What happens when AI starts gambling on soccer?
How do you measure whether an AI is actually good at predicting the future? The CTO of startup Obside emailed me recently with a fascinating real-world benchmark.Instead of giving AI…
Hegseth Gloats Over Illegal US Assault on Iranian Infrastructure
Pentagon Secretary Pete Hegseth posted a photo of a surveillance tower at an Iranian port collapsing due to US airstrikes. Image- Hegseth US Pentagon Secretary Pete Hegseth late Thursday gloatingly posted…
Tate brothers arrested in Miami as U.K. seeks extradition: U.S. Marshals Service
Influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate, whose social media empire promoting wealth, male dominance and misogyny has made them among the world’s most polarizing internet personalities, were arrested Saturday in…
How Christopher Nolan’s ‘Interstellar’ turned general relativity into the bad guy
The biggest blockbusters of 2014 threw up a varied rogues' gallery of bad guys. In "Transformers: Age of Extinction", it was a reincarnated version of Optimus Prime's perma-nemesis, Megatron, while…
My mom’s long-term care has cost almost $400,000. This is after we spent $45,000 converting a guest house on our property for her.
This interview is based on a conversation with Alison George, 52, who lives in Raleigh. George cared for her father, who died in 2023, and is now a caregiver for…
Climate Crisis-Denying Trump Threatens Canada With New Tariffs Over Wildfire Smoke
“When wildfires hit America, Canada sends firefighters,” said one journalist. “When wildfires hit Canada, America sends tariffs.” Trump is maintaining that illegals, “two-stater,” and dead people caused him to…
U.S. strikes Iran over troop deaths as campaign against Tehran continues
The United States launched more airstrikes at Iran on Sunday in response to the killing of U.S. troops, and Iran fired missiles toward Jordan that risked widening the conflict into…
Should we trust AI in the search for alien life? Scientists aren’t so sure
Artificial intelligence could easily fall into the trap of identifying non-life as life on other worlds, claim two researchers from Michigan State University who have tested AI on simulated life…
‘A bunch of red tape’: Student-loan borrowers can’t get clear answers from the companies that manage their debt
Jessica Salmi waited nearly an hour on hold before her call was disconnected. Jason Marques' servicer can't say if his next student-loan payment will be $100 or $633. Robin Binkley…
