Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchButter me up: Paris gets its first boutique devoted to France’s favorite fat
The contradiction of the trim Parisian and the butter croissant now has a storefront. Le Butter Shop, billed as Paris’ first boutique devoted entire…
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Schools are starting to teach AI literacy. For many, that means helping kids see chatbots’ flaws
Artificial intelligence chatbots have become the bane of teachers everywhere, but to prepare for the new school year, a group of educators in Charles…
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Heat makes emergency rooms busier. Study shows which illnesses and injuries rise during hot spells
When the temperature heats up, so do emergency rooms, according to a massive study of Chicago hospital and urgent care records, which found increased…
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A Chinese humanoid robot sets a new 100-meter sprint record at Beijing Games
A Chinese humanoid robot set a new 100-meter sprint record of 8.86 seconds in Beijing, beating its robot competitors—and the fastest recorded human t…
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Australia’s music industry bans AI-generated tracks from official charts
Australia's recorded music industry will bar tracks wholly generated by artificial intelligence from official charts as burgeoning generative technol…
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3-year college degrees grow more popular in the US, saving time and cash. But critics aren’t sold
Giles Sims, 34, was sick of getting passed over for jobs because he didn't have a college degree. But with a wife and a widowed mother to help suppo…
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MSF says massive scale-up needed to contain fastest-spreading Ebola outbreak on record
Doctors Without Borders or MSF said that a massive scale-up was needed to contain the fastest-spreading Ebola outbreak on record. The Ebola outbreak…
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‘Fabric that no electric machine can produce’—the designer who’s using traditional hand looms
As mass production transforms the fashion industry, one young Kenyan designer is turning back to a traditional craft. In Nairobi, Hillary Mukabwa, f…
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An ‘influencer’ degree? Colleges bet on content creator major as critics question its value
Ask a teen what they want to be when they grow up, and there's a fair chance being an influencer is on their list. Digital media and the people who …
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Amazon set to expand drone delivery of lightweight packages to 500 US cities
Millions more people may be able to get smaller, lightweight Amazon packages delivered by drones by the end of the year under a plan the company anno…
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