Sara Brown, an MIT associate professor of music and theater arts, has designed sets at many major theater venues, while teaching classes that get MIT students thinking visually, intellectually, and creatively.

Toshifumi Suzuki, the founder of Seven-Eleven Japan and widely regarded as the father of Japan’s convenience store industry, died of heart failure on May 18, Seven & i Holdings said on Monday. He was 93.

The US president also said the Strait of Hormuz would be reopened. Iranian state media has disputed his characterization, reporting that the waterway will remain under Iranian control. Follow for live updates.

Hélène Akilimali says she’s taking every precaution against contracting Ebola, including always wearing a face mask in public. But her work as a cocoa seller in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) - the epicenter of the latest outbreak - brings her into daily contact with other people, some of whom doubt the disease is even real, and she has no control over how they behave.

A critical shortage of advanced computer hardware has forced the US government to deepen its reliance on Anthropic – the artificial intelligence (AI) company that the Pentagon has officially blacklisted as a national security supply chain threat. According to a report by The New York Times, to work around the chips shortage, Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, has authorized the National Security Agency (NSA) to continue to use an advanced model made by Anthropic.

Morro Bay High School Automotive Technology Program’s 1989 Ford Thunderbird race car. Gabe Pascual received a Trophy of Excellence on behalf of the school. Photo submitted Morro Bay High School’s Automotive Technology Program […]

San Francisco Standard editor in chief Kevin Delaney sent out the following announcement on Friday: Hello Standard colleagues — We’re happy to announce that Natallie Rocha, most recently on the SF tech reporting team at The New York Times, is joining us as a technology reporter. At the Times, Natallie covered a range of tech topics, including news about the big […]