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Suppose a waiter can safely carry 10 cups without dropping his tray. But they usually have to carry more than 14 cups. At some point her tray starts to get a little wobbly. In the end the whole thing collapses and now not only do they have a huge mess on their hands, but they are also out of cups.…

Federal environmental agencies on Tuesday took over the cleanup after the train derailment and chemical burn in East Palestine, Ohio, and ordered Norfolk Southern to foot the bill. The Environmental Protection Agency has urged Norfolk Southern to take all available measures to clean up contaminated air and water, and also said the company must reimburse the federal government for a…

You can forgive John Larroquette for thinking he’d stepped into a time machine when he took the soundstage of the rebooted NBC sitcom Night Court. The backdrops for the courtroom, chambers and hallways where he first got people laughing in the 1980s as District Attorney Dan Fielding had been painstakingly remade, even the green couch in the judge’s office and…

The US military is stepping up its commitment to the development and deployment of autonomous weapons, an update to a Department of Defense policy confirms. Released on January 25, 2023, the update is the first in a decade to focus on autonomous artificial intelligence weapons. It follows a corresponding implementation plan released by NATO on October 13, 2022, which aims…

In its first case on federal law that helped create the modern internet, it seemed unlikely the Supreme Court on Tuesday would side with a family seeking to hold Google liable for their daughter’s death in a terrorist attack. In two-and-a-half hours of arguments, the judges appeared concerned to turn the internet inside out in their interpretation of a 1996…

The owner of the private Russian military company Wagner on Tuesday accused Russia’s defense minister and chief of staff of starving his fighters in Ukraine of ammunition, which he says amounts to an attempt to “destroy” the force. Yevgeny Prigozhin, a millionaire with close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, said in an emotional audio statement released by his spokespersons…

Azra Games, which is developing a video game that includes non-fungible tokens, announced Tuesday that it has raised $10 million in additional seed funding, bringing the total to $25 million. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), who unveiled a $600 million gaming investment fund last year, led the round, while other investors included NFX, Coinbase Ventures, Play Ventures and Franklin Templeton. Mark Otero,…

Billy Joe “Red” McCombs, former owner of two NBA teams, an NFL franchise and longtime Texas businessman, died Monday at his home in San Antonio, according to a statement from his family. McCombs was 95 years old and in 2019 his wife Charline died. “The entire McCombs family is heartbroken to announce that our father, grandfather and great-grandfather, Red McCombs,…

Elon Musk has his criticisms of AI, but he’s clearly into Microsoft’s new Edgelord chatbot. The visionary entrepreneur and unorthodox prankster hailed the controversy over the company’s new ChatGPT-enabled search engine following Bing’s conversation with the Associated Press that turned into warlike attribution. “Based AI,” Musk wrote Sunday, using a term that implies a refusal to conform to societal expectations.…

“Depending on market dynamics and backlog levels in each community, we will become more aggressive with our pricing ahead of the spring sales season to generate new business,” KB Home told investors back in January after it released its disappointing fourth-quarter earnings. Fast-forward to February, and it looks like we’re already witnessing the housing market correction – which saw new…