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Sandy Rosenthal, founder of Levees.org, stands in the Flooded House Museum where one of the levees breached in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The house was flooded, though the interior now is a recreation made by local artists. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption toggle caption Claire Harbage/NPR NEW ORLEANS — On a quiet street in the Gentilly neighborhood, a small brick house stands as a testament to one of the worst disasters in U.S. history. It’s one of thousands of homes that flooded twenty years ago in Hurricane Katrina. It’s been preserved by Levees.org, a group founded by Sandy…

Benson Boone’s “Mystical Magical” climbs to No. 9 on the Pop Airplay chart, becoming his third career top 10 on that tally. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – FEBRUARY 02: Benson Boone attends the 67th Annual GRAMMY Awards on February 02, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)Getty Images for The Recording Academy On most of the Billboard charts where Benson Boone appears, “Beautiful Things” remains his biggest hit. Released in January 2024, the track turned Boone into a superstar and became one of the most successful pop records of all time in terms of…

Intel has agreed to sell the US a 10 percent stake in the company, Donald Trump announced at a news conference Friday. The US stake is worth $10 billion, Trump said, confirming that the deal was inked following his talks with Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan. Trump had previously called for Tan to resign, accusing the CEO of having “concerning” ties to the Chinese Communist Party. During their meeting, the president claimed that Tan “walked in wanting to keep his job and he ended up giving us $10 billion for the United States.” “I said, ‘I think it would be good…

Hundreds of Italian and international filmmakers, artists and cultural figures have signed an open letter calling on the Venice Film Festival to take a “clear and unambiguous stand” against what they describe as genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza. The appeal, organized under the banner of Venice4Palestine (V4P), was sent on Friday to the Venice film festival umbrella organization the Biennale di Venezia, as well as the festival’s independent sections Venice Days and International Critics’ Week. In the letter, the group accuses the Israeli government and military of carrying out genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing across Palestine, and urges…

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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.We were once promised self-driving cars and robot maids. Instead, we’ve seen the rise of artificial intelligence systems that can beat us in chess, analyze huge reams of text, and compose sonnets. This has been one of the great surprises of the modern era: physical tasks that are easy for humans turn out to be very difficult for robots, while algorithms are increasingly able to mimic our intellect.Another surprise that has long perplexed researchers is those algorithms’ knack for their own, strange kind of creativity.Diffusion models, the backbone of image-generating tools…

In this episode, @alexgatopoulos examines developments in a trade that helps fuel wars around the globe

The rain is just starting to fall from a grey London sky as Sir Nick Clegg arrives, ducking through the traffic and carrying what looks like his laundry. Clean shirts for the photoshoot, he says, before apologetically wondering if he might possibly get a coffee. Within minutes he has further apologised for wanting to swap the leather club chair he is offered for a hard plastic one; and then, in horror, for any impression inadvertently given that my questions might send him to sleep.Impeccable English manners should never be mistaken for diffidence – at 58, Clegg remains the only British…

Ruth CleggHealth and wellbeing reportersydney brownSydney Brown says she and her friends will do “whatever it takes” to look their best and feel confidentIt was Sydney Brown’s mother who first noticed her frown line. A couple of years ago, the pair were video calling when her mum pointed out a crease between her daughter’s eyebrows.They decided it was the right time for Sydney, then 23, to start having anti-wrinkle injections.Now 25, Sydney has had both botox and lip filler. She is happy with her decision, and says she and her friends will do “whatever it takes” to feel more confident…