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Charlie Hollishead rents out dresses on By Rotation, a peer-to-peer marketplace where people can rent designer items at a daily rate.

These are today's mortgage and refinance rates. Rates have dropped and remain below last week's levels. As inflation cools, rates could drop back below 6% this year.

The income inequality gap has been narrowing since 2015, with lower-wage workers receiving more raises compared to their wealthy counterparts.

Relentless culture war is making Republican voters increasingly alienated — like members of a fading cult

Foreign spending at America's universities is effectively a black hole.

The Chief Justice was hearing a batch of petitions seeking a declaration that national and regional political parties were ‘public authorities’ under the RTI Act

Top stories from the Russian press on Tuesday, July 25th

South Africa’s food and non-alcoholic beverage (NAB) – hereafter, for short, to be referred to as just food – inflation continued to decelerate in June, the Bureau for Food and Agricultural Policy (BFAP) has highlighted, in its latest “Food Inflation Brief”. But food inflation continued to run far above the level of consumer price index (CPI) headline inflation. In year-on-year (y-o-y) terms, food inflation in June was running at 11%, as against the equivalent CPI headline inflation rate of ...

When Tennessee Republicans moved to expel state Democratic lawmakers who protested at the state capitol over gun violence, the White House sent Vice President Harris to Nashville to call out GOP tactics.

The site is located within the partly walled demesne of Ballyscullion Park, on the shores of Lough Beg in mid-Ulster.

Saudi Minister of Energy Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman called on the international community to eradicate energy poverty faced by some countries. “The issue is moral and affects more than one billion people who lack the simplest means of energy,” he said. Energy poverty implies lack of access to modern energy services, Saudi Gazette

Ships without crews. Self-directed drone swarms. How a US Navy task force is using off-the-shelf robotics and artificial intelligence to prepare for the next age of conflict.

July 30, 2001, was the first day of the Minnesota Vikings’ training camp. In a trailer not far from the football field, offensive tackle Korey Stringer sat on an examination table, bobbing his head as if to music, observers later said. Stringer was coming off a bumper season, having taken honors in the National Football League’s 2000 Pro Bowl.

Sometime soon—maybe as soon as this week—Donald Trump will be arrested. Again.

Memory, more than any of the other cognitive processes, is a mystery. There is, to start, no single thing, structure, or process that is memory. Short-term memory seems to comprise multiple forms: extremely short-term sense memories, some auditory and some visual and spatial, regulated by some kind of central attention or executive function. Long-term memories are now usually categorized as “declarative”—so-called conscious memory, which includes both semantic memory (the recall of facts and figures... Читать дальше...

My least favorite genre of news story is the folklore beat. You know, stories with headlines that say, “People Believe Stuff That Isn’t True, but They Feel Like It Is True, So Let’s Give Them a Hearing Because We Don’t Want to Seem Elitist.” Covid vaccines are unnecessary. Foreign aid constitutes two-thirds of the federal budget. Donald Trump won the election. Schoolteachers are trying to turn your children gay or trans. Little green men visited Area 51, and the military doesn’t want you to know. Читать дальше...

Climate change made heat waves in the U.S. Southwest, Europe and China hotter and more likely

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Your mailbag questions are answered in this week’s edition of the Penscast Mailbag!

OK, you used to worry about nuclear war, then pandemics, then maybe an asteroid hitting earth or the sun going nova. Now, some want you to add AI to the list of things to worry about, and yes, you should probably do that. I’d hold off on worrying that AI will end life on earth, but users themselves tell me that AI does pose some risks, particularly the current ultra-hot “generative AI” that ChatGPT popularized. That’s particularly true for those who want to apply it to network operations.

Cloning a PC drive comes in handy for a variety of reasons, but primarily when you want to replace one drive on a PC with another that is either bigger or faster than the original drive, if not both.

ChatGPT is the first artificial intelligence (AI) brand to go mainstream and it was the fastest-growing tech product ever. The brand returns more than three million results on Google News Search. Late-night TV talk show hosts mention ChatGPT by name — and their audiences know what they’re talking about.

Find boundaries that feel right.

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