Failed typing test twice, three junior clerks demoted to peon in Kanpur

Kanpur: District magistrate Jitendra Pratap Singh on Tuesday demoted three junior clerks to the post of peon after they failed to clear the mandatory typing tests, officials said.Their salary ...

Plagiarized research passed automated tests, and I detected it—but only because it copied my work

Earlier this year, I published a paper on the ethics of researching military populations. The core argument was ...

Testing suggests Google’s AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour

The Times conducted this analysis with the help of a startup called Oumi, which itself is deeply involved in developing AI ...

Tiger Woods is not playing the Masters this week after car crash, DUI arrest

Tiger Woods, however, won’t be competing this spring. Woods announced last week that he was stepping away “for a period of ...

Write It Up! How Fast Do Our Journalists Type?

When it comes to breaking news, it’s a race not only to get the story, but to record it. We tracked down some of the ...
Wall Street Journal

War and Inflation Are Supposed to Be Gold’s Friends. Not This Time.

This should be the time for gold to shine. The yellow metal has the perfect opportunity to demonstrate its role as a shield for investors against inflation and geopolitics. Instead, it has crumbled: ...
TechCrunch

‘Not built right the first time’ — Musk’s xAI is starting over again, again

And then there were two: Of the original 11 co-founders who kickstarted xAI with Elon Musk three years ago, only two remain as the deep learning lab continues a personnel overhaul to compete with ...
PC World

Windows 11’s new internet speed test is just a shortcut to Bing

Microsoft is rolling out a new internet speed test feature in Windows 11 that’s accessible directly from the taskbar for user convenience. PCWorld reports this feature is actually just a shortcut to a ...
The Verge

Donut Lab says latest test proves its solid-state battery isn’t a supercapacitor

There was speculation that Donut Lab’s battery was able to discharge energy so quickly because it was a supercapacitor in disguise. So the startup set out to disprove that claim. There was speculation ...
Cleveland.com

‘Daylight savings time’ or ‘daylight saving time’? What’s correct — and when does it start?

Still, “daylight savings time” has become deeply ingrained in everyday speech — even though it is technically incorrect. Thesaurus.com explains that “daylight saving time” is technically the correct ...
Live Science

'It doesn't lie. So who are you?': What happens when DNA tests show a woman is not the mother of the child she gave birth to?

"At first, I kind of laughed … But they were serious. I could just see the seriousness in their faces." In this book excerpt, Lise Barnéoud explores the limitations of DNA testing. When you purchase ...
Dread Central

‘This Is Not a Test’ Wants You to Come of Age in the Zombie Apocalypse [Review]

This Is Not a Test, no surprise given MacDonald’s unflinching genre background, will likely be a matter of taste. For the genre curious, it’s handsomely made, plenty tense, and postures as exactly the ...