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Amazon Adds $2.75B to Its Stake in the A.I. Startup Anthropic

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Why Are Older Americans Drinking So Much?

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SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.The pandemic played a role in increased consumption, but alcohol use among people 65 and older was climbing even before 2020.Credit...Luisa JungMarch 30, 2024...

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Tom's Essay (2008)

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Measure for Measure: How to write a song and other mysteries. This month’s challenge for me...
Measure for Measure: How to write a song and other mysteries. This month’s challenge for me is getting used to my “in-ear monitors.” These are little monitors that go into your ear so you can hear yourself onstage. I used them a month ago in Sweden for the first time in front of a live audience. Hmm, I thought, Thes...

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Iowa fertilizer spill kills nearly all fish across 60-mile stretch of rivers

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SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.Officials in Iowa and Missouri estimated that nearly 800,000 fish had died in waters that flow into the Missouri River.Residents looking at the Nishnabotna Ri...

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Those Billion-Dollar Lottery 'Jackpots' Aren't Even Half That Big

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SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.The latest enticing lottery prizes are the product of misleading advertising and high interest rates, our columnist says.Credit...Paolo BeghiniMarch 29, 2024U...

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Colon Cancer Is Rising in Young People: What to Know About Causes and Symptoms

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SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.Colon and rectal cancers are increasing among people younger than 50. Experts have a few ideas about why.Credit...Jeannie PhanMarisa Peters had been experienc...

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AI Garbage Is Already Polluting the Internet

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SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.Credit...Jim StotenBy Erik HoelIncreasingly, mounds of synthetic A.I.-generated outputs drift across our feeds and our searches. The stakes go far beyond what...

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Surviving Climate Apocalypse

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You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.OpinionGuest EssayBy Jaime LowePhotographs by Nicholas AlbrechtThere are two ways to experience the town of Bombay Beach, Calif., as a visitor: gawk at the spectacle or fall in...

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School absences have ‘exploded’ almost everywhere

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In Anchorage, affluent families set off on ski trips and other lengthy vacations, with the assumption...
In Anchorage, affluent families set off on ski trips and other lengthy vacations, with the assumption that their children can keep up with schoolwork online.In a working-class pocket of Michigan, school administrators have tried almost everything, including pajama day, to boost student attendance.And across the coun...

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Baltimore Bridge: Force of Ship Collision Was on the Scale of a Rocket Launch

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Erin Schaff/The New York Times The container ship Dali appeared to move sluggishly before striking the...
Erin Schaff/The New York Times The container ship Dali appeared to move sluggishly before striking the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore on Tuesday. Yet it delivered a force so large that one reasonable comparison is to a rocket launch.How could something traveling slower than a casual bike rider cause such a de...

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How A.I. chatbots become political

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We increasingly rely on artificial intelligence chatbots as tools to understand the world. Some are already...
We increasingly rely on artificial intelligence chatbots as tools to understand the world. Some are already replacing internet search engines and aiding in other tasks like writing and programming. Keeping an eye on chatbots’ emergent behaviors — including their political attitudes — is becoming more and more import...

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Can Xerox's PARC find new life with SRI?

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Two research labs known for some of the tech industry’s most important innovations have merged in...
Two research labs known for some of the tech industry’s most important innovations have merged in hopes of recapturing their glory days. It is one of Silicon Valley’s enduring legends. In 1979, a 24-year old Steve Jobs was permitted to visit Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) to view a demonstration of an expe...

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How A.I. Chatbots Become Political

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We increasingly rely on artificial intelligence chatbots as tools to understand the world. Some are already...
We increasingly rely on artificial intelligence chatbots as tools to understand the world. Some are already replacing internet search engines and aiding in other tasks like writing and programming. Keeping an eye on chatbots’ emergent behaviors — including their political attitudes — is becoming more and more import...

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One Satellite Signal Rules Modern Life. What If Someone Knocks It Out?

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You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.In this long exposure, a string of SpaceX Starlink satellites passed over an old stone house in 2021 near Florence, Kan.Credit...Reed Hoffmann/Associated PressThreats are mount...
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Can Xerox's PARC find new life with SRI?

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Two research labs known for some of the tech industry’s most important innovations have merged in...
Two research labs known for some of the tech industry’s most important innovations have merged in hopes of recapturing their glory days. It is one of Silicon Valley’s enduring legends. In 1979, a 24-year old Steve Jobs was permitted to visit Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) to view a demonstration of an expe...

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Sam Bankman-Fried Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison

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SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.A 25-Year SentenceFTX Founder Found GuiltyEffort to Reverse ConvictionWild Rise and Abrupt CrashMountains of EvidenceMr. Bankman-Fried, who was convicted of s...
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Can Weed Improve a Workout?

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SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.Some exercisers say cannabis eases their pain and anxiety — and makes fitness more fun.Samantha O’Brien turned to cannabis before a particularly hard fitness ...

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MTA Board Votes to Approve New $15 Toll to Drive into Manhattan

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SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.March 27, 2024Updated 1:21 p.m. ETNew tolls to drive into the busiest parts of Manhattan — including $15 for most passenger cars — were officially approved on...
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Israel Deploys Expansive Facial Recognition Program in Gaza

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SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.liveUpdatesMarch 27, 2024, 9:34 a.m. ETMapsPhotosRoots of the ConflictAid Delivery to GazaEvacuating Injured ChildrenThe experimental effort, which has not be...
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UN Security Council Passes Ceasefire Resolution

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VideotranscriptU.N. Security Council Demands an Immediate Cease-Fire in GazaThe resolution passed after the United States abstained...
VideotranscriptU.N. Security Council Demands an Immediate Cease-Fire in GazaThe resolution passed after the United States abstained from voting. The cease-fire would last for the month of Ramadan.Will those in favor of the draft resolution contained in Document S/2024/254 please raise their hand? Those against? Abst...

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U.S. Accuses Chinese Hackers of Targeting Critical Infrastructure in America

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SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.The Treasury Department imposed sanctions on the hackers, who they said were working as a front for Beijing’s top spy agency.President Biden warned President ...
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A Strip Mine Threatens a Natural Treasure, the Okefenokee, in Georgia

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SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.Credit...Lynne BuchananBy Margaret RenklOne of the hardest things to reconcile about living in the American South is how this region of extraordinary natural ...
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Boeing CEO to Step Down in Major Reshuffle at Embattled Plane Maker

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SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.The company’s chief executive, David Calhoun, said he would leave at the end of the year. Stan Deal, Boeing’s head of commercial planes, departed immediately....
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Germany's Solar Panel Industry, Once a Leader, Is Getting Squeezed

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SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.Domestic manufacturers are caught between China’s low prices and U.S. protectionist policies, even as demand increases.A solar installation in eastern Germany...

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