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Most school districts in Southern California, including Los Angeles Unified, the nation’s second-largest, planned to keep most classes open Monday, officials said, even as the state grappled with heavy rain, flooding and mudslides.Many students depend on schools for basic nutrition, Los Angeles Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said at a news conference Sunday, explaining why he decided not to close most of the district. The impact of wind and rain will also vary greatly by neighborhood, he said, meaning many schools won’t be as badly affected.On Monday morning, Los Angeles Unified said winds were expected to ease in the morning, citing that…
Boeing said a new problem with the fuselage of some unfinished 737 jets will force the company to rework about 50 planes, potentially delaying their delivery and raising further quality concerns for the manufacturer and its suppliers.Stan Deal, the chief executive of Boeing’s commercial airplane unit, said in a memo to employees on Sunday that a supplier last week had identified that “two holes may not have been drilled exactly to our requirements.” Joe Buccino, a spokesman for Spirit AeroSystems, Boeing’s fuselage supplier, said Monday that a member of its team identified a problem that did not meet engineering standards.…
AI-generated images of Taylor Swift that were widely shared on social media in late January likely originated as part of a repeated challenge on one of the Internet’s most notorious message boards, according to a new report.Graphika, a research firm that studies misinformation, spotted the images in a community on 4chan, a message board known for sharing hate speech, conspiracy theories and, increasingly, racist and offensive content generated using AIThe people on 4chan who created the images of the singer did so in a kind of game, the researchers said — a test to see if they could create lewd…
Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla, has stunned investors by demanding that the company’s board of directors give him more than $80 billion worth of stock if he wants to continue developing products based on artificial intelligence.In the latest show of his disregard for conventional ways of communicating with investors, Mr. Musk said late Monday on X, the social networking site he owns, that he needed to own 25 percent of Tesla to avoid takeovers and have enough control of the company. as it develops robots and other artificial intelligence technologies.If his demands are not met, Mr. Musk said,…
A study of the weight loss drug tirzepatide showed that people who took it had significantly lower blood pressure after 36 weeks of using the drug.Tirzepatide, made by Eli Lilly, is used to treat type 2 diabetes, under the brand name Mounjaro, and to treat obesity, under the brand name Zepbound. It is the latest in a new class of weight-loss drugs, and its main competitor is semaglutide, made by Novo Nordisk and sold as Ozempic for diabetes and Wegovy for weight loss. For both drugs, researchers have evaluated whether they have additional effects beyond weight loss.The blood pressure study,…
In the world of cocktails, Singapore almost inevitably brings to mind the pink gin-based Singapore Sling, a drink born in 1915 at the elegant Long Bar at the Raffles Hotel. In those strait-laced colonial days, it wasn’t proper for women to eat in public, so a bartender made a cocktail that looked like fruit juice. Today, creative minds in quirky bars across the city work with the same spirit of ingenuity, guided by the island’s eco-consciousness and diverse heritage, and highlighting some unexpected ingredients. Here are six that stand out.Atlas”The fun thing about gin is that the possibilities are endless,”…
On her way to becoming a Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner, and the subject of an upcoming biopic starring Selena Gomez, Linda Ronstadt has packed theaters around the world. But her favorite sits on a one-way side street in Tucson, Ariz.With a courtyard draped in vines and string lights and a main stage the size of a “good little opera house,” the 1927 Temple of Music and Art is “just magical,” Ms. Ronstadt said. Before the onset of progressive supranuclear palsy—a Parkinson’s-like disorder that ended her singing career in 2009—she could fill an…
Less than four weeks after a hole opened in a Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft during a flight, company executives are facing a thorny question: Should they focus on safety or financial performance?The issue comes as Boeing prepares to report fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday amid its most significant safety crisis in years. With the Jan. 5 incident on a Max 9 flight still under investigation, executives are grappling with how much to discuss quality control while reassuring shareholders that the company is protecting their investment, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.The National Transportation Safety Board is expected…
Framed by clear turquoise waters and miles of white sand beaches, around seven million travelers visit the Bahamas each year, but a new warning of increased violence in the island nation has raised alarm over the safety of visiting there.On January 24, the U.S. Embassy in Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas, issued a security alert advising U.S. citizens “to be aware that 18 murders have occurred in Nassau since the beginning of 2024. The murders have occurred at all hours, including of broad daylight on the streets’.The terrifying alert was unusual for the Bahamas. In addition to security alerts…
Hundreds of tourists were stranded near Machu Picchu, Peru’s most visited site, over the weekend after protesters blocked train and bus routes to the site and closed local shops and restaurants in Aguas Calientes, the gateway to Machu Picchu, in the Cusco region of the country. . Some visitors posted videos on social media asking for help. Police evacuated around 700 tourists on Saturday. Many left without seeing the site.Protesters had taken to the streets on Thursday to demand the government cancel a contract allowing a company to sell tickets to Machu Picchu for the first time. Tickets were previously…