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British soldiers are figuring out where flying drones and ground robots fall short
British soldiers are testing the trade-offs of using drones both in the air and on the ground — and the challenges that come with each. At a recent US-led exercise in the Mojave Desert, thousands of soldiers gathered to try out new technologies, including uncrewed systems. British troops at the…
Sony accuses Anthropic of ‘brazen campaign’ to train Claude on its music — and wants up to $150,000 a song
Sony Music and Warner Chappell want Anthropic to pay up. The publishing companies filed a lawsuit against Anthropic in a Northern California district court on Friday. Anthropic cofounders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann were also named in the filing. “Defendants Anthropic and its founders Dario…
I moved in with my parents 3 years ago to help my dad with my mom’s caregiving. I’m glad I got that time with her.
I moved back to my Louisiana hometown from Biloxi, Mississippi, in 2023 after 35 years on my own. It was the solution to two problems — I was newly divorced with nowhere to go, and my dad needed help caring for my mom, who had dementia. It was supposed to be temporary. Respite care for
Our daughter inspired a YouTube show that we started in our closet. Now we’re set on creating an empire.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Javoris Hollingsworth and Arlene Hollingsworth, founders of Gracie’s Corner. It has been edited for length and clarity. My wife and I started Gracie’s Corner out of necessity. We were both working as professors during the pandemic, and we were…
I spent my Saturday with the Target exec on a mission to fix its stores
If the holiday shopping season is a retailer’s final exam each year, back-to-school is the midterms. For Target, this year’s test is a big one. Success depends on getting the basics right: exciting merchandise, fully stocked stores, and competitive pricing. Those are all areas where Target has…
My grandparents had a complicated marriage. Then illness made them fall in love again.
My grandmother got ovarian cancer in her 70s. The initial sign came on New Year’s Eve, when Gram, who often said overeating was one of her greatest flaws, thought she had simply done that. She had eaten too much Chinese food, and that was why she threw up. Or so my grandmother reasoned. Next came
Bryan Johnson tackled human longevity. Now he wants dogs to live forever.
Tech entrepreneur Bryan Johnson has become famous for his mission to help humans live forever, with his catchphrase “Don’t die.” Now he wants to do the same thing for dogs. Johnson’s interest in canine longevity was piqued when he recently adopted a professionally trained Belgian Malinois named…
I gave birth in both Puerto Rico and New York. There were several striking differences.
When I moved from Brooklyn to Puerto Rico two years ago, with my husband and then-3-year-old son, we were firmly “one and done.” Life with a toddler in New York City was too hard; we spent weekends at chain-link fence-enclosed playgrounds that were either shadeless and sweltering in the summer or…
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says China isn’t behind the anti-data-center debate
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott isn’t buying the Chinese psy-op theory. In a Fox News interview on Friday, the Texas governor pushed back against the notion that China is influencing the data center debate in the United States. “I haven’t done it because of anything said by China, I’ve done it by listening…
My kids, 6 and 9, loved the Obama Presidential Center playground. Here’s what parents should know before going.
Two long slides, accessible by foot or wheel, connect the upper tree-themed play structures to the lower lagoon-themed play areas. The slides are shaded by a canopy, which is nice since they are metal and would probably get fairly hot when the sun is out. While we were visiting, an attendant was…