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 disc jockey who went on to host ABC's The Les Crane Show for one year ...
The National Interest

Northrop Grumman’s “YFQ-48A” Drone Is Contending for the Air Force’s CCA Program

The YFQ-48A drone is now the third drone vying for the US Air Force’s “Collaborative Combat Aircraft” program, following General Atomics’ YFQ-42A and Anduril’s YFQ-44A. The two companies competing for ...
Wired

Sam Altman’s New Brain Venture, Merge Labs, Will Spin Out of a Nonprofit

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s new brain-computer interface startup, Merge Labs, is being spun out of the Los Angeles–based nonprofit Forest Neurotech, according to a source with direct knowledge of the ...
The Verge

ChatGPT shopping research builds you a buyer’s guide using AI

Just in time for the holiday shopping season. Just in time for the holiday shopping season. is a NYC-based AI reporter and is currently supported by the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism. She covers ...
Engineering News-Record

Chicago's $6B CREATE Rail Program Rolling Along

The 2-mile-long Forest Hill Flyover removes daily conflicts between 35 freight trains and 30 passenger trains in Chicago. November 21, 2025 After two decades, the Chicago Region Environmental and ...
Forbes

19 Tips For Entrepreneurs: How To Create An Employee Referral Program

A great employee referral program doesn’t start with flashy bonuses—it starts with culture. If people love where they work and believe in what their company stands for, they’ll naturally want to bring ...
NPR

Scientists create human eggs in the lab, using skin cells

Scientists have created human eggs containing genes from adult skin cells, a step that someday could help women who are infertile or gay couples have babies with their own genes but would also raise ...
The Business Journals

Georgia Tech program boosts rising talent in state’s manufacturing industry

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min Here's the next generation of ...
The University of Chicago Chronicle

Scientists program cells to create ‘biological qubit’ in quantum breakthrough

At first glance, biology and quantum technology seem incompatible. Living systems operate in warm, noisy environments full of constant motion—while quantum technology often requires extreme isolation ...
Business Wire

Synchron Debuts First Thought-Controlled iPad Experience Using Apple’s New BCI Human Interface Device Protocol

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Synchron, a category-defining brain-computer interface (BCI) company, today released the first-ever public demonstration of an individual using an iPad controlled entirely ...
Newsweek

Medicare Will Start Using AI to Help Make Coverage Decisions Next Year

Starting in January, Medicare will test out an artificial intelligence (AI) pilot program to decide whether patients get certain procedures covered or not. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ...
City Limits

‘We Cracked The Code’: First Hotel-to-Housing Conversion Using State Program To Open in Queens

A pandemic-era program aimed to facilitate hotel and office to affordable housing conversions. After a slow start, and numerous financing and design challenges, its first project is opening in Queens.