Google has started the rollout of restrictions on what kind of election-related questions its AI chatbot Gemini will answer as it tries to prevent the spread of fake news during a year when billions of people will vote worldwide. The technology giant said that users in India will be restricted as to what they can […]
Feb. 21—WILLMAR — One thing has become fairly clear as the city of Willmar rolls out its new branding and logo — the community is not happy at the lack of transparency throughout the process. Willmar City Councilor Tom Butterfield at Tuesday’s Willmar City Council meeting made a motion to rescind the council motion to […]
Broward’s high school students may have to walk through a new layer of security this fall. The school district plans to install walk-through metal detectors at 10 yet-to-be-named high schools for the start of the 2024-25 school year, Superintendent Peter Licata said. But students needn’t worry about a stressful TSA-like experience where students have to […]
A long-awaited program that allows survivors of sexual assault to track crucial evidence through the criminal justice system has begun its gradual roll out in South Carolina. Law enforcement officials and victims advocates are optimistic that this new program will begin to chip away at the backlog of thousands of untested rape assault kits in […]
Amazon (AMZN) is expected to start rolling out ads on its Prime Video streaming service beginning Monday in the US — and Wall Street is bullish on the tech behemoth massively disrupting the shifting media market. Prime Video subscribers will automatically be defaulted to the ad-supported tier at the current monthly price of $14.99 for Prime […]
Jan. 28—TRAVERSE CITY — Election officials throughout Grand Traverse County are preparing for the first statewide rollout of “early voting,” which kicks off next month. Registered voters in Michigan will be able to cast their ballots in person for nine days prior to the Tuesday, Feb. 27 presidential primary. Early voting begins on Saturday, Feb. […]
The world’s first routine vaccine programme against malaria has started in Cameroon, in a move projected to save thousands of children’s lives across Africa. The symbolic first jab was given to a baby girl named Daniella at a health facility near Yaoundé on Monday. It comes after successful pilot campaigns in Kenya, Ghana and Malawi. […]