Panel: Loudoun County elementary schools should add security
Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) leadership wants to hear from its community members as they work through new recommendations to improve student safety.
Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) leadership wants to hear from its community members as they work through new recommendations to improve student safety.
Nearly 3,000 people have been arrested at protests against the war in Gaza at 57 colleges and universities across the U.S. The students involved face academic penalties as well as potential criminal charges.
What experts say about stair climbing as a measure of your health — and ways to make it more effective for you.
Uber is taking a shuttle product it developed for commuters in India and Egypt and converting it for an American audience. The ride-hail and delivery giant announced Wednesday at its annual Go-Get event in New York City it will launch a shuttle service in certain U.S. cities this summer. Uber Shuttle in the U.S. will repurpose the technology and business model that Uber has built to help commuters in emerging markets where there's a public transportation gap.
Google’s going all-in on AI — and it wants you to know it. During the company’s keynote at its I/O developer conference on Tuesday, Google mentioned “AI” more than 120 times. Google plans to use generative AI to organize entire Google Search results pages.
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“The Golden Bachelor” viewers will recognize the new Golden Bachelorette, as she had a dramatic exit from Gerry Turner's life.
For years, Sammy Faycurry has been hearing from his dietician mom and sister about how poorly many Americans eat and their struggles with delivering nutritional counseling. Although nearly half of all adults in the country are affected by chronic conditions linked to unhealthy diets, health plans have a limited number of in-network registered dieticians. Faycurry decided to build a platform that would empower RDs, like his mom and sister, to start their own practices while being covered by insurance.
Heating and air conditioning is usually pretty boring stuff, performed by appliance-like boxes with uninspired designs, from sheet metal outdoor units to cheap plastic indoor mini-splits. The heat pump startup unveiled its first products on Wednesday, and they sport the sort of sleek and intuitive designs you’d expect from veterans of Apple, Nest, Google, and Tesla. While design is a big part of the appeal, the startup wants to make the entire heat pump experience better.
Automotive data firm iSeeCars looked at past government vehicle recall data and then projected future likely recall expectations, creating a list of cars most and least likely to be recalled.
Spare your arms and back during spring cleaning: 'This does the work for you,' one of its many fans says.
JPMorgan Chase is once again providing a lift to another troubled regional lender a year after it helped calm a banking crisis. This time, it's NYCB.
Director Sam Taylor-Johnson explains the "careful way" she portrays Amy Winehouse in new biopic as critics take issue with how difficult subject matter is handled.
Lydia is a French startup that also turned payments into a mobile consumer app and service. Now, after reaching 8 million users, the company finds itself in an interesting position. Or does it want to simplify its app to make sure that as many people as possible use Lydia to send and receive money from their phones?
Go Digit, an Indian insurance startup, has raised $141 million from dozens of investors as part of an initial public offering that starts on Wednesday. Fidelity, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, Bay Pond, Mirae Asset Management, Steadview Capital, and HSBC, as well as Indian mutual funds operated by SBI, ICICI, Axis, Tata and Edelweiss, served as anchor backers for the IPO, Go Digit disclosed in a filing to the stock exchange.
Intuitive Machines is looking to help reshape the Mars Sample Return mission architecture with its own technology, based on architecture it has been developing for the moon, executives told investors during a quarterly earnings call Tuesday. “Intuitive Machines has engaged the agency and intends to provide a solution set based on technology architecture we have been developing for lunar material return,” Intuitive Machines CEO Steve Altemus said. The Mars Sample Return (MSR) program is the agency’s $11 billion, 15-year mission to collect and return samples from the red planet, but NASA administrators finally admitted last month that the architecture had become too complex and too expensive.
At the Google I/O 2024 developer conference on Tuesday, Google announced that it is building Gemini Nano, the smallest of its AI models, directly into the Chrome desktop client, starting with Chrome 126. Google itself plans to use this new capability to power features like the existing "help me write" tool from Workspace Lab in Gmail, for example. The company says it's the recent work on WebGPU and WASM support in Chrome that enables these models to run at a reasonable speed on a wide set of hardware.
Google says it has developed a new family of generative AI models "fine-tuned" for learning: LearnLM. A collaboration between Google's DeepMind AI research division and Google Research, LearnLM models — built on top of Google's Gemini models — are designed to "conversationally" tutor students on a range of subjects, Google says. LearnLM is already powering features across Google products, including in YouTube, Google's Gemini apps, Google Search and Google Classroom.
CarGurus found that interest rates helped drive the average payment up in April 2024 while overall pricing remained steady.
I put 6 nonstick skillets through their paces to see which one would top our list.
These sustainable Cariuma kicks have sold out repeatedly — don't get stuck on the waiting list!