I built marshmallow castles in Google’s new AI-world generator

Starting Thursday, Google AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S. can play around with Project Genie, which is powered by a ...
Los Angeles Times

Letters to the Editor: In halting offshore wind projects, we hinder our own clean energy potential

To the editor: Offshore wind is an emerging technology with massive potential to provide clean, inexpensive, safe energy (“Trump administration cites national security as it halts offshore wind. Some ...
MarketWatch

‘Is it a case of them or us?’ We’re in our 40s. Do we retire early in our 50s — or save for our kids’ education?

We’re a married couple in our early 40s. We’re both teachers, with a combined gross income of $210,000. Each year, we max out our Roth IRAs and our HSA, which we invest. Our medical expenses have been ...
Tallahassee Democrat

In praise of holiday baking: A sweet tradition preserves history

Since about half of the average American’s daily calories come from ultra-processed foods, it is fair to ask why I want to sing the praises of holiday baking. Baking gets a bad rap these days. But ...
OPB

A Reddit post helped find MIT and Brown shooting suspect. Here’s what we know

Robert F. Bukaty A Reddit post by an observant witness helped lead investigators to the gunman officials say was responsible for the killing of two students during the shooting at Brown University on ...
MassLive

‘We got him’: Police ID dead suspect in Brown University, MIT professor shootings

Providence police identified the suspect in the deadly Brown University mass shooting and the killing of an MIT professor in Brookline Thursday night after he was found dead in a storage facility in ...
WGRZ

Two more Western New York parishes spared from closure, group says

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Save Our Buffalo Churches announced this past weekend that two additional parishes in the Diocese of Buffalo have won their Canon Recourse Appeals and will remain open. According to ...
Hosted on MSN

We can save this wild goose. Just have to catch him first.

An injured Canadian Goose has been residing on our pond. This video covers its story and recovery journey, featuring a selection of music throughout the episode. MUSIC IN THIS EPISODE: 0:00 Dayon - I ...
National Geographic news

What we can learn from watching 100,000 animals in unbelievable detail—from space

Cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Sergey Prokopyev successfully installed the first ICARUS experiment antenna on the outside hull of the International Space Station during a nearly eight-hour space walk in ...
Vogue

This Is When We Actually Become Adults, According to Science

For a long time, it was believed that the prefrontal cortex—the part of our brain responsible for decision-making and impulse control—didn’t fully develop until the age of 25, which is when we’d ...
TechSpot

MIT study says agentic AI can already replace 11% of the US workforce

The trillion-dollar question: Is AI technology actually going to disrupt the job market in the US and elsewhere in the world? While the jury is still out, new speculative exercises are trying to ...
The New York Times

We Can’t Diet and Exercise Our Way Out of the Next Pandemic

In the event of a sudden pandemic, what should we do? This month, Jay Bhattacharya, the director of the National Institutes of Health, offered a remarkably blunt answer: nothing. It’s been nearly six ...