keyboard. Yet, someone has to jot down action items... More »
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Sølve SundsbøBodysuit, leggings, balaclava, gloves, Rick Owens. Boots, Rick Owens x Straytukay.You can’t go home again, but Rick Owens tried to. A few years ago, he returned to Porterville, California, the town where he grew up, and for fall 2024, he brought P... More »