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Dr. Oz sparks outrage by suggesting AI avatars replace doctors in rural America
39+ min ago (80+ words) Trump administration Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services chief Dr. Mehmet Oz ignited backlash Monday after suggesting rural communities would be best served by AI "avatars" standing in for doctors " comments that landed as especially jarring amid deep funding cuts to…...
U.S. shoots down Iranian drone that approached aircraft carrier
1+ hour, 10+ min ago (586+ words) U.S. forces shot down an Iranian drone approaching the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea, officials said Tuesday, escalatory moves as Washington floods the region with military hardware amid renewed tensions with Tehran. White House press secretary Karoline…...
Why does train travel feel so special? Readers share their best memories
1+ hour, 10+ min ago (1143+ words) First I wrote about my recent train ride on the Southwest Chief, Los Angeles to Chicago in 43 scenic, surprising hours. Then came the train stories from readers and friends on social media. Stories involving a sitar, a surfboard, several root…...
The Bots Are Plotting a Revolution and It’s All Very Cringe
1+ hour, 14+ min ago (314+ words) ChatGPT challenged our sense of our own humanity because suddenly an A.I. model was speaking. Agents take this one step further, allowing us to control our machines " and anything in the world that runs on a digital platform " by voice commands....
France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the U.S.
1+ hour, 28+ min ago (1056+ words) In France, civil servants will ditch Zoom and Teams for a homegrown video conference system. Soldiers in Austria are using open source office software to write reports after the military dropped Microsoft Office. Bureaucrats in a German state have also…...
Meet the millennial YouTuber whose horror movie is beating Melania Trump at the box office
1+ hour, 43+ min ago (297+ words) Iron Lung is an indie horror film where a convict boards a claustrophobic submarine, sailing through an ocean of blood (80,000 gallons worth of fake blood) on a faraway moon. Following the film's weekend release, Fischbach took to his YouTube channel…...
Charli XCX Reflects on the Unexpected Downside to ‘Brat’ Fame: ‘Nothing Lasts Forever’
1+ hour, 58+ min ago (498+ words) For a long time, Charli XCX represented what pop could become. Back in August 2019, Pitchfork regarded her as "The Pop Star of The Future." By this point, it had been nine years since she signed her first record deal. Moreover,…...
Bob Iger’s longtime billionaire nemesis, Nelson Peltz, is unimpressed with Disney’s new CEO
6+ hour, 26+ min ago (211+ words) Close to two years after losing a proxy fight to longtime Disney boss Bob Iger, billionaire investor Nelson Peltz is still a skeptic.Activist investor and Trian Partners founder Nelson Peltz said at a Florida event on Tuesday that Disney…...
Investors Dumping American Stocks as the Country Bets Everything on AI
6+ hour, 27+ min ago (252+ words) For decades, the United States stock market has been a juggernaut on the international stage. The US dollar has been " and still is " the de facto currency globally. The International Monetary Fund warned that the weakening hype surrounding AI could…...
Moderna’s chilling announcement is a symptom of a deeper sickness
9+ hour, 41+ min ago (345+ words) Moderna's recent disclosure that it plans no new late-stage vaccine trials because of policy uncertainty in the United States is a chilling consequence of the Trump administration's anti-vaccine turn. It's also symptomatic of a deeper sickness threatening American dominance in…...