Most local TV stations air just a few weather reports a day: a forecast in the morning, perhaps an update in the afternoon, followed by an outlook for the next day at night. But when a winter storm was blanketing much of the U.S. earlier this month, Cleveland residents were able to get hourly updates on the situation on Haystack News—a TV news aggregator that recently began to use AI to produce local weather reports.
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Perfect safety is no more possible online than it is when driving on a crowded road with strangers or walking alone through a city at night. Like roads and cities, the internet’s dangers arise from choices society has made. To enjoy the freedom of cars comes with the risk of accidents; to have the pleasures of a city full of unexpected encounters means some of those encounters can harm you. To have an open internet means people can always find ways to hurt each other.
But som
Football fans will be gathering around their screens big and small today to watch the final two playoff games of the 2023 NFL season. With teams on the East Coast, West Coast, and in the Midwest all represented, the regional rivalry should be fierce—in a friendly way, of course.
The conference championships will take place on Sunday, January 28, between the AFC and the NFC conferences. The winners will determine which two teams advance to Super Bowl LVIII at Allegiant Stadium
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U.S. antitrust enforcers are opening an inquiry into the relationships between leading artificial intelligence startups such as ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and the tech giants that have invested billions of dollars into them.
The action targets Amazon, Google, and Microsoft and their sway over the generative AI boom that’s fueled demand for chatbots such as ChatGPT, and other AI tools that can produce novel imagery and sound.
“We’re scrutinizing whether these
Japan landed a spacecraft on the moon Saturday, an attempt at the world’s first “pinpoint lunar landing.” The milestone puts Japan in a club previously occupied by only the United States, the Soviet Union, India and China.
A raft of countries and companies are also plotting moon missions. Success means international scientific and diplomatic accolades and potential domestic political gains. Failure means a very expensive, and public, embarrassment.
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China’s leaders launched a barrage of new policies this week to prop up languishing financial markets and rekindle growth in the world’s second-largest economy.
The moves to support lending and spending with billions of dollars of fresh cash gathered pace when the central bank cut bank reserve requirements and issued new rules to encourage banks to lend more to property companies.
A collapse in China’s real estate market has been one of the key factors
Boeing 737 Max 9 jetliners will carry passengers in the United States again, starting this weekend, for the first time since they were grounded after a panel blew out of the side of one of the planes. Alaska Airlines plans to resume flights with its Max 9s on Friday, and United aims to follow suit on Sunday. Those are the only two U.S. airlines that operate this particular model of the Boeing 737.
After seeing video of the frightening flight of a plane with a gaping hole in its side
Young people may be digital natives, but many of them aren’t equipped to deal with the increasing onslaught of disinformation and deepfakes appearing in their social media feeds.
A growing number of states think they have an antidote: media literacy education.
The goal of media literacy, sometimes called digital citizenship or information literacy, is to help students think critically about the news that is presented to them. Media-literate students also should be a
When tech companies design their products, they usually think of younger generations first. After all, these are the people most likely to become long-term, recurring customers—and spread their love of the product far and wide on social media. But the cohort on the other end of the age spectrum—the elderly—frequently seems to be an afterthought.
“Help! My app went missing.”
When I visit with friends and family, particul