The Treasury Department building in Washington, DC, on Thursday. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images) By a huge 30-point margin, Americans say Republicans’ protracted battle earlier… Read More »As the debt battle looms, 55% of Americans say GOP House is “dysfunctional.”
In 2021, privacy advisors from two Dutch universities issued a critical report on Google’s education apps, a suite of classroom tools such as Google Docs… Read More »How the Netherlands tames Big Tech
[Source] Olivia Munn and her partner, John Mulaney, recently took their 13-month-old son, Malcolm, to his first Asian market on a healthy family outing. Munn,… Read More »Olivia Munn is drawing both praise and criticism after taking her son to his first Asian market
Enlarge / Excerpt from a 1923 cartoon that predicted a “cartoon dynamo” and “idea dynamo” that could automatically create cartoon art. The full cartoon is… Read More »Cartoon from 1923 predicts the AI art generators of 2023
The Princess of Wales arrives for a reception for England’s World Cup winning Rugby League team – Stephen Lock / i-Images Prince of Wales’s popularity… Read More »Prince of Wales’s popularity plummets after Prince Harry Spare’s memoir
Partisanship has made the blockade worse. Republicans, some of whom have accused Facebook, Twitter and other sites of censoring them, have been pressuring the platforms… Read More »Supreme Court ready to reconsider key principles of online speech
Enlarge / oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus ostreatus) serenely growing on a tree trunk in a forest. But eels beware! These oyster mushrooms want to eat you… Read More »Carnivorous oyster mushrooms can kill roundworms with “nerve gas in a lollipop”
LOS ANGELES (AP) — As Californians tally the damage from recent storms, some are taking stock of the stormwater collected from cisterns, sumps, wells and… Read More »California storm power systems set up to collect rainwater
Cryptocurrency bulls extend one of the most unlikely rallies of the year so far, pushing Bitcoin above $21,000 for the second day. That means the… Read More »Bitcoin price rises to recoup losses since FTX collapse
February 4, 2018; Minneapolis, MN, USA; Tony Dungy, former player and coach, watches from the field ahead of Super Bowl LII between the New England… Read More »Tony Dungy deletes controversial tweet about cat litter after backlash, outrage
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Official correspondence from US diplomats is getting a revamp next month. Starting Feb. 6, the U.S. State Department will use… Read More »Time(s) for change: State Department selects a new official font
Jane Doe’s mother told a jury on Wednesday that she might have done things differently today if she had received the same, terrifying text messages… Read More »“Mom, I’m being kidnapped,” student Myers Park texted mom during the assault
Microsoft on Wednesday became the latest addition to a growing list of big tech companies that announced plans to lay off workers over overstaffing amid… Read More »Microsoft lays off 10,000 employees to cut costs
Igor Russak/Reuters A Russian journalist went undercover as a wannabe recruit for the infamous Wagner Group and was seemingly accepted into the private military after… Read More »Russia’s Shadow Army Exposed And Humiliated By Fake Recruit
Enlarge / Two birds enforce longstanding bird feeder access rules. That can lead to some birds not eating. Tony Quinn/EyeEm/Getty Images Since Twitter revoked API… Read More »Twitter says third-party apps have broken “long-standing API rules,” not calling rules
