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CINCINNATI (AP) — The Milwaukee Brewers just keep streaking, and now they’ve matched the franchise record for consecutive wins at 13.The Brewers rallied from seven runs down through two innings Friday night by scoring nine unanswered runs in thumping the Cincinnati Reds 10-8. Milwaukee opened the 1987 season winning the first 13. “It’s just a special win,” said Christian Yelich, who had two homers among four hits driving in five runs. This latest streak in a season in which the Brewers just don’t lose very often or bash their way back to one big win after another has them atop…
I’m looking out at Alcatraz Island from a Mediterranean restaurant in San Francisco with hundred-dollar fish entrees on the menu. As I make small talk with other reporters, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman jumps through the door on my left. Altman’s looking down at his bare iPhone to show us all something, and an intrusive thought slips out of my mouth: “No phone case is a bold choice.” Of course, I immediately realize that the billionaire CEO of OpenAI, who employs Apple veteran Jony Ive, cares more about preserving the iPhone’s original design than the $1,000 it costs to replace one.…
Health officials are working to alert hundreds of people in dozens of states and several countries who may have been exposed to rabies in bat-infested cabins in Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park over the past few months.As of Friday, none of the bats found in some of the eight linked cabins at Jackson Lake Lodge had tested positive for rabies.But the handful of dead bats found and sent to the Wyoming State Veterinary Laboratory in Laramie for testing were probably only a small sample of the likely dozens that colonized the attic above the row of cabins, Wyoming State Health…
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Cricketer Shane Warne’s legacy lives on more than three years after the death of the great spin bowler from a heart attack at the age of 52.Warne died in March 2022 after suffering cardiac arrest while on holiday on the Thai island of Koh Samui.AdvertisementThe cause of his sudden death led his business team and family to unite to honor his life and create Shane Warne Legacy. The charity set up free heart health checkup machines at the Melbourne Cricket Ground during the past two Boxing Day tests.The results of the stadium checks along with 311…
Talks aimed at a global treaty to cut plastic pollution fizzled in Geneva this week, with no agreement to meaningfully reduce the harms to human health and the environment that come with the millions of tons of plastic water bottles, food containers and packaging produced today.Though as many as 100 countries sought caps on production, powerful oil-producing nations like Saudi Arabia and the United States stood against them. They argued the caps were unnecessary and a threat to their economies and industries.That means any progress continues to depend on efforts to improve recycling, reuse and product design — the very…
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) said he intends to investigate whether Meta’s generative AI products exploit, deceive, or harm children, after leaked internal documents showed the company’s chatbots were allowed to have “romantic” and “sensual” chats with children. “Is there anything – ANYTHING – Big Tech won’t do for a quick buck?” Hawley wrote in a post on X announcing the investigation. Hawley chairs the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, which he says will commence a probe into whether Meta’s tech harms children, and “whether Meta misled the public or regulators about its safeguards.” Reuters broke the story after…
More children died from the flu this past season than any year outside of the swine flu pandemic in 2009. Most of them were unvaccinated.That’s why some doctors are hoping that the first nasal flu vaccine available for use at home can improve vaccination rates among people, especially children, who are afraid of needles.AstraZeneca’s FluMist Home, which was approved last fall, is now available with a prescription for children ages 2 and over, and adults up to age 49.A 2019 review from researchers at the University of Michigan found the majority of children and up to 30% of young adults…
OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) — One day it was the putter, another day it was the irons. No one had a lower score than Robert MacIntyre both of those rounds at the BMW Championship, and his reward for his 6-under 64 on Friday was a five-shot lead over Scottie Scheffler going into the weekend.MacIntyre closed with six straight birdies in the opening round for a 62, and he started the second round with a shot into 5 feet on the 476-yard first hole for another birdie. He kept bogeys off his card this time and set a daunting target at…
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A group of marijuana dispensaries in New York sued the state on Friday after cannabis regulators admitted they accidentally allowed pot shops to open too close to schools, putting the future of the businesses in jeopardy. The lawsuit asks a state Supreme Court judge in Albany to rule that the marijuana shops’ locations remain legal and to prevent the state from taking any enforcement action against them.The case came a few weeks after the state’s legal marijuana office told about 150 existing or proposed cannabis shops that regulators had been misreading a state law that requires…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says having a kid has been “amazing” and thinks everyone else should have one, too.He also says AGI could maybe help with that.AGI, or artificial general intelligence, is a still theoretical version of AI that reasons as well as humans. Achieving AGI is the ultimate goal of many of the leading AI companies and is what’s largely driving the AI talent wars.Meanwhile, the world’s population growth is slowing down. In the United States, Gen Z and millennials are delaying having children or not having children at all to focus on their financial stability. Some prominent futurists,…