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Brady Archer was awarded the Colorado Association of Science Teacher’s award and the Doug Steward Memorial award for his accomplishments at the state science fair. This year, seven middle school student and one high school student competed at the State level. The last grand award was Cuinn Archer, who built an automatic plant waterer that he designed and made with a 3D printed.
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2 years ago Read more at The Journal

As the world warms up again, spring sports will begin heading outdoors for practice and matches. This brings the possibility of injury with it. Doctors are stressing the importance of pre-game warm-up.
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2 years ago Read more at WIFR

The Turkish hearthrob will be playing the fictional pirate Sandokan in a reboot series that hopes to reintroduce the legendary character a new generation of viewers. The series will be adapted by the European production company Lux Vide and is based on the stories written by Emilio Salgari.
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2 years ago Read more at HOLA! USA

Jon Stewart argues that disruption caused by AI will be harnessed to prioritize profits over people. It will likely cause one of the largest and fastest labor displacements in human history. In the U.S., wave of globalization and automation in the last 30 years created the most disruptive political movement, resulting in the election of Donald Trump.
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2 years ago Read more at TIME

NTT Research demonstrated a wide range of its R&D projects and upcoming products at Upgrade 2024. NTT Sonority presented its audio brand, New Wave Maker (nwm), leveraging over 70 years of NTT’s Research and Development. These speakers are designed to confine sound within centimeters of the user’s ear, enabling enhanced audio privacy.
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2 years ago Read more at Ubergizmo

Jen Wenz is the owner of The Aquarian Gift Shop in Searsport. With a surplus in store earnings one month, she wanted to do something positive the extra money. All proceeds from the shop go to the non profit.
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2 years ago Read more at WABI

Zuhal Akbari has opened a pastry factory in Herat, western Afghan city. Most of the 11 women who work with her are university graduates who lost their jobs after the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan in 2021. Under the Taliban, women are barred from working in the public sector and for NGOs, getting a secondary and university education, traveling long distances without male relatives, and going to parks, public baths and gyms.
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2 years ago Read more at Voice of America - VOA News

TechRepublic digs into the business implications of these takeaways. AI is still not as good as humans at the complex tasks of advanced-level mathematical problem solving, visual commonsense reasoning and planning. The AI Index reports that OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Google’s Gemini Ultra cost approximately $78 million and $191 million to train in 2023, respectively.
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2 years ago Read more at TechRepublic

Premier, MLA, meets with Chris Unrau A Princeton woman desperate for a double-lung transplant, is forging change in the province despite her frail health. Unrau and her husband, Paul Adams of the BC Rural Health Network (BCRHN) and local MLA Roly Russell, travelled to Victoria earlier this month to explain how residents outside of Vancouver are discriminated against. They were greeted and acknowledged in the legislature, and had a meeting with Premier David Eby.
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2 years ago Read more at Chilliwack Progress

Anna Svesova, director of the hospital in Trostianets, near the Russian border. She and other hospital workers received psychological care from MSF because they had been living under Russian occupation for months. They even had to go to the basement, where they delivered babies. Then we fixed everything and cleaned it all up, there were whole rooms burnt.
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2 years ago Read more at Doctors Without Borders