IT World
April 23, 2026
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The Download: introducing the 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now

The list builds on our annual 10 Breakthrough Technologies, but takes a wider view of the ideas, topics, and research shaping AI, spotlighting the trends and breakthroughs shaping the world. We’ll be unpacking one item from the list each day here in The Download, explaining what it means and why it matters. Read the full […]

IT World
April 21, 2026
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Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Answers for April 21

Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today’s Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Need some help with today’s Mini Crossword? I thought that 4-Across, 7-Across and 3-Down were pretty fun — little puzzles inside of […]

IT World
April 20, 2026
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Trial by Fire: Crisis Engineering – O’Reilly

The following article originally appeared on Jennifer Pahlka’s Eating Policy website and is being republished here with the author’s permission. I read Norman Maclean’s Young Men and Fire when I was a teenager, I think, so it’s been many years, but I still remember its turning point vividly. It’s set in 1949 in Montana, at […]

IT World
April 19, 2026
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Efficient Design and Simulation of LPDA-Fed Parabolic Reflector Antennas

More Information Log-Periodic Dipole Array (LPDA) fed parabolic reflector antennas serve high-gain broadband applications such as satellite communication, radio astronomy, and wideband radar, where constant performance over wide frequency ranges is essential. Despite nearly seven decades of research since the pioneering work of DuHamel and Ore in 1958, the synthesis and analysis of these antennas […]

IT World
April 18, 2026
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OpenAI Executive Kevin Weil Is Leaving the Company

Kevin Weil, OpenAI’s former chief product officer who was recently tapped to build a new AI workspace for scientists, Prism, is leaving the company, WIRED has confirmed. Weil was previously an early executive leading product at Instagram. “Today is my last day at OpenAI, as OpenAI for Science is being decentralized into other research teams,” […]

IT World
April 17, 2026
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Israel-Lebanon ceasefire: What Trump announced, briefly explained

This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: Israel and Lebanon have agreed to a ceasefire, President Donald Trump said Thursday in a social media post. What’s happening? The ceasefire, which […]

IT World
April 16, 2026
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Arizona ruling enters Wisconsin Ho-Chunk Nation fight against Kalshi

A legal fight unfolding in Wisconsin over prediction market trading is now drawing in a fresh federal ruling from Arizona, as Kalshi presses its argument that federal regulators, not states or tribal governments, control the space. In a filing dated Monday (April 13), Kalshi and an affiliate pointed to the U.S. District Court for the […]

IT World
April 15, 2026
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Redefining the future of software engineering

This report, which is based on a survey of 300 engineering and technology executives, finds that software engineering teams are seeing the potential in agentic AI and are beginning to put it to use, but so far in a mainly limited fashion. Their ambitions for it are high, but most realize it will take time […]

IT World
April 14, 2026
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An Amazon warehouse worker died on the job at Oregon facility

An Amazon employee at the Troutdale, Oregon warehouse passed away at work last week, a company spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch. According to a report from the Western Edge, an independent investigative outlet covering the Pacific Northwest, the worker collapsed on the floor at the PDX9 warehouse and lay dead as employees continued to work around […]