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Fluoride in the water: An added benefit, not a harmful one
Water fluoridation is one of the 10 greatest public health achievements of the 20th century, as it helps to prevent tooth decay and reduce cavities, and is endorsed by the World Health Organization ...The Hill - 6h -
How Educators are Using AI to Help Students With Disabilities
Artificial intelligence has the potential to help countless students.Inc. - 7h -
How AI Will Shape Search in 2025
The AI industry will likely create even more disruption in 2025.Inc. - 9h -
The Year of the AI Election Wasn’t Quite What Everyone Expected
Deepfakes were nothing like the political force in 2024 that many feared—but that doesn’t mean that generative AI didn’t profoundly affect elections all over the world.Wired - 14h -
Microsoft Is Forcing Its AI Assistant on People---and Making Them Pay
The tech company has made Copilot part of its 365 subscription service in several markets and raised prices.The Wall Street Journal - 15h -
It’s Time to Move Past AI Nationalism
Countries must collaborate if we’re going to create a less fearful future for artificial intelligence.Wired - 16h -
'One of the best experiences I've had as a parent.' The benefits of father-daughter trips
After this daughter started school, freelance writer Thomas Board was missing time alone with his daughter. So he planned a trip to Norway for the two of them.CNBC - 1d -
AI and crypto drove gains in this year's top 5 tech stocks
The promises of artificial intelligence and the rally in crypto prices were the main drivers of the best-performing tech stocks of 2024.CNBC - 1d -
What Happened in AI in 2024, And What Will the New Year Bring?
Perhaps more than any other technology, AI has dominated the headlines this year. For reasons good, bad, fascinating, and possibly a little terrifying. And we wonder: what world-changing advances ...Inc. - 1d -
Get Ready to Pay the “AI Tax” Next Year
AI-related spending is set to increase next year. Is the juice worth the squeeze?Inc. - 2d -
Don't Look Now, but China's AI Is Catching Up Fast
Chinese artificial-intelligence startups are using workarounds to challenge OpenAI despite a lack of access to advanced chips.The Wall Street Journal - 2d -
People With Extreme Wealth Should Give It Away—or Be Penalized
The gap between the ultra-rich minority and the vast majority has never been greater. But a wave of activist millionaires is asking for higher taxes.Wired - 2d -
How F1 teams are turning to AI to improve performance on the track
Formula One teams are looking to artificial intelligence to optimize strategy and improve racing performance on tracks around the world.CNBC - 2d -
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This tech investor says the AI nuke trade is a loser. Here’s why.
Josh Wolfe, the co-founder of New York VC firm Lux Capital, says the AI/nuke trade is not going to work out like some investors are hoping.MarketWatch - 10h -
Man arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after four people hit by car
Police say one of the pedestrians is in a life-threatening condition.BBC News - 1d -
Blind people excluded from benefits of AI, says charity
New president of the Royal Society for Blind Children calls for better design of AI-driven technology. Blind and partially sighted people are being excluded from the benefits of artificial ...The Guardian - 1d -
Stressed out trees helping charities restore valuable aspen forests
In a little understood quirk of nature foresters have been putting the aspen tree under duress to promote flowering . On a nature reserve deep in the Scottish Highlands there is a polytunnel which ...The Guardian - 1d -
The rock houses of England's last cave people
Over centuries, caves in Kinver, Staffordshire, are turned into rock houses by families.BBC News - 1d -
China steps up campaign for single people to date, marry and give birth
Women receive cold-calls about family planning and universities asked to offer ‘love courses’ to tackle demographic crisisFinancial Times - 1d -
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Where is Santa right now? These people know
The Norad Tracks Santa website receives several million visitors each year from more than 200 countries and territories.BBC News - 2d -
The photo booth is turning 100 — meet the people keeping it alive
In 1925, Anatol Josepho invented the automated photo booth in New York City, originally calling it a photomaton.NBC News - 2d -
AI features dominating tech heading into 2025
New artificial intelligence features appeared across the tech landscape this year, from the latest iPhone to chatbots like Google's Gemini. Adam Auriemma, the editor-in-chief at CNET, joins CBS ...CBS News - 2d -
Expect Eaton to keep profiting from AI's spiraling demand for computing power
A big backlog of projects should keep the company busy for the foreseeable future.CNBC - 2d -
5 people hurt after chairlift collision at Lake Tahoe ski resort
Five people were injured Monday when two chairs on a lift collided at Heavenly Mountain ski resort in Lake Tahoe, local media reported.NBC News - 2d -
Kosovo's ethnic Serb party says its ban from a parliamentary election is 'political violence'
Kosovo’s main ethnic Serb party says its ban from taking part in the upcoming parliamentary election is political and institutional violence against the ethnic minorityABC News - 2d -
My Social Security benefit will be $4,500 a month. My wife’s is now $615. Can she get more?
“She stopped working about 15 years ago and started drawing her Social Security when she was 62.”MarketWatch - 2d -
Hospitals trial AI to spot type 2 diabetes risk
The system checks patients' ECG heart traces for subtle early warning signs.BBC News - 2d -
Blast kills 12 people at explosives factory in Turkey
A blast ripped through an explosives factory in northwest Turkey on Tuesday, killing 12 people and injuring four.NBC News - 2d -
A blast at a Turkish armament factory kills at least 12 people
An explosion at an armament factory in northwest Turkey left at least 12 dead and four injured Tuesday morningABC News - 2d -
Investors call for UK government to reform defined benefit pensions
Overhaul could free up billions for real estate and infrastructure, asset managers sayFinancial Times - 2d -
Scaramucci advises Musk to 'stick to business' because 'these people can hurt you'
Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci on Monday urged Elon Musk to stay out of politics and focus on his successful businesses. “Stick to business. You‘ve done great. You‘ve ...The Hill - 2d -
Chicago man sells "hardest pizza to get" in alley and donates proceeds to charity
Once a month, a pie slinger in Chicago sells pizza out of a truck in an alley. His thin crust pizza is so popular, it usually sells out within minutes — raising plenty of dough for a good cause. ...CBS News - 2d -
Part of Santa Cruz wharf collapses sending 3 people into the ocean
Part of the Santa Cruz, Calif., wharf collapsed on Monday, sending three construction workers into the ocean. All victims were rescued — two by a lifeguard unit and a third managed to swim to ...The Hill - 2d -
California wharf collapse sends 3 people into the ocean
Three people dropped into the ocean Monday when a California wharf partially collapsed.NBC News - 3d -
South Korean researchers develop wearable robot that helps people with disabilities walk
A robotic exosuit may seem like science fiction, but a team of South Korean researchers is turning the concept into reality. CBS News' Leah Mishkin explains how the new tech is helping people with ...CBS News - 3d -
Animation Guild ratifies contract with Hollywood studios despite AI concerns
The union that represents Hollywood animators ratified its new contract with the studios, despite concerns among some prominent members over the deal's protections covering artificial intelligence.Los Angeles Times - 3d -
AI Search Makes Inroads as Expert Says Google Has ‘Plateaued’
As AI-powered search options grow and get used more often, the change may have stark effects on the search ad industry, and change how millions of businesses market themselves.Inc. - 3d -
