NEWS-FINANCE -QUOTE-EDUCATIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL Listen to this podcast Your browser does not support the element. Opinions of Hamas are shifting—among its international backers, in Gaza, even within its affiliates’ ranks. If it opts to disarm, what would happen next? A new blockysis suggests using a sense of risk to explain markets’ movements might be focusing Continue Reading
NEWS-FINANCE -QUOTE-EDUCATIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image zooms in on the feathery spiral arms of the galaxy NGC 45, which lies just 22 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus (the Whale). The portrait uses data drawn from two complementary observing programs. The first took a broad view of 50 nearby galaxies, Continue Reading
NEWS-FINANCE -QUOTE-EDUCATIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL “They’re tweaking my voice or whatever they’re doing, tweaking their own voice to make it sound like me, and people are commenting on it like it is me and it ain’t me,” Washington recently told WIRED, when asked about AI. “I don’t have an Instagram account. I don’t have TikTok. I Continue Reading
NEWS-FINANCE -QUOTE-EDUCATIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL Eleven International Space Station crew members gather inside the space station’s Unity module for a portrait on Aug. 3, 2025. In the front row, from left are, Kimiya Yui of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), Zena Cardman of NASA, Oleg Platonov of Roscosmos, and Mike Fincke of NASA. In the second Continue Reading
NEWS-FINANCE -QUOTE-EDUCATIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL After spending almost five months in space, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 astronauts will discuss their science mission aboard the International Space Station during a news conference at 4:15 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, Aug. 20, from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Continue Reading
NEWS-FINANCE -QUOTE-EDUCATIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL A startup called Palabra AI, which develops an AI-powered speech translation engine, is tackling one of the more difficult aspects of teaching large language models (LLMs) to understand multiple languages. Today, LLMs make it easier to convert text from one language to another, but speech translation is not as simple, according Continue Reading
NEWS-FINANCE -QUOTE-EDUCATIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL With a genius combination of smart tech, local food and bold partnerships, Wawira Njiru and her nonprofit Food4Education have gone from serving 25 children in a makeshift kitchen to becoming a cornerstone of Kenya’s school meals system, delivering half a million meals every day. Hear her plan to feed a million Continue Reading
NEWS-FINANCE -QUOTE-EDUCATIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL Before algorithms ruled our feeds, the internet was a mess — glitchy, chaotic and full of unexpected magic. Internet culture writer Michael Sun reflects on the wild digital world of the 2000s — and makes a funny, wry case for why we need to reclaim its spontaneity, weirdness and genuine connection. Continue Reading
NEWS-FINANCE -QUOTE-EDUCATIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL Google on Thursday announced a new AI-powered search tool to help travelers find flight deals — even as regulators continue to question whether the search giant’s dominance in travel discovery stifles competition. Called Flight Deals, the new tool is available within Google Flights and is designed to help “flexible travelers” find Continue Reading
NEWS-FINANCE -QUOTE-EDUCATIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL Cartoonist Liana Finck’s drawings hold our hands through life’s predicaments, big and small: dating, breakups, what to make for dinner, how to leave a party without being rude, how to think about our relationship with God. In a funny, moving talk, she shares some of her drawings and shows how she Continue Reading
NEWS-FINANCE -QUOTE-EDUCATIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL An Afghan man, whose details were accidentally leaked by the UK in a major data breach, has been detained in Pakistan for imminent deportation alongside several family members, his son told the BBC. The BBC has seen doblockents which appear to confirm the man was part of Afghan special forces units Continue Reading
NEWS-FINANCE -QUOTE-EDUCATIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL What would Immanuel Kant say about a fender bender? In a surprisingly funny trip through the teachings of some of history’s great philosophers, TV writer and producer Michael Schur (from hit shows like “The Office” and “The Good Place”) talks through how to confront life’s moral dilemmas — and shows how Continue Reading