Priya Krishna / New York Times:
How food delivery is reshaping US mealtimes, as some users spend thousands; NRA data shows nearly 75% of 2024 restaurant orders were not eaten in a restaurant  —  Almost three of every four restaurant orders in the U.S. weren't eaten in a restaurant, according to recent data.

When President Donald Trump launched his deportation campaign last January, he had the American public at his back. Under Joe Biden, unauthorized border crossings had soared to record levels — and threw America into a nativist mood. In November 2024, a CBS News/YouGov poll found 57 percent of Americans expressing support for “a national program […]

Josh Taylor / The Guardian:
Snap blocked 415K+ Australian accounts as of January to comply with the under-16 social media ban and warns its implementation has “real technical limitations”  —  Social media platform says there are still ‘real technical limitations to accurate and dependable age verification’

Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal:
The US' high-speed internet rollout means drillers, linemen, and splicers pull in soaring pay nationwide amid a labor shortage for the physically demanding work  —  Record demand for fiber-optic cables means drillers, linemen and splicers pull in soaring pay at projects nationwide

Humanoid robots — actually useful ones, the kind you might encounter in day-to-day life — have long been the territory of science fiction, not reality. But their sci-fi ubiquity makes them an understandably tantalizing prospect, and “embodied AI” — AI given a physical system — is already making a difference in the world. Could this […]