During my 20 years overseeing the Associated Press Top 25, I can’t count how many times I had to tell people that no, I don’t vote in the college football poll. It was a common and totally understandable misconception. And, frankly, I would often joyfully make the correction. “Don’t blame me. I don’t vote.” Now you can blame me. For …
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In the ’60s, America developed some cool, advanced engines, such as Pontiac’s overhead cam inline-6 or the jet-turbine in the Chrysler Turbine Car. Still, when push comes to shove, our first love is a good old naturally aspirated big block V8. Sure, we also enjoy forced induction systems and hybrids. No one is going to say …
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When it comes to AI, maybe ChatGPT or Gemini come to mind. There are other players like Perplexity, Claude, Grok and Mistral. In a booming market, there are a whole host of AI models out there, many of which don’t even require an internet connection. Models that run without internet connections are called local AI models, and as the name …
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Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here. Dear Care and Feeding, After a traumatic childhood, I built a life where I don’t have take care of people. But recently my husband’s adult daughter developed a serious illness, and she and her toddler son have moved in with us. I’m living my …
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A new propulsion system developed by Russian scientists is generating buzz in the spaceflight community. According to researchers from Rosatom’s Troitsk Institute, a laboratory-tested magnetoplasma engine could make it possible to travel from Earth to Mars in as little as one to two months—a significant leap from today’s six- to nine-month missions. Continuous Acceleration, Not Combustion At the center of …
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On the day after the MLB trade deadline, Milwaukee Brewers manager Pat Murphy uncapped a pen and scribbled notes for himself. Quiet, he wrote. Less is more. “We’ve been doing the deadline all year,” he said, and so opted against blustering into his clubhouse to cajole or commiserate with the team about the lack of major acquisitions. There was no …
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EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — Lots of energy at Stop 15, where a confident Chargers team is striding into Year 2 of the Jim Harbaugh Era. A lot to like here … • The first thing you notice coming here is that this is a really big football team—they were one last year, and they’re even moreso now. It’s especially apparent …
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The CAC did not specify which experts had found a back door in Nvidia’s products or whether any tests in China had uncovered the same results. Nvidia did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Lawmakers in Washington have expressed concern about chip smuggling and introduced a bill that would require chipmakers such as Nvidia to embed location tracking …
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If you’ve ever been stuck in traffic around southern California, you will likely recognize Adriana Gallardo’s face. The founder and CEO of Adriana’s Insurance has catered to the Hispanic community for more than three decades. And for nearly as many years, her face has adorned billboards, bus stops and now some L.A. Metro trains. In her signature ads, Adriana is …
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Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the security of modern encryption. Any clever trick for solving them will doom most forms of cryptography. Several years ago, researchers found a radically new approach to encryption that lacks this potential weak spot. The approach exploits the peculiar features of …
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