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Hurricane Helene has been intensifying with the help of unprecedentedly warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico and is now barreling toward Florida.
Enlarge / Photographs included in an FBI affidavit show a woman believed to be Sarah Beth Clendaniel. (credit: FBI) A Maryland woman was sentenced to 18 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release “for conspiring to destroy the…
Enlarge (credit: Carol Yepes | Moment) California recently became the first state to ban deceptive sales of so-called “disappearing media.” On Tuesday, Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 2426 into law, protecting consumers of digital goods like books, movies, and video…
Enlarge (credit: Hugging Face / anucha sirivisansuwan via Getty Images) On Thursday, AI hosting platform Hugging Face surpassed 1 million AI model listings for the first time, marking a milestone in the rapidly expanding field of machine learning. An AI…
Enlarge (credit: Getty) The printer industry is in a rut. With the digitization of, well, nearly everything, people just don’t print like they used to. More modern ways of storing and sharing information, changes in communication preferences at home and…
In 1817, a British physician named James Parkinson published An Essay on the Shaking Palsy, describing for the first time cases of a neurodegenerative disorder now known as Parkinson’s disease. Today, Parkinson’s disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease…
Enlarge / This was supposed to be Ford’s answer to the VW Beetle, a small, light, efficient, front-wheel drive car called Cardinal. (credit: Ford) Between 100 percent tariffs and now an impending ban on software, it’s clear that America’s auto…
Enlarge / Elon Musk, SpaceX’s founder and CEO, has called for the resignation of the FAA administrator. (credit: Dominika Zarzycka/NurPhoto via Getty Images) The clash between SpaceX and the Federal Aviation Administration escalated this week, with Elon Musk calling for…
Phil Spencer’s Tokyo Game Show update. Beloved real-time strategy classics StarCraft and StarCraft II will soon be available in Microsoft’s Game Pass subscription for PC, the company announced during the Tokyo Game Show. It’s already free to play both StarCraft…
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted a rare galaxy at the dawn of time that may be a “missing link” between the oldest generation of stars and the ones we see near Earth.
