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The mini-series “Families Like Ours” on Netflix has an attention-grabbing premise: An entire country, Denmark, decides to shut itself down before climate change can do the job for it. Six million Danes start looking for new homes. Relocation plans are drawn up with Scandinavian efficiency, but European neighbors look upon waves of relatively well-off white refugees with the same distaste they show for Africans and Middle Easterners.The seven-episode series is the first from the Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg, known for founding the no-frills Dogme 95 movement with Lars von Trier and, 26 years later, being nominated for a best director…

A new machine learning approach that draws inspiration from the way the human brain seems to model and learn about the world has proven capable of mastering a number of simple video games with impressive efficiency.The new system, called Axiom, offers an alternative to the artificial neural networks that are dominant in modern AI. Axiom, developed by a software company called Verse AI, is equipped with prior knowledge about the way objects physically interact with each other in the game world. It then uses an algorithm to model how it expects the game to act in response to input, which…

As the Trump administration clamped down on the country’s medical research funding apparatus in recent months, scientists and administrators at the National Institutes of Health often privately wondered how much autonomy the agency’s director, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, had.After all, the Department of Government Efficiency, Elon Musk’s signature cost-cutting project, helped drive decisions to cancel or delay research grants. Other projects fell victim to President Trump’s face-off with universities over antisemitism. But given an opportunity before a Senate panel on Tuesday to dispel suspicions about who wields influence at the N.I.H., Dr. Bhattacharya did little to claim ownership of perhaps the…

If the United States and China have succeeded at one thing this year, it is finding each other’s pain points.An initial clash over tariffs has grown in recent months into a competition over which country can weaponize its control over the other’s supply chains.China has clamped down on global shipments of rare minerals that are essential to building cars, missiles and a host of electronic products. The United States has in turn paused shipments to China of chemicals, machinery and technology including software and components to produce nuclear power, airplanes and semiconductors. As the conflict has escalated in recent weeks,…

The Trump administration on Tuesday asked a federal appeals court to block a lower court’s order directing the Trump administration to provide due process to scores of Venezuelan immigrants who were deported without hearings to El Salvador in March under a wartime law.The emergency request by the Justice Department, filed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, came one day before the administration was supposed to send the lower court judge its proposal for how to allow nearly 140 of the deported Venezuelans to challenge their expulsion. The men, accused of being members of a violent…

Conrad Selwyn Shinn was born on Sept. 12, 1922, in Leaksville, N.C., a small mill town since consolidated with two others.His father, Thomas Pinkney Shinn, was a secretary at a local Y.M.C.A. His mother, Mattie Jane (Krimminger) Shinn, ran the household. Conrad was drawn to flying by the trailblazing exploits of aviators like Charles Lindbergh, who made the first solo, nonstop flight across the Atlantic in 1927, and Wiley Post, who flew the first solo flight around the world, in 1933.Commander Shinn studied aeronautical engineering at North Carolina State College (now a university), joined the Navy in 1942, and then…

In the spiritual sequel to his legendary 2004 Victoria’s Secret commercial, Bob Dylan has provided narration for a new trailer announcing Machine Gun Kelly‘s next album, Lost Americana.  “Lost Americana is a personal excavation of the American dream — a journey to find what’s been lost,” Dylan drawls in the short clip. He goes on to describe the album as “a love letter to those who seek to rediscover” and “a sonic map of forgotten places, a tribute to the spirit of reinvention, and a quest to reclaim the essence of American freedom.” Dylan’s narration is accompanied by a montage…

The summer of soccer will take a new look this year with the FIFA Club World Cup, which comes to the U.S. for the first edition of the expanded competition that will see 32 teams from around the world compete for a share of the $1 billion prize purse.Several high-profile teams will take part in the new-look competition, from UEFA Champions League winners Paris Saint-Germain to Argentine giants Boca Juniors, each of whom will be targeting deep runs in the competition. European teams make up most of the field with 12 teams, while South America will have six participants. Four…

Qualcomm has enabled what one of its executives said was a strange and “most interesting conversations– and it was with a pair of generative AI-powered smart glasses.” In a talk at Augmented World Expo, Ziad Asghar, senior vice president of XR & spatial computing at Qualcomm, said that the chat wasn’t just a simple demo. It was a glimpse into how we’re turning AI glasses, which have long been considered an accessory, into a standalone, comprehensive capable device. The company also unveiled its Snapdragon AR1+ Gen 1 processor, which is 26% smaller than the previous generations, to power the demo.…

The Pentagon will send a Marine battalion to Los Angeles in a major escalation of US President Donald Trump’s response to anti-immigration enforcement protests, the United States military has said. The statement on Monday confirmed the “activation” of 700 Marines to help protect federal personnel and property in the California city, where Trump had deployed the US National Guard a day earlier. The update came despite opposition from state officials, including California’s Governor Gavin Newsom, who had earlier mounted a legal challenge to the deployment of the National Guard troops. In a statement, the military said the “activation of the…