I’ve never seen such a massive, rapid, and optimistic investment in technology as we’ve seen with AI. 2025 capital spending by Google, Nvidia, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Amazon are over $900 billion, reaching almost 3% of US GDP. Why the optimism? Businesses are convinced that AI is the productivity technology of the future, and the sooner we get our companies …
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Lawyers representing the family of a 32-year-old man who died after riding on a Universal Orlando Resort roller coaster said he likely died as a result of an injury incurred during the ride and that his disability played no role in his death. Kevin Rodriguez Zavala, who had a spinal disability and used a wheelchair, became unresponsive while on the …
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Listen to the article 7 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Republican and Democratic governors of PJM Interconnection states on Monday threatened to pull out of the grid operator’s markets unless states are given a role in governing the organization. “If PJM refuses to change, we will be forced to go in a …
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On Sept. 3, 2025, Florida announced its plans to be the first state to eliminate vaccine mandates for its citizens, including those for children to attend school. Current Florida law and the state’s Department of Health require that children who attend day care or public school be immunized for polio, diphtheria, rubeola, rubella, pertussis and other communicable diseases. Dr. Joseph …
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The first injury of the 2024–25 season comes before the season and it’s a doozy: Fred VanVleet, Houston’s starting point guard, has a torn right ACL and is expected to miss the season. VanVleet, 31, reportedly suffered the injury during a workout with the team in the Bahamas last weekend. It’s a body blow for a Rockets team that, following …
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Scientists have confirmed just how much of an impact melting ice and ocean warming have had on rising sea levels around the globe. What’s happening? In a new study first published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of researchers revealed that utilizing long-term monitoring of barystatic sea level changes is “essential for understanding the …
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Summary: Researchers used AlphaFold3, the latest AI-based protein modeling system, to predict the structures of all 25 known human bitter taste receptors (T2Rs). Compared with AlphaFold2, AF3 consistently generated more accurate structural predictions when benchmarked against experimentally determined data. The study revealed strong structural similarities in intracellular regions of T2Rs, with significant variation in extracellular regions, explaining how different receptors …
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This picturesque farm in rural Virginia is Dwayne Johnson’s very private sanctuary, with a well-stocked pond that he usually fishes alone. “Just me,” he said, “and I’ll bring the girls here, and it’s magical. Just the way the property is set up, I never have to see anybody. And I know it sounds crazy, and maybe kind of weird, but …
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There are many, many reasons why 41 years later “The Natural” remains the gold standard for baseball movies (and probably for sports movies as a whole). There are so many things to like across its 122-minute running time. I like that Joe Don Baker completely hams it up as The Whammer, and doesn’t even pretend like he’s anything other than …
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