The Root reports:A New Mexico jury has found the Gila Regional Medical Center negligent in the death of Nichelle Nichols, who famously played Lieutenant Nyota Uhura on the hit television series “Star Trek.” According to KRQE News 13, Nichols’ family filed a lawsuit against the hospital last year following her 2022 admission for shortness of breath. Nichols’ family claimed that she should have...

The Ladybird browser isn’t opposed to AI coding tools, but it’s just brought a new change to their code-contributing policies. February 23: “Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI.”I used Claude Code and Codex for the translation. This was human-directed, not autonomous code generation. I decided what to port, in what order, and what the Rust code should look like. It was hundreds of small...

From Android Authority:Singapore-based BMX has announced that its SolidSafe magnetic power bank lineup, first showcased at CES 2026, is now available for purchase through its website and Amazon US, with prices starting at $59. What sets these power banks apart is their use of semi-solid-state batteries. Traditional lithium-ion and lithium-polymer batteries rely on liquid electrolytes to move...

Bluesky’s chief operating officer believes teen social media bans “risk entrenching Big Tech’s dominance,” reports CNBC:Rose Wang, Bluesky’s chief operating officer, told CNBC on the sidelines of SXSW in London on Wednesday that the smaller open-source platform isn’t opposed to regulation but that smaller players in the industry should be protected. “I support the protection and the safety of...

Scientists “have made a discovery that may help prevent some people from developing lung cancer,” reports the New York Times, noting that lung cancer “kills more people worldwide than any other cancer.”A team of more than 80 researchers working across four continents have identified a set of proteins in the blood that accurately predict lung cancers more than five years before diagnosis. The...

An upcoming vote in a few weeks on America’s cryptocurrency “Clarity Act” is “rattling Wall Street and consumer advocates,” reports CNN, with its proposal to regulate the bulk of crypto markets through America’s Commodity Futures Trading Commission. “It allows crypto companies to operate, at long last, in compliance with U.S. rules, rather than what they have been doing — essentially running...

An official trailer dropped this week for Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis. It’s “a full-blown remake of the original 1996 Tomb Raider game,” reports Kotaku, “rebuilt from the ground up using Unreal Engine 5.” Developed by Flying Wild Hog (with assistance/guidance from longtime Tomb Raider studio Crystal Dynamics), “it will also make some changes to puzzles, combat, platforming…” The game’s...

Utah residents and a progressive nonprofit are suing officials over Kevin O’Leary’s planned Stratos Project AI data center, arguing that the special authority overseeing it gives unelected officials too much control over land use, taxation, public health, and local governance. The lawsuit comes as O’Leary has agreed to shrink the proposed 40,000-acre project by 75% amid mounting political and...

After 50 years of searching, astronomers say they have finally found evidence of a long-sought “wind” blowing from Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. “Unless a black hole exists in a perfect vacuum, it must blow a wind somehow. And there is no perfect vacuum in the universe,” team co-leader and Northwestern University researcher Mark Gorski said in a...

Johnny Hilbrant Partridge has found social media fame as PE Guy, a character who embodies obnoxious entitlement.