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When Nathanael was in kindergarten, he told his mother, Diana Lopez, that he didn’t want to go back to school—ever. His teacher yelled at him, he said. And when Mrs. Lopez picked him up from school, he would often immediately start crying.Nathanael has autism, and in a busy classroom of 25 children, the teacher seemed to have few strategies to work with him, Ms. Lopez recalled.This year at a new school, Nathanael, 7, was happier. He shared a teacher with only six other students — not in a classroom, but in the entire school.Nathanael attended a micro-school, an increasingly popular…

The Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce has convened an annual gathering of local business leaders since the 1800s, but the most recent gathering had a decidedly modern theme: artificial intelligence.The goal was to demystify the technology for the chamber’s roughly 2,000 members, especially its small businesses.”My sense is not that people are wary,” said Ralph Schultz, the chamber’s chief executive. “It’s just unclear as to its potential use for them.”When genetic AI emerged into the public consciousness in late 2022, it captured the imagination of businesses and workers with its ability to answer questions, compose paragraphs, write code, and create…

Growing up in Mexico, Marco Flores fantasized about the lowrider cars he saw in magazines, studying their colorful bodies and gleaming engine bays. He also loved his father’s Chevrolet Chevelle. In a tribute, Mr. Flores eventually restored an electric blue Chevelle — the same muscle car his father owned — with the help of his children.Now his custom creations, which he designs and builds after work in his garage in Port Chester, New York, are featured in the same lowrider magazines.His blue Chevelle ”represents my entire childhood and my passion for cars,” said Mr. Flores, 55, who works six days…

“Domestic cats are actually very susceptible to bird flu, and particularly H5N1,” said Kristen Coleman, an infectious disease researcher at the University of Maryland. “But there has been a recent increase in infections from domestic cats, a drastic increase.”There have been sporadic reports of infected dogs, too.While bird flu infections in pets generally remain rare, they can be serious, especially in cats. “It results in very serious illness and often death,” Dr Coleman said. “So it is very serious and should be taken seriously.”But some “common sense precautions” can help people keep their pets safe, he said.Here’s what you need…

“I have analysis paralysis,” said my friend Maite, an Argentinian living in Madrid. Maite is a world traveler but has always been blocked when it comes to Greece. “There are too many islands. How do you decide?’There are more than 6,000 Greek islands, so it was a fair question — and one that many prospective visitors probably ask. Since I had plans to go to Greece, it was also what I wanted an answer to myself.I started with a process of elimination: Rule out anything with an airport (too crowded) or uninhabited (too empty). Then add ferry access (I don’t…

The announcement came in a seemingly unusual fashion on Sunday, when it was first published through the Israeli military’s channels in English and Arabic: The army will “pause” its daytime fighting along a major humanitarian aid corridor in southern Gaza until further notice.Amid some immediate confusion about the scope of the hiatus, a clarification followed, this time in Hebrew and ostensibly for domestic consumption. The change did not mean an end to fighting in the southern Gaza Strip, the statement said, adding that the campaign in the southernmost town of Rafah continued. Military officials said the daily pauses were only…

Housed in a former paperback factory in Astoria, Queens, the tiny Baccalaureate School for Global Education is an elite public high school with a rigorous academic curriculum. Founded in 2002, it has only about 400 students, no gymnasium, no courts and no auditorium.Students who want to play on the school’s softball team, for example, have to take two subway lines and then walk another 10 minutes to a remote practice field in Woodside. There’s no bus to take them to away games with distant schools in Far Rockaway or Queens Village, and the players have to hope the coach arrives…

The executives at Warner Bros. Discovery thought they had given the National Basketball Association a proposal they would accept.In April, after months of negotiations, the company made an offer to pay the league billions of dollars for the rights to continue showing its games on TNT, as well as its Max streaming service. TNT has aired NBA games since the 1980s, and “Inside the NBA” is widely regarded as one of the best studio sports shows ever made.But as the end of Warner Bros.’s exclusive trading window approaches. Discovery, the NBA insisted on changing the package of games the company…

Listen and follow “Hard Fork”Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTubeThis week we head to Cupertino, California for Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference and talk to New York Times reporter Tripp Mickle about all the new features Apple has announced and the company’s giant leap into artificial intelligence. Next, we explore what has been another tumultuous week for Elon Musk, leading to a shareholder vote to re-authorize his massive compensation package at Tesla amid new allegations that he had sex with subordinates at SpaceX. And finally — let’s play HatGPT.Guests:Additional reading:Credits“Hard Fork” is hosted by Kevin Rouse and Casey Newton…

Ferrari driver Carlos Sainz is set to lose his job. He has taken three of the team’s last four race wins since 2022, but that has not been enough to keep his place next season because Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton will move.As 2023 ended, Sainz and team-mate Charles Leclerc were set to sign new deals with the team. Leclerc signed in late January, but in early February Ferrari revealed they would be poaching Hamilton from Mercedes, with whom he has won six of his seven championships. Sainz would be gone after four years with the team.”That it was somewhat of a…