President Joe Biden boasted Thursday morning as another executive gun control -- the ATF's expanded background check rule -- stood poised to take effect.
Wawa wasn't built in a day — but over two centuries plus. Here's a quick
On an early spring day in 1959, Edward Hunter testified before a US Senate subcommittee investigating “the effect of Red China Communes on the United States.” It was the kind of opportunity he relished. A war correspondent who had spent considerable time in Asia, Hunter had achieved brief media stardom in 1951 after his book…
Wednesday, April 17 at 9 How do the stories we tell shape the boundaries of our beliefs about what is possible? From the dawn of time, stories are how humans have made sense of the world. This episode emphasizes the fundamental role stories play in our lives, our inclination towards dystopian narratives, and the potential for bigger, better stories to unleash the power of human imagination and creativity moving forward.
The Israeli online magazine +972 has published a detailed report on Israel’s use of an artificial intelligence (AI) system called “Lavender” to target thousands of Palestinian men in its bombing campaign in Gaza. When Israel attacked Gaza after October 7, the Lavender system had a database of 37,000 Palestinian men with suspected links to Hamas More
What began as a primitive tool has spawned hyperrealistic fakes with the potential to disrupt elections around the worldConcern about doctored or manipulative media is always high around election cycles, but 2024 will be different for two reasons: deepfakes made by artificial intelligence (AI) and the sheer number of polls.The term deepfake refers to a hoax that uses AI to create a phoney image, most commonly fake videos of people, with the effect often compounded by a voice component. Combined...
From claiming to cure Covid to defying the Supreme Court, the ayurvedic company founded by yoga guru Ramdev has flouted the law several times.
The cast and crew recall the canceled-way-too-soon Emmy-nominated sitcom
Toronto Raptors forward Jontay Porter is not the first person to receive a lifetime ban from a professional sports league in North America. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver announced the ban Wednesday after a league probe found Porter disclosed confidential information to sports bettors and wagered on games. There have been other bans, from the so-called "Chicago Black Sox" to Pete Rose in Major League Baseball to the only other person banned from the NBA during Silver's tenure — Donald Sterling:...
A Chinese immigrant emphasized to activist David Hogg what the Founding Fathers knew so well — that violating the right to keep and bear arms is the first and most vital step for any would-be tyrant.
A Syracuse police officer and an Onondaga County sheriff’s deputy were shot in Salina, New York, Sunday shortly before 9 p.m.
Lenny Kravitz has been working out in leather and Cuban heeled boots, but he isn’t the first to sideline athleisure in favour of his signature styleWorkout selfies of gym bunnies wearing figure-hugging leggings, short-shorts and biceps-baring tops have become as commonplace as spotting someone slugging down a protein shake on your morning commute. That is to say rife. But this week, the American singer Lenny Kravitz took the genre to a whole new, unforeseen level.Posting a video to his...