Microsoft thinks you'll want an Xbox Controller and 1 year of Microsoft 365 and Xbox Game Pass over a MacBook Neo

In a desperate bid to win over students, Microsoft has launched a new promo that bundles a year of Microsoft's subscriptions ...
NBC Washington

Virginia thoroughbred industry opposes Army's offer for unique training center

In Virginia horse country, trainers and owners are concerned about the pending sale of the Middleburg Training Center to the U.S. Army for its caisson horses. The private facility features 149 acres, ...
BGR

The Cheapest Way To Turn Your Old Computer Into A Powerful Media Center

Turning a computer into a media center is not that hard, since tons of old equipment can play HD video. You can go all the way back to a seventh-generation Intel processor from 2016 and still support ...
VentureBeat

OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 with native computer use mode, financial plugins for Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets

The AI updates aren't slowing down. Literally two days after OpenAI launched a new underlying AI model for ChatGPT called GPT-5.3 Instant, the company has unveiled another, even more massive upgrade: ...
The Gazette

Center for Intellectual Freedom at University of Iowa seeks funding, director and students

IOWA CITY — Approaching a year after state lawmakers passed a bill creating a new Center for Intellectual Freedom at the University of Iowa — charged with expanding “intellectual diversity” on campus ...
Los Angeles Times

Should a town with an ‘inferiority complex’ welcome a giant data center?

Giant computer data centers that power artificial intelligence and cloud computing are popping up around California, as are fights with communities that don’t want to live near them. The contests ...
The New York Times

As Trump Puts His Brand on Washington, the Kennedy Center Gets a New Name

The board for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced that it would now be named the Trump-Kennedy Center, although a formal change may have to be approved by Congress. By Shawn ...
The Baltimore Sun

Baltimore’s Excel Center high school, where ‘it’s never too late’ to graduate

Deja Shitaki Simms hated applying for jobs. The script was always the same. “Do you have a high school diploma?” they would ask. “No,” she would answer truthfully. “Then,” she said, “they would never ...
BGR

This Unique USB Stick Will Never Leave Your Computer's USB Port

At CES 2018, Sandisk unveiled a super small USB drive prototype, using the same form factor as its Ultra Fit line, which was also dubbed the world's smallest flash drive. Flash drives have grown ...
The Courier-Journal

Worth the Drive: Looking for gifts with unique KY flair? Try Berea's Kentucky Artisan Center

Lovers of art, Appalachia or both can find comfort at the Kentucky Artisan Center, a combined retail center, rest area and restaurant in Berea. Whether you are a road-tripper looking for one of the ...
Bisnow

How An Industrial Design-Build Firm Overcomes The Unique Challenges Of Data Center Construction

In the digital arms race that began with personal computing and continues on the battlefront of artificial intelligence, tech titans rise and fall on the creativity of their software and the integrity ...