Month: January 2026

Today’s Featured Book Deals $1.99 Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams Get This Deal $1.99 The Funeral Ladies of Ellerie County by Claire Swinarski Get This Deal $1.99 Perma Red by Debra Magpie Earling Get This Deal $1.99 The Awkward Black Man: Stories by Walter Mosley Get This Deal $1.99 A Sharp Endless Need by Marisa Crane
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Science fiction and science leaders alike have warned us that artificial intelligence may one day take over the world, but until those predictions come to pass, generative AI’s biggest impact on my life has been overloading my social media feeds with slop. It seems I can’t open TikTok, Instagram, or YouTube without running smack into
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Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Episode 4 makes its thesis unmistakably clear: the Federation stops being the Federation the moment it asks its members to stop being themselves. What follows is a meditation on what help looks like when survival and cultural identity are inseparable. “Vox in Excelso” opens not with conflict, but reflection. Chancellor Ake
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Wynton Marsalis is leaving Jazz at Lincoln Center after over 30 years as its artistic and managing director. The organization announced Marsalis’ departure today (January 27), confirming that the influential musician, composer, and bandleader will stay on as artistic director through 2027, then serve in an advisory role through June 2028. He will remain on
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Six senators accused Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche this week of having a conflict of interest when he shut down investigations into crypto companies, dealers and exchanges and eliminated an enforcement team dedicated to looking for crypto-related fraud and money-laundering schemes. A letter written by Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Dick Durbin and Mazie Hirono and
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Spotting cancer tumours in mammograms seems to be easier with AI AMELIE-BENOIST/BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty People who are screened for breast cancer by AI-supported radiologists are less likely to develop aggressive cancers before their next screening round than those who are screened by radiologists alone, raising hopes that AI-assisted screening could save lives. “This
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Lady Gaga has been announced as a performer at the 2026 Grammy Awards. She’s up for seven trophies—the second-most of any nominee, tied with producers Jack Antonoff and Cirkut—including Album of the Year for Mayhem and Record and Song of the Year for its single “Abracadabra.” The other performers at the 2026 Grammys are: Justin
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