Newspapers Sue OpenAI and Microsoft for Profiting from their Content A coalition of prominent newspapers, including the New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, and Orlando Sentinel, has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, accusing the tech giants of ... 05/3/2024 - 6:45 pm | View Link
University of Utah faculty ask for ‘divestment strategy’ from Israel, decry protest crackdown Over 160 University of Utah faculty, including professors from a number of departments, have signed a joint statement asking the school to end its police presence at the recent pro-Palestinian ... 05/3/2024 - 11:28 am | View Link
Evergreen signs agreement with students to move toward divesting from companies profiting in Gaza Officials at The Evergreen State College in Olympia and students with the Evergreen Gaza Solidarity Encampment reached an agreement in which the public college will work toward divesting from ... 05/3/2024 - 7:59 am | View Link
Lawmakers propose bill to prevent investors from profiting off water scarcity: 'Not a commodity for the rich and powerful' "There's a big water grab out west that now is a really good time to ... cut off one avenue for these massive financial interests to exploit water scarcity." Lawmakers propose bill to prevent ... 05/2/2024 - 11:45 pm | View Link
Evergreen officials sign agreement with students to divest from companies profiting in Gaza Representatives with the Evergreen State College in Olympia and students with the Evergreen Gaza Solidarity Encampment reached an agreement to address several policy areas including divesting from ... 05/2/2024 - 1:03 pm | View Link
The Rockies, oh so desperately needed someone to make a big splash.
Two players delivered Friday night — one of them literally — in the Rockies’ 3-2 win over the Pirates at PNC Park.
Ryan McMahon led off the Rockies’ three-run sixth inning with a 445-foot homer that splashed down in the Allegheny River.
The Eta Aquarids meteor shower, which occurs each year as the Earth passes through remnants of Halley’s comet, is expected to reach its peak this weekend. Watchers can expect to see hundreds of meteors fill the sky in the pre-dawn hours. With the moon at a waning crescent, the show is expected to be even more vibrant than usual.
Chants of “disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest” are reverberating across the globe as student-led protests in support of Palestine have popped up outside the U. S. and in countries like Australia, Mexico, and the U. K. as the Israel-Hamas war enters into its seventh month.
The best Taylor Swift needle drops will make you think about her music a little differently. A show like You might play with tone, turning an emotional ballad into comic relief, while The Buccaneers might help christen a new Swiftie classic with one pivotal scene. Some music syncs feel so seamless you may start to believe they were written specifically for a movie, while others, like Swift’s Valentine’s Day sweetheart anthem “Today Was a Fairytale,” actually was.
In a fast-food culture, there may be few things better for your health than making a simple home-cooked meal. But while the meal itself may be a good idea, the cooking part can be a problem—at least if you own a natural gas or propane stove. That’s the conclusion of a new study in Science Advances, showing that dangerous levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) are emitted by both kinds of stoves.
The findings are a result of new work conducted at Stanford University by environmental scientist Rob Jackson and graduate researcher Yannai Kashtan.