House Votes for Permanent Daylight Saving Time – The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/us/politics/house-daylight-savings-time-sunshine-protection-act.html
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House Votes for Permanent Daylight Saving Time
July 17, 2026The Small-Business Owners Managing Whole Armies of A.I. Employees – The New York Times
June 22, 2026Automation of correspondence & pot. social feeds
The Small-Business Owners Managing Whole Armies of A.I. Employees – The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/magazine/ai-agents-openclaw-small-business.html
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So in mid-March he bought four Mac Minis (“I got lawyer money,” he said dryly), parked them under his office desk and installed OpenClaw on all of them. He set up five agents. One is an “orchestrator” that logs into his online legal software. At first, it didn’t know what to look for or what to do, so the agent would text Bell via the chat app Discord to ask for instructions. This was laborious for a while: He had to detail every teensy step. But as the agent made notes about what it had learned, it started working more independently.
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From Cow-Milking Robots to Weed-Zapping Lasers, Farmers Are Embracing A.I. – The New York Times
June 22, 2026From Cow-Milking Robots to Weed-Zapping Lasers, Farmers Are Embracing A.I. – The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/magazine/ai-farms-technology.html
Farmers seem similar to low-tech, small biz owners in this regard
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But right now the industry is in the midst of what some are calling the fourth agricultural revolution, as driverless tractors trundle through fields, drones map moisture levels in soil and cows are outfitted with Fitbit-like devices that track their eating patterns. ….
But the farmers I spoke with hope that embracing new tech will help them face big challenges in the industry. In particular, they’ve found it more difficult in recent years to find enough workers, and on family-run operations, fewer kids are sticking around to take over the business. It’s still hard to say how exactly the age of A.I. will reshape agriculture. But for now, these farmers are figuring out new ways to use technology to transform their daily work.
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Robot can beat elite players at table tennis
June 7, 2026https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01045-2
wonder if this uses a world model ?
Introducing new capabilities to GPT-Rosalind | OpenAI
June 4, 2026https://openai.com/index/introducing-new-capabilities-to-gpt-rosalind/ can req. access via a form
Treatment Effect of the Tree Pollen SLIT-Tablet on Allergic Rhinoconjunctivitis During Oak Pollen Season – PubMed
May 31, 2026https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33548518/
Nolte, H., Waserman, S., Ellis, A. K., Biedermann, T., & Würtzen, P. A. (2021). Treatment effect of the tree pollen SLIT-Tablet on allergic rhinoconjunctivitis during oak pollen season. The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology in Practice, 9(5), 1871–1878.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaip.2021.01.035
Ancient DNA reveals pervasive directional selection across West Eurasia | Nature
May 31, 2026https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10358-1
Akbari, A., Perry, A., Barton, A. R., Kariminejad, M., Gazal, S., Li, Z., Zeng, Y., Mittnik, A., Patterson, N., Mah, M., Zhou, X., Price, A. L., Lander, E. S., Pinhasi, R., Rohland, N., Mallick, S., & Reich, D. (2026). Ancient DNA reveals pervasive directional selection across West Eurasia. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10358-1
How effective is the personalized off-label use of targeted cancer treatment?
May 31, 2026https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00911-3
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15 April 2026
How effective is the personalized off-label use of targeted cancer treatment If general cancer treatment fails, a tumour-type-specific therapy might be tried for other cancers with genetic changes in the targeted pathway. How well does this work?
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