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J.D. Vance said Kamala Harris has no kids. Stepparents would like a word.
The vice president is stepmother to two children, but that hasn’t stopped her opponents from suggesting she isn’t a real parent.
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The cardboard Olympic beds aren’t ‘anti-sex.’ But are they comfy?
The cardboard beds in the Paris Olympic Village are touted as both sustainable and recyclable. But do athletes like them?
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Grieving dad disparages his living son. Hax readers give advice.
He’s ready to cut ties with his dad for going on about his late brother as “the son everyone wished they had.”
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Eggplant recipes and tips to cook your most delicious dish yet
Nailing the texture and flavor of eggplant can be tough, but these helpful tips and recipes will make it a staple in your dinner rotation.
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Cooking chat: Why are my chocolate chip cookies flat?
Every Wednesday at noon Eastern, Aaron Hutcherson and Becky Krystal answer your cooking questions.
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Why Meta’s Llama 3.1 is a boon for enterprises and a bane for other LLM vendors
Meta’s newly unveiled Llama 3.1 family of large language models (LLMs), which includes a 405 billion parameter model as well as 70 billion parameter and 8 billion parameter variants, is a boon for enterprises and a bane for proprietary LLM vendors, analysts and experts say.
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US, European authorities promise effective competition in the AI sector
Regulatory authorities in the EU, UK and US have signed a joint statement to ensure effective competition in the AI sector, according Reuters. In the statement, they write that generative AI (genAI) has developed rapidly in recent years and that technological inflection points can introduce new ways to compete, innovate, grow, and catalyze opportunities. The three…
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CrowdStrike failure: What you need to know
Cybersecurity vendor CrowdStrike initiated a series of computer system outages across the world on Friday, July 19, disrupting nearly every industry and sowing chaos at airports, financial institutions, and healthcare systems, among others. At issue was a flawed update to CrowdStrike Falcon, the company’s popular endpoint detection and response (EDR) platform, which crashed Windows machines…
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Election 2024 live updates: Biden gives first speech since dropping out of race
Get the latest news from the 2024 campaign trail and live updates from Biden’s 8 p.m. Wednesday night speech about his decision to end his reelection campaign.
