US bomber crews even carried photos of Tommy Tucker on missions. Tommy Tucker did radio spots, had a fan club, and even posed for LIFE magazine. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. A few months after the attack on Pearl Harbor thrust the United States into World War II, a little girl was walking to school in northwest Washington, D.C. when she found a baby squirrel that had apparently fallen out of a hickory tree. She took the tiny rodent home, fed him warm milk, and made him a cozy bed in a red woolen hat.

The U.S. tried permanent daylight saving time--and hated it In 1974, America set its clocks forward for good in the name of energy savings. Between January and September in 1974, President Richard Nixon made daylight saving time permanent for a brief period. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. As fall approaches, so too does the end of daylight savings time (DST). On November 2nd, the hour between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m. will happen twice.

For centuries, menstruation was managed with homemade solutions--until the world changed in a hurry. Patented in 1931, the first Tampax tampons were sold in 1936 as the first widely marketed internal menstrual product. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. About half of us will use them at some point in our lives. But few of us like to talk about them, at least in public.

From sugar shortages to military contracts, World War II helped make M&Ms and Hershey's bars into symbols of American abundance. A 1940s Milky Way ad shows candy keeping pilots smiling through the war. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Every year, Hershey manufactures 373 million of its signature milk chocolate bars . While the company doesn't release exact stats on Halloween sales, you can bet a lot of those end up in plastic Jack O'Lantern-shaped pails.

During WWII, the U.S. government censored the weather Even baseball rain delays went unexplained. A World War II poster, created for the War Production Board around 1942-1943, declares "Weather is a weapon." Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. The call went out from WREC's studios in downtown Memphis at 6:57 p.m. Central War Time: Doctors and nurses were urgently needed in communities south and west of the city. That was all the information the station was allowed to provide, despite the ongoing threat.

Gustav Klimt created some of the world's most expensive masterpieces, but around 20% of his artworks have been lost. Among them are the so-called Faculty Paintings: Philosophy, Medicine, and Jurisprudence. The three pieces are believed to have been destroyed in a fire during World War Two. Only black and white photos of the artworks remain. The original paintings may never be seen again, but machine learning has come close to bringing them back to life.

As technologists and artists in new media (that strange place where words, imagery, meaning and new tech collide), we design, build, and test software experiences and products that center the deep creative impulse of humanity, because we are interested in the power of that impulse. We've observed throughout our work that many computing and AI software and tools have underestimated, and even excluded, this human impulse from their design. The particular joy of uncovering patterns and logic embedded in various functions of the universe, and building things that make use of them for people to enjoy, is unparalleled. It's no surprise that as computing devices became more accessible and explainable, people fell in love with them. But today, many are becoming uncomfortable with their ubiquity and feel less understood and more constrained by computing and AI, and that they must fight or compete with the software and products sold to them.

A new Amazon Alexa Skill launched in beta today that uses machine learning to analyze and improve your gameplay in "Call of Duty: WWII," Activision announced today. The Call of Duty Alexa Skill is available today in beta. "The Call of Duty Alexa Skill gives every player a personal Call of Duty coach for the first time, using AI and machine learning to analyze how you play and providing tips on how to improve your gameplay based on your individual strengths, weaknesses and play style," Tim Ellis, chief marketing officer of Activision, said in a prepared statement. "We know that people play more'Call of Duty' as their skills improve and the more often they play with their friends. The'Call of Duty Alexa Skill' is designed to help players improve their'Call of Duty' skills, connect more easily with their friends and get to the fun faster in'Call of Duty: WWII.'"

Amazon has been adding some pretty mainstream entertainment skills, like recapping NBA and NHL scores. But now you can ask the voice assistant how you did in your last Call of Duty: WWII match, too. The new skill, available in beta, will use AI and machine learning to give personalized tips to improve your play in, of course, a soldier-sounding voice. According to a press release, the skill considers several factors like accuracy, movement, engagement distance, relationship distance and the all-important K/D to make custom recommendations. Users can ask for them in the middle of a match or after for a retrospective performance summary for something like an on-command coach experience.

Call of Duty: WWII brings the multibillion-dollar video game franchise full circle. While the most recent editions of Activision's series have been set in futuristic settings, this new blockbuster release ( just out, $59 and up, for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PCs, ages 17-up) plants you in a platoon fighting its way across Europe in World War II. Like the more than a dozen previous Call of Duty games, Call of Duty: WWII is a first-person shooter. So you get to line up Nazis in your gun sights on Normandy beach, within occupied France and in Germany. Playing out like the Band of Brothers miniseries, COD: WWII takes players on an action-packed history lesson through the last year of fighting in the European theater.