2 JetBlue Planes Collide on Tarmac at Logan Airport in Boston
Two JetBlue Airways planes collided on the tarmac at Boston Logan International Airport early Thursday morning, damaging both aircraft but causing no reported injuries. JetBlue Flight 777 was entering a de-icing pad lane before taking off for Las Vegas when its left winglet struck the right horizontal stabilizer on the tail of JetBlue Flight 551, […]
AI Tools Like GitHub Copilot Are Rewiring Coders’ Brains. Yours May Be Next
Many people—like, say, journalists—are understandably antsy about what generative artificial intelligence might mean for the future of their profession. It doesn’t help that expert prognostications on the matter offer a confusing cocktail of wide-eyed excitement, trenchant skepticism, and dystopian despair. Some workers are already living in one potential version of the generative AI future, though: […]
London Underground Is Testing Real-Time AI Surveillance Tools to Spot Crime
Staff at the transportation body ran “extensive simulations” at Willesden Green station during the trial to gather more training data, the documents say. These included members of staff falling on the floor, and some of these tests happened when the station was closed. “You will see the BTP [British Transport Police] officer holding a machete […]
AI-Generated Voices in Robocalls Are Now Illegal
It’s now illegal for robocallers to use AI-generated voices thanks to a new ruling by the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday. In a unanimous decision, the FCC expands the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, or TCPA, to cover robocall scams that contain AI voice clones. The new rule goes into effect immediately, allowing for the commission […]
‘Grey divorce’ getting more prevalent in Canada. Why it’s a concern – National
Canadian couples are more open to seeking divorce in later life, and research suggests this can impact women more than men. In Canada, the average age for divorce has been steadily rising over the years, partly because people are increasingly getting married at a later age. In 2020, the average age of divorce was 48 […]
Opinion | Whoever Donald Trump Chooses as His Running Mate, Please Let It Not Be a Woman
Whoever Donald Trump chooses as his running mate, please let it not be a woman. Perhaps you think it’s beside the point to worry over this. But before writing off the vice presidency as a distraction, remember, three years ago, his vice president stood between democracy and autocracy, after he noticed at the very last […]
NASA’s New PACE Observatory Searches for Clues to Humanity’s Future
Way up in the sky and sprinkled across the seas, two of the littlest yet most influential things in the world have stubbornly guarded their secrets: aerosols and phytoplankton. Today, NASA launched its Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem mission, or PACE, to unravel their mysteries. The mission’s findings could be a key to understanding how […]
At 116, She Has Outlived Generations of Loved Ones. But Her Entire Town Has Become Family.
When Edith Ceccarelli was born in February 1908, Theodore Roosevelt was president, Oklahoma had just become the nation’s 46th state and women did not yet have the right to vote. At 116, Ms. Ceccarelli is the oldest known person in the United States and the second oldest on Earth. She has lived through two World […]
Measles: West Midlands cases ‘disproportionately high’
Elsewhere there have been 62 cases in London, and 32 in Yorkshire and the Humber in the same period. The remaining cases were reported in other regions of England. Of the 465 cases in England, the majority – 66% (306) – were in children under the age of 10, while 25% (115) were in young […]
Does your partner spend too much? BMO finds one third of Canadians think so – National
As many Canadian couples gear up for a Valentine’s Day date next week, differing opinions about spending how may be causing conflict, a new survey suggests. About one-third of Canadian couples (32 per cent) say spending is often a source of disruption in their relationship, according to a report from BMO’s Real Financial Progress Index […]