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City of Spokane partners with CHAS Health to expand street medicine efforts Erin Hutt, Director of Communications, 509.625.6740 Tuesday, August 27, 2024 10:32 AM A new partnership between the City of Spokane and CHAS Health will expand street health outreach to the local homeless community. Ahead of the 2024 legislative session, Challenge Seattle, a coalition of groups working on some of the region's most pressing issues, proposed emergency measures to address the overlapping crises of homelessness, mental illness, and substance use disorders. Among its recommendations was the creation of street health teams that would provide mobile treatment to homeless people…
Maria Diaz/ZDNETThere's been a lot of discussion about Amazon's AI revamp of its voice assistant Alexa and its expected subscription fees, but the e-commerce giant has said very little about a launch date. A new report confirms that it will be available in October and will require a subscription.Plus: 5 ways Amazon is making its AI-powered Alexa subscription worth the costThe new and improved Alexa, powered by gen AI, is set to launch in just over a month, later than reported in September earlier this year. It will be a paid alternative voice assistant to the version currently available for…
TAMPA — You can say this about the Buccaneers: They definitely like homegrown talent.On Tuesday, the entire 2024 draft class was named to the final 53-man roster, including a staggering 22 of the 23 players selected in the past three drafts. In fact, 26 of the Buccaneers' final 30 picks over the past four years are still with the team.Receivers Sterling Shepard and Cody Thompson were among those ultimately released, as the Buccaneers decided to keep just five receivers and four tight ends.Shepard was injured early in camp and didn't compete for the No. 3 receiver position, which was quickly…
Published August 27, 2024 1:29 PM EDT | Updated August 27, 2024 1:29 PM EDTFacebookTwitterEmailCopy linkRolling Stone has plenty of time. The once iconic music and pop culture magazine has come under fire on social media following a new article about who WWE superstar and actor John Cena follows on Twitter. The magazine reported that Cena's follower list includes white supremacists and other controversial figures.Now, if Cena was following and interacting with people who incite hatred and division, that would certainly be a big problem. We can all agree on that. The problem is that John Cena follows over 850,000…
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — As police Sergeant Matt Gilmore and his police dog, Gunner, searched for a group of suspects for nearly an hour, their body cameras recorded every word uttered and every bark.Typically, the Oklahoma City police sergeant would pull out his laptop and spend another 30 to 45 minutes writing up a report about the search, but this time he let an artificial intelligence write the first draft. From all the sounds and radio communication picked up by the microphone attached to Gilmore's body camera, the AI tool generated a report in eight seconds.”It was much better than…
Argentina's Attorney General Daniel Vitolo is one of many government officials who have friendly ties with the cryptocurrency movement “Crecimiento.”Argentina's top regulator has been highly supportive of cryptocurrencies, with senior officials in President Javier Milley's government insisting that the technology is unstoppable.”The reality is that this technology cannot be stopped. It is growing at an unprecedented rate. As regulators, we must take our role seriously to ensure we are not left behind,” said Argentina's Attorney General Daniel Vitolo, the top official in the central government of liberal President Javier Milley. He believes that by having authorities on board and building…
Share Tweet Share Share Email How to choose the right smartphone for your lifestyle?A smartphone is more than just a communication device. It's a multifunctional tool that can be used for a variety of purposes, from managing your schedule to recording your precious memories. With so many options to choose from, choosing the right smartphone for you can be a daunting task, especially when it comes to finding one that suits your unique lifestyle. Here's a guide to help you navigate the selection process and find the perfect smartphone that will fit seamlessly into your daily routine. Steps…
Meta MTIA Hot Chips 2024_Page_09 Today at Hot Chips 2024, Meta is presenting about its next-generation MTIA, a processor designed specifically for recommendation inference. Please pardon any typos, these will be done live during the presentation. Meta AI Acceleration for Recommendation Inference with Next-Gen Meta MTIA Meta uses AI heavily, and one of the big uses of AI within Meta is our recommendation engine. Meta MTIA Hot Chips 2024_Page_04 The company says there are many challenges to using GPUs for its recommendation engine. Meta MTIA Hot Chips 2024_Page_05 As a result, the next generation MTIA has been designed to improve…
How many times does the letter “R” appear in the word “strawberry”? According to leading AI products like GPT-4o and Claude, the answer is 2 times. Massive language models can write an essay or solve an equation in seconds, synthesizing terabytes of data faster than a human can open a book. But these seemingly omnipotent AIs sometimes screw up spectacularly and turn their mistakes into viral memes, leaving us to rejoice with relief that we might still have time before we succumb to our new AI overlords. The inability of large-scale language models to understand the concepts of letters and…
The son of WWE legend Sid Vicious has detailed the health issues his father, real name Sid Eudy, had before his death at age 63, which was announced on Monday. Gunnar Eudy posted on Facebook Tuesday morning that his father was diagnosed with stage 4 non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in April 2021, five years after being diagnosed with congestive heart failure and atrial fibrillation. “Syd never told anyone about his battle with cancer, but lived life to the fullest – hitting the gym, taking boxing classes, performing for fans and of course playing t-ball matches for kids,” Gunnar wrote. “My dad passed…