US applications for jobless claims fall to lowest level in 9 weeks Fewer Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week as the labor market continues to hold up despite higher interest rates imposed by the Federal Reserve in its bid to curb inflation. 04/25/2024 - 6:41 am | View Link
US Births Fell Last Year to Lowest Total Since 1979, Report Says US births declined in 2023 to their lowest level in more than 40 years, continuing a two-decade trend of Americans having fewer children. 04/24/2024 - 5:01 pm | View Link
Gaps Widening Between Indiana’s Highest- and Lowest-Performing Students The exact date varies across grades and subjects, but Indiana’s student achievement scores peaked about a decade ago and have been falling since. The decline started well before COVID-19 and has not ... 04/24/2024 - 3:30 am | View Link
Fall in IQ scores linked to technology use: Professor The research, published in the journal Intelligence, found falling scores in areas including logic, vocabulary, visual and mathematical problem-solving and analogies like those on the old SAT exam. IQ ... 04/23/2024 - 2:13 pm | View Link
13 N.J. schools with the highest average SAT scores New Jersey has a wealth of very high scoring schools when it comes to the SATs, but some high schools have much higher average scores on the college entrance exam than others. Millburn High School ... 04/14/2024 - 8:01 pm | View Link
Connections is the latest New York Times word game that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.
Enlarge / A meeting of the UN Security Council on April 14. (credit: Fatih Aktas/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Russia vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution Wednesday that would have reaffirmed a nearly 50-year-old ban on placing weapons of mass destruction into orbit, two months after reports Russia has plans to do just that.
Russia's vote against the resolution was no surprise.
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Logitech announced a new mouse last week. A company rep reached out to inform Ars of Logitech’s “newest wireless mouse.” The gadget’s product page reads the same as of this writing.
I’ve had good experience with Logitech mice, especially wireless ones, one of which I'm using now.
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Trendy, unproven "vampire facials" performed at an unlicensed spa in New Mexico left at least three women with HIV infections. This marks the first time that cosmetic procedures have been associated with an HIV outbreak, according to a detailed report of the outbreak investigation published today.
Ars reported on the cluster last year when state health officials announced they were still identifying cases linked to the spa despite it being shut down in September 2018.
The HMD Pulse base model. [credit:
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HMD has been known as the manufacturer of Nokia-branded phones for years now, but now the company wants to start selling phones under its own brand. The first is the "HMD Pulse" line, a series of three low-end phones that are headed for Europe.
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In the world of AI, what might be called "small language models" have been growing in popularity recently because they can be run on a local device instead of requiring data center-grade computers in the cloud. On Wednesday, Apple introduced a set of tiny source-available AI language models called OpenELM that are small enough to run directly on a smartphone.