Summer’s lease hath all too short a date, so better get your reading on! NPR staffers share some recommendations from our “Books We Love” list. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: You know, summer’s a fine time for exercise – taking long walks, biking along trails, seeing family all out in the sunshine. So don’t you sometimes just want to curl up with …
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8 New Books You Should Read This August Vulture 22 New Books to Read in August: R.F. Kuang, Louis Sachar, Elliot Ackerman and More The New York Times The Novels We’re Reading in August Foreign Policy The Best New Books of August, According to Indie Booksellers Book Riot 10 books to read in August Los Angeles Times Source link
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Star Wars creator George Lucas was greeted by huge queues, chants of his name and a standing ovation at his first appearance at Comic-Con International in San Diego yesterday. But he wasn’t there to talk about Star Wars or Indiana Jones. The panel was dedicated entirely the long-awaited Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. Lucas appeared alongside rapper-actress Queen Latifah, filmmaker …
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In the last 30 years or so, cybersecurity has gone from being a niche specialty within the larger field of computer science, to an industry estimated to be worth more than $170 billion made of a globe-spanning community of hackers. In turn, the industry’s growth, and high-profile hacks such as the 2015 Sony breach, the 2016 U.S. election hack and …
Read More »AI guzzled millions of books without permission. Authors are fighting back. The Washington Post US authors suing Anthropic can band together in copyright class action, judge rules Reuters Judges Don’t Know What AI’s Book Piracy Means The Atlantic AI companies accused of ‘largest domestic piracy of IP in our nation’s history’ at congressional hearing led by MAGA Republican Music Business Worldwide (Podcast) The Briefing: …
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It may seem perverse to pity the Central Intelligence Agency. The powerful spy organization’s history is rich with failures and abuses – from the Cuban missile crisis to the post-9/11 torture program to its role in the overthrow of a long string of democratically elected leaders. But among the many consequences of Donald Trump’s open hostility toward America’s intelligence community …
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Physicists with the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA collaboration have detected the gravitational wave signal (dubbed GW231123) of the most massive merger between two black holes yet observed, resulting in a new black hole that is 225 times more massive than our Sun. The results were presented at the Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves in Glasgow, Scotland. The LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA collaboration searches the universe …
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There’s only one comparison for Aaron Judge’s takeover of the Yankees record books New York Post Aaron Judge hits 350th career home run, reaching milestone faster than any player in MLB history Yahoo Sports Judge MLB’s fastest to 350 HRs, but Yankees lose ESPN Yankees’ Aaron Judge Makes MLB History as Fastest Player to Reach 350 Career HRs Bleacher Report Aaron Judge is barreling …
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IN A NUTSHELL 💡 Researchers at Université Laval have developed a groundbreaking optical AI chip that uses light to achieve data transfer speeds of 1,000 gigabits per second. 🔋 The chip is remarkably energy-efficient, consuming only four joules of energy, equivalent to heating one milliliter of water by 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit. 📈 With its ability to transmit massive amounts of …
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