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- Transportation chief rules out air travel for many Americans this Thanksgiving unless shutdown ends as flights are ‘reduced to a trickle’
"Listen, many of them are not going to be able to get on an airplane, because there are not going to be that many flights that fly unless this thing doesn't open back up."
- Starbucks Just Proved Its Coffee Shop Experience Doesn’t Matter
$1 billion in delivery. 30% growth. Has Starbucks been fixing the wrong problem?
- Trump Posts Claim About Obamacare ‘Royalties’ That Originated On Satirical News Site
The claim originated on a satirical news site called the “Dunning-Kruger Times.”
- Move over, 30-year mortgage. The Trump White House is working on a 50-year option to break the housing market gridlock
FHFA Director Bill Pulte confirmed Saturday, “We are indeed working on The 50-year Mortgage – a complete game changer."
- ‘That would surely be a beautiful name’: White House responds to ESPN report that Trump wants Commanders stadium named after him
A spokesperson for the Washington Commanders told the AP in a text message that the team had no comment on the report.
Technology
- The State of AI: Energy is king, and the US is falling behind
Welcome to The State of AI, a new collaboration between the Financial Times and MIT Technology Review. Every Monday for the next six weeks, writers from both publications will debate one aspect of the generative AI revolution reshaping global power. This week, Casey Crownhart, senior reporter for energy at MIT Technology Review and Pilita Clark, FT’s…
- Here’s how orbital dynamics wizardry helped save NASA’s next Mars mission
Blue Origin is counting down to launch of its second New Glenn rocket Sunday.
- Blue Origin will ‘move heaven and Earth’ to help NASA reach the Moon faster, CEO says
"We have some ideas that we think could accelerate the path to the Moon."
- James Watson, who helped unravel DNA’s double-helix, has died
His work was celebrated, but he was ostracized for racist, sexist comments.
- Researchers surprised that with AI, toxicity is harder to fake than intelligence
New "computational Turing test" reportedly catches AI pretending to be human with 80% accuracy.
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