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A sophomore at Brown University is facing the school's wrath after he sent a DOGE-like email to non-faculty employees asking them what they do all day to try to figure out why the elite school's tuition has gotten so expensive. "The inspiration for this is the rising cost of tuition," Alex Shieh told Fox News Digital in an interview. "Next year, it's set to be $93,064 to go to Brown," Shieh said of the Ivy League university. Brown's website estimates the total charges to attend the school for the 2025-2026 school year is even higher at $95,984. "‘And I think...

Police are investigating multiple calls from concerned South Bay residents about a man recording himself saying obscene things to women and posting the videos on social media. “When they would react adversely, he would run away and exclaim, “ASSAULT!” In several of the posted videos, the man is seen following women and making lewd sexual comments as they go about their daily routines. Hermosa Beach police said that detectives are investigating the incidents and encouraged anyone who believes they have been a victim of a crime to call them at 310-318-0360 or to go to the Police Department at 540...

Popular nursing influencer Hailey Okula — who gained hundreds of thousands of followers sharing her struggles getting pregnant — has died of complications from giving birth to her first child. Okula — an ER nurse known online as Nurse Hailey — died from unspecified complications after giving birth to her son, Crew, late last month, her husband, Matthew Okula, wrote on Instagram Tuesday. Nurse Hailey grew her large following from sharing her infertility struggles in a two-year journey to get pregnant through IVF. When she was finally able to share the good news in September, she told her followers: “Being...

@YALiberty “One person is not allowed to raise taxes—the constitution forbids it.” @SenRandPaul slams Trump’s tariffs as unconstitutional, calling them a tax on Americans— and he’s right.

As part of Apple's iOS 18.4 update, iPhone users will have access to eight new emoji. And there is one face that everyone is already saying will be their favourite. The new emoji list includes some items that some iPhone users might find helpful including a harp, a shovel, a leafless tree and a root vegetable. The update also includes a few stranger choices, such as the purple 'splatter', a bright blue fingerprint, and the flag of Sark – a small Channel Island with a population of just 500. But it is the exhausted-looking 'face with bags under eyes' emoji...

The rocker went on: 'By these latest actions of our US government, it seems that those who speak out freely with their own opinions are now vulnerable to a non-existent Trump law. Then it seems to me that if you voted for Kamala Harris over Trump, that makes it possible for you to go to jail or be detained, punished in some way for not showing allegiance to what? How spineless is that?' 'Trump is not be able to stand up to anyone who does not agree with his ideas? Remember, all months have 30 days.' Neil Young expressed his...

Charlie Javice faces up to 30 years for tricking JPMorgan into buying her fintech startup for $175M. After Friday's verdict, her lawyers argued wearing an ankle monitor would ruin her Pilates career. Convicted JPMorgan fraudster Charlie Javice will have a tougher time teaching Pilates, at least for now. Wearing the bulky device once again — as she had for several weeks before a November decision granting its removal — would be a severe impediment to her career as a Pilates instructor, Sullivan said. "To have your legs in the air and the monitor going up and down on your leg...

Commentator Brett Cooper was on the Shawn Ryan Show podcast last week, where she discussed finding out as a teen that her father had wanted her mother to abort Brett. “Your father wanted you aborted? Correct?” Ryan asked. “Yes,” Cooper admitted, explaining she was 16 when she found out. At the time, she was living and working in Los Angeles as a child actor and she didn’t understand the pro-abortion and pro-life position. Cooper asked her mother for clarity, saying that her mother never shied away from hard questions. As they talked about what it means to be pro-life, Cooper’s...

Tech billionaire Elon Musk and conservative influencer Ashley St. Clair publicly feuded on X on Monday after she accused the world’s richest man of withdrawing childcare support and refusing to take a paternity test. Musk defended himself against those claims, saying he has given St. Clair more than $2 million and is open to a paternity test. “I don’t know if the child is mine or not, but am not against finding out. No court order is needed,” Musk said in a post on X, responding that a court has ordered Musk to take a paternity test. “Despite not knowing...

Never mind blocking workarounds to sign in with a local account, just give us a straightforward choice in the installation process. Microsoft just blocked a popular workaround to install Windows 11 with a local account Some people like to avoid having a Microsoft account linked to the OS due to privacy (or other) concerns While alternative workarounds remain, it’s likely they could be cut off too – and Microsoft is very much going down the wrong path here Microsoft appears to be moving to block Windows 11 users who want to install the operating system using a local account, meaning...

Corning Gorilla Glass Ceramic has been launched by the company as the latest addition to its lineup of cover materials for smartphones and other mobile devices. According to details shared by the New York-based company, the new Gorilla Glass Ceramic offers better drop performance on rough surfaces than other protective glass materials from competitors. The first smartphone with Gorilla Glass Ceramic protection will arrive in the coming months. Corning already provides Apple with the Ceramic Shield material used to protect iPhone displays from damage. Corning Gorilla Glass Ceramic to Debut on Motorola Device The newly unveiled Gorilla Glass Ceramic is...

Hong Wang, an associate professor at NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, presenting her work on the Kakeya conjecture on March 10, 2025. Credit: David Song/NYU. ================================================================== Professors from NYU and the University of British Columbia have resolved the Kakeya set conjecture in three dimensions. Mathematicians from New York University and the University of British Columbia have resolved a long-standing geometric problem known as the Kakeya conjecture in three dimensions. This conjecture explores the minimal space required for a needle, or line segment, to point in every direction within a given space. The idea originates from a 1917 question posed...

Amazon MGM reported to pay Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson $1 billion to take over full creative control of James Bond. As The James Bond Dossier reported yesterday Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson are to step down from 007, leaving Amazon to chart the course for the franchise. What wasn’t known until now was the price tag. Amazon, having already spent $8.5 billion acquiring MGM, has had to invest another $1 billion to remove the final obstacle—Broccoli and Wilson’s creative control. For over sixty years, the Broccoli name has been synonymous with Bond. Wilson, now 83, had long...

Last month, in an interview with Bari Weiss, venture capitalist and longevity researcher Bryan Johnson discussed "how not to die." While Johnson's theories on indefinite life extension are interesting, it was his comments about artificial intelligence that were more striking, "I think the irony is that we told stories of God creating us, and I think the reality is we are creating God ... in the form of superintelligence," he said. "If you ask yourself, 'What have we imagined God to be? What are its characteristics?' We are building God in the form of technology. It will have the same...

@IanCarrollShow BREAKING- The RFK jr blackmail story is breaking from multiple angles right now It’s bad. Even worse than I say in this video. Blackmail by… certain people… at the highest levels of American politics. Right now in 2025. Buckle up. It’s about to get weird.

Editor’s Note: Below is Grok, the chatbot for xAI that is available on X, answering the question about why xAI just acquire X. For those unfamiliar with how chatbot articles work, they take data available to them through their various datasets and compile what they believe to be “scholarly” or “journalistic” posts. They are rarely accurate, though they’re getting better. In this case, the article that Grok spit out is accurate… almost eerily so… ============================================================== On March 28, 2025, Elon Musk announced that xAI, his artificial intelligence company, had acquired X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, in...

Taco Bell is about to get an AI makeover from one of the biggest names in the game. Yum! Brands, the owner of Taco Bell, KFC, and Pizza Hut, announced it is teaming up with chip company Nvidia to bring the chip giant’s AI technology to its drive-thrus and restaurant operations — upgrading and expanding Taco Bell’s existing voice AI. According to Tuesday’s announcement, Nvidia’s AI software will be integrated into Yum’s in-house tech platform, enabling voice assistants to take orders more smoothly, smart cameras to track bottlenecks in real time, and AI analytics to help managers optimize operations. Yum...

This robot can walk, without electronics, and only with the addition of a cartridge of compressed gas, right off the 3D-printer. (CREDIT: David Baillot/University of California San Diego) ============================================================================== In a nutshell * Scientists have developed a fully 3D-printed robot that can walk, climb, and even move across waterwithout the need for electronics. It uses pneumatic pressure to control movement, demonstrating a new approach to robot design. * The robot is created in a single 58-hour 3D-printing process, with no need for manual assembly. The entire structure, including its functional components, is printed as one cohesive unit, simplifying production. *...

Napster (Yes, that Napster) has just been sold for $207 million, leading an entire generation of people to simultaneously ask: "Wait, was Napster still around?" The popular and original mainstream illegal music file-sharing platform that caused absolute mayhem for record labels in the early 2000s was sold to tech company Infinite Reality on Tuesday for a whopping $200+ million figure, as the startup said that it hopes of transform the streaming service into a music Metaverse of sorts. What's wild about the whole thing is that Napster's website was shut down 24 years ago after being sued into oblivion by...

The atomic energy of betavoltaic batteries can power a variety of devices, from aerospace and robots to your future smartphone, for up to a century without recharging. ================================================================== In the world of batteries, duration is king. Whether nestled in the smallest wearable or providing back-up power for the electric grid, a battery that provides reliable energy for longer will always outlast the competition—figuratively and literally. The U.S. led the way in nuclear battery innovation over the past 70 years—and even developed the first battery that ran on nuclear radiation in the 1950s. But in the 21st century, China has become...