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Elizabeth River harbor and Nassco Shipyard platform by the riverside in Virginia.gettyThe Maritime Administration is exploring how nuclear energy in small modular reactors can revolutionize the U.S. marine transportation system.U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy recently announced the SMR initiative in an information request to private industry and developers. “To secure this future for America’s shipbuilding industry, we need to innovate. By partnering with industry experts and outside-the-box thinkers to develop a strong SMR model, we will deliver a state-of-the-art energy source that cuts costs and bolsters national security,” Duffy noted.These SMRs are advanced nuclear reactors able to generate up to…

Scientists have been sounding the alarm on just how bad AI and data centers are for the environment. And now, researchers have proof that data centers are also making nearby neighborhoods 4 degrees warmer, according to a new study from Arizona State University. The findings, which were published on Monday in the Journal of Engineering for Sustainable Buildings and Cities, looked at how much heat two Arizona data centers were giving off in the Phoenix area—a hot spot for data center growth in the U.S. Researchers looked at a 36-megawatt facility in Mesa and a larger 169-megawatt data center campus in…

Answers for today’s NYT Mini Crossword are just ahead.The New York TimesLooking for yesterday’s NYT Mini answers? You can find them right here:ForbesNYT Mini Answers Today: Saturday, May 23 Crossword HintsBy Kris HoltWondering what the cookie in cookies ‘n cream is? Not sure what a mild, pleasant intoxication might be? Don’t worry, because I’m here to help you with hints and the answers for today’s NYT Mini crossword.The NYT Mini is a quick version of the newspaper’s larger, long-running crossword. Most days, there are between three and five clues in each direction on a five by five Mini grid, but…

Generative AI arrived in education everywhere all at once. Today’s students are surrounded by tools that promise help, answers, and efficiency at every turn. But learning has never been about convenience alone. As AI reshapes how students engage with academic material, the questions are whether it is being built to support how humans actually learn and ultimately improve outcomes. New research on millions of actual higher education student interactions in digital course materials suggests that the answer lies in a deceptively simple idea: active reading (and in AI designed to support it, not replace it). Active reading is a well‑established…

How to solve today’s Wordle.SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesHappy lazy Sunday, Wordlers! It’s Memorial Day Weekend and I hope you’re all having a lovely time. Take a quick break from your shenanigans (or party prep) and let’s solve today’s Wordle which, by the way, is Wordle #1800. We’ve been playing this game for one thousand and eight hundred days. Crazy.Looking for Saturday’s Wordle? Check out our guide right here.Today’s Bonus Custom WordleNow that we can create our own custom Wordles, I’m including a bonus Wordle with each daily Wordle guide. These can be 4 to 7 letters long. Hopefully this…

AI woes are coming for the food service industry, and social media can’t help but celebrate. This week, both Starbucks and Pizza Hut made headlines for negative news about their internal applications of artificial intelligence. At Starbucks, an inventory tool got the chop after making frequent counting mistakes, while at Pizza Hut, a delivery tool drove a franchisee to file a lawsuit. Social media users are saying the two stories may point to a larger trend—that for the first time in the AI era, more companies will pull away from AI than embrace it. Starbucks walks back an AI tool…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways If your company doesn’t land in the first 10 seconds, people don’t slow down and give you more runway; they just quietly file you under the closest thing they already know and move on. Being specific about what your product is and is not is one of the most underused tools in early-stage messaging. There’s a version of this conversation that happens all the time. A founder is pitching, doing an interview or just talking to someone at a conference, and somewhere around minute three, it becomes clear that the…

After officially releasing One UI 8.5 to Galaxy S25 and Galaxy S24 phones, which included a suite of advanced new AI tools, Samsung is now rolling out the update to older flagships and midrange Galaxy phones globally, but they won’t receive all of the AI features that launched with the Galaxy S26. Read on for more and don’t forget to subscribe to my newsletter for instant deal updates and Samsung news.Samsung’s One UI 8.5 Releases To New Phones In More CountriesThe Galaxy S23 Ultra will receive the new One UI 8.5 update today. (Photo by Joan Cros/NurPhoto via Getty Images)NurPhoto…

Last summer, I stumbled onto a brilliantly useful tool that ended up being one of the most well-received discoveries we’ve ever shared in these quarters. It was seemingly so popular, in fact, that its hobbyist nature couldn’t keep up with the demand. The service struggled to juggle all the requests we (and other enchantingly informed internet-dwellers) sent its way. I lost count of the number of emails I received from readers who were wondering why their requests to the service were taking longer and longer to result in any action—if any action ever even occurred. That tool was a simple…

Digital generated image of multicolored particles forming eye shape against black background.getty It’s no secret that smart wearables are becoming a big industry, and in the context of that, the “awareness” of hardware through sensory apparatus is a big factor. The machines that see (in their own ways) and experience the world around them utilize sensory items like cameras and other analytical tools, to feed data into the LLM or brain of the system.I wrote last week about a doubling in the smart glasses sector last year, making that a bigger part of tech retail. Then there are all of…