How did Apple avoid tariffs on its chips? And are mortgage lenders Fannie and Freddie set to go public? Plus, what caused Crocs shares to plunge? Host Jack Pitcher discusses the biggest stock moves of the week and the news that drove them.
On August 29, 1949, the Soviet Union successfully tested its first atomic bomb.
The announcement shocked the world, especially the United States, which predicted the Soviets wouldn’t have Nuclear Weapons until the mid-1950s.
The big question was, how did the Soviets make the bomb so fast? Well, the Americans inadvertently helped them, as did the resources they captured in Eastern Europe.
Learn more about how the Soviets got the bomb on this Episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
Octopuses can open jars to get food, and chimpanzees can plan for the future. An IBM computer named Watson won on Jeopardy! and Alexa knows our favorite songs. But do animals and smart machines really have intelligence comparable to that of humans? In Bots and Beasts: What Makes Machines, Animals, and People Smart?(MIT Press, 2021), Paul Thagard looks at how computers (“bots”) and animals measure up to the minds of people, offering the first systematic comparison of intelligence across machines, animals, and humans.
Thagard explains that human intelligence is more than IQ and encompasses such features as problem solving, decision making, and creativity. He uses a checklist of twenty characteristics of human intelligence to evaluate the smartest machines—including Watson, AlphaZero, virtual assistants, and self-driving cars—and the most intelligent animals—including octopuses, dogs, dolphins, bees, and chimpanzees. Neither a romantic enthusiast for nonhuman intelligence nor a skeptical killjoy, Thagard offers a clear assessment. He discusses hotly debated issues about animal intelligence concerning bacterial consciousness, fish pain, and dog jealousy. He evaluates the plausibility of achieving human-level artificial intelligence and considers ethical and policy issues. A full appreciation of human minds reveals that current bots and beasts fall far short of human capabilities.
Galina Limorenko is a doctoral candidate in Neuroscience with a focus on biochemistry and molecular biology of neurodegenerative diseases at EPFL in Switzerland. To discuss and propose the book for an interview you can reach her at galina.limorenko@epfl.ch.
Dozens of states are cracking down on student phone use — but is banning them completely the right call? Brinleigh Murphy-Reuter of the Digital Wellness Lab at Boston Children’s Hospital joins us to explain what teens really think about phone rules in schools, how strict policies can sometimes backfire, and what parents can do to help their kids build healthy digital habits. Plus — the research on phones, mental health, and how tech companies should (or shouldn’t) design for kids.
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On the "CBS News Weekend Roundup", host Stacy Lyn has the latest on a plan Israel has approved that could lead to the military occupation of the Gaza Strip. CBS's Debora Patta reports from East Jerusalem. And a meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin could happen next week, as we hear from Weijia Jiang, at the White House. And on the Kaleidoscope segment, New York just opened a first in the nation homeless shelter for transgender people. CBS's Stacy Lyn talks with Sean Ebony Coleman, the founder and CEO of Destination Tomorrow, a non-profit that will manage the shelter.
The official history of America’s founding is often told as a whites-only story, a heroic tale of wealthy white men forging a new nation—with no mention of the people they excluded, displaced, or oppressed. But who getsleft outof the story that “originalists” like to tell about the law? This week Mark Joseph Stern talks with Maggie Blackhawk, professor at NYU School of Law, and Gregory Ablavsky, a professor at Stanford Law School, about Native nations at the time of the founding, some of which were very much on the scene as the Constitution was being debated and ratified. What did they think about it? And does asking that question obscure a much more complicated—but more accurate—examination of the founding?
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Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, spoke to China’s leader, Xi Jinping, and India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, to discuss his talks with America over the war in Ukraine
A relic of the Cold War, the US embargo and travel restrictions to Cuba violate American freedoms and they accomplish nothing to end Cuba's communist regime or win freedom for Cubans. Yet, this failed policy has persisted for nearly 65 years with no end in sight.
What do we mean by equality? F.A. Hayek believed that equality under law and the socialist belief of material equality were opposed to each other. Furthermore, he held liberty to be necessary for civilization itself to flourish.