New Scientist

What is 'SpudCell'? Arguably the greatest bioengineering feat yet

A prototype cell partly capable of replicating itself has been created using 36 existing bacterial genes, but it's not really ...
Education Week

Inside a School Where Creative Writing Helps Teens Cope With Trauma

Jayden, a wavy-haired senior at Joel E. Ferris High School, acknowledges he hasn’t “had the greatest childhood.” Like a lot of kids growing up amid tumult and trauma, he’s acted out—drinking, smoking, ...
Architectural Digest

Inside a Couple’s 900-Square-Foot Los Angeles Loft That Functions as Both Office and Home

For Indian-origin, LA-based designers Utharaa Zacharias and Palaash Chaudhary, the founders of lighting and furniture design firm Soft-Geometry, humor, slowness and the rituals of everyday life have ...
The Guardian

‘Like a Klingon prison’: inside Barack Obama’s audacious, near-windowless, $850m presidential library

Towering over a low-income area of Chicago, and wrapped in a speech that’s hard to decipher, this controversial monolith feels like a menacing sci-fi HQ. Is it a monument – or a mausoleum? The ...
People

Police Say Home 'Smelled Like Death.' Inside Were 2 Children Who'd Never Gone to School, Couldn't Read or Write

Michael Robbins, 34, and John Robbins, 68, were arrested on charges of abandoning or endangering a child with intent Temple Police Department (2) Michael Robbins, 34, and John Robbins, 68, were ...
Wall Street Journal

Inside Exxon’s Dilemma Over Returning to Venezuela

Exxon Mobil XOM0.49%increase; up pointing triangle is in talks with Venezuelan officials about returning to the oil-rich country after a 19-year exile. Yet many of the challenges that have long ...
Hosted on MSN

AI can write like a human - but scientists say it’s still dark on the inside

Can artificial intelligence ever become truly conscious, or is it only imitating human behavior? In this TED Talk, neuroscientist Anil Seth explains why systems like GPT and Claude may sound ...
TWCN Tech News

UNIQUE function not working in Excel [Fix]

If the UNIQUE function isn’t working in Microsoft Excel on your Windows 11/10 PC, read this post to learn how to fix the issue. The UNIQUE function extracts a list of distinct (non-duplicate) values ...
The Hollywood Reporter

At Gawker, They Battled a Billionaire. 10 Years Later, the Scars Are Still Healing

At Gawker, They Battled a Billionaire. 10 Years Later, the Scars Are Still Healing Their weaponized wit made enemies, minted stars and helped define the internet as we know it. A decade after Peter ...
Architectural Digest

Inside Sofia Coppola’s Breezy Beach House, Where She Escaped To Write Priscilla

It was during this extended stay that Coppola created the screenplay for her 2023 Priscilla Presley biopic, Priscilla. “It was so much easier to write there [because] it’s tranquil and away from city ...
Observer

The Catholic Priest Who Helped Write Anthropic’s A.I. Ethics Code

Father Brendan McGuire left Silicon Valley to become a priest. The Valley, it turns out, wasn’t finished with him. Observer Labs He is not, in other words, an outside critic. He is something more ...