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Coal-fired power generation is having something of a moment.
To be clear, the airport’s “bans” are actually intended as something of a joke.
From MarketWatch
To be clear, the airport’s “bans” are actually intended as something of a joke.
From MarketWatch
Noble makes Richard’s conquest not only convincing but something of a sport.
From Los Angeles Times
AI’s incursion into healthcare even has become something of a cultural touchstone: In HBO’s up-to-the-minute emergency room series “The Pitt,” beleaguered ER doctors discover that an AI app pushed on them as a time-saving charting tool has “hallucinated” a history of appendicitis for a patient, endangering the patient’s treatment.
From Los Angeles Times
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