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While much of the wealth-owning world is positively smitten by the financial promise of large language models (LLMs) and the data centers necessary to power them, one major tech investor is sounding ...

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A couple of years ago, Gabriel Metcalf was charged with a federal felony because he stepped onto the sidewalk in front of his house in Billings, Montana, while holding a shotgun. Metcalf, who had ...

A 2nd-grade teacher with 14 years of experience under her belt turned to Reddit to describe how, in recent years, she's noticed a sharp decline in independence among her students. In fact, she said ...

Every era of seismic technological change has been accompanied by the fear that these will upend livelihoods and disrupt established ways of life. From the Luddites smashing looms in 19th-century ...

We’ve written a lot about the housing crisis squeezing Berkshire County and the rest of the Bay State. We’ve seen some small but promising steps in the right direction with a tighter policy focus, but ...

Kudos to director Francis Lawrence and scriptwriter JT Mollner for downing Stephen King's dark-hearted material without a dose of saccharine hope. Ultimately, “The Long Walk” comes at its ...

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High school seniors had the worst reading scores since 1992 on a national test, a loss probably related to increases in screen time and the pandemic. Their math scores fell as well. By Dana Goldstein ...

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