Select New Yorkers to receive $12K worth of obscure asset with no strings attached. Supporters, critics clash over basic income. Where do you stand?

That’s what a select group of New Yorkers is receiving. GiveDirectly — a nonprofit focused on direct cash transfers to people ...

Fresh Air Weekend: Billy Strings and Laufey

After losing his mother to an overdose in June, music became a source of catharsis for Strings. Laufey was an "odd fish" in ...
Microsoft

FlashFill++: Scaling Programming by Example by Cutting to the Chase

Programming-by-Examples (PBE) involves synthesizing an intended program from a small set of user-provided input-output examples. A key PBE strategy has been to restrict the search to a carefully ...
CNET

Best Outdoor String Lights for 2025: Illuminate Your Balcony, Patio, Backyard and More

Chris Wedel is a fan of all things tech and gadgets. Living in rural Kansas with his wife and two young boys makes finding ways to stay online tricky — not to mention making my homestead smarter.
Daily Mail

America's second-largest county offers new program giving residents $500 a month with no strings attached

Cook County in Illinois has unanimously approved plans that could give thousands of residents $500 a month in free cash. America's second largest county is committing $7.5 million to fully fund a ...
Taste of Country

Billy Strings Was Blindsided When He Learned His Mom’s Cause of Death

Billy Strings is opening up about the unexpected death of his mother, Debra Apostal, which happened in June. Strings — whose legal name is William Lee Apostal — says his mom wasn't sick leading up to ...
The Conversation

String theory: scientists are trying new ways to verify the idea that could unite all of physics

Marika Taylor currently receives funding from EPSRC, STFC, UK government deparments and the European Horizon programme. In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the ...
Phys.org

String theory: Scientists are trying new ways to verify the idea that could unite all of physics

In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called "Is the end in sight for theoretical physics?" Forty-five years later, ...
The Daily Hodl

Major US City Trialing New Basic Income Pilot Program, Primed To Hand Out $12,000 in Free No-Strings-Attached Crypto per Person

For the first known time ever, a guaranteed income pilot program is launching in the US that will hand out no strings-attached cryptocurrency, not cash. According to a new Bloomberg report, the ...
Popular Mechanics

You Have the Ability to Unlock a Mental Superpower—And Turbocharge Your Memory, Scientists Say

True photographic memory as depicted in pop culture doesn’t exist. That’s because too much detail would defeat our ability to make a quick decision based on experience. However, some people have ...
tech2geek

How to Convert a String to an Integer in Python (With Examples)

Working with numbers stored as strings is a common task in Python programming. Whether you’re parsing user input, reading data from a file, or working with APIs, you’ll often need to transform numeric ...