Stranded at the crossroads of student debt A long-time acquaintance called me in 2022 to catch up. Throughout our nearly 50 years of friendship, I don’t recall discussing anything political. Somehow the topic of President Biden’s signature ... 04/21/2024 - 2:00 am | View Link
Student debt is haunting Americans from graduation to retirement “When people have this debt, not only are they not having children, they’re not buying ... and a large proportion of upper- and middle-class parents are willing to pay top dollar — or ... 04/17/2024 - 6:25 am | View Link
Column: Are Republicans who got pandemic debt relief hypocrites for complaining about student debt relief? Yes You may have noticed over the last few days that the political world is in an uproar over President Biden’s dispensing of student debt relief. It’s not so much that Biden implemented the ... 04/15/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Biden is canceling $7.4 billion in student debt for 277,000 borrowers. Here's who is eligible. The Biden administration on Friday said it's canceling $7.4 billion in student debt for 277,000 borrowers, with the recipients scheduled to receive emails today to alert them to their loan discharges. 04/12/2024 - 8:29 am | View Link
Biden announced $7.4 billion in student loan relief. Here's how that looks in your state The canceled debt adds up to $7.4 billion. Most of those borrowers signed up for the president’s signature income-driven repayment plan – Saving on a Valuable Education, or SAVE. Through ... 04/12/2024 - 4:57 am | 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.