Both Texas and federal officials have reportedly found that SpaceX violated environmental regulations discharging wastewater at its Starbase facility.
SpaceX responded to the reports, saying that state and federal regulators gave it permission to continue operating its deluge system while it worked toward getting the appropriate permits. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had not confirmed waiving the permit requiremen
California and South Carolina could become the next states to limit cellphone use in schools, with state officials taking up the issue Tuesday.
California Governor Gavin Newsom is sending letters to school districts, urging them to restrict students’ use of smartphones on campus. South Carolina’s State Board of Education took up guidelines to tell local di
With its new Pixel 9 phones, Google Assistant is getting a demotion.
In its place, Google’s will ship Gemini as the default voice assistant on its flagship phones. Gemini uses large language models to interpret questions and generate answers, which means it can respond in a more conversational way.
But while Google is eager to showcase Gemini as an answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT,
A fringe group of parents think following your child’s learning instincts, rather than setting them a standard educational pattern, is the best way to foster their growth
The trend, known as “unschooling,” proposes a complete abandonment of standard curriculum. Gone are the days of regular math and literature classes; these parenting influencers insist on only following what the kid expresses curiosity about. But the trend has proved highly controversial, with critics suggest
Seldom has the medium been the message more than it was on Monday night, when Elon Musk hosted a live conversation with Donald Trump on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
The students — most with gray hair, some with canes, all at least in their 60s — couldn’t believe what they were hearing.
“Oh, my God,” whispered a retired college professor.
“Does it come with viruses?” wondered a bewildered woman scribbling notes in the second row.
A 79-year-old in a black-and-white floral shirt then asked the question on many minds: “How do you know if it is fake or not?”
This is how older adults — many
For roughly three decades, experts in digital cryptography have been monitoring a distant threat: that a powerful enough quantum computer could one day render the most widely used forms of encryption—the layer of code protecting everything from national security secrets to personal banking records—obsolete. Today, the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) is unveiling the final version of three new algorithms, long in development, that are designed
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Size matters, and it matters to Donald Trump more than most. Trump kicked off his presidency by exaggerating the modest turnout at his inauguration; now, he’s desperate to diminish the crowds showing up for his 2024 opponent.
Over the weekend, the former president posted on Truth Social
The other day, on a long road trip in a rental car, I found myself looking for a place to pull off the road. As I’ve done many times before, I typed into Google Maps “Food Near Me.” I peered at the options. (Don’t worry, I was in the passenger seat.) The response was bleak: Google recommended a string of chain restaurants. Pizza Hut, McDonald’s, Taco Bell, and so forth.
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