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Canadian airline cancels flight after child refuses to wear seatbelt

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Canadian airline cancels flight after child refuses to wear seatbelt

Flight from Victoria to Toronto forced to return to terminal after repeated attempts to secure child in seat failed

3 months ago

Feel the burn: why holidays from hell make for blistering fiction

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Feel the burn: why holidays from hell make for blistering fiction

Family fallouts, failing marriages, sunburn, food poisoning ... from Deborah Levy’s hypnotic and disturbing Hot Milk to All In, Claire Powell’s all-inclusive nightmare, Leon Craig looks at the best novels about vile vacations

3 months ago

Atlantic Trivia: Color Theory

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Atlantic Trivia: Color Theory

Test your knowledge—and read our stories for a little extra help.

3 months ago

Spain Is Ready for an Extraordinary Run of Eclipses

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Spain Is Ready for an Extraordinary Run of Eclipses

Tomorrow’s eclipse will be the country’s first in a century. Next year’s will be even more dramatic.

3 months ago

Wall Street just endorsed Jensen Huang's 'big concept' for AI. What now?

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Wall Street just endorsed Jensen Huang's 'big concept' for AI. What now?

The first three-plus years of the AI build-out have been funded by record amounts of equity and debt issued by leading tech companies. Nvidia has a new idea.

3 months ago

One Night Only finds romance in a culture that has forgotten intimacy

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One Night Only finds romance in a culture that has forgotten intimacy

Equal parts George Orwell and unrestrained teenage hormones, director Will Gluck’s One Night Only imagines a dystopian America where a religious administration has banned premarital sex. The preposterous prohibition is enforced through biometric sensors that detect certain hormonal spikes and summon SWAT teams to thwart your carnal endeavors.

3 months ago

AI's potential climate benefits outweighed by role in boosting fossil fuels, study finds

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AI's potential climate benefits outweighed by role in boosting fossil fuels, study finds

Modelling finds AI-driven productivity gains in coal, oil and gas enable more emissions than applications in renewables avoid

3 months ago

Virtue and a Sledgehammer

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Virtue and a Sledgehammer

What do you do when you return to your home town, with your dead mother in your car boot, to find the inhabitants have been turned into robots?

3 months ago

‘A horrible nightmare’: the shocking story of the eBay harassment scandal

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‘A horrible nightmare’: the shocking story of the eBay harassment scandal

Jaw-dropping documentary Whatever It Takes details an aggressive stalking campaign targeted towards a couple whose reporting criticized the tech company

3 months ago

Nimrods review

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Nimrods review

San Francisco’s pop-punk pioneers Green Day loom large in this fun, puppyish film about a scrappy band desperate to meet their idols

3 months ago

SCOTUS's October Preview

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SCOTUS's October Preview

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3 months ago

Mark Zuckerberg's vision of superintelligent AI for everyone

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Mark Zuckerberg's vision of superintelligent AI for everyone

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is making the case for putting superintelligent AI in the hands of everyone, not just a few companies or governments. Charles Rollet, tech correspondent for Business Insider, joins CBS News to discuss.

3 months ago