New York City will bar student use of generative artificial intelligence from 2-K through eighth grade for the 2026–27 school year, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels announced on September 2. City officials said the one-year moratorium affects nearly 600,000 public school students, about two-thirds of enrollment. Reuters and CNN described it as…
Explore how AI chatbots are transforming customer service, their real-world applications, benefits for businesses, and current limitations in modern support systems.
Beginning August 1, 2023, Meta began blocking news content and links from being viewed by people in Canada on Facebook and Instagram. No court issued a publication ban. No minister ordered a takedown. Parliament passed a law that can require qualifying digital news intermediaries to bargain with eligible news businesses over compensation for making news…
Physical activity is one of the most reliable ways to improve and protect your health. Regular movement is associated with better cardiovascular health, stronger muscles and bones, improved sleep, better mental health, and a lower risk of several chronic diseases. But how much physical activity do you actually need? For most adults, current guidelines recommend…
Are we alone in the universe? It is one of the oldest questions humans have asked, but scientists can now investigate it with tools that would have been unimaginable only a few decades ago. Astronomers have confirmed thousands of planets beyond our solar system. Space missions are investigating potentially habitable worlds in our own solar…
A Las Vegas jury on Monday found Duane Keith Davis guilty of first-degree murder in the 1996 drive-by shooting death of rapper Tupac Shakur. Davis, 63, a former leader of the South Side Compton Crips, was convicted after roughly three hours of deliberations. Prosecutors argued he obtained the gun used in the shooting and directed…
Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday that trade talks with the United States can resume only when Washington “starts being serious” and stops posting memes and insults. Speaking to reporters in Ottawa after Monday’s federal byelections, Carney said there is still room for a deal that is “mutually beneficial” and “respects Canadian sovereignty.” “When the…
In most Canadian provinces, a commissioner of oaths can administer oaths and take affidavits or statutory declarations. The exact authority and where the resulting document can be used vary by province and by the receiving authority. A notary public can usually do that work plus certify true copies and perform other notarial functions. For documents…
Solid-state batteries are often described as the next major step in battery technology. The basic idea is straightforward: replace the liquid electrolyte used in conventional lithium-ion batteries with a solid material. That change could eventually allow batteries with higher energy density, improved safety, and different designs that are difficult to achieve with today’s lithium-ion technology….
For most of human history, a deep cut, a difficult childbirth, or a case of pneumonia could easily become a death sentence. Bacterial infections killed freely. That changed in the middle of the 20th century with the arrival of antibiotics. Penicillin and the drugs that followed turned many once-lethal infections into conditions doctors could usually…