A coffee roastery in Finland has launched an AI-generated blend. The results were surprising

04/21/2024

HELSINKI (AP) — An artisan roastery based in the Finnish capital has introduced a coffee blend that has been developed by artificial intelligence in a trial in which it’s hoped that technology can ease the workload in…

Taylor Swift’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ is great sad pop, meditative theater

04/19/2024

  Who knew what Taylor Swift’s latest era would bring? Or even what it would sound like? Would it build off the moodiness of “Midnights” or the folk of “evermore”? The country or the ’80s pop of her latest re-records? Or its two predecessors in black-and-white…

Your morning coffee may be more than a half million years old

04/18/2024

That coffee you slurped this morning? It’s 600,000 years old. Using genes from coffee plants around the world, researchers built a family tree for the world’s most popular type of coffee, known to scientists as Coffea arabica…

Booms and sirens in Israel after Iran launches over 200 missiles and drones in unprecedented attack

04/14/2024

JERUSALEM (AP) — Booms and air raid sirens sounded across Israel early Sunday after Iran launched hundreds of drones, ballistic missiles and cruise missiles in an unprecedented revenge mission that pushed the Middle East closer to a…

Pope will travel to Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, East Timor and Singapore in longest trip of papacy

04/13/2024

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis will visit Indonesia, East Timor, Papua New Guinea and Singapore in September, the Vatican announced Friday, confirming the longest trip of Francis’ papacy that is sure to test his health, stamina…

O.J. Simpson, legendary football player and actor, dies at 76

04/12/2024

LAS VEGAS—O.J. Simpson, the football star and Hollywood actor acquitted of charges he killed his former wife and her friend in a trial that mesmerized the public and exposed divisions on race and policing in America, has died. He…

How to watch the total solar eclipse online

04/08/2024

If you’re nowhere near the path of totality or if clouds spoil your view, you can still catch the total solar eclipse online. Weather permitting, tens of millions who live along a narrow stretch from Mexico’s Pacific coast to eastern Canada can just…

Crowds picnic to see Tokyo’s cherry blossoms at full bloom

04/08/2024

TOKYO (AP) — Crowds gathered Friday to enjoy Japan’s famed cherry blossoms in Tokyo, where cold weather has delayed their bloom. Cherry blossoms, known as “sakura” in Japanese, are the nation’s favorite flower. People often have sakura…

What is Eid al-Fitr and how do Muslims celebrate the Islamic holiday?

04/08/2024

CAIRO (AP) — Muslims around the world will soon bid farewell to the Islamic holy month of Ramadan and start celebrating the holiday of Eid al-Fitr. Eid is marked with congregational prayers and festivities that typically include…

Why is Taiwan so exposed to earthquakes and so well prepared to withstand them?

04/04/2024

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan was struck Wednesday, April 3, 2024, by its most powerful earthquake in a quarter of a century.  At least nine people were killed and hundreds injured, buildings and highways damaged and dozens of workers…

Gmail revolutionized email 20 years ago. People thought it was Google’s April Fool’s Day joke

04/01/2024

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin loved pulling pranks, so much so they began rolling outlandish ideas every April Fool’s Day not long after starting their company more than a quarter century…

Harvard says it has removed human skin from the binding of a 19th century book

04/01/2024

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Harvard University said it has removed human skin from the binding of a 19th century book about the afterlife that has been in its collections since the 1930s. The decision came after a…

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