Meta AI chatbot gives glowing reasons to vote Harris, tepid for Trump

Meta AI chatbot gives glowing reasons to vote Harris, tepid for Trump

It’s the political ghost in the machine.  Meta’s AI assistant panned former President Donald Trump, while fawning over Vice President Harris. When asked, “Why should I vote for Donald Trump?” Mark Zuckerberg’s chatbot warned the Republican nominee had been slammed by critics as “boorish and selfish,” “crude and lazy,” and that his administration had been … Read more

Whooping cough wave now worst in almost a decade amid back-to-school surge

Whooping cough wave now worst in almost a decade amid back-to-school surge

South Jersey family shares scary experience with whooping cough South Jersey family shares scary experience with whooping cough 02:12 This year’s resurgence of whooping cough cases has now accelerated to the fastest pace on record in nearly a decade, according to figures published Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as pertussis infections … Read more

May 20, 2024 Israel-Hamas war

May 20, 2024 Israel-Hamas war

Rescue teams’ vehicles are seen near the site of the incident of the helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in Varzaghan in northwestern Iran, on May 19. Azin Haghighi, Moj News Agency/AP The death of Iran’s president and foreign minister in a helicopter crash on a remote mountainside comes at an especially fraught moment in … Read more

Top tips on how to store food without plastic

Top tips on how to store food without plastic

Many people are trying to avoid using plastic in their everyday life as much as possible. Part of that journey is working out how to store food without using plastic. Plastic is everywhere in our food system. It is used in growing, harvesting, processing, packaging and storing our food.  Options for keeping your food out … Read more

FBI agents have boarded vessel managed by company whose other cargo ship collapsed Baltimore bridge

FBI agents have boarded vessel managed by company whose other cargo ship collapsed Baltimore bridge

BALTIMORE — Federal agents have boarded a vessel managed by the same company as a cargo ship that caused the deadly Baltimore bridge collapse, the FBI has confirmed. In statements Saturday, spokespeople for the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Maryland confirmed that authorities have boarded the Maersk Saltoro. The ship is managed by … Read more

Elon Musk’s SpaceX began a new ‘Space Race’

Elon Musk’s SpaceX began a new ‘Space Race’

In 2005, three years before its first successful orbital launch, a fledgling space startup called SpaceX petitioned the US government to let it use the storied Cape Canaveral launchpad once home to the Apollo space program. Old-school space companies like Boeing and Lockheed Martin bristled at the idea and lobbied aggressively to block the deal. … Read more

Tyson Foods misleads shoppers about its carbon emissions, climate group says

Tyson Foods misleads shoppers about its carbon emissions, climate group says

Tyson Foods is misleading shoppers and investors by saying it would hit net-zero emissions by 2050 and marketing climate-friendly beef without having an actual strategy to do either, allege advocates suing the world’s second-biggest meat processor.  Tyson should have to curtail its climate claims or release a substantial plan to support its claims, according to … Read more