Last summer, a group of Ukrainian volunteers, working closely with their country’s intelligence service, apparently came close to persuading three Russian aviators who were in the midst of bombing Ukraine to defect with their warplanes in exchange for $1 million a piece.
Andrew Toles hasn't played since 2018. Since then, he was found homeless and has been diagnosed with schizophrenia.
A new survey of Black male voters in the Southeast offers key insights into how an historically overlooked voting bloc helped shape Georgia’s 2022 Senate race, and offers lessons for future campaigns.
Republicans continued to downplay the need for legislative action on guns following Monday’s mass shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville, where three adults and three 9-year-old students were killed.
The app's massive popularity has raised national security concerns, but skeptics say banning it would do little to keep Americans' private data out of China's hands.
Since 2021, Isaac Herzog has served as Israel’s president, a customarily ceremonial position that he has elevated with his vociferous opposition to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has proposed a controversial plan to make the judiciary branch subservient to the Parliament.
Matthew McConaughey is reportedly in talks to lead a new as-yet-untitled series that will continue the franchise. Could it be a show set on the 6666?
Andie MacDowell recently spoke with Katie Couric about aging, her silver hair, and her career success.
Social-media users commented that they "could barely recognize" Khloé Kardashian in a filtered video she posted to Instagram on Wednesday.
"Cannot stress enough how comical this Lucy & the football act is between the WH & House Dems," tweeted the House GOP campaign arm's spokesperson.
US Army officials said the two helicopters were flying as part of a "routine training mission" when they crashed.
The Colorado Democrat and his wife welcomed baby Jack in December 2022.
"That’s more than minimum wage — you scored!"
If you want an example of how someone can get carried away by what seem to be high interest rates, you don’t need to look at huge financial messes like Silicon Valley Bank, R.I.P. Instead, you can look at me.
Confluent co-founder Neha Narkhede today announced a new fintech company, Oscilar, that's developing an "AI-driven" platform to help financial institutions protect online transactions from fraud and theft. Oscilar is entirely self-funded, backed by $20 million that Narkhede and the company's other co-founder, Sachin Kulkami, themselves contributed. Narkhede says that they opted not to take outside funding so that they could "quickly build and scale the company" as it launches publicly.
The 2023 Fisker Ocean Extreme scored a WLTP range of 440 miles, the highest of every other mass-market EV we know of currently on sale in Europe.
If you experience constipation whenever you travel, you're not alone. Here's what's going on, according to experts.
Imagine flying to Paris to see the Mona Lisa, arguably the most famous painting in the world, and a YouTuber is there hanging his own self-portrait next to it.
Polestar, a Swedish electric-vehicle maker, kicked off a U.S. roadshow for an electric SUV. The company—backed by Volvo and China’s Geely—is taking on a growing field of competing electric SUVs like the Tesla Model X, Mercedes EQS SUV, and BMW iX.
The TV presenter, 49 felt 'relieved' when he was diagnosed with clinical depression, and found a therapist that worked for him.
The 2024 Renault 5 EV will inaugurate an evolution of an architecture currently in production that's being developed exclusively for electric cars.
Guests laughed when King Charles referenced the Dinner for One sketch, which is hugely popular in Germany.
The "Creed III" and "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania" actor, who's a rising star in Hollywood, is facing fallout after his weekend arrest. His attorney says there's evidence he's "entirely innocent."
Microsoft is "exploring" putting ads in the responses given by Bing Chat, its new search agent powered by OpenAI's GPT-4. While these sponsored responses are clearly labeled as such, it does make one question how far we've really come from the old model of ads on search engines. Microsoft confirmed this is happening, albeit in an experimental form, in a blog post published today.
In Chicago’s closely watched mayoral race, frontrunner Paul Vallas bills himself as a moderate, managerial expert who can tackle the city’s long-running public safety problems. His opponent, progressive Cook County commissioner Brandon Johnson, has labeled Vallas a Republican in disguise. In this overwhelmingly Democratic city, it would be difficult to imagine a label more toxic.
The 2023 Volkswagen Taos may be small outside, but it's big inside, making it surprisingly family friendly. Value and fuel economy are excellent, too.
“People in the arts don’t fight with our fists, we fight with our pens,” says an arts educator.
RH CEO Gary Friedman held another wild earnings call amid weak results.
Nintendo was supposed to shut down its Wii U and 3DS eShops for good on March 27th at 5PM PST, but it looks like you'll have a little more time.
Magazine app Flipboard is integrating Mastodon in its Android application, as the company broadens its commitment to the federated social web. Flipboard CEO Mike McCue will also demonstrate the app's new Mastodon support in a session this morning at FediForum, an online event dedicated to discussions surrounding the challenges facing the Fediverse -- the group of interconnected servers powering a range of open source, decentralized applications, including the newly popular Twitter alternative Mastodon. Last month, Flipboard first announced it was joining the Fediverse with plans to integrate with Mastodon, launch its own Mastodon instance, flipboard.social, and later, add support for ActivityPub -- the protocol powering Fediverse apps like Mastodon, which has benefitted from the chaos surrounding Twitter after Elon Musk's acquisition.
Jeep is recalling nearly 58,000 units of the 2020 - 2023 Wrangler due to an unnecessary frame stud that can puncture the fuel tank in an accident.
As shoppers discovered this week the meaning of one UK supermarket's name, see if you can identify the origins of these well-known brands.
Bed Bath and Beyond stock fell as much as 8% after the struggling retailer said it would sell up to $300 million in shares and posted preliminary fiscal fourth-quarter sales results.
Midjourney has dropped free trials of its AI image generator after users created deepfakes of Trump, the Pope and others.
Called Fixie, the firm, founded by former engineering heads at Apple and Google, aims to connect text-generating models similar to OpenAI's ChatGPT to an enterprise's data, systems and workflows. Co-founder and CEO Matt Welsh describes it as the first enterprise-focused platform-as-a-service for building experiences with large language models (LLMs). "Essentially, Fixie is an infinitely extensible model that enterprises can integrate into their own products and tools," co-founder and CPO Zach Koch told TechCrunch in an email interview.
Though businesses and governments around the world have begun transitioning from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy to try to cut the greenhouse gas emissions causing climate change, a slew of court cases and legal actions look to speed up that effort.
The government has postponed an increase in the UK state pension age - but how does the UK compare to others.
The crypto exchange founder entered his plea of not guilty on five new counts added by prosecutors in February and March.
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One Twitter alternative is hoping to lure some of those “legacy” checkmarks to its platform.
In 2023, layoffs have yet again cost tens of thousands of tech workers their jobs; this time, the workforce reductions have been driven by the biggest names in tech like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo and Zoom. The reasoning behind these workforce reductions follows a common script, citing the macroeconomic environment and a need to find discipline on a tumultuous path to profitability.
“American workers are desperate for a break.”
“Workers will have more leisure but at the cost of less efficiency and a lower standard of living.”
“We have more important things to do now than spend our lives making a tiny group of very rich people even richer.”
“Some industries and deeply entrenched work cultures mean the four-day workweek may not be realistic for all employees.”
“While workers have spent the last 50 years steadily producing more and more, real wages have not risen at the same rate.”