When I started planning a family vacation to Orlando, I knew we wanted to have the full theme park experience: stay at a Universal hotel, visit the new Epic Universe, add a day at Disney, and enjoy the food and attractions along the way. The result was a six-day vacation that cost $8,620 and required
This week a power line went down outside Washington, DC. Normally, the grid would only need a few seconds to recover from such an event. But this took more than 10 minutes because more than 3 gigawatts of data centers stopped consuming power almost simultaneously. The event caused voltage on PJM’s grid to spike from
This essay as told is based on a conversation with Teri Carlyle, 58, who lives with her sister and father in Vallejo, California. Carlyle said that multigenerational living The agreement has worked well for them and has allowed the family to reduce costs. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. I have had
Midjourney, an artificial intelligence lab best known for its LLM-powered image and video generators, has acquired social astrology app Co-Star, according to Bloomberg. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Co-Star, which reportedly has around 4.3 million monthly active users, is primarily used to help people determine their astrological birth charts, which they can then
Attie, Bluesky’s AI assistant that lets you create personalized social feeds without programming, is evolving into an open research tool. The company said this week that it added a new feature to the AI assistant, called Quests, that allows users to ask it for information and news that is spread through the broader Bluesky social
This As They Told It essay is based on a conversation with Lily Vittayarukskul, 30, co-founder and CEO of water lily. It has been edited for length and clarity. As a child, I was fascinated by the universe and wanted to understand how the world worked. Science taught me that even the most important and
