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Sarah McBride is no stranger to firsts: In 2012, she became the first openly transgender person to work at the White House, during the Obama administration.

Former Swindon Town goalkeeper Jojo Wollacott has signed for Scottish Premiership side Hibernian.

El croata amplía su vinculación con el club blanco una temporada más tras rechazar una oferta millonaria de Arabia.  Leer

Montreal enlarging the planned green space in the Technoparc fivefold is welcome news — save for a chunk of land Hypertec aims to develop.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Connor McDavid is expected to win his third Hart Trophy as NHL MVP when the league…

Insilico Medicine says trial of lung disease therapy is milestone for generative AI in drug development

Imagine walking into your first day of class and finding out that your beliefs have been officially condemned by the academic department offering the course.

You can’t say Andrei Cherny didn’t warn us. Back in 2012, when Kyrsten Sinema was a former Arizona state senator and he ex-chairman of the state party, they squared off in a bitter three-way primary in the state’s then-new 9th congressional district. “What we saw then with her is exactly who she has been in Washington, D.C.,” Cherny said recently. “She was someone who was the Republicans’ favorite Democratic legislator. Somebody who was cozy with the Republican lobbyists. Somebody who was funded... Читать дальше...

More than a decade ago, on the first day of a college seminar titled “The American South,” Glenda Gilmore—one of the deans of Southern history—challenged my classmates and me to define the borders of the South. It was a surprisingly difficult task. Everyone agreed on, say, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and South Carolina, but what about Oklahoma—was it Western or Southern? What about Kentucky, home state of Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln? Perhaps Missouri, the setting of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn? Читать дальше...

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It’s a big week for the Penguins and the NHL

The enterprise IT landscape is littered with supposedly paradigm-shifting technologies that failed to live up to the hype, and until now, one could argue that AI fell into that category. But generative AI, which has taken the world by storm in the form of OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot, just might be the real deal.

Since announcing a partnership with ChatGPT creator OpenAI earlier this year, Microsoft has been deploying its Copilot generative AI assistant across its suite of Microsoft 365 business productivity and collaboration apps. Word, Outlook, Teams, Excel, PowerPoint, and a range of other applications will be connected to the AI assistant, which can automate tasks and create content — potentially saving users time and bolstering productivity. 

Shouts & Murmurs by John Kenney: If it stays on, we might call it “The Old New Show.” Or “The Old Show.” Or “The Show.” Or “Dag Hammarskjöld,” which we feel would confuse and intrigue viewers.

Among the changes that the director, Nicholas Cullinan, has overseen: a higher ratio of females on the walls, Zadie Smith in pastel, and non-polyester staff uniforms.

The artist discusses the charm of all kinds of summer excursions.

The reality-television personality co-hosts a dinner party to show off her (lucrative) new plant-powered cleaning brand. Scent? Linens laundered by somebody else.

In “Directions to Myself,” Heidi Julavits worries about what the world will do to her son—and what he might do to the world.

In the end, godlike aspirations often met with all too human final moments.

Letters respond to Michael Schulman’s article about Marvel, Helen Shaw’s piece about a controversial Tennessee Williams memoirist, and William Finnegan’s Comment on child labor.

The British cop series, starring Sarah Lancashire, displays a fascination not with violence but with the lengthy shadow it leaves behind.

The President of China compared moral education to buttons on clothes. The girls’ buttons were wrong from the start, but they learned the more valuable lessons that two systems can impart.

One doctor’s Promethean quest to grow the male member is leaving some men desperate and disfigured.

A morally compromised writer can project a strange kind of honesty—especially when his society is compromised to the same degree.