Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Elon Musk has changed his mind again: he does want to buy Twitter, actually. This, after months of drama! He signaled his intent in a new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission — but there’s a catch: Twitter has to drop its lawsuit. We understand if you…
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Enlarge / The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger, “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science.” (credit: Niklas Elmehed/Nobel Prize Outreach) Cornell University physicist N. David Mermin once described quantum entanglement as “the closest thing we have…
Howard University and the nonprofit National Education Equity Lab have announced they are expanding a program that allows high school students in historically underserved communities to take college Algebra in their high school classrooms and earn college credit at no cost.Read More
Bella Hadid is dressed by Fabrican’s Spray-on fabric during the Coperni fashion show in Paris. Photo by JULIEN DE ROSA/AFP via Getty Images Last Thursday at the close of the Coperni show during Paris Fashion Week, spectators watched in awe as two men spray painted a form-fitting white dress in real-time onto model Bella Hadid….
US Vice President Kamala Harris holds up a map of states with newly passed abortion bans at a White House task force meeting this August. Win McNamee/Getty Images Today, President Joe Biden announced new guidelines and grants aimed to protect reproductive rights and discussed how abortion rights have been curtailed since Roe v. Wade was…
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China has joined a handful of countries in banning flavored vapes to combat underage use of nicotine. Starting October 1, e-cigarette companies are only allowed to sell tobacco-flavored vapes in the country, an effort by the government to “standardize” the production, sales and consumption of the novel tobacco product. China’s e-cigarette makers had a short-lived…
The White House this morning unveiled what it’s colloquially calling an “AI Bill of Rights,” which aims to establish tenets around the ways AI algorithms should be deployed as well as guardrails on their applications. In five bullet points crafted with feedback from the public, companies like Microsoft and Palantir and human rights and AI…
Party Round wants you to know that the party isn’t over. In fact, it just rebranded, put the music just a little bit lower and finally put out some appetizers. After a certain point, don’t we all get peckish? Party Round announced today that it has rebranded to Capital to underscore its product expansion. Now,…
Georgia Republican Senate nominee Herschel Walker speaks at a campaign event in Gwinnett, Ga., on September 9, 2022. Megan Varner/Getty Images MAGA world will excuse Walker’s abortion scandal rather than vote for a democrat: GOP operative. Conservatives are already saying paying for one abortion is preferable to funding all abortions. “Walker can’t say anything about…