
Los Angeles Times - 1 day 1 hour ago
Jeff Bezos' participation in this year's Met Gala sparked protests that threatened to overshadow the event itself.

Newser - 1 day 4 hours ago
Cellphones may now be shoved into pouches during the school day, but test scores aren't exactly soaring as a result. A new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research finds that school cellphone bans, now in place in some form in about two-thirds of states, have "consistently close...

New York Times - 1 day 10 hours ago
Elon Musk arriving at federal court in San Francisco in March.

GeekSpin - 1 day 10 hours ago
Imagine scoring free meals from Wendy's every single week for an entire year no gimmicks, no catch, just a golden ticket that keeps on giving. It sounds almost too good to be true, but a limited-time promotion is doing exactly that for a lucky few, turning an ordinary visit into a year-long feast. With only a […] Read the original article here: Wendy's is giving away free food for a year...

The New Yorker - 1 day 12 hours ago
From the daily newsletter: a special issue dedicated to our complicated past, present, and future.

GeekSpin - 1 day 13 hours ago
If you use a VPN to keep your browsing private or access certain websites, there is a good chance things are about to get inconsistent. Starting May 6, a new law in Utah could push websites to block VPN users altogether. The state just passed a law targeting how people bypass age-verification systems on commercial […] Read the original article here: New law could quietly block your VPN access this week...

New York Times - 1 day 13 hours ago
OpenAI's Greg Brockman enters federal court on Monday with his wife, Anna Brockman.

NY Post - 1 day 15 hours ago
Many are split on whether AI is good for humanity, but a new AI-powered tool could prove revolutionary when it comes to cancer screenings.

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 17 hours ago
More than 30 years ago, in the mountain village of Mbem in northwest Cameroon, the moon and stars in the night sky were the only light young Jude Numfor knew after the sunset. Electricity had not yet reached his rural community. "There was one person in the village with a petrol generator and a small television," Numfor says. "When he turned it on, all the children would run to his house and peep through the window." That memory became the spark for Numfor's mission: to bring...

IEEE Spectrum - 2 days 15 min ago
This article is brought to you by DAIMON Robotics . This April, Hong Kong-based DAIMON Robotics has released Daimon-Infinity , which it describes as the largest omni-modal robotic dataset for physical AI, featuring high resolution tactile sensing and spanning a wide range of tasks from folding laundry at home to manufacturing on factory assembly lines. The project is supported by collaborative efforts of partners across China and the globe, including Google DeepMind, Northwestern University, and...