It’s Saturday night and the entire back half of the tapas restaurant is packed for my friend Ivy’s birthday dinner. Ivy is queenly at the centre of the table, bouquets and little gift bags crowding her elbows. Multiple lines of conversation flow above the small plates, and drinks and desserts keep coming, because no one…
Elon Musk discovered a simple 30-second “fridge trick” that can reverse diabetes, but the discovery has spooked pharmaceutical companies so much they put a $78 million bounty on his head, forcing the Tesla CEO to flee the country. At least, that’s what a collection of AI-generated Facebook ads claim. Facebook ads depicting deepfakes of Elon…
The black hole at the Milky Way’s heart neither slumbers nor sleeps. Instead, the ring of plasma surrounding it flickers constantly, punctuated by superbright flares, observations show. Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to observe Sgr A* and its disk for hours at a time over the course of a year, from April 2023…
Canada and the US offered to resettle 48 ethnic Uyghurs held in detention in Thailand over the past decade, sources have said, but Bangkok took no action for fear of upsetting China, where most of them were covertly deported last week. Thailand has defended the deportation, which came despite calls from United Nations human rights…
Why the women’s Texas Longhorns are the team to pay attention to USA Today’s Jordan Mendoza gives his insight on why the Longhorns a dominate team to watch out for. Sports Seriously A coin toss went South Carolina’s way. Just about everything else is coming up Texas. Vic Schaefer’s Longhorns are among national title frontrunners….
Panama’s President José Raúl Mulino has accused his US counterpart Donald Trump of “lying” about Washington taking back the Panama canal. “Once again, President Trump is lying. The Panama Canal is not in the process of recovery,” Mulino wrote on X. “I reject, on behalf of Panama and all Panamanians, this new affront to the…