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If you are looking for the newest US news, you might be interested in some of the stories that have been making headlines in the past few days. From shocking natural events to political stories of shame, from scientific breakthroughs to art and learning events, here are some of the interests that have captured the attention of Americans...

Talking man-like machines are software applications that can interact with humans using natural language. They have been around for tens of years, but they have gained the condition of having general approval in the near future because of advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP). One of the most deeply affecting and having great effect...

Stop the count meme As we enter Day 3 of election counting in the United States, the world is watching with bated breath, all of us waiting for the flood of legitimately cast mail votes to be delivered and tallied so American citizens can learn which presidential candidate they’ve chosen to lead for the next four years. And...

Old snapchat logo When I opened up my phone this week, Snapchat’s new icon nearly hit me in the face. Suddenly, Snapchat’s cute ghost logo was surrounded by a decisively bold line that feels too thick for comfort, at least at first glance. I wasn’t alone. Many users aren’t happy about the change, which rolled out earlier this...

What is stem player At last I can say that Joe Rogan and I agree on something. The Stem Player—the $200 personal music player that lets you easily remix music—is genius. Released in 2021, the Stem Player was created by Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, and Alex Klein, founder of the gadget company Kano. The device made headlines a few weeks back when Ye...

Face masks graphene As a COVID-19 and medical device researcher, I understand the importance of face masks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. So I am intrigued that some mask manufacturers have begun adding graphene coatings to their face masks to inactivate the virus. Many viruses, fungi, and bacteria are incapacitated by graphene in laboratory studies, including...

Dreamworks owner On Thursday, Comcast made it official and bought DreamWorks Animation (DWA) for a hefty $3.8 billion, bringing to a close a Hollywood saga that began back in the early 1990s when Jeffrey Katzenberg, then the chairman of Disney, was unceremoniously fired by his boss Michael Eisner. Fueled with ambition, rage, and a desire to trounce Disney,...

What is carried interest Last week, Congress showed that it still had a few surprises up its sleeve for the current session. In a shocking twist, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Joe Manchin announced they had reached an agreement on the Inflation Reduction Act, a scaled-back version of the Build Back Better plan that would address everything from healthcare...

Gay oreos The latest piece of work from award-winning filmmaker Alice Wu (The Half Of It, Saving Face) is a short film about coming out. We meet a young man who appears to be stumbling through his coming-out process to his parents. But there’s a twist that extends this story from the traditional coming-out story to illustrate a larger...