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One Tech Tip: Escape the AI junk crowding your social media and music streams
1+ hour, 28+ min ago (815+ words) By KELVIN CHAN, AP Business Writer AI slop seems to be everywhere. Low-quality digital content made with artificial intelligence has flooded our feeds, screens and speakers. Is there anything we can do about it? If you want fewer cartoonish videos…...
‘Frozen water out?’ White Bear Lake Ice-Out Contest organizer contemplates name change, sticks with original
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (441+ words) The organizer of an annual north metro contest was faced with a riddle this year: Keep the name, or come up with something new? The name? The White Bear Lake Ice-Out Contest. After a surge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement…...
2-month-olds see the world in a more complex way than scientists thought, study suggests
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (315+ words) A new study suggests that babies are able to distinguish between the different objects they see around them at 2 months old, which is earlier than scientists previously thought. "It really tells us that infants are interacting with the world in…...
NASA hit by fuel leaks during a practice countdown of the moon rocket that will fly with astronauts
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (400+ words) The leaks " reminiscent of the rocket's delayed debut three years ago " sprang just a couple hours into the daylong fueling operation at Kennedy Space Center. Launch controllers began loading the 322-foot rocket with super-cold hydrogen and oxygen at midday. More…...
Skywatch: Jupiter and the great winter constellations dominate February night skies
3+ day, 10+ hour ago (299+ words) February stargazing is so special. Sure it's cold but the extra special celestial jewels make it worth bundling up for. If you're not already in the darker countryside, try to get out there. But even with light-polluted skies I know…...
Catherine Thorbecke: Forget DeepSeek, dying alone is China’s latest tech obsession
4+ day, 10+ hour ago (411+ words) This time last year, the hottest Chinese tech product was DeepSeek's market-moving artificial intelligence model. In 2026, it's something far simpler: an app for people worried about dying alone. The bluntly named "Are You Dead?" platform rocketed to the top of…...
Tens of thousands enter 6th day without power as Carolinas and Virginia prep for a winter storm
5+ day, 9+ min ago (684+ words) By SOPHIE BATES, SUDHIN THANAWALA and RUSS BYNUM The National Weather Service said arctic air moving into the Southeast will cause already frigid temperatures to plummet into the teens on Friday night in cities like Nashville, Tennessee, where many people…...
NASA delays the first Artemis moonshot with astronauts because of extreme cold at the launch site
5+ day, 42+ min ago (314+ words) The first Artemis moonshot with a crew is now targeted for no earlier than Feb. 8, two days later than planned. NASA was all set to conduct a fueling test of the 322-foot (98-meter) moon rocket on Saturday, but called everything…...
More arctic air is expected for Southern states hit by ice and riddled with power outages
1+ week, 1+ day ago (517+ words) By RUSS BYNUM and KRISTIN M. HALL When a massive'winter storm'descended on the Northeast and parts of the South over the weekend, Lisa Patterson planned to stick it out at her family's home in Nashville. But after she and her husband…...
Mysterious dark matter may be better understood through a new map of far-off galaxies
1+ week, 2+ day ago (277+ words) The ordinary matter all around us " stars, planets and people " makes up just 5% of the universe. For decades, researchers have hoped to demystify what's known as dark matter, a material that comprises just over a quarter of our universe. Another…...