3 h. ago ‘The voice of a generation has signed off’: Iconic Los Angeles DJ dies

‘The voice of a generation has signed off’: Iconic Los Angeles DJ dies  KTLA

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3 h. ago RLWRLD raises $14.8M to build a foundational model for robotics

As robotics has advanced, industry has steadily adopted more robots to automate away many kinds of grunt work. More than 540,000 new industrial robots were installed worldwide in 2023, taking the number of total industrial robots active to above 4 million, per IFR. Industrial robots typically excel at repetitive tasks, but they find it challenging […]

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5 h. ago Vaccine expert worries child measles deaths are being 'normalized'

Measles is an extremely contagious disease. It's also extremely preventable. There's a vaccine. It's highly effective. For decades it has made measles outbreaks in the U.S. relatively rare, and measles deaths rarer still. But the U.S. has now seen more than 700 measles cases this year, and 3 deaths so far with active outbreaks across six states.The federal response is under scrutiny because Health and Human Services Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has made a career spreading false information about vaccines.What are this administration's views on vaccines, and what do they mean for what is already one of the worst U.S. measles outbreaks this century. Kennedy publicly promised he would support vaccines. Dr. Peter Marks, who was forced out as the nation's top vaccine regulator says his department isn't doing enough.For sponsor-free episodes of Consider This, sign up for Consider This+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org.Email us at considerthis@npr.org.

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6 h. ago The biggest plot twist in a viral 'true crime' story? None of it was real

A viral "true crime" story was actually made up, generated by A.I. Reporter Henry Larson explores the ethical questions raised by this new frontier of content.

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8 h. ago Plastics Reform, Regulation Urged by Los Angeles Reproductive Justice Group

Plastics Reform, Regulation Urged by Los Angeles Reproductive Justice Group  Human Rights Watch

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10 h. ago Trump receives praise from WWE icon for ability to generate heat

WWE chief content officer Paul Levesque praised President Donald Trump's ability to generate heat and get "under people's skin" amid his rise to the White House.

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10 h. ago Getting AIs working toward human goals: Study shows how to measure misalignment

Ideally, artificial intelligence agents aim to help humans, but what does that mean when humans want conflicting things? My colleagues and I have come up with a way to measure the alignment of the goals of a group of humans and AI agents.

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11 h. ago Google’s newest AI model is designed to help study dolphin ‘speech’

Google’s AI research lab, Google DeepMind, says that it has created an AI model that can help decipher dolphin vocalizations, supporting research efforts to better understand how dolphins communicate. The model, called DolphinGemma, was trained using data from the Wild Dolphin Project (WDP), a nonprofit that studies Atlantic spotted dolphins and their behaviors. Built on […]

Technology

11 h. ago Google Classroom gives teachers an AI feature for quiz questions

Google Classroom introduced a new AI-powered feature designed to help teachers generate questions. Launched on Monday, this tool lets educators create a list of questions based on specific text input. Using this text-dependent question generation tool, which utilizes Gemini, teachers can either upload files from Google Drive or manually enter text for the AI to […]

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12 h. ago New model can generate audio and music tracks from diverse data inputs

In recent years, computer scientists have created various highly performing machine learning tools to generate texts, images, videos, songs and other content. Most of these computational models are designed to create content based on text-based instructions provided by users.

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12 h. ago Health and Human Services Systems Are in Danger of Collapsing, Workers Say

The purging of IT and cybersecurity staff at the Department of Health and Human Services could threaten the systems used by the agency’s staff and the safety of critical health data.

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13 h. ago U.S. human rights law likely violated in $6M payment for El Salvador prison, experts say

U.S. human rights law likely violated in $6M payment for El Salvador prison, experts say  News From The States

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14 h. ago Autonomous trucking startup Kodiak Robotics to go public via SPAC

Self-driving truck startup Kodiak Robotics plans to go public via a merger with special purpose acquisition company Ares Acquisition Corporation II. The transaction values Kodiak, which has raised around $243 million to date, at about $2.5 billion pre-money. New and existing Kodiak institutional investors, like Soros Fund Management, ARK Investments, and Ares, have funded or […]

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15 h. ago 2025 Human Rights and Humanitarian Forum to be held in Los Angeles on May 7

2025 Human Rights and Humanitarian Forum to be held in Los Angeles on May 7  Morningstar

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15 h. ago VR can take users for a sneaky spin without making them sick, research shows

Surprising new research has revealed that people's perception of motion can be radically manipulated in passive virtual reality environments without making them feel unwell.

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16 h. ago Who will Valkyries pick in WNBA draft? One player stands out as realistic at No. 5

Who will Valkyries pick in WNBA draft? One player stands out as realistic at No. 5  San Francisco Chronicle

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18 h. ago Teachers Worry About A.I. for Students. For Themselves It’s Another Matter.

Educators are increasingly using generative A.I. in their own work, even as they express profound hesitation about the ethics of student use.

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25 h. ago ‘Beauty being made out of scraps’: Hundreds of kids build a sprawling model Boston from recycled material

Eight hundred participants signed up for Architecture’s 33rd annual ‘KidsBuild!’ event. The post ‘Beauty being made out of scraps’: Hundreds of kids build a sprawling model Boston from recycled material appeared first on Boston.com.

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31 h. ago Occult Shop Owner Faces Felony Charges for Selling Human Bones

A central Florida woman is claiming she “didn’t know it was illegal” after being arrested for selling human bones online from her gothic shop Wicked Wonderland in Orange City. The post Occult Shop Owner Faces Felony Charges for Selling Human Bones appeared first on Breitbart.

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37 h. ago This Jamaica Plain husband is running to ‘fund the next generation of treatment’

"My wife—a young, healthy, non-smoker—underwent lung surgery to remove a concerning nodule. The shocking diagnosis that followed revealed she had a rare form of lung cancer." The post This Jamaica Plain husband is running to ‘fund the next generation of treatment’ appeared first on Boston.com.

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