Bungie explains Marathon’s creepy moth loading screen

Nardin confirmed that this particular loading screen is a “sense-memory” or “sense-mem” that plays on a loop. “In-universe, they’re a sort of manufactured dream that focuses the Runner’s mind during ...
The New York Times

Are sports cards in another ‘junk wax era’? What the numbers tell us

Boxes of Junk Wax Era cards remain plentiful. Jason J. Molyet/News Journal / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images As a serial over-analyzer of Topps odds, one of the most common comments I hear is that ...
Reuters

US steps up aid to Cuba while choking off fuel supply

WASHINGTON/HAVANA, Feb 5 (Reuters) - The U.S. will provide an extra $6 million in humanitarian aid to Cuba, the top State Department aid official said on Thursday, even as Washington has stepped up ...
Mashable

Pranksters and pickup artists are using Meta Ray-Ban glasses to harass strangers for content

Across Instagram and TikTok, influencers and would-be content creators are churning out low-effort prank and pickup artist videos using the discreet recording features of Meta Ray-Bans and other smart ...
Education Week

More Teachers Are Using AI in Their Classrooms. Here’s Why

The percentage of teachers who are using artificial intelligence-driven tools in their classrooms nearly doubled between 2023 and 2025, according to data from the EdWeek Research Center. In 2023, a ...
NPR

Teens are having disturbing interactions with chatbots. Here's how to lower the risks

It wasn't until a couple of years ago that Keri Rodrigues began to worry about how her kids might be using chatbots. She learned her youngest son was interacting with the chatbot in his Bible app — he ...
Los Angeles Times

Here’s how Trump gets away with using dubious numbers

Much attention has been focused on Donald Trump’s use of words — that is, his peculiar style of oratory. But more attention should be paid to another feature of his discourse: his use of numbers.
MIT Technology Review

What even is the AI bubble?

Everyone in tech agrees we’re in a bubble. They just can’t agree on what it looks like — or what happens when it pops. MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world ...
PC World

AI PCs rely on NPUs. So what exactly are these newfangled chips?

CPUs and GPUs are old news. These days, the cutting edge is all about NPUs, and hardware manufacturers are talking up NPU performance. The NPU is a computer component designed to accelerate AI tasks ...
IEEE

Normalized Cyclic Loop Network for Rail Surface Defect Detection Using Knowledge Distillation

Abstract: In recent years, the application of computer vision for detecting rail defects has shown promising results. However, as the accuracy of the models improves, they become more complex with a ...
The Boston Globe

Healey signs bill to omit Social Security numbers from death certificates to help prevent fraud

The new law, which will go into effect July 1, will restrict access to death certificates with Social Security numbers to ‘persons with legitimate need’ In an effort to prevent fraud, Governor Maura ...
Indiana Daily Student

LETTER FROM THE EDITORS: IU has now fully cut IDS print. What more is there to say?

Indiana University fully cut the Indiana Daily Student’s print newspaper — including the special publications it had earlier indicated it wanted us to run — Tuesday evening, hours after firing its ...