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Here’s how meat alternatives mimic the real thing
In order to mimic meat’s structure, meat alternative manufacturers use processes such as stretching, kneading, folding, layering, 3D printing, and extrusion. When you bite into a juicy hamburger, slice into the perfect medium-rare steak, or gobble down a plateful of chicken nuggets, your senses are most likely responding to the food’s smell, taste, texture, and color. For a long time, these four attributes set meat apart from other food groups.
Published: 2024-11-28 09:00:00
What stores are open on Thanksgiving Day 2024? Holiday hours for Walmart, Whole Foods, Costco, and more
Forgot the cranberry sauce? Need to make a last-minute grocery run? You might not be out of luck just yet. Most stores in the U.S. are closed on Thanksgiving Day to give employees the day off to be with family and friends on what could arguably be the most American holiday of the year.
Published: 2024-11-28 09:00:00
4 steps for avoiding burnout this holiday season
Burnout is real this time of year. Here’s how to develop a plan so you can still relax and enjoy the holiday season. It may be the most wonderful time of the year, but it’s also one of the most stressful. According to a survey by the American Heart Association, 63% of Americans say the holiday season is more stressful than tax season, and it can take weeks to recover. Yet, 71% say their biggest regret is that they didn’t take time to relax and enjoy the season.
Published: 2024-11-28 08:34:00
More best-selling books on Trump may be on the horizon
For publishers, Donald Trump’s presidential years were a time of extraordinary sales in political books. As she anticipates her estranged uncle’s return to the White House, Mary Trump isn’t expecting any future book to catch on like such first-term tell-alls as Michael Wolff’s million-selling Fire and Fury or her own blockbuster, Too Much and Never Enough.
Published: 2024-11-27 23:00:00
Some small business owners are relieved after an overtime-pay rule was blocked
A federal judge in Texas blocked a new rule from the Biden administration that would have expanded access to overtime pay to millions more salaried workers across the U.S. Small business owners have had a mostly positive reaction to a judge’s decision to strike down an overtime rule that would have qualified more workers for overtime pay.
Published: 2024-11-27 22:00:00
What to know about the Supreme Court’s latest culture war fight: Transgender care
The case brings transgender rights, a major flashpoint in the U.S. culture wars, to the nation’s highest judicial body just as Republican U.S. President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office on Jan. 20. Dr. Susan Lacy had been caring for transgender patients for several years in Tennessee when, in 2023, everything changed. In the span of a few months, the Republican-governed state banned healthcare providers from treating minors for gender dysphoria.
Published: 2024-11-27 21:30:00
Matt Gaetz is dishing out career advice on Cameo
The former Florida congressman joined the celebrity video message app after withdrawing his name from consideration to serve as Trump’s attorney general amid sexual misconduct allegations. After announcing he would not return to Congress, Matt Gaetz is trying out a new career path: making personalized videos on Cameo.
Published: 2024-11-27 20:24:22
Turkey prices dropped in 2024, but side dish costs are gobbling up the savings
Higher grocery prices vary by region, but topping the list of traditional staples are eggs, sugar, yams—and in California, cranberry sauce. It’s almost time to butter, baste, and brown the turkey. Happily, you probably paid less for it this year than you did last year. A new MoneyGeek report showed that turkey prices the week of Thanksgiving fell by 11% since last year. Still, even if the price of the main attraction took a dip, other grocery prices can be soaring.
Published: 2024-11-27 20:17:00
How Trump’s transition agreement differs from ones signed by Biden and Harris
There are no guidelines about individual stock sales—or any stock sales—in the Trump pledge. U.S. President-elect Donald Trump‘s team signed an agreement on Tuesday with President Joe Biden‘s administration to coordinate with federal agencies and share documents, after weeks of delays.
Published: 2024-11-27 20:10:00
Why drivers in America and Europe are more skeptical to buy EVs than in China right now
Concerns about range, charging infrastructure, and higher prices are sore points among both electric car enthusiasts and skeptics in Europe and the U.S. While sales of electric vehicles surge in China, adoption of more environmentally friendly vehicles is stumbling in the United States and Europe as carmakers and governments struggle to meet years-old promises about affordability and charging stations.
Published: 2024-11-27 19:30:00
CFPB moves to finalize rules before Trump can ‘delete’ the agency
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, whom Trump has tasked with slashing government costs, called for the CFPB to be deleted. The U.S. consumer finance watchdog is moving ahead with rulemaking in the final weeks of Joe Biden’s Democratic administration, in a bid to advance consumer protections before President-elect Trump overhauls the agency, said three people familiar with the agency’s thinking.
Published: 2024-11-27 18:30:00
Thanksgiving spectacle: Solar storm to bring Northern Lights to parts of the U.S.
This Thanksgiving, the northern lights are heading south. Discover the best spots to see them. Aurora enthusiasts in northern parts of the U.S. and Canada are in for a treat this Thanksgiving, as a solar storm is expected to send the northern lights, or aurora borealis, further south than usual, according to a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) forecast.
Published: 2024-11-27 18:21:00
American Airlines is expanding its airport ‘gate lice’ crackdown
The company is expanding new technology to more than 100 airports in hopes of keeping passengers from attempting to board a flight before their assigned group is called. American Airlines is cracking down on “gate lice” ahead of what’s expected to be a record-setting Thanksgiving travel season.
Published: 2024-11-27 18:16:33
TikTok will block beauty filters for European teens following pushback
In the coming weeks, minors will be blocked from making their eyes bigger, plumping their lips, and smoothing or changing their skin tone with filters. TikTok is planning to ban teen users in Europe from using beauty filters that alter their facial features. In the coming weeks, minors will be blocked from making their eyes bigger, plumping their lips, and smoothing or changing their skin tone with filters—all part of an effort to mitigate the impact on teens’ mental health.
Published: 2024-11-27 17:50:24
How to rescue climate change from the culture wars
What if the resistance to climate science is not really about science at all? Household appliances used to be a safe conversation topic, if a boring one. But these days, many Republican politicians see gas stoves, refrigerators, dishwashers, and laundry machines as symbols of the government meddling in people’s lives. Earlier this year, lawmakers in the House passed the “Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act” to make it harder for the Department of Energy to create new energy-saving standards, though it stalled in the Senate. Other appliance-related bills proposed this year included the “Refrigerator Freedom Act” and “Liberty in Laundry Act.”
Published: 2024-11-27 16:35:56
How Biden’s AI tech could play a role in Trump’s immigration crackdown
Trump has yet to reveal how he plans to execute his promised deportation of millions of illegal immigrants. President-elect Donald Trump will return to power next year with a raft of technological tools at his disposal that would help deliver his campaign promise of cracking down on immigration—among them, surveillance and artificial intelligence technology that the Biden administration already uses to help make crucial decisions in tracking, detaining and ultimately deporting immigrants lacking permanent legal status.While immigration officials have used the tech for years, an October letter from the Department of Homeland Security obtained exclusively by The Associated Press details how those tools—some of them powered by AI—help make decisions over whether an immigrant should be detained or surveilled.One algorithm, for example, ranks immigrants with a “Hurricane Score,” ranging from 1-5, to assess whether someone will “abscond” from the agency’s supervision.The letter, sent by DHS Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer Eric Hysen to the immigrant rights group Just Futures Law, revealed that the score calculates the potential risk that an immigrant—with a pending case—will fail to check in with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. The algorithm relies on several factors, he said, including an immigrant’s number of violations and length of time in the program, and whether the person has a travel document. Hysen wrote that ICE officers consider the score, among other information, when making decisions about an immigrant’s case.“The Hurricane Score does not make decisions on detention, deportation, or surveillance; instead, it is used to inform human decision-making,” Hysen wrote.Also included in the government’s tool kit is a mobile app called SmartLINK that uses facial matching and can track an immigrant’s specific location.Nearly 200,000 people without legal status who are in removal proceedings are enrolled in the Alternatives to Detention program, under which certain immigrants can live in the U.S. while their immigration cases are pending.In exchange, SmartLINK and GPS trackers used by ICE rigorously surveil them and their movements. The phone application draws on facial matching technology and geolocation data, which has been used before to find and arrest those using the app.Just Futures Law wrote to Hysen earlier this year, questioning the fairness of using an algorithm to assess whether someone is a flight risk and raising concerns over how much data SmartLINK collects. Such AI systems, which score or screen people, are used widely but remain largely unregulated even though some have been found to discriminate on race, gender, or other protected traits.DHS said in an email that it is committed to ensuring that its use of AI is transparent and safeguards privacy and civil rights while avoiding biases. The agency said it is working to implement the Biden administration’s requirements on using AI, but Hysen said in his letter that security officials may waive those requirements for certain uses. Trump has publicly vowed to repeal Biden’s AI policy when he returns to the White House in January.“DHS uses AI to assist our personnel in their work, but DHS does not use the outputs of AI systems as the sole basis for any law enforcement action or denial of benefits,” a spokesperson for DHS told the AP.Trump has not revealed how he plans to carry out his promised deportation of an estimated 11 million people living in the country illegally. Although he has proposed invoking wartime powers, as well as military involvement, the plan would face major logistical challenges—such as where to keep those who have been detained and how to find people spread across the country—that AI-powered surveillance tools could potentially address.Karoline Leavitt, a spokesperson for Trump, did not answer questions about how the incoming administration plans to use DHS’ tech, but said in a statement that “President Trump will marshal every federal and state power necessary to institute the largest deportation operation” in American history.Over 100 civil society groups sent a letter on Friday urging the Office of Management and Budget to require DHS to comply with the Biden administration’s guidelines. A spokesperson for OMB said that agencies must align their AI tools with the guidelines by December 1, and that any extensions or waivers of that deadline will be publicly disclosed next month.Just Futures Law’s executive director, Paromita Shah, said if immigrants are scored as flight risks, they are more likely to remain in detention, “limiting their ability to prepare a defense in their case in immigration court, which is already difficult enough as it is.”SmartLINK, part of the Intensive Supervision Appearance Program, is run by BI Inc., a subsidiary of the private prison company The GEO Group. The GEO Group also contracts with ICE to run detention centers.ICE is tight-lipped about how it uses SmartLINK’s location feature to find and arrest immigrants. Still, public records show that during Trump’s first term in 2018, Manassas, Virginia-based employees of BI Inc. relayed immigrants’ GPS locations to federal authorities, who then arrested over 40 people.In a report last year to address privacy issues and concerns, DHS said that the mobile app includes security features that “prohibit access to information on the participant’s mobile device, with the exception of location data points when the app is open.”But the report notes that there remains a risk that data collected from people “may be misused for unauthorized persistent monitoring.”Such information could also be stored in other ICE and DHS databases and used for other DHS mission purposes, the report said.On investor calls earlier this month, private prison companies were clear-eyed about the opportunities ahead.The GEO Group’s executive chairman George Christopher Zoley said that he expects the incoming Trump administration to “take a much more aggressive approach regarding border security as well as interior enforcement and to request additional funding from Congress to achieve these goals.”“In GEO’s ISAP program, we can scale up from the present 182,500 participants to several hundreds of thousands, or even millions of participants,” Zoley said.That same day, the head of another private prison company told investors he would be watching closely to see how the new administration may change immigrant monitoring programs.“It’s an opportunity for multiple vendors to engage ICE about the program going forward and think about creative and innovative solutions to not only get better outcomes, but also scale up the program as necessary,” Damon Hininger, CEO of the private prison company CoreCivic Inc. said on an earnings call.GEO did not respond to requests for comment. In a statement, CoreCivic said that it has played “a valued but limited role in America’s immigration system” for both Democrats and Republicans for over 40 years.
Published: 2024-11-27 16:33:44
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