James Martin

1 month ago | thetechstreetnow.com | James Martin

8 hours ago   cnet Jon Reed is a senior editor covering artificial intelligence. He previously led CNET's home energy and utilities category, with a focus on energy-saving advice, thermostats and heating and cooling. Jon has more than a decade of experience of writing and reporting, including as a statehouse reporter in Columbus, Ohio, a crime reporter in Birmingham, Alabama, and as a mortgage and housing market editor for TIME's former personal finance brand, NextAdvisor.

1 month ago | thetechstreetnow.com | James Martin

9┬áminutes ago   cnet Jon Reed is a senior editor covering artificial intelligence. He previously led CNET's home energy and utilities category, with a focus on energy-saving advice, thermostats and heating and cooling. Jon has more than a decade of experience of writing and reporting, including as a statehouse reporter in Columbus, Ohio, a crime reporter in Birmingham, Alabama, and as a mortgage and housing market editor for TIME's former personal finance brand, NextAdvisor.

1 month ago | thetechstreetnow.com | James Martin

29┬áminutes ago   cnet The company's first AI developers conference on Tuesday fell flat, with very few new announcements and products, including a standalone AI app that technically already existed. If you were like me and went into Meta's LlamaCon keynote expecting the company to drop the reasoning model it teased earlier this month or its teacher model Behemoth, prepare to be disappointed.

1 month ago | almendron.com | James Martin

As soon as Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the archbishop of Buenos Aires, was elected pope in 2013, he made his first big decision: taking the name of Francis, after St. Francis of Assisi. In doing so, he signaled a desire to cast his lot with the poor and those on the margins. Few could have predicted that he would do more for one globally marginalized group — L.G.B.T.Q. people — than all his modern predecessors combined. An obvious example of his approach was the story of Sister Jeannine Gramick.

1 month ago | globalsistersreport.org | Katie Scott |James Martin |Bryan Massingale |Jeannine Gramick

Michael Sennett, age 8 and preparing for his first Communion, was told by a priest he must stop pretending to be a boy and that his desire to wear a suit for the sacrament was sinful. In fact, it was a straight shot to hell. Twenty years later, on a fall afternoon in Rome, Pope Francis hugged Sennett in his private residence.