"In New Mexico, as night settles after a day of burning, she shuts off her headlamp and stares, mesmerized, at the sizzling ground: “The floor gently flickered with thousands of points of white light like a galaxy of stars had draped across the earth.”O’Connor also explores the megafire side of the paradox, enlisting on a crew battling California’s 2021 Dixie Fire, a nearly million-acre inferno."
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"Jonathan Majors was convicted Monday of assaulting his former girlfriend after a two-week trial that he hoped would restore his status as an emerging Hollywood star, but did just the opposite with Marvel Studios and the Walt Disney dropping him immediately after his conviction."
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"That more muted response to the plight of Palestinians led the Council on American-Islamic Relations to call the corporate response “one-sided,” and to express the concern that Muslim, Arab-American, and Palestinian employees “are not acknowledged as victims of this terrible humanitarian crisis.”"
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"Now, by a 4–3 vote, the Colorado Supreme Court has converted fantasy into at least temporary reality.The Fourteenth Amendment provides that anyone who swore an oath to support the Constitution of the United States, and who then “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same,” is forbidden to hold any federal or state office unless pardoned by a vote of two-thirds of both houses of Congr..."
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"The 220 Central Park South residential skyscraper situated along Billionaires’ Row on the south side of Central Park in the Midtown neighborhood of New York.Amir Hamja—Bloomberg via Getty Images $75 million for 220 Central Park South, Apt 64 The backstory: Measuring roughly 6,000 square feet with five bedrooms and 5 ½ baths, according to Olshan’s data, the apartment, which was never officially ..."
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"How many times have you Googled for more information after reading a headline on an elevator or taxicab screen?Read: Bing is a trapThe shift to news via chatbot feels ironic when you consider what generative AI has wrought elsewhere: Old-school search engines such as Google have been flooded with supercharged, optimized spam and are struggling to handle it, while sites such as CNET and Gizmodo ..."
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"“This is like the second industrial revolution, where companies that understood the transformative effect of the new technology and really leaned into it, those are the companies that took off and became the rulers of the world.”Subscribe to the Eye on AI newsletter to stay abreast of how AI is shaping the future of business."
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"On the contrary, more so than any other year since SARS-CoV-2 appeared, our usual respiratory viruses “seem to be kind of getting back to their old patterns” with regard to timing and magnitude, Kathryn Edwards, a vaccine and infectious-disease expert at Vanderbilt University, told me.Read: The worst pediatric-care crisis in decadesBut even so-so seasons of RSV, flu, and SARS-CoV-2 could create..."
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"That’s based on its prediction that retail property will post total returns close to 6% annually during its five-year forecast period, after experiencing a “cyclical slowdown as a poor economic outlook weighs on demand next year,” Raichura wrote."
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"CEO Tom Leighton gives some direction from the top, but after that, “we allow a lot of autonomous decision-making to happen within the organization in terms of what are the best ways to solve these problems and what are the most interesting technologies to approach,” says Dr."
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"By now, the outlines of the story are well-known: a staff of 7,500 slashed by 75%; a free-speech absolutism that welcomed banned users back to the platform, along with a surge of hate speech and misinformation; an advertising crisis in which more than half of Twitter’s top 1,000 advertisers shut their purses; and a confounding corporate rebrand that replaced Twitter and the familiar tweet with ..."
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"continued to see robust hiring throughout 2023—with 199,000 jobs added in November—some companies are outpacing others when it comes to snatching up new talent.Bath & Body Works, Tesla, and Papa Johns were among the 15 fastest-hiring companies between August and October, according to a new analysis from Indeed."
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"But for the foreseeable future, TSMC’s advanced chip production and R&D at home are irreplaceable, and losing those facilities “would be catastrophic for the entire IT sector,” said Paul Triolo, senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies."
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"Along with Kevin, there’s Kerry (Jeremy Allen White), a potential Olympic discus thrower who gets diverted to the family business after the American boycott of the 1980 Games; David (Harris Dickinson), who has a particular flair for the sport’s showy dramatics; and Mike (Stanley Simons), a moon-eyed musician who is roped in out of sheer familial obligation.To wrestling nerds, the Von Erichs hav..."
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"When Maljartschuk came of age, at the turn of the millennium, Ukrainians were engaged in what Milan Kundera called “the struggle of memory against forgetting,” revisiting the history of violence and terror under Russian czars, Soviet Communists, and German Nazis, and rehabilitating characters who were erased from memory when the history of the Ukrainian nation was suppressed.Viktor Yushchenko, ..."
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"In an interview with The Associated Press, Kramer talks about how Hewlett became the largest climate funder in the world from 2007 to 2018, as well as started funding around cybersecurity, political polarization in the context of democracy and reimagining capitalism."
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"Flu: A ‘much more serious threat,’ new study into long-term risks concludes Access to modern stoves could be a game-changer for Africa’s economic development–and help cut the equivalent of the carbon dioxide emitted by the world’s planes and ships The U.S.-led digital trade world order is under attack–by the U.S."
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"And all who unite with God as father are brought into a family of faith, which is based not on contractual relationships, sustained only as long as they benefit both parties’ interests, but covenant relationships, in which all parties pledge to serve one another in sacrificial love.What may happen is this: Even though the secular world markets its highly individualistic view of the self as obje..."
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"“My sense is the reason he founded xAI is he’s pissed at OpenAI.”Steve Omohundro, longtime computer scientist “I would say the holy grail of AI systems is reasoning, and probably the place where reasoning is most evident is in mathematical inquiry,” said University of Sydney mathematics professor Geordie Williamson, who recently collaborated with Google DeepMind on refining old mathematical con..."
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