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Gmail Users Getting a Long-Awaited Option
1+ hour, 37+ min ago (179+ words) Gmail users may finally get to ditch that cringey old address without starting from scratch. Google has begun rolling out a long-requested option to change the gmail.com address on an existing account while keeping all associated data and services…...
Winter storm brings blizzard conditions and dangerous wind chills
9+ hour, 59+ min ago (463+ words) A potent winter storm threatened blizzard-like conditions, treacherous travel and power outages in parts of the Upper Midwest as other areas of the country braced Monday for plunging temperatures, strong winds and a mix of snow, ice, and rain. The…...
Blizzard Conditions Hitting Some Parts of US
14+ hour, 9+ min ago (319+ words) A potent winter storm threatened blizzard-like conditions, treacherous travel, and power outages in parts of the Upper Midwest as other areas of the country braced Monday for plunging temperatures, strong winds, and a mix of snow, ice, and rain, the…...
Midwest, Great Lakes Could Be In for Blizzard Conditions
20+ hour, 4+ min ago (434+ words) A powerful winter storm was sweeping east from the Plains on Sunday, driven by what meteorologists describe as an intense cyclone, setting off a chain reaction of snow, ice, rain, and severe weather expected to affect much of the country....
Dating Apps Are Flirting With AI
23+ hour, 6+ min ago (386+ words) Dating apps that once did everything they could to keep users swiping are now hoping AI can finally help people stop. As Business Insider reports, Tinder, Hinge, Bumble, and Grindr are investing tens of millions of dollars in new AI…...
Why AI Couldn't Crack an 11th-Century Italian Mystery
1+ day, 14+ min ago (336+ words) An art historian in Florence decided to see if AI could crack the mystery he'd just spent years solving'and it couldn't. Elon Danziger's finding was this: that Florence's Baptistery of San Giovanni was not a homegrown project but a papal-led…...
In Vitro for Corals? Kind of, in the Caribbean
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (534+ words) Oxygen tank strapped to his back, Michael del Rosario moves his fins delicately as he glides along an underwater nursery just off the Dominican Republic coast, proudly showing off the "coral babies" growing on metal structures that look like large…...
In Defense of Pigeons, the Original City Survivors
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (381+ words) Pigeons, long dismissed as flying vermin, appear to be having something of a rebrand. Actor Sarah Paulson helped kick it off last month with an impassioned defense on the Las Culturistas podcast , declaring that "pigeon hate must be stopped" and…...
In a Part of the Pacific That's Hard to Reach, New Discoveries
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (441+ words) The twilight zone of the Pacific just got the teeniest bit less mysterious. Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences say they believe they've uncovered at least 20 previously unknown species living on deep coral reefs off Guam. They came to…...
Record California Deluge Highlights Weather Swings
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (390+ words) Southern California just logged its wettest Christmas in modern history , and the storms aren't quite done yet, reports CBS News . Rain on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day set modern records across the region, with the National Weather Service calling it…...