The Associated Press projected the defeat, which came five years after state voters approved the drug for medical purposes. Oklahoma, one of the more conservative states in the country, would have been the 22nd state to allow recreational use of marijuana. (Slater, The Washington Post)
Read MoreThe reconstruction of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris is going fast enough to allow its reopening to visitors and faithful at the end of 2024, less than six years after a fire ravaged its roof, French officials said Monday. The cathedral’s iconic spire, which collapsed in the blaze, will gradually start reappearing above the monument this year in a powerful signal of its revival, the army general in charge of the colossal project, Gen. Jean-Louis Georgelin, said. (Schaeffer & Corbet, AP News)
Read MoreStephen and Joanne Evans objected to the book My Shadow is Pink, saying it could plant the idea in young minds that children might be born into the wrong body. They claim the book, by Scott Stuart, promotes the concept of an inner gender identity that is a child’s true self, and what a child wears and the things they like to do affects the sex they were born into. (Sawer, The Telegraph)
Read MoreIt’s official, with today’s release of the iOS 16.4 developer beta, we’re getting our first look at the next set of emoji coming to our iPhones, thanks to Emojipedia. The new set of emoji was originally unveiled during the draft phase last year, and not much has changed since — except that the shaking head is now angled, where it wasn’t before. (Perez, TechCrunch)
Read MoreThe NHS must reinstate the word “woman” in its cancer and pregnancy webpages, more than a thousand staff in the health service have demanded. At least 19 women’s health pages on the NHS website fail to mention women either at all or in addition to non-gendered language, including for guidance on ovarian and uterus cancer, menopause, childbirth and heavy periods. (Somerville, The Telegraph)
Read MoreWhen Google, Microsoft and the research lab OpenAI recently opened their AI search and chat tools to the masses, they also upended a decades-old tradition of human-machine interaction. You don’t need to write technical code in languages such as Python or SQL to command the computer; you just talk. (Harwell, The Washington Post)
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