Mavis Beacon Was a Fictional Character Played by a Real Saks Employee. Here's the Surprising Amount She Was Paid by the Typing Empire

As the New York Times reported in 1998, it was Les Crane who first spotted the woman who would be Mavis. Crane was a former ...

New ChatGPT trend turns you into a caricature. Here's how it works.

Many ChatGPT users have joined the trend and called on the technology to create a caricature of themselves at work. From news anchors to teachers, working professionals from all walks of life have ...
CNET

NASA Used AI to Drive Its Perseverance Mars Rover for the First Time

NASA used Anthropic's Claude for an experiment in plotting the rover's course, which the agency deemed successful.
MLB Rumors

Diamondbacks Outright Bryce Jarvis

December 19th: The Diamondbacks announced today that Jarvis cleared waivers and has been sent outright to Triple-A Reno. Jarvis, 28 this month, was Arizona’s first-round pick in the 2020 draft. The ...
The Nation Newspaper

Why Peller, Jarvis are a ticking time bomb – Do2dtun

Media personality Do2dtun has reacted to the recent incident involving content creator Peller, who crashed his car during a live broadcast amid reported relationship issues with Jarvis. Sharing his ...
The Conversation

Jigsaw puzzles help make mathematics learning more active and fun

Francis Duah does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...
New York Post

We’re raising kids who can’t do the math — making them easy to manipulate

We’ve created a generation — parents and children alike — paralyzed by numerators without denominators. A single alarming number, stripped of all context, deployed to trigger fear and compliance. And ...
WRAL

‘Not a math person’: NC wants to make math classes more relevant to students entering the real world

Proposed changes to North Carolina's math standards would shake up requirements for upperclassmen in the state’s public high schools and emphasize real-world problem-solving in all grade levels. The ...
Forbes

New Law Requires IRS To Make Those Confusing Math-Error Notices Easier To Understand

Thanks to the IRS MATH Act, the IRS must now explain mistakes in plain English, show any adjustments, and put your 60-day appeal deadline front and center. It will be a major upgrade from previously ...
KPBS

UC San Diego is trying to solve a remedial math problem

UC San Diego is trying to solve a math problem. The university said a growing number of students are starting their freshman year lacking high school math proficiency. KPBS reporter Jacob Aere says ...
Quanta Magazine

‘Reverse Mathematics’ Illuminates Why Hard Problems Are Hard

When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map ...
Wall Street Journal

The College Students Who Can’t Do Elementary Math

Kids in elementary school learn—or are supposed to learn—how to add fractions and round numbers. But many students at the University of California, San Diego—a top public university ranked sixth ...