A mother and her 14-year-old daughter are advocating for better protections for victims after AI-generated nude images of the teen and other female classmates were circulated at a high school in New Jersey. Meanwhile, on the other side of the country, officials are investigating an incident involving a teenage boy who allegedly used artificial intelligence …
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Fifty oil companies representing nearly half of global production have pledged to reach near-zero methane emissions and end routine flaring in their operations by 2030, the president of this year’s United Nations climate talks said Saturday, a move that environmental groups called a “smokescreen.” The announcement by Sultan al-Jaber, president …
Enlarge / The protein structure of CAS, shown with nucleic acids bound. CRISPR—Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats—is the microbial world’s answer to adaptive immunity. Bacteria don’t generate antibodies when they are invaded by a pathogen and then hold those antibodies in abeyance in case they encounter that same pathogen again, the way we do. …
New algorithm finds lots of gene-editing enzymes in environmental DNA Read More »
Enlarge / We never get tired of seeing the different ways Porsche finds to tweak the venerable 911. It’s outdone itself with the Sport Classic, but the car comes with a price tag that means very few will experience it. Bradley Iger Sports cars have always been emotionally driven purchases, and perhaps no automaker understands …
Porsche summons old-school cool with the 2024 911 Sport Classic Read More »
Enlarge / BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ One of the world’s most peculiar test beds stretches above Princeton, New Jersey. It’s a fiber optic cable strung between three utility poles that then runs underground before feeding into an “interrogator.” This device fires a laser through the cable and analyzes the light that bounces back. It can …
Roar of cicadas was so loud, it was picked up by fiber-optic cables Read More »
This is The Takeaway from today’s Morning Brief, which you can sign up to receive in your inbox every morning along with: It’s December, which means that Wall Street strategy teams are giving their educated guesses about where the S&P 500 will end up at the end of 2024. Our Chart of the Week rounds …
Chart of the Week: Where Wall Street sees the S&P going in 2024 Read More »
Marbella Condominiums Association board members (from left) Tom Baker, Jim Smith and Rob Lasch stand outside their beachside home, where property insurance has increased more than 500% since two hurricanes caused damage to the structure’s back patio and pool in 2022. DAYTONA BEACH SHORES, Florida – Tom Baker lives in a retirement dream building: A …
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Saturday issued a final rule aimed at reducing methane emissions, targeting the U.S. oil and natural gas industry for its role in global warming as President Joe Biden seeks to advance his climate legacy. The Environmental Protection Agency said the new rule will sharply reduce methane and other harmful …
The investments held in a Roth individual retirement account (Roth IRA) determine the return, not the interest rate. One day, those returns will exceed the annual contributions, thanks to the power of compounding. When you save for retirement in your Roth account, it’s important that you work toward a specific investment goal rather than just …
One Day, Your Roth IRA Gains Will Equal the Annual Contribution Read More »
Taxable Social Security Income Filing Status Income Percentage of Social Security That Is Taxable Single, Head of Household, Qualifying Widower, and Married Filing Separately (where the spouses lived apart the entire year) Below $25,000 All Social Security income is tax free. Same $25,000 to $34, 000 Up to 50% of Social Security income may be …
