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Friday December 13, 2024. 08:43 PM
A University of Kansas medical student's life hangs in the balance after Blue Cross and Blue Shield denied coverage for an $8,000-per-month medication that could prevent fatal internal bleeding, reports FOX4KC WDAF-TV. Kaitlyn Sy, whose medical studies at KU are now on...
A dropped cellphone and boastful Instagram posts led investigators straight to the thieves behind a brazen $2.7 million jewelry heist in Beverly Hills, resulting in an 80-month federal prison sentence for one of the axe-wielding robbers. Jimmy Lee Vernon III, 33, was part of ...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Sometimes you can judge a book by its cover. The longstanding design and visual culture magazine Print compiled its list of '100 of the Best Book Covers of 2024.' — Read the rest The post Best book...
The U.S. obsession with guns and violence is a fast-spreading contagion that just landed a Florida woman who threatened an insurance company in jail. On the heels of alleged CEO killer Luigi Mangione, Briana Boston ended her call with Blue Cross Blue Shield blurting out a...
The Macy’s accounting nightmare is only getting worse, with the $24 billion retailer telling the SEC on Wednesday that both its annual report from last year and its auditor report “should no longer be relied on.” Although the amount “hidden” was only $151 million ...
Apple has already seized a leadership position with Apple Silicon. Now, it seeks to build a second bridgehead in networking chips so it can make the 5G chip, the Wi-Fi chip, and Bluetooth chips used inside its devices. Why? Cutting component costs might be part of its...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! The California Department of Motor Vehicles is sorry for issuing a vanity license plate mocking the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel by Hamas. The license plate reads 'LOLOCT7' and was mounted on a Tesla ...
A U.S. congressional commission issued a report to Congress calling for a Manhattan Project-style program to fund and develop Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) in order to outpace China in its attempt at technological supremacy. AGI refers to an AI system equal to or...
Two mathematicians have cracked a centuries-old puzzle about prime numbers using an approach that no one saw coming. Ben Green of Oxford University and Mehtaab Sawhney of Columbia University proved there are infinitely many primes that can be written in a specific...
Commits in the Git source-code management system are identified by the SHA-1 hash of their contents — though the specific hash may change someday. The full hash is a 160-bit quantity, normally written as a 40-character hexadecimal string. While those strings are convenient ...
A new premium version of Google’s NotebookLM AI assistant is now available to Google Workspace customers. Google unveiled NotebookLM last year, initially under the name Project Tailwind, and began testing the AI-powered “notebook” with select users. NotebookLM lets...
In the early hours of February 1, 1976, Elvis Presley's private jet touched down in Denver with a mission — to satisfy The King's craving for what might be the most decadent sandwich ever created. The Fool's Gold Loaf, a colossal creation from the Colorado Mine Company...
The enshittification of social media left her doomscrolling through a polarized feed, her brainrot deepening with every bratty meme war. Enshittification, brainrot, brat and now polarization have been selected by major dictionaries as their word of the year. Merriam-Webster...
AI agents are fast becoming the buzz of the AI space as several companies make forays into the agentic AI realm. Now AI researchers at tech giant Microsoft have developed Droidspeak, a novel language designed to facilitate communication between AI agents. This innovation has ...
Large language models (LLMs) are artificial intelligence systems trained on vast amounts of data that can understand and generate human language. These AI models use deep learning technology and natural language processing (NLP) to perform an array of tasks, including text...
French President Emmanuel Macron obviously didn't want to pick François Bayrou as his prime minister: the job interview reportedly went badly and the accouncement was made after Macron's own self-imposed deadline. But more right-leaning centrism it is for the increasingly...
In 1393, a French king who believed he was made of glass hosted a masquerade ball that ended in flames. The Bal des Ardents (Ball of the Burning Men) became one of history's most notorious party disasters, made even more bizarre by the host's deteriorating mental state. —...
Republican snowflake Scott Jennings had a meltdown on CNN when Democratic commentator Bakari Sellers gently touched him on the arm during a roundtable discussion about grocery prices. 'Don't touch me!' the frigid MAGA panelist snapped, triggering a burst of laughter from...
Handling time in a networked environment is never easy. The Network Time Protocol (NTP) has been used to synchronize clocks across the internet for almost 40 years — but, as computers and networks get faster, the degree of synchronization it offers is not sufficient for...
IEEE Spectrum reports on the discovery and scanning of a 1968 IBM demo of its Executive Terminal. Back then, it was a top of the line gadget for future-oriented businesspersons. It may now form a fantastic double-bill with another famed tech demo from that magical year. —...
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