Biden administration sets landmark rules to clean up US power sector The Biden administration on Thursday announced it has finalized rules targeting carbon, air and water pollution from power plants that it says could cut over 1 billion metric tons from carbon ... 04/25/2024 - 9:21 am | View Link
Stock market today: Wall Street slips after dispiriting data on the economy, as Meta sinks Stocks are falling on worries about a toxic cocktail for financial markets, one where inflation remains stubbornly high but the economy’s growth flags. A sharp drop for Facebook parent Meta ... 04/25/2024 - 7:30 am | View Link
Wall Street slips after dispiriting data on the economy, as Meta sinks U.S. stocks are tumbling Thursday after a dispiriting cocktail of data suggested both that the economy’s growth is flagging and that inflation remains higher than hoped. 04/25/2024 - 3:22 am | View Link
Building A Path Forward: Strategies For Exiting Toxic Work Environments The hidden costs of corroded confidence, sapped motivation, and stifled growth often provoked by remaining in such draining environments can be detrimental. 04/24/2024 - 6:05 am | View Link
15 Photos Of Messy, Passive-Aggressive, Toxic Roommates That Are Probably Worse Than Any Roommate You've Ever Had 7.This roommate who left a passive-aggressive note about something that bothered them instead of talking about it in person: 8.These roommates who let the bathroom trash can overflow to an ... 04/24/2024 - 4:15 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.