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First responders across the country are providing assistance to communities impacted by Hurricane Helene. Here’s what their work involves.
On September 26, Hurricane Helene made landfall in the Big Bend region of Florida. Since then, Helene has swept across the Southeast, demolishing homes, and leaving many cities without water and electricity. According to NBC News, more than 200 people have died as a result of the hurricane’s destruction.
Buoyed by big valuations, companies like PearAI are trying to capitalize on the massive hype around artificial intelligence—sometimes in a shady way.
For years, Y Combinator has been revered as a highly selective startup accelerator with a hit rate that far exceeds the law of averages. But one of its latest companies has raised a few eyebrows, and prompted questions about whether AI grifters have caught up with the innovators.
As Tesla gears up to finally unveil a robotaxi prototype, Waymo is already expanding to a fourth city.
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With its endless scroll of content, TikTok quickly became a dependence: It helped me relax, helped me sleep, helped me pass by three hours without a semblance of connection.
I downloaded TikTok back in 2020, by which point it had moved from cringe teen fad to pandemic must-have. Since then, I’ve seen my attention span fracture and metastasize. The endless scroll subsumed me, along with some 48 million others in my Gen Z cohort.
Think of it as an elastic waistband for your feet.
The footwear budget for Target shoppers who are the parents of young children just got a little smaller. Footwear designer D’Wayne Edwards‘s new patented shoe for the retailer can expand a full size for adults and half a size for children, giving kids some room to grow before the need new shoes.
From Tijuana to San Diego and the borderlands in between, see how Chef Claudette Zepeda continues to pioneer culinary innovation with five recipes inspired by companies in Invesco QQQ ETF.
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Neo-Nazis are joining SimpleX Chat, a relatively unknown app that received funding from Jack Dorsey and promises users there is no way for it or law enforcement to track their identity.
A surveillance system proven during Covid-19 is now being used to track outbreaks of RSV.
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Waymo has its sights set on its next robotaxi: the Hyundai Ioniq 5.
The Alphabet company announced that it was entering a “multi-year, strategic” partnership with the Hyundai Motor Group that will result in the Ioniq 5 eventually joining its robotaxi fleet.
But first, the Ioniq 5 will need to undergo on-road testing with Waymo’s self-driving technology, which the company says will begin in late 2025. Waymo wouldn’t specify when the Ioniq 5 will be used for...
Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s top team contains more lawmakers from poor backgrounds, and fewer from elite schools, than any in recent memory. Voters haven’t noticed.
Interest in the Menendez brothers has intensified after the release of a new Netflix drama about the case. A separate documentary is forthcoming.
The question is not whether to do industrial policy, but how.
When prosecutors admit they were wrong in a death penalty case, courts should listen.
She’s strong. But she’s warm. That makes all the difference.
American Jews need to recover their instinct for danger.
The voluminous papers of the celebrated neurologist include letters, notebooks, drafts and other traces of a man who couldn’t stop writing.
A New Jersey couple sued Uber after a crash left them severely injured. An appeals court ruled that they had agreed to settle disputes out of court when they used the Uber Eats app.
Beijing’s investigation of the parent of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, which stopped buying goods from Xinjiang, has put global firms in a difficult position.