Wendy’s (WEN) says it will expand artificial intelligence (AI) ordering at 500 restaurants in 2025. Gee Lefevre, CEO of Presto, a company that powers drive-through ordering with AI for Carl’s Jr., Hardee’s, and other fast-food chains, joins Asking for a Trend with Julie Hyman to discuss the company’s work, reactions from restaurants and customers, how […]
Mountains of garbage were piling up in Gaza City, creating what Palestinian news agency Wafa described as a “health hazard” for residents. Footage filmed by the Hamas-affiliated Quds News Network shows a vast accumulation of garbage in Gaza City on Tuesday, February 4. According to a report from the Associated PressPalestinians were resorting to disposing […]
Microsoft and others forbid using their generative AI systems to create various content. Content that is off limits includes materials that feature or promote sexual exploitation or abuse, is erotic or pornographic, or attacks, denigrates, or excludes people based on race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability status, or similar […]
The multi-scale layered structure of teak wood endows it with exceptional mechanical properties and environmental stability, which has inspired the biomimetic design of environmental barrier coatings. In this study, a multi-scale nano Yb2Si2O7-Yb2SiO5 composite EBC with a teakwood-like lamellar structure has been realized by a novel alternating vapor/liquid phase deposition method in plasma spraying-physical vapor […]
Back in 2019, Cynthia Erivo received the Palm Springs International Film Festival’s Breakthrough Performance Award. Just six years later, she will be lauded with Variety’s Creative Impact in Acting Award, commemorating the Emmy, Grammy and Tony award-winning performer’s latest achievement: playing Elphaba in “Wicked.” Her performance has received rave reviews, and she has been nominated […]
ISTANBUL (AP) — In a dim one-room apartment in one of Istanbul’s poorest neighborhoods, 11-year-old Atakan Sahin curls up on a threadbare sofa with his siblings to watch TV while their mother stirs a pot of pasta. The simple meal is all the family of six can look forward to most evenings. Atakan, his two […]
But at the same time, Burroughs clearly made very intentional choices about what aspects of his life he wasn’t going to include in the William Lee that he constructed for Queer. And his wife is not a part of that vision. The real Burroughs—William S. Burroughs, the man—was in Mexico City with his wife and […]
According to the United Nations, plastic production skyrocketed from 2 million metric tons in 1950 to about 400 million in 2024. This number is expected to triple by 2060. Only 10 percent of this plastic is currently being recycled and reused. The rest will remain in our environment for centuries, polluting the planet, from oceans […]
At the 2020 Grammys, Finneas won his first-ever honors — six to be exact — for his work on his baby sister Billie Eilish’s debut album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?making him the most awarded artist of the night. Attacca Quartet also won their first Grammy at that show, for best […]
The money he earned doing that was enough to put Cocioba through the first couple of years of a biology degree at Stony Brook University. He completed a stint with a neglected plant biology group that taught him to experiment on a shoestring budget. “We were using toothpicks and yogurt cups to do petri dishes […]
