Posts by Liam Redmond
Stubborn vagrants at NYC’s Intrepid encampments set up new shelters in game of cleanup Whack-a-Mole
Stubborn vagrants are refusing to abandon their filthy encampments along Manhattan’s West Side, in some cases setting up new shelters a block away after city workers push them out, locals said Tuesday. After weeks of gripes from locals, City Hall finally began dismantling some of the makeshift shelters that turned part of the Big Apple…
Read MoreCan AI Replace Your Job? New Research Says the Answer Is More Complicated
AI is nearing human-level performance on some tasks. Completing tasks isn’t the same as doing jobs. Professional judgment and accountability remain human strengths. AI works best alongside, not instead of, people. Headlines about artificial intelligence are becoming increasingly difficult to ignore. AI is now approaching human-level performance on some professional tasks, prompting fresh concerns that…
Read MoreWill Marco Rubio Meet China’s Wang Yi? What to Watch at ASEAN
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he is open to meeting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi during the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) foreign ministers’ meetings in Manila, although he said no meeting has been “definitively arranged.” The meetings, which will take place in Manila, the host of the ASEAN chair this year,…
Read MoreNYC Whole Foods draws fury for 50% discount on Taylor Farms lettuce: ‘Half the price, all the diarrhea’
Social media users were aghast to learn that a Whole Foods store appears to be selling Taylor Farms shredded iceberg lettuce at a 50% discount as federal investigators are probing the nasty, diarrhea-causing cyclospora outbreak linked to the company’s Mexican-grown lettuce. The sale was spotted over the weekend at a Manhattan Whole Foods, where the…
Read MoreCloud Computing Costs Shift as Meta Courts Anthropic
Anthropic wants to rent Meta’s spare hardware, and the arrangement under discussion could reach $10 billion across two years, according to CNBC’s July 17 report citing a person close to the talks. Anthropic reportedly raised the idea in June. Nothing is locked, payment would be spread across monthly installments, and both parties would keep the…
Read MoreTop doctor lived in California for 20 years. Then he was linked to a truly wicked attack 3,000 miles away
A fugitive doctor convicted of raping a woman aboard his yacht managed to build a new life in California under a false identity while evading authorities for more than two decades. Ronald L. Fischer, 70, a former anesthesiologist, had been living in Los Angeles under the alias Richard Graydon, where law enforcement sources said he…
Read MoreStartup Equity Is Vanishing for Under-30 Employees
New research from altshare’s Q2 2026 Startup Equity Report, published July 15, shows that startup equity now reaches far fewer young workers than it did three years ago. The platform reviewed data from more than 3,000 private companies. Its sharpest finding: the share of equity grant recipients under 30 slid from nearly 8% in 2023…
Read MoreMegyn Kelly rips ‘disgusting’ Sunny Hostin for name-dropping ‘The View’ after son’s trespassing trouble
Megyn Kelly ripped into Sunny Hostin for name-dropping “The View” while trying to talk cops out of issuing her son Gabriel a trespassing citation. “No one’s above the law, and everyone other than Sunny Hostin is swimming in privilege that she’s very pissed off about,” Kelly said on Monday’s episode of her SiriusXM show.…
Read MoreWall St opens higher as chip stocks extend recovery; earnings in focus
Published Tue, Jul 21, 2026 · 09:51 PM [NEW YORK] Wall Street’s main indexes opened higher on Tuesday (Jul 21) as semiconductor shares extended a recovery from a recent selloff, while investors awaited major tech earnings for clues on the future of the AI trade. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 77.5 points, or 0.15…
Read MoreGM boosts profit outlook, cites ‘resilient’ consumer demand
Strong profit in its home market of North America, which is also its biggest, was driven by solid pricing Published Tue, Jul 21, 2026 · 09:47 PM [DETROIT] General Motors lifted its full-year earnings outlook on Tuesday (Jul 21) for the second time after reporting a 30 per cent increase in second-quarter core profit on…
Read MoreJason Bateman details drunk Monaco arrest in ‘nice little leopard outfit’ after wild night out
Wild thing. Jason Bateman revealed he was detained overseas for being “drunk and disorderly” while wearing a “leopard outfit.” “I was arrested in Monaco for being drunk and disorderly in a nice little leopard outfit, fresh from the casinos, all banged up on,” the “Ozark” alum shared on his “SmartLess” podcast with Sean Hayes and…
Read MoreIsrael believes Iran moved nuclear material inside notorious ‘Pickaxe Mountain’ site last year: report
Israeli intelligence officials believe Iran moved thousands of centrifuges used to enrich uranium deep inside the so-called “Pickaxe Mountain” site this past fall, raising fears that the Islamic Republic can quickly reconstitute its nuclear program. The intelligence has been passed to the US, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, though it is unclear what, if…
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