Liu grew up training at the Oakland Ice Center, a product of the now-defunct community development programs that once helped create economic opportunity across California. It could have easily become a high-rise luxury condo complex. Or maybe a struggling office tower now being converted into luxury condos. Maybe a parking garage, or a data center.
Daryl Hannah, in a scathing New York Times guest essay published today, excoriates Ryan Murphy‘s highly-rated FX limited series Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette, in particular her depiction as the villainous “adversary” to the titled romance. And a coke-snorting, heirloom-desecrating, funeral-crashing adversary at that. Hannah, who dated Kennedy off and on for…
Once celebrated for its fiery spirits, the town of Maotai has reeled from a bad Chinese economy, changing tastes and a crackdown on boozy official banquets.
Robotic hands are getting their nails done. Researchers have designed a new three-fingered robotic hand whose digits come with a rigid fingernail on soft material. The design gives the robotic hand the ability to peel fruit, open containers with lids and pick up flat objects, the team posted to arXiv.org February 5. The results offer…
Health tech giant TriZetto has confirmed that more than 3.4 million people’s personal and health information was stolen in a 2024 cyberattack, which the company failed to detect for almost a year. The tech company, owned by multinational conglomerate Cognizant, serves around 200 million people across 875,000 healthcare providers throughout the U.S., according to its…
Max Holloway didn’t stick to his original plan to hold out for a better payday. The fan favourite is set to return in this Saturday’s UFC 326 main event, where he’ll be aiming for back-to-back BMF title defenses. Advertisement Charles Oliveira will be the one standing in his way. Both fighters are hoping a win…
Image from February, 2025It’s now been more than a month since Savannah Guthrie’s mom, Nancy Guthrie, mysteriously went missing from her home in Tucson, Arizona. The investigation has been all over the place, but the Pima County Sheriff’s Office and FBI are still investigating it as a kidnapping. Thanks to retrieved doorbell camera footage, an…
I remember the first time I saw a satellite. I was a teenager, standing in my mildly light-polluted suburban yard and doing my usual stargazing. The satellite was a faint “star” moving slowly and smoothly across the sky, and as I watched it, I felt a mix of awe and wonder that such a thing…
Altman said the agreement reflects OpenAI’s principles banning domestic mass surveillance.
