At LAX, Uber Drivers Wait. And Wait. And Wait.

Before the sun could rise over Los Angeles International Airport on a recent Tuesday, hundreds of Uber and Lyft drivers had formed a queue nearby, stretching around the block. It was 5 a.m., and the waiting game was about to begin. In a few minutes, the line of cars would file into a fenced-off parking…

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The Literary ‘It’ Girl Who Continues to Fascinate

“Childhood is an image, which we decorate,” Françoise Sagan wrote in her autobiography, “Réponses.” Ms. Sagan, born Françoise Delphine Quoirez, was only 18 when her first novel, “Bonjour Tristesse,” published in 1954, caused a sensation across the globe. But she was not just a literary wunderkind: The teenage author became an object of worldwide press…

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Alyssa Healy identifies ‘scariest’ part of PBKS vs DC suspension, travel by train amid India-Pakistan tensions | Cricket News

Dharamsala: Security personnel stand guard amid a practice session ahead of an Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 T20 cricket match between Punjab Kings and Delhi Capitals, at the HPCA Stadium, in Dharamsala. Security has been tightened after India’s missile strikes on Pakistan to dismantle terror infrastructure in the wake of the Pahalgam terrorist attack. (PTI…

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A.I. Was Coming for Radiologists’ Jobs. So Far, They’re Just More Efficient.

Nine years ago, one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence scientists singled out an endangered occupational species. “People should stop training radiologists now,” Geoffrey Hinton said, adding that it was “just completely obvious” that within five years A.I. would outperform humans in that field. Today, radiologists — the physician specialists in medical imaging who look…

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