Microsoft Backs Up A.I. Spending With $27.2 Billion Quarterly Profit
The company’s results are likely to ease investors’ worries that big investments in artificial intelligence aren’t paying off.
Alec Baldwin’s lawsuit against New Mexico officials dismissed
A judge has dismissed Alec Baldwin’s lawsuit alleging he was maliciously prosecuted by New Mexico officials, citing a lack of activity in the case.
A dozen Democrats sue ICE for preventing detention center oversight visits
Four California lawmakers are named plaintiffs in the suit, which was filed Wednesday in Washington federal district court.
Tsunami alerts lifted after huge earthquake prompts evacuations across Pacific
Alerts were issued across the Pacific following the 8.8 magnitude quake in Russia’s Far East, but no deaths were reported.
More than a dozen children die because of food shortages in Sudan camp – medics
Famine has been declared in areas of Darfur, an region particularly hard hit by the ongoing civil war.
Family and fans give Ozzy Osbourne emotional send-off
A tearful Sharon Osbourne accompanies Ozzy’s coffin through Birmingham, watched by a large crowd.
Olympic star Dahlmeier dead after climbing accident
Two-time Olympic champion Laura Dahlmeier dies aged 31 after a mountaineering accident in Pakistan.
Russian volcano explodes in ‘powerful’ eruption, likely intensified by 8.8 magnitude earthquake
Klyuchevskoy volcano in Russia erupted shortly after a powerful 8.8 magnitude earthquake in the same region.
Even a slight slowdown of key Atlantic currents poses a ‘stunning risk’ to rainforests
A slowing Atlantic current could have a devastating impact on the planet’s rainforests, a new study warns.
‘It was so unexpected’: 90 billion liters of meltwater punched its way through Greenland ice sheet in never-before-seen melting event
A previously-undetected flood over Greenland’s ice sheet has confounded model predictions about how the region’s meltwater should leak.
Has NASA ceded its mission to Elon Musk?
The Atlantic journalist Franklin Foer explains how SpaceX and the Trump administration are changing the face of NASA, and why Musk’s dream of Mars may
Researchers find that songbirds sometimes get ‘divorced’
A new study from Oxford University finds that a common European songbird sometimes divorces its partner between breeding seasons. (Image credit: P. Pleul)
Not even the Himalayas are immune to traffic smog
Smog from cars and trucks is an expected health hazard in big cities, but researchers from the University of Cincinnati found pollution from truck exhaust
Optical illusions are a brain feature, not a bug. Here’s the science behind them
A grayscale ballerina who appears to be moving. A human who can fit in a doll box. A black-and-white prism that appears to change shape