1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (665+ words) The race to develop artificial intelligence is in dire need of a slowdown, Anthropic’s chief executive said in an essay posted early Saturday. “We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models. Progress will still…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (505+ words) Apple raised prices on new and older iPhones by $100 as AI-related inflation pushed up supply costs. For a good while from 2008 to 2015, people could buy iPhones for a starting price of $199 with 16GB of storage. Nowadays, the least expensive, brand-new iPhone…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (436+ words) Laura Hunt, a physical education teacher at Falk Laboratory School in Pittsburgh, has set a Guinness World Record by completing 1,826 push-ups in just one hour, showcasing her dedication to fitness and inspiring her students to push their limits. "My name…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (253+ words) President Donald Trump pledged Wednesday to send every American adult $5,000 if Republicans retain control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections, an extraordinary gambit to reverse his party's sagging fortunes in November. “If the Republicans win, you win…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (682+ words) The notice has raised a stir in the mathematics community OpenAI on Tuesday said its artificial intelligence technology has cracked one of the Millennium Problems — seven famously difficult and unsolved questions in mathematics that have stumped even the world’s brightest…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (272+ words) The price of oil surpassed $100 a barrel for the first time in almost six weeks after attacks on oil facilities and ships in the Middle East threatened to debilitate an already weakened supply chain. The most heavily traded contract for…...

6+ day, 10+ hour ago   (317+ words) Editors at the New York Post ponder a US senator’s proposal for holding a national teachers union accountable for its misdeeds. A key US senator wants fellow lawmakers to consider revoking the National Education Association’s congressional charter. What’s to consider?...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (181+ words) A fire at a wedding party in Congo's capital Kinshasa, left at least 22 people dead, the regional mayor said Saturday. Several others were injured. Video above: Mount Nyiragongo volcano in eastern Congo erupts The fire started Friday night and continued…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (656+ words) The Ig Nobels are meant to award research that 'first makes people laugh, and then makes them think' Think of scientific research and you may picture white lab coats, microscopes or arrays of high-end equipment — but the reality is sometimes…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (765+ words) Nearly all couples in North Carolina who want to get a divorce must wait a full year, living in separate homes, before getting divorced. It’s something labor and delivery nurse, author and content creator Jen Hamilton learned and shared after…...