Book Challenges Are Financial Strains on Libraries—That’s The Point: Book Censorship News, October 18, 2024
Back in 2021 and 2022, I wrote a lot about how book bans weren’t about the books specifically. They’re about the ways those books can be...
Must-Read Hidden Gem Memoirs
I ADORE memoirs of all kinds. Memoir in essays, graphic memoirs, multi-model memoirs—I love them all. Every year, I try to keep track of the new...
The Most Read Books on Goodreads This Week
This week’s most read books on Goodreads looks pretty similar to last week, with one exception: for the first time in many months, The Women by...
Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software under investigation by federal safety regulator
The U.S. automotive safety regulator has opened a new investigation into Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) software after four reported crashes in low-visibility situations. © 2024 TechCrunch....
noam keim Reckons With Their Family History of Settler Colonialism in “The Land Is Holy”
Early in noam keim’s debut collection of lyrical nonfiction, The Land is Holy, they awake panicked from a dream where they are running away from disaster,...
8 Newsletters to Spark Your Creativity
Email, we can probably all agree, is generally a bummer. At the moment, my inbox is a jumble of stressful news stories and tasks I’m behind...
8 Biographies That Will Upend Your Perception of Famous Writers
Whether we like it or not, literary history tends to follow a known path. In high school, we read The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck,...
Some iPhone 16 owners are experiencing massive battery drain on iOS 18
Apple’s iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro boast much-improved battery life, but for some users, the opposite has been the case. According to a pretty large...
How AI is making eyesight-saving care more accessible in resource-constrained settings
Here’s how our AI model for diabetic retinopathy screening can help improve health outcomes for millions across India and Thailand. Source : How AI is making...
Nebius to resume Nasdaq trading after severing ties with Russia and Yandex
Nebius, the company formerly known as Yandex that’s now focused on cloud infrastructure for AI uses (aka “AI compute”), is to begin trading on the public...
