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Google’s Quantum Computer Makes a Big Technical Leap

22 octobre 2025 à 18:14
Designed to accelerate advances in medicine and other fields, the tech giant’s quantum algorithm runs 13,000 times as fast as software written for a traditional supercomputer.

© Adam Amengual for The New York Times

A quantum computer at Google’s quantum research facility near Santa Barbara, Calif.

Former Biden and Senate Counsel to Lead Progressive Legal Group

22 octobre 2025 à 18:01
Phil Brest, a veteran of the judicial confirmation wars, will head the American Constitution Society at a time of legal turmoil.

© Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times

Phil Brest is joining the American Constitution Society at a time when Democrats and progressives see grave threats to the rule of law.

G.M. Previews Talking Cars, Cheaper Batteries and Other New Tech

22 octobre 2025 à 17:03
Drivers will be able to converse with an artificial intelligence assistant while cars largely drive themselves in certain situations, the company said.

© Brett Carlsen for The New York Times

Battery assembly at a General Motors plant in Spring Hill, Tenn. G.M. announced that it had developed a new lower-cost battery.

In First Six Months, Cost of Weather Catastrophes Escalated at a Record Pace

22 octobre 2025 à 16:44
The Trump administration stopped updating a database tracking the costs of the country’s worst disasters. A group of scientists has revived it.

© Anna Watts for The New York Times

Sifting for belongings after a tornado blew through Plantersville, Ala., in March. That tornado outbreak caused $10.6 billion in damage, one of this year’s costliest disasters.

Meta Plans to Cut 600 Jobs at A.I. Superintelligence Labs

22 octobre 2025 à 16:31
The cuts will not affect Meta’s newest A.I. hires, who are in some cases being paid up to hundreds of millions of dollars. The layoffs are focused on correcting an earlier hiring spree.

© Jason Henry for The New York Times

Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, at the company campus in Menlo Park, Calif., last month. Meta has hired aggressively to build A.I. in recent years.

Colleges Face a Reckoning: Is a Degree Really Necessary?

22 octobre 2025 à 13:02
Wyoming is one of many states that embraced a campaign to encourage more people to enroll in higher education. Some leaders and students wonder if they reached a limit.

© Rachel Woolf for The New York Times

Signs for Serve Wyoming and a Walmart Distribution Center outside Cheyenne, Wy.

Le Heist

How thieves were able to pull off an audacious robbery of priceless jewels from the Louvre in broad daylight.

© Kiran Ridley/Getty Images

Sealing off the entrance to the Louvre on Sunday. The thieves left the museum by climbing back down the ladder, then made their getaway with two other accomplices who were waiting on motor scooters.

Bird Flu Is Back

22 octobre 2025 à 11:02
After a quiet summer, the virus is hitting poultry flocks hard in the run-up to the holidays — and in the midst of a federal government shutdown.

© Casey Steffens for The New York Times

Avian flu often flares up in the fall as wild birds begin migrating south; this year, the uptick is occurring during a government shutdown, as federal agencies that are typically involved in the response are working with skeletal staff.
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